🏙 Towns & cities
Acapulco de Juárez
municipal seat of Acapulco, State of Guerrero, Mexico
🇲🇽 Mexico · 16.8629, -99.8870
Acapulco de Juárez is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Acapulco de Juárez, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 4 more.
“Villa Arabesque in Acapulco was used for Sanchez's lavish villa, and the La Rumorosa Mountain Pass in Tecate was used as the filming site for the tanker chase during the climax of the film.”
Movies filmed in Acapulco de Juárez
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Acapulco de Juárez as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
- Licence to Kill 1989
- The Lady from Shanghai 1947
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Missing
1982
“The city of Acapulco served as a stand-in for Viña del Mar, while interiors were shot at Estudios Churubusco.” Wikipedia
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Corona de lágrimas
2012–
“The series was filmed in several places of Acapulco, Zacatecas and Tijuana.” Wikipedia
Filming locations nearby
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Pie de la Cuesta
🇲🇽 Mexico
small beach resort town in the Mexican state of Guerrero
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Acapulco de Juárez?
5 productions are recorded as filmed in Acapulco de Juárez, including La Chèvre (1981), Licence to Kill (1989) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947). 4 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Acapulco de Juárez?
La Chèvre (1981), covered by 23 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Acapulco de Juárez?
Acapulco de Juárez is in Mexico, at 16.8629, -99.8870.
What other filming locations are near Acapulco de Juárez?
Pie de la Cuesta, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Mitrush, CC BY-SA 3.0.