Transport and infrastructure to film in France
20 of them, 10 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.
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot.
Shooting in France pays back through the Tax Rebate for International Production (TRIP / C2I) (30% (40% VFX-heavy)): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Chemins de fer de la Corse
Transport & infrastructure
Metre gauge railway of about 232 km linking Ajaccio, Bastia and Calvi, with tunnels, the Vecchio viaduct, small country halts, depots and railcars.
Ecluses de Fonseranes
Transport & infrastructure
Staircase lock of 1697 on the Canal du Midi at Beziers, about 300 m long with a drop of 21 m, stone chambers, towpaths and a lock keepers house.
Gare Saint Sauveur
Transport & infrastructure
Former goods yard of a 19th-century Lille railway station, now an exhibition and events venue keeping the open shed structure and platform-level halls of the original depot.
Grand Port Maritime de Marseille
Transport & infrastructure
France's largest port, with the working container terminals and warehouses of Marseille-Fos and the historic Joliette basin, with its own published filming-permit process for productions.
Musee des phares et balises
Transport & infrastructure
Lighthouse museum in the outbuildings of the Creac'h light on Ouessant, with optics, lamps, buoys and the black and white banded tower on the cliff outside.
Passage du Gois
Transport & infrastructure
A 4.1 kilometre tidal causeway to the island of Noirmoutier that is covered by the sea twice a day, with rescue poles, mudflats and no side barriers.
Phare de Cordouan
Transport & infrastructure
Working lighthouse on a rock at the mouth of the Gironde estuary, built from 1584 with a royal apartment and chapel inside, UNESCO-listed since 2021.
Pont du Gard
Transport & infrastructure
Three tier Roman aqueduct bridge 49 m high over the Gardon, with dry stone arches, river banks, scrub covered slopes and no modern building in the frame.
Pont-canal de Briare
Transport & infrastructure
A 662 metre steel navigable aqueduct of 1896 carrying a canal over the Loire, with lamp standards, towpaths and open water on both sides.
Viaduc de Millau
Transport & infrastructure
Cable-stayed road bridge across the Tarn valley, the tallest of its kind in the world at 343 metres, carrying the A75 motorway.
Aeroport Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Transport & infrastructure
France's main international airport north of Paris, with terminals, control-tower views and airside areas that operator Groupe ADP makes available for filming through a dedicated production service.
Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
Transport & infrastructure
Heritage steam and diesel railway running along the Somme bay between Le Crotoy, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme and Cayeux, with period stations and rolling stock.
Capacity: 115 · Two heritage trains available for private charter: Belle Époque (steam, seats up to 115) and 4 Saisons (diesel, seats up to 96). Neither train is...
Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours
Transport & infrastructure
Grand prix circuit with 4.4 km of track, pit lane and garages, grandstands, a control tower and open paddock space, hired by the day for track and vehicle work.
Cite de la Mer
Transport & infrastructure
Maritime museum inside Cherbourg's 1933 Art Deco former transatlantic liner terminal, keeping the original departure hall, with a decommissioned submarine on display and dockside harbour views.
Cite du Train
Transport & infrastructure
One of the world's largest railway museums, in Mulhouse, with locomotives and carriages under a long-span roof and a reconstructed period station platform, published as available for hire and filming.
Two covered halls of 6,000 sqm and 13,000 sqm plus 16,000 sqm of outdoor space; named filming locations include station platforms, a turntable and a...
Fort de la Bastille, Grenoble
Transport & infrastructure
Hill fort above Grenoble reached by the bubble cable car of 1934, with casemates, stair tunnels, terraces over the Isere and rooms inside the ramparts.
Musee Aeroscopia
Transport & infrastructure
Aviation museum beside the Airbus plant at Blagnac, with Concorde, Super Guppy and A300 airframes under one hall of about 7,000 m2 and aircraft parked outside.
Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace
Transport & infrastructure
Aerospace museum built around historic hangars at the edge of Paris-Le Bourget airport, with aircraft, open apron and runway views bookable through its own filming and photography service.
Pont Eiffel sur le Lot
Transport & infrastructure
A 19th century metal footbridge over the Lot river at Bouzies, on the riverside towpath through the gorge, listed as a filming location by the Lot department's film office.
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Sous-marin Espadon
Transport & infrastructure
Cold war French submarine preserved afloat in the lock of the Saint-Nazaire submarine base, with control room, torpedo room, bunks and engine spaces open inside.
Transport and infrastructure elsewhere in Europe
- United Kingdom 42
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- Italy 19
- Poland 17
- Croatia 13
- Switzerland 12
- Greece 11
- Netherlands 11
- Portugal 11
- Romania 10
- Czech Republic 8
Other kinds of location in France
- Theatres, arenas and venues 30
- Industrial and derelict locations 36
- Offices, schools and public buildings 23
- 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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