🏙 Towns & cities
La Rochelle
French commune and prefecture of Charente-Maritime, New Aquitaine
🇫🇷 France · 46.1594, -1.1514
La Rochelle is recorded as a filming location for 2 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in La Rochelle, rather than at one identified spot. 1 anime is also set here.
1 production was filmed at 1 place inside La Rochelle rather than at La Rochelle itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.
“The U-boat scenes in Raiders of the Lost Ark were also shot in La Rochelle.”
Movies filmed in La Rochelle
Movies filmed elsewhere in La Rochelle
1 production shot at 1 place inside La Rochelle, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against La Rochelle itself.
- Das Boot La Pallice 1981
Set here
Anime that take place here. Nothing drawn was ever filmed here, 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. The rows marked per its source work are placed by the book they adapt rather than by a statement of their own.
Filming locations nearby
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
La Pallice
🇫🇷 France
port
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Île de Ré
🇫🇷 France
island in Charente-Maritime, France
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🏰 Castles & palaces
Fort Boyard
🇫🇷 France
fort in Charente-Maritime, France
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in La Rochelle?
3 productions are recorded as filmed in La Rochelle, 1 of them at places inside it, including Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Knock (2017).
Which is the best known production filmed in La Rochelle?
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), covered by 80 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is La Rochelle?
La Rochelle is in France, at 46.1594, -1.1514.
What other filming locations are near La Rochelle?
La Pallice, Île de Ré and Fort Boyard, 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. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Remi Jouan, CC BY-SA 3.0.