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Towns & cities

Rio de Janeiro

city of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

Brazil · -22.9111, -43.2056

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Rio de Janeiro is recorded as a filming location for 96 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Rio de Janeiro, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 24 more. 2 video games are also set here.

3 productions were filmed at 58 places inside Rio de Janeiro rather than at Rio de Janeiro itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“Afterwards, there was a week-long shoot in New York City and two weeks in Rio de Janeiro.”
The Incredible Hulk (2008) · Wikipedia

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Rio de Janeiro
Photo: Rafael Rabello de Barros · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies and TV series filmed in Rio de Janeiro

The 58 most widely covered are above. The other 38 filmed in Rio de Janeiro:

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Rio de Janeiro 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.

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Rio de Janeiro

3 productions shot at 58 places inside Rio de Janeiro, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Rio de Janeiro 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.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Rio de Janeiro, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement: two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

Drawn from this place

Anime whose Japanese Wikipedia article names Rio de Janeiro as a real place their setting was modelled on. Nothing was filmed here and no story happens here: somebody drew it from here. That is the weakest claim this atlas makes about a place, which is why it sits under its own heading, and each production’s page links the article the claim came from.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Rio de Janeiro?

123 productions are recorded as filmed in Rio de Janeiro, 3 of them at places inside it, including City of God (2002), The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Fast Five (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 Rio de Janeiro?

City of God (2002), covered by 68 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Rio de Janeiro?

Rio de Janeiro is in Brazil. Its coordinates are -22.9111, -43.2056. The day trip guide for Rio de Janeiro lists 69 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Rio de Janeiro?

Santo Cristo (under 1 km), Brazilian National Archives (2 km east), Central do Brasil (2 km north-east), Santa Teresa (2 km east) 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 Rafael Rabello de Barros, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near Rio de Janeiro: 69 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.