Towns & cities

Hamburg

city and state in the North of Germany

Germany · 53.5500, 10.0000

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Hamburg is recorded as a filming location for 10 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Hamburg, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 60 more. 1 video game is also set here.

7 productions were filmed at 42 places inside Hamburg rather than at Hamburg itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“The film A Most Wanted Man was set in and filmed in Hamburg.”
A Most Wanted Man (2014) · Wikipedia

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Hamburg
Photo: kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies and TV series filmed in Hamburg

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Hamburg 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 51 more, per Wikipedia:

  • Homesick for St. Pauli 1963
  • St. Pauli Between Night and Morning 1967
  • Crime Boss 1972
  • The Foster Boy 2011
  • Mother's Baby 2025
  • Docks of Hamburg 1928
  • Brothers 1929
  • Between Hamburg and Haiti 1940
  • Blondes for Export 1950
  • Furioso 1950
  • The Blue Star of the South 1951
  • Dancing Stars 1952
  • Request Concert 1955
  • Two Bavarians in St. Pauli 1956
  • The Heart of St. Pauli 1957
  • Das Mädchen mit den Katzenaugen 1958
  • Pichler's Books Are Not in Order 1961
  • Jailbreak in Hamburg 1971
  • The Rip-Off 1975
  • The Daredevil 1931
  • The Song of Life 1931
  • All is at Stake 1932
  • The Invisible Front 1932
  • Black Roses 1935
  • One Too Many on Board 1935
  • She and the Three 1935
  • Central Rio 1939
  • Only One Night 1950
  • Poison in the Zoo 1952
  • Big City Secret 1952
  • Captain Bay-Bay 1953
  • Don't Forget Love 1953
  • Confession Under Four Eyes 1954
  • Father's Day 1955
  • Sergeant Borck 1955
  • Alibi 1955
  • Lemke's Widow 1957
  • The Happy Years of the Thorwalds 1962
  • When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn 1967
  • Street Acquaintances of St. Pauli 1968
  • Under the Roofs of St. Pauli 1970
  • Dragon Chow 1987
  • Long Hello and Short Goodbye 1999
  • The Stolen Face 1930
  • Night Convoy 1932
  • Decoy 1934
  • Punks Arrives from America 1935
  • A Defeated People 1946
  • My Name is Niki 1952
  • Beloved Life 1953
  • Ein Job 2008

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Hamburg

7 productions shot at 42 places inside Hamburg, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Hamburg itself.

Set here

Video games that take place here. A game is filmed nowhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood: a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Hamburg?

128 productions are recorded as filmed in Hamburg, 7 of them at places inside it, including Soul Kitchen (2009), A Most Wanted Man (2014) and The Teachers' Lounge (2023). 111 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Hamburg?

Soul Kitchen (2009), covered by 27 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Hamburg?

Hamburg is in Germany. Its coordinates are 53.5500, 10.0000. The day trip guide for Hamburg lists 81 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Hamburg?

Hamburg City Hall (under 1 km), Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (under 1 km), Hamburger Kunsthalle (under 1 km), St. Nicholas Church, Hamburg (under 1 km) 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 kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near Hamburg: 81 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.