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Recife

municipality of Pernambuco state, Brazil

🇧🇷 Brazil · -8.0539, -34.8808

Recife is recorded as a filming location for 2 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Recife, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 2 more.

1 place inside Recife has a page of its own — listed below. Everything shot at it is already named above, recorded against Recife as well.

“The actors and crew embarked on April 10, 2016, in Recife and spent 22 days shooting the film, disembarking in Barcelona.”
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Movies filmed in Recife

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Recife 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.

Filming locations inside Recife

1 place inside Recife, with a page of its own. Every production shot at it is already listed above, because Wikidata records it against Recife too.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Recife?

4 productions are recorded as filmed in Recife, including The Secret Agent (2025), Blue Eyes (2009) and Artificial Paradises (2012). 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 Recife?

The Secret Agent (2025), covered by 29 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Recife?

Recife is in Brazil, at -8.0539, -34.8808.

What other filming locations are near Recife?

Capibaribe River and Federal University of Pernambuco, 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 Portal da Copa/ME, CC BY 3.0 br.