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Munich

capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany

🇩🇪 Germany · 48.1375, 11.5750

Munich is recorded as a filming location for 18 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Munich, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 24 more. 1 video game, 1 anime and 1 manga are also set here.

2 productions were filmed at 93 places inside Munich rather than at Munich itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“Rollerballs arena sequences were shot at the Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle in Munich, West Germany.”

Rollerball (1975) · Wikipedia

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Movies and TV series filmed in Munich

The Tin Drum 1979
Snowden 2016
The Three Musketeers 2011
The Passenger 1975
The Baader Meinhof Complex 2008
Ludwig 1973
The American Friend 1977
Rollerball 1975
Derrick 1974–1998
Ace of Aces 1982
Bloodline 1979
3096 Days 2013
The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter 1990
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed 1968
Anatomy 2000
Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl 1982–1989
“Shooting location was a fictional workshop in the building Widenmayerstraße 2 in Altstadt-Lehel in Munich.” Wikipedia
The Tobacconist 2018
Cold Hell 2017

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Munich 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.

Downfall 2004
“Hirschbiegel filmed in the cities of Berlin, Munich, and Saint Petersburg, Russia, with a run-down industrial district along the Obvodny Canal used to portray the historical setting in Berlin.” Wikipedia
Das Boot 1981
“A mock-up of a conning tower was placed in a water tank at the Bavaria Studios in Munich for outdoor scenes not requiring a full view of the boat's exterior.” Wikipedia
Paths of Glory 1957
“Production took place entirely in Bavaria, Germany, especially at the Schleissheim Palace near Munich.” Wikipedia
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 2006
“The first fifteen days were spent entirely on the largest stage of Bavaria Film Studios in Munich, shooting the scenes between Baldini and Grenouille in the former's workshop.” Wikipedia
The Great Escape 1963
“The film was made on location in Germany at the Bavaria Film Studio in the Munich suburb of Geiselgasteig in rural Bavaria, where sets for the barrack interiors and tunnels were constructed.” Wikipedia
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971
Last Year at Marienbad 1961
“The locations used for most of the interiors and the gardens were the palaces of Schleissheim and Nymphenburg (including the Amalienburg hunting lodge) and the Antiquarium of the Munich Residenz, all in Munich.” Wikipedia
The NeverEnding Story 1984
One, Two, Three 1961
“Wilder was filming in Berlin the morning the Berlin Wall went up, forcing the crew to move to Munich.” Wikipedia
The Night of the Generals 1967
“The last scenes of the film were shot in Munich.” Wikipedia
Suspiria 1977
“Additional photography took place in Munich, including Daniel's death scene in the Königsplatz square, as well as the opening scene of the film, which was shot on location at the Munich-Riem Airport (closed in 1992).” Wikipedia
Colonia 2015
The Crow 2024
The Search 1948
“Many scenes were shot amidst the actual ruins of the postwar German cities Ingolstadt, Munich, Nuremberg and Würzburg.” Wikipedia
The Mountain Eagle 1926
“The film was mostly produced at the Emelka Film studios in Munich, Germany in autumn of 1925, with exterior scenes shot in the village of Obergurgl in the State of Tyrol, Austria.” Wikipedia
The Odessa File 1974
“Filming was done on location in Hamburg, Heidelberg, and Munich, West Germany and Salzburg, Austria; at Pinewood Studios, England; and the Bavaria Studios in Grünwald, Bavaria, West Germany.” Wikipedia
Fraggle Rock 1983–
Fack ju Göhte 2013
Fedora 1978
Guns Akimbo 2019
$ 1971
“Other filming locations included Munich, Norway, the Pacific Coast Highway and the Hotel del Coronado near San Diego, California.” Wikipedia
The Bridesmaid 2004
Despair 1978
Das Boot 2018–
“Malta, Germany (Munich), France (La Rochelle) and Czech Republic (Prague) were chosen for the location shooting.” Wikipedia

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Munich

2 productions shot at 93 places inside Munich, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Munich itself.

Aguirre, the Wrath of God University of Television and Film Munich per Wikipedia 1972
Deep End Müllersches Volksbad 1970

81 more places are inside Munich — see them on the map.

Set here

Video games, Anime and Manga that take place here. None of them is filmed anywhere, 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 Munich?

44 productions are recorded as filmed in Munich, 2 of them at places inside it, including The Tin Drum (1979), Snowden (2016) and The Three Musketeers (2011). 24 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Munich?

The Tin Drum (1979), covered by 40 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Munich?

Munich is in Germany, at 48.1375, 11.5750. The day trip guide for Munich lists 210 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Munich?

Dachau concentration camp, University of Television and Film Munich, Grünwald, Schleißheim palace complex 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 Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near Munich — 210 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.