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Buenos Aires

capital and largest city of Argentina

🇦🇷 Argentina · -34.5997, -58.3819

Buenos Aires is recorded as a filming location for 59 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Buenos Aires, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 6 more.

3 productions were filmed at 16 places inside Buenos Aires rather than at Buenos Aires itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“The film was entirely shot in the city of Buenos Aires, including the Plaza de Mayo where the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo congregated in the late 1970s with signs and pictures of desaparecidos who were subjected to forced disappearance by the Argentine military in the Dirty War.”
The Official Story (1985) · Wikipedia

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Buenos Aires
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Movies and TV series 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.

  • The Two Popes 2019
    “Filming locations included a refugee camp in Rome, a full-size reproduction of the Sistine Chapel interior created at the Cinecittà studios in Rome, an area outside Castel Gandolfo (the pope's summer palace), various locations in Rome as stand-ins for scenes at the Vatican, and poor areas of Buenos Aires.” Wikipedia
  • Violetta 2012–
    “Violetta is an Argentine telenovela filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina and developed by Disney Channel Latin America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and production company Pol-ka, debuted in Argentina, Latin America and Italy on 14 May 2012.” Wikipedia
  • Colonia 2015
  • Muñeca brava 1998–
    “The play was filmed mainly in Argentina (Buenos Aires).” Wikipedia
  • The Tango Lesson 1997
    “The film, a co-production of Argentina, France, Germany, Netherlands and the United Kingdom, was produced by Christopher Sheppard in Britain and Oscar Kramer in Argentina, and was shot mostly in black and white in Paris and Buenos Aires.” Wikipedia
  • Martín (Hache) 1997
    “The film was filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Madrid, and Almería, Spain.” Wikipedia

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Buenos Aires

3 productions shot at 16 places inside Buenos Aires, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Buenos Aires itself.

4 more places are inside Buenos Aires — see them on the map.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Buenos Aires?

68 productions are recorded as filmed in Buenos Aires, 3 of them at places inside it, including Children of Men (2006), Evita (1996) and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). 6 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, at -34.5997, -58.3819. The day trip guide for Buenos Aires lists 29 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Buenos Aires?

La Plata, Casa Rosada, Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó, Puerto Madero and 2 more, 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 ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near Buenos Aires — 29 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.