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Towns & cities

Buenos Aires

capital and largest city of Argentina

Argentina · -34.5997, -58.3819

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Buenos Aires is recorded as a filming location for 80 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Buenos Aires, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 59 more. Published sources name it for more, each listed below with its publisher.

5 productions were filmed at 25 places inside Buenos Aires rather than at Buenos Aires itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“Filming began in Buenos Aires with scenes depicting Eva's childhood in 1936.”
Evita (1996) · Wikipedia

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Buenos Aires
Photo: ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies and TV series filmed in Buenos Aires

The 60 most widely covered are above. The other 20 filmed in Buenos Aires:

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Buenos Aires 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.

And 19 more, per Wikipedia:

  • A Lucky Day 2002
  • En fuera de juego 2012
  • Yo, mi mujer y mi mujer muerta 2019
  • Historia de lo Oculto 2020
  • Wandering Heart 2021
  • Operación Masacre 1973
  • The Truth and Other Lies 2004
  • Passage 2009
  • Known Strangers 2010
  • El peso de la ley 2017
  • Dark Buildings (A Crack in the Wall) 2018
  • Almost dead 2023
  • Crazy Old Lady 2025
  • Homo Argentum 2025
  • Quiéreme 2007
  • 180° 2010
  • Buddies 2012
  • Women on the Edge 2023
  • Stealing Summers 2011

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Buenos Aires

5 productions shot at 25 places inside Buenos Aires, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Buenos Aires itself.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Buenos Aires, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement: two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

From published sources

Productions a newspaper, a film office, a broadcaster or the production itself says were filmed at Buenos Aires, where no wiki records it. Each sentence below was found on its page and read before it was added, and its publisher is linked beside it.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Buenos Aires?

163 productions are recorded as filmed in Buenos Aires, 5 of them at places inside it, including Children of Men (2006), Evita (1996) and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). 78 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Buenos Aires?

Children of Men (2006), covered by 57 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Buenos Aires?

Buenos Aires is in Argentina. Its coordinates are -34.5997, -58.3819. The day trip guide for Buenos Aires, Argentina lists 64 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Buenos Aires?

Buenos Aires Underground (under 1 km), Teatro Opera (under 1 km), Corrientes Avenue (under 1 km), Catedral (1 km south-east) and 2 more, all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

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 ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near Buenos Aires, Argentina: 64 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.