Film and TV locations in Budapest
63 places to shoot in Budapest, Hungary: 17 theatres, arenas and venues, 8 industrial and derelict locations, 7 transport and infrastructure locations and 31 more. 15 have a photo and 14 carry practical details the location publishes itself.
What is here
- Theatres, arenas and venues 17
- Industrial and derelict locations 8
- Transport and infrastructure 7
- Bars, restaurants and shops 5
- Houses and apartments 5
- Offices, schools and public buildings 5
- Hotels and interiors 4
- Palaces and landmarks 3
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 3
- Historic towns and streets 2
- Modern architecture 1
- Churches and monasteries 1
- Film studios and backlots 1
- Castles and estates 1
Aquincum Museum
Historic town & street
The excavated civilian town of the Roman settlement of Aquincum in north Budapest, with an open-air archaeological park of house foundations and a museum building of Roman finds from the site.
Budapest Music Center
Theatre, arena & venue
A modern concert hall and music institute in the Ferencvaros district of Budapest, with a flexible-configuration auditorium used for concerts and corporate or cultural events.
Flexible-configuration concert hall with technical and catering services
Budapest Prison Museum
Hospital, prison & institution
The Hungarian Prison Service's professional history collection in Budapest, exhibiting uniforms, restraints, firearms and other institutional material from the Austro-Hungarian era to the present.
Fisherman's Bastion
Palace & landmark
Neo-Romanesque viewing terrace of 1902 on Castle Hill, with white limestone turrets and staircases overlooking the Danube and the Parliament building.
Seen in: I Spy, The Borgias, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Maigret
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Fővárosi Nagycirkusz
Theatre, arena & venue
Hungary's permanent state circus building beside Városliget park and the zoo, a purpose-built circus hall used for shows and private bookings such as birthday events.
Gozsdu Udvar
House & apartment
A chain of seven connected courtyards running between two parallel streets in Budapest's Jewish Quarter, formed by 19th century apartment blocks and now lined with bars, restaurants and a regular weekend market.
Hungarian National Theatre
Theatre, arena & venue
The national repertory theatre of Hungary in a purpose-built 2002 building beside the Danube in southern Pest, home to its own drama company and visiting productions.
Hungarian Railway History Park
Transport & infrastructure
An open-air railway museum in Budapest with a working turntable, roundhouse and rolling stock from steam to electric era, plus an 870-metre operating narrow-gauge line.
Capacity: 2500 · Orient Hall (up to 2,500 people), Kando Room (40 people) and outdoor grounds for hire
Hungarian State Opera House
Palace & landmark
Miklós Ybl's neo-Renaissance opera house of 1884 on Andrássy Avenue, with a gilded horseshoe auditorium, marble staircases and an arcaded stone facade.
Seen in: Red Sparrow (2018), The Alienist (2018), Houdini (2014)
Kincsem Park
Theatre, arena & venue
Hungary's only horse racing track, an 86-hectare site in Budapest with grandstands, a panorama restaurant with VIP boxes and grounds used for galloping, trotting and greyhound racing.
Panorama restaurant with separated VIP boxes overlooking the track
Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library
Office, school & public building
Budapest's central public library, its reading rooms fitted into the ornate former Wenckheim Palace with gilded ceilings and marble staircases behind the working library shelving.
MVM Dome
Theatre, arena & venue
A large modern indoor arena on Ulloi ut in Budapest's Nepliget district, built for concerts, sports events and expos with VIP hospitality areas and on-site parking.
Papp László Budapest Sportaréna
Theatre, arena & venue
Budapest's main indoor arena, opened in 2003 on the site of an earlier hall destroyed by fire, hosting concerts, championship sport and corporate events.
Capacity: 12500 · Variable seating: 12,500 for concerts, 12,000 for handball, 11,390 for boxing, 9,479 for ice hockey
Rudas Baths
Hotel & interiors
Sixteenth-century Ottoman-era bathhouse on the Buda riverbank, with an octagonal domed central pool lit by star-shaped skylights.
Seen in: Vienna Game
Vajdahunyad Castle
Castle & estate
Eclectic replica castle of 1896 on a lake island in Budapest's City Park, combining Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque wings within a few hundred metres.
Seen in: The Witcher (2019), Dracula (2013), Gemini Man (2019)
A38 Ship
Theatre, arena & venue
A converted Ukrainian stone-carrier ship moored on the Danube in Budapest, run as a concert and event venue with a hall, roof terrace and bow terrace.
Concert hall, roof terrace, bow terrace and separate studio space
Adria Palota
Palace & landmark
An 1902 neo-Baroque office palace on Szabadság tér, built for a shipping company by architect Artúr Meinig, now vacant and decaying behind a marble staircase and Adriatic-themed frescoes.
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Akvarium Klub
Theatre, arena & venue
A club and event venue built partly below street level on Erzsebet ter in central Budapest, with a large hall, a smaller hall and an outdoor terrace.
Andrassy Avenue
Historic town & street
Tree-lined boulevard of ornate 19th-century palaces and villas running from the city centre to City Park, with the Metro's first continental underground line beneath it.
Seen in: Munich, Bel Ami, Houdini, Genius: Picasso
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Balna Budapest
Industrial & derelict
Row of 1880s Danube-side public warehouses extended in 2013 with a glass and steel shell, turning the brick halls into an exhibition and events building on the riverbank.
Seen in: The Martian, Berlin Station, Six Underground, Black Widow
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Batthyany Square Market Hall
Bar, restaurant & shop
A steel-framed 19th century covered market hall on the Buda bank of the Danube at Batthyany ter, in daily use for food stalls beside a metro and suburban rail interchange.
Budapest Congress Centre
Theatre, arena & venue
A conference and exhibition complex in the Buda Hills attached to a four-star hotel, with a main auditorium, 20 further meeting rooms and up to 4,000 square metres of exhibition space.
Capacity: 2000 · 20 multifunctional rooms, up to 4,000 sqm exhibition space, catering, AV support, adjoining 319-room hotel
Budapest Keleti Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
Budapest's largest main-line terminus, built in the 1880s with a glazed central hall, monumental facade and ornate waiting rooms that remain in daily use for rail traffic.
Seen in: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Inferno, The Luzhin Defence, Einstein and Eddington
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Budapest Nyugati Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
Iron-framed terminus completed in 1877 by the Eiffel company's Paris workshops, with a glass and steel train shed and a Baroque Revival facade on the Grand Boulevard.
Seen in: Terminal
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Budapest-Deli Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
Socialist-era terminus on the southern slope of Castle Hill, rebuilt in the 1970s as two linked concrete and glass halls with copper railing details and marbled concourses.
Seen in: Spy/Master
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Children's Railway (Gyermekvasut)
Transport & infrastructure
A narrow-gauge forest railway in the Buda hills staffed on-train by schoolchildren under adult supervision, running steam and diesel services between Huvosvolgy and Szechenyi-hegy.
Csepel Works
Industrial & derelict
Former state ironworks on Csepel Island with factory halls, chimneys, a free port and a disused water treatment plant, still partly in industrial use.
Seen in: The Brutalist
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Dreher Breweries
Industrial & derelict
A working brewery complex in the Kobanya district of Budapest, Hungary's best known beer producer, offering organised factory tours of its production halls.
Fono Budai Zenehaz
Theatre, arena & venue
A folk music venue in Budapest's Kelenfold district, built around a dance-house hall used for Hungarian, Balkan and other traditional folk dance and concert programmes, with rooms available together or separately.
Gellert Baths
Hotel & interiors
Art Nouveau thermal bathhouse of 1911 at the Buda end of Liberty Bridge, with turquoise Zsolnay tiling, majolica columns and a glass-roofed wave pool.
Seen in: Accumulator 1, Royce
Gerbeaud Cafe
Bar, restaurant & shop
Confectionery and cafe on Vorosmarty Square dating to 1858, with wood-panelled salons, chandeliers and a period patisserie counter, named among Budapest's historic cafes by the national film commission.
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Globus Konzervgyár, Kőbánya
Industrial & derelict
A canning factory in the Kőbánya district whose castellated brick exterior gives it the look of an old fortress rather than a working food plant.
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Great Market Hall (Nagyvasarcsarnok)
Bar, restaurant & shop
Budapest's largest and oldest indoor market hall on Fovam ter, a steel-framed 19th century building with a Zsolnay-tiled roof, in daily use as a food market with stalls on three levels.
Groupama Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
The football stadium of Ferencvarosi TC on Ulloi ut in Budapest, a modern all-seater ground also used for concerts and other events.
Gundel Restaurant
Bar, restaurant & shop
A landmark Hungarian restaurant in City Park operating since the 1890s, its upstairs rooms in the historic building used as a formal events venue for weddings, conferences and banquets.
Capacity: 3000
House of Hungarian Music
Modern architecture
A 2022 concert and exhibition building by Sou Fujimoto in Budapest's City Park, with a canopy roof cut by tree-shaped openings over glass-walled halls, a 360-degree dome cinema and recording studios.
Kelenfold Power Plant
Industrial & derelict
Art Deco power station built on the Buda bank in the late 1930s, with glass-block floors, spiral staircases and a control hall named a filming location by the national film commission.
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Lipotmezo Sanatorium
Hospital, prison & institution
Abandoned former psychiatric hospital in the Buda hills, with high-ceilinged corridors, exposed pipework and a decayed operating theatre listed as a filming site by the national film commission.
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Liszt Ferenc Airport Terminal 1
Transport & infrastructure
Mid-twentieth-century former main terminal of Budapest's international airport, now used for general aviation and charter traffic, with its original modernist facade and interiors intact.
Seen in: Inferno, Atomic Blonde, Spy, Terminator: Dark Fate
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Magyar Szentföld-templom, Hűvösvölgy
Church & monastery
An unfinished 1940s reinforced-concrete church in a Buda woodland suburb, meant to unite replicas of Holy Land pilgrimage sites, left as a roofless shell of bare columns.
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MÁVAG Colony
House & apartment
A early-20th-century workers' housing colony built for the MÁVAG railway-equipment works in Kőbánya, its closed rows of company housing largely unchanged since the era of state industry.
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Millenaris Park
Industrial & derelict
Former Ganz electrical works converted into a public cultural and exhibition park, keeping several industrial hall structures alongside gardens and event spaces.
MOM Cultural Center
Office, school & public building
A multidisciplinary cultural centre in the Nemetvolgy area of Budapest with a theatre hall, a domed hall and several named function rooms, plus an open-air stage and promenade.
MOME Zugliget Campus
Office, school & public building
Hillside campus of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, with white-walled contemporary buildings, exposed concrete and large glazed studio spaces.
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Mupa Budapest
Theatre, arena & venue
Riverside performing arts complex opened in 2005 on the Pest embankment, combining a concert hall, a multipurpose festival theatre and exhibition galleries under one roof.
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New York Cafe
Bar, restaurant & shop
Ornate fin-de-siecle grand cafe on the ground floor of the New York Palace, with gilded columns, frescoed ceilings and marble tables, listed by the national film commission among Budapest's historic coffee houses.
Capacity: 600 · Twelve meeting rooms. Rome hall: 441 sqm (550 theatre / 320 banquet) with a 770 sqm foyer. Rossini: 178 sqm (150 theatre / 100 banquet). Vivaldi: 126...
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North Pest Hospital
Hospital, prison & institution
Part-disused Art Nouveau and Modernist hospital complex in North Pest, with broken-windowed wards and a glazed dome over the main building, catalogued as a filming site by the national film commission.
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Óbuda Experimental Housing Estate
House & apartment
A late-1960s housing estate in Óbuda built as a testbed for precast-concrete residential forms, still standing as an example of state-era experimental design.
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Obuda Gas Factory
Industrial & derelict
Former municipal gasworks on the Danube in Obuda, its striped brick gasholders and domed towers now enclosed within a riverside office and technology park.
165,000 sqm total site area, 82,000 sqm gross leasable area, over 2,000 underground parking spaces (own site).
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Óbuda Stocking Factory
Industrial & derelict
A clinker-brick hosiery factory complex in Óbuda whose blank walls and towers resemble a Hanseatic warehouse district rather than a 20th-century textile plant.
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OKISZ Headquarters
Office, school & public building
Reinforced-concrete office headquarters in the Zuglo villa district, an example of Late Modern architecture with a retracted facade and a working paternoster lift.
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Origo Studios
Studio & backlot
Purpose-built studio complex in Budapest with eleven stages, including nine soundstages and around 19,000 square metres of filming space, plus backlot areas and underwater filming facilities.
Seen in: Dune: Part One (2021), Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
11 stages totalling over 19,000 m2: nine soundstages (largest Stage 6, 4,373 m2 and 20 m high; Stages 3 and 4, 2,662 m2 each) and two VFX stages with...
Parisi Udvar
Hotel & interiors
A restored 1817 shopping arcade in central Budapest under a stained-glass and mosaic dome mixing Gothic, Moorish and Art Nouveau detail, now the lobby and restaurant of a hotel.
Piarist Centre
Office, school & public building
Central Pest school and monastery building on Marcius 15 Square, mixing a neo-Baroque shell with a 21st-century glazed extension and an internal theatre hall.
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Puskas Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
Hungary's national football stadium in Budapest, rebuilt on the site of the old Nepstadion, with tiered event spaces from a Sky Lounge to VIP suites alongside the pitch and stands.
Capacity: 67155 · Business VIP, VIP Club, Sky Lounge and Sky Lobby event spaces for 20 to 1,000 people, plus stadium tours
Szazados Road Art Colony
House & apartment
Early-twentieth-century artists' colony of studio houses set among trees in Zuglo, still used as working studios and listed as a location by the national film commission.
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Szechenyi Chain Bridge
Transport & infrastructure
Suspension bridge opened in 1849 linking Buda and Pest across the Danube, with cast-iron chain cables and stone lion sculptures at each bridgehead.
Seen in: I Spy, In Secret, 12 Monkeys, Gemini Man
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Szechenyi Thermal Bath
Hotel & interiors
One of Europe's largest bath complexes in City Park, with a fresco-decorated dome hall, indoor and outdoor thermal pools and elegant colonnaded corridors.
Seen in: Mata Hari, Evita, The Luzhin Defence, Gemini Man
Capacity: 150 · Marble Hall holds up to 150 people (130 with a dance floor, 120 theatre-style); Small Cupola Room up to 70; Palm House 50 to 80 for evening events;...
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Trafó House of Contemporary Arts
Theatre, arena & venue
A contemporary dance, music and exhibition venue in Ferencváros housed in a former electrical transformer station, its industrial hall kept largely as found.
Urania National Film Theatre
Theatre, arena & venue
Art Nouveau cinema and event hall of 1896 on the Grand Boulevard, with a Moorish-influenced facade and a decorated auditorium ceiling, named by the national film commission among Budapest's classic movie theatres.
Capacity: 460 · Grand Hall (Diszterem): 425 seats for screenings, up to 460 for other events; stage area about 100 sqm with a high ceiling; three theatre dressing...
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Vigado Concert Hall
Theatre, arena & venue
An 1865 concert and ballroom building on the Pest riverbank of the Danube, restored with its historic hall and staircases, used for concerts, galas and exhibitions.
Vigszinhaz (Vig Theatre)
Theatre, arena & venue
A large historic theatre on Szent Istvan korut in Budapest, with a main stage and several affiliated smaller stages across the district, offering backstage tours of the building.
Wekerle Estate
House & apartment
Early-twentieth-century garden suburb of low Art Nouveau terraced houses laid out around a central square, built as a model workers' estate on the edge of Pest.
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What Hungary pays back
Hungary runs the Hungarian Film Incentive, worth 30% (up to 37.5% with foreign costs). Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
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