Film and TV locations in Paris, Ile-de-France
18 places to shoot in Paris, Ile-de-France, France: 7 theatres, arenas and venues, 3 offices, schools and public buildings, 2 modern architecture and 6 more. 12 have a photo and 8 carry practical details the location publishes itself.
What is here
- Theatres, arenas and venues 7
- Offices, schools and public buildings 3
- Modern architecture 2
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 2
- Bars, restaurants and shops 2
- Industrial and derelict locations 2
Accor Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
Multi-purpose indoor arena in Bercy seating up to about 20,300, built into a grass-covered pyramid, used for concerts, sport and large events.
Aquaboulevard
Theatre, arena & venue
Indoor and outdoor water park in the 15th arrondissement, with wave pools, slides and tropical-style planting, hired through its own professional booking service for shoots and events.
Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
Office, school & public building
Campus of more than 40 national residence halls in varied architectural styles on the southern edge of Paris, housing international students since the 1920s.
Capacity: 380 · 34-hectare campus with 47 architecturally varied buildings dating from 1925 onward, offered for professional events as well as filming; parking for...
Hôpital Saint-Louis
Hospital, prison & institution
Working Paris hospital built around an early 17th-century brick and stone quadrilateral courtyard, one of the AP-HP sites named as regularly hosting commercial filming.
Le Grand Rex
Theatre, arena & venue
1932 Art Deco single-screen cinema and concert hall on Boulevard Poissonniere, with a domed starlit auditorium seating over 2,700, hired out for premieres, shows and filming.
Capacity: 2700 · Grande Salle seats 800 to 2,700; other spaces include Les Halls (800), Le Club (350), Rex Infinite (285), Rex 3 (238), Rex 5 (163), Rex 4 (122), Rex 7...
Le Train Bleu
Bar, restaurant & shop
Belle Époque restaurant inside Gare de Lyon station, listed as a historic monument since 1972, with gilded ceilings and large painted murals of French regions.
Seen in: La Femme Nikita (1990), Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007), Micmacs (2009), Place Vendôme (1998)
Les Deux Magots
Bar, restaurant & shop
Historic Saint-Germain-des-Prés cafe with a covered terrace and wood-panelled interior, a literary and artist meeting place since the late 19th century.
Les Frigos
Industrial & derelict
Former refrigerated railway goods depot near the old Paris-Ivry station, now artist studios behind a graffiti-covered brick facade, with raw interiors and a covered yard in the 13th arrondissement.
Palais Garnier
Theatre, arena & venue
19th-century opera house with a grand marble staircase, a gilded foyer and a ceiling painted by Chagall, home to the Paris Opera Ballet.
Capacity: 2000 · Public areas hold up to 2,000 people for a cocktail reception; the Grand Foyer seats up to 700 for a gala dinner. Other hireable spaces include the...
Paris Expo Porte de Versailles
Theatre, arena & venue
Paris's largest exhibition centre, eight halls totalling over 200,000 square metres beside the ring road, hired for trade shows, corporate events and filming through operator Viparis.
Piscine Molitor
Theatre, arena & venue
Art Deco outdoor and indoor swimming pool complex from 1929 in western Paris, restored as part of a hotel with the original tiled pools kept in use.
Capacity: 150 · Salons Longchamp & Auteuil and Salon Murat each hold up to 130 (theatre style); Salon Murat is 135 sqm and doubles as an urban art gallery. Le...
Tribunal de Paris
Hospital, prison & institution
Renzo Piano's 160-metre glass courthouse tower at Porte de Clichy, housing Paris's civil and criminal courts around a public hall and stacked courtroom floors, with filming possible by arrangement.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, site Richelieu
Office, school & public building
Historic national library building in central Paris with a 19th-century domed reading room and ornate galleries, reopened after a long restoration.
Capacity: 300 · At the Richelieu site, the Salle Ovale seats up to 220 for a dinner or holds up to 300 for a cocktail reception. Other hireable spaces are the Hall...
Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection
Modern architecture
Former 19th-century grain exchange with a circular rotunda and glass dome, renovated by Tadao Ando with an internal concrete cylinder as a contemporary art museum.
Capacity: 800 · Ground-floor Salon and Passage (up to 800 for a cocktail reception or 220 for a seated dinner), Foyer on floor -1 (up to 300 for a cocktail...
Cité de la Mode et du Design
Modern architecture
Former riverside customs warehouse on the Seine reclad in a green glass and steel skin, housing a design school, offices, a club and event floors over the water.
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
Office, school & public building
Large science museum in the Parc de la Villette built inside a converted 1960s abattoir hall, with the geodesic dome cinema La Géode standing alongside it.
Le 104 (Centquatre-Paris)
Theatre, arena & venue
Former municipal funeral parlour in northern Paris with two vast glass-roofed halls, now an arts centre with studios and space hired for events and shoots.
Capacity: 1780 · Nef Curial: 1,026 sqm plus 1,000 sqm of circulation space, seats 1,000 or holds 1,780 standing. Jardin: 420 sqm, 250 seated or 600 standing. Salle...
Station F
Industrial & derelict
Former Halle Freyssinet railway freight depot, a single steel-framed hall over 300 metres long in southeast Paris, now a start-up campus with open floors and event space.
What France pays back
France runs the Tax Rebate for International Production (TRIP / C2I), worth 30% (40% VFX-heavy). Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
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