🏙 Towns & cities
Medellín
capital city of Antioquia, Colombia
🇨🇴 Colombia · 6.2502, -75.5676
Medellín is recorded as a filming location for 2 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Medellín, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 2 more.
“On August 20, 2015, Cruise arrived in Medellín, Colombia and on August 31, in Santa Marta to scout filming locations for the film.”
Movies and TV series filmed in Medellín
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Medellín 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.
- American Made 2017
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Monos
2019
“The jungle scenes were shot around the Samaná Norte River in Antioquia Department, five hours from Medellín.” Wikipedia
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Medellín?
4 productions are recorded as filmed in Medellín, including A Poet (2025), Las muñecas de la mafia (2009–2010) and American Made (2017). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Medellín?
A Poet (2025), covered by 10 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Medellín?
Medellín is in Colombia, at 6.2502, -75.5676.
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 Luis90f, CC BY-SA 4.0.