Theatres, arenas and venues to film in France
30 of them, 18 with a photo and 5 with practical details the location publishes itself. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them.
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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.
Allianz Riviera
Theatre, arena & venue
Nice football stadium with a translucent wave-shaped roof, home to OGC Nice and used for concerts and other 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.
Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans
Theatre, arena & venue
Motor racing circuit combining a permanent track with closed public roads, pit lane and garages, grandstands, control tower and a museum on the same site.
Futuroscope
Theatre, arena & venue
Multimedia theme park north of Poitiers built around futuristic pavilions and a lake, with cinema domes and landscaped outdoor sets, offering seminar and private event hire outside opening hours.
Halle aux Toiles
Theatre, arena & venue
Municipal hall in central Rouen used for fairs, concerts and exhibitions, with a large clear span room, gallery level and street frontage near the old market.
Halle de La Machine
Theatre, arena & venue
Large hangar on the former Montaudran airfield holding street theatre machines, with a wide clear span hall, workshops and the old runway strip outside.
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...
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...
Puy du Fou
Theatre, arena & venue
Historical show park with a Gallo-Roman arena, a medieval fort, a reconstructed 1900 village and large open air stages with standing sets and stabling.
Stade de France
Theatre, arena & venue
National stadium in Saint-Denis seating over 80,000, built for the 1998 World Cup and used for major sport, concerts and ceremonies.
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard
Theatre, arena & venue
Football ground of 1931 with four separate steep stands, about 41,000 seats, players tunnels, dressing rooms, press areas and a surrounding car park.
Theatre Antique d'Orange
Theatre, arena & venue
Best-preserved Roman theatre stage wall in Europe, in Orange, with tiered stone seating for around 9,000, used every summer as the main stage of the Choregies opera festival.
Theatre Antique de Vienne
Theatre, arena & venue
Roman theatre cut into a hillside above Vienne on the Rhone, with tiered stone seating for around 7,000, used every summer as the main stage of the Jazz a Vienne festival.
Theatre des Arts, Rouen
Theatre, arena & venue
Opera house of 1962 in central Rouen with a 1,300 seat auditorium, orchestra pit, stage tower, foyers and rehearsal rooms, home of the Normandy opera and orchestra.
Vulcania
Theatre, arena & venue
Volcano-themed science park built into the Auvergne hillside near Clermont-Ferrand, with underground galleries and a crater-shaped amphitheatre, listing seminar and private event hire.
Arenes de Nimes
Theatre, arena & venue
Roman amphitheatre built around 100 AD in the centre of Nimes, seating up to 24,000 for its own ferias and concerts, with a covered arena floor usable for filming outside the events calendar.
Casino Grand Cercle, Aix-les-Bains
Theatre, arena & venue
Casino of 1849 in the spa town, with a mosaic domed gaming room, an Italian style theatre of about 900 seats and reception rooms that are hired out.
Cite de l'Espace
Theatre, arena & venue
Space-themed science centre on the eastern edge of Toulouse, with a full-size Ariane rocket outdoors, planetarium domes and simulator halls, hired out for seminars and corporate events.
La Cite, Nantes Events Center
Theatre, arena & venue
City congress centre with three auditoriums, wide foyers, glazed galleries and exhibition halls, used for conferences, concerts and trade events.
La Comedie de Clermont-Ferrand
Theatre, arena & venue
Theatre opened in 2020 inside the 1950s bus and rail station, keeping the long concrete canopy and adding two auditoriums, foyers, rehearsal rooms and workshops.
La Piscine, Musee d'Art et d'Industrie Andre Diligent
Theatre, arena & venue
1932 Art Deco municipal swimming pool in Roubaix converted into a museum, keeping its tiled pool basin, stained glass and rows of former changing cubicles as exhibition space.
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...
Le Bateau Feu
Theatre, arena & venue
A 20th century national theatre in central Dunkirk with a large main stage and backstage artist workshops, named by the regional film commission among its exceptional filming locations.
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Palais des congres, Opera de Vichy
Theatre, arena & venue
Art nouveau opera and congress building of 1901 in the spa quarter, with a gold and white auditorium, former casino rooms, glazed galleries and a park frontage.
Palais des Festivals et des Congres
Theatre, arena & venue
Cannes' seafront convention centre and home of the Cannes Film Festival, with cinema auditoriums, exhibition halls and the red-carpet staircase, hired for congresses and events year round.
Stade Marie-Marvingt (MMArena)
Theatre, arena & venue
Football stadium of 2011 seating about 25,000, with a translucent shell, unbroken seating bowl, changing rooms, press areas and hospitality lounges.
Theatre National Populaire, Villeurbanne
Theatre, arena & venue
Municipal theatre of 1934 rebuilt in 2011, with a large main auditorium, a smaller studio, scenery workshops and a brick front on the Gratte-Ciel square.
Theatres, arenas and venues elsewhere in Europe
- United Kingdom 47
- Germany 39
- Spain 38
- Austria 26
- Hungary 23
- Poland 22
- Belgium 20
- Netherlands 19
- Croatia 14
- Italy 14
- Czech Republic 13
- Sweden 11
Other kinds of location in France
- Industrial and derelict locations 36
- Offices, schools and public buildings 23
- Transport and infrastructure 20
- Film studios and backlots 14
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 15
- Houses and apartments 12
- Hotels and interiors 8
- Castles and estates 14
- Churches and monasteries 10
- Villages and countryside 8
- Modern architecture 8
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