Where was Inception filmed?
2010 film directed by Christopher Nolan
Inception (2010) was filmed in Paris, Tokyo, Tangier, Malibu, University College London, pont de Bir-Hakeim and 5 more places — 11 recorded filming locations in the United Kingdom, France, Japan, the United States, Morocco, Canada. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
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Filming locations
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
RAF Cardington
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
former Royal Air Force station in Bedfordshire, England
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🏙 Towns & cities
Paris
🇫🇷 France
capital and most populous city in France
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🏙 Towns & cities
Tokyo
🇯🇵 Japan
capital and largest city of Japan
“Principal photography began in Tokyo on June 19, 2009, with the scene in which Saito first hires Cobb during a helicopter flight over the city.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Malibu
🇺🇸 United States
city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Tangier
🇲🇦 Morocco
city in and capital of Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco
“Tangier, Morocco, doubled as Mombasa, where Cobb hires Eames and Yusuf.” Wikipedia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Farnborough Airport
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
airport in the United Kingdom
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
University College London
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
public research university in London, England, United Kingdom
“On July 15, 2009, filming took place at University College London for the sequences occurring inside a Paris college of architecture in the story, including the library, Flaxman Gallery and Gustave Tuck Theatre.” Wikipedia
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🛣 Streets & squares
pont de Bir-Hakeim
🇫🇷 France
bridge over the Seine River in Paris, France
“Filming moved to France, where they shot Cobb entering the college of architecture (the place used for the entrance was the Musée Galliera) and the pivotal scenes between Ariadne and Cobb, in a bistro (a fictional one set up at the corner of Rue César Franck and Rue Bouchut), and lastly on the Bir-Hakeim bridge.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Fortress Mountain Resort
🇨🇦 Canada
ski resort in Alberta, Canada
“The location manager discovered a temporarily closed ski resort, Fortress Mountain.” Wikipedia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Palais Galliera
🇫🇷 France
museum of fashion and fashion history located in Paris
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🛣 Streets & squares
Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge
🇺🇸 United States
vertical-lift bridge in the Port of Los Angeles
“L.A. was also the site of the climactic scene where a Ford Econoline van runs off the Schuyler Heim Bridge in slow motion.” Wikipedia
Also per Wikipedia's Locations and sets section
Wikipedia’s Locations and sets section names 4 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏙 Towns & cities
Los Angeles
🇺🇸 United States
seat of Los Angeles County, and largest city in California, United States
“Filming moved to the Los Angeles area, where some sets were built on a Warner Bros.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Downtown Los Angeles
🇺🇸 United States
central business district of Los Angeles, California, United States
“The production staged a multi-vehicle car chase on the streets of downtown Los Angeles, which involved a freight train crashing down the middle of a street.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Cardington
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England, UK
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🏰 Castles & palaces
Nijō Castle
🇯🇵 Japan
castle in Kyoto, Japan
“The dining room was inspired by the historic Nijō Castle, built around 1603.” Wikipedia
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in Alberta, California, Japan, Morocco, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Also shot in these places
- Batman Begins 2005
- Inglourious Basterds 2009
- Amélie 2001
- Catch Me If You Can 2002
- Léon: The Professional 1994
- The Da Vinci Code 2006
- Midnight in Paris 2011
- Once Upon a Time in America 1984
- Modern Family 2009–2020
- Hugo 2011
- The Bourne Identity 2002
- The Bourne Ultimatum 2007
Set in the same places
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- Battlefield 4
- Gran Turismo 4
- Deus Ex
- Hitman: Blood Money
- The Rose of Versailles
- Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
- Nodame Cantabile
- Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
- Hitman
- Medal of Honor: Underground
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does Inception have?
11 places recorded on Wikidata, and 4 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across 6 countries.
In which countries was Inception filmed?
the United Kingdom, France, Japan, the United States, Morocco and Canada.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Batman Begins (2005), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Amélie (2001), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.