🏙 Towns & cities
Riyadh
capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · 24.6500, 46.7100
Riyadh is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Riyadh, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 1 more.
“Wadjda was filmed on the streets of Riyadh, which often made it necessary for the director to work from the back of a van, as she could not publicly mix with the men in the crew.”
Movies filmed in Riyadh
- The Tambour of Retribution 2020
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Riyadh 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.
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Riyadh?
2 productions are recorded as filmed in Riyadh, including The Tambour of Retribution (2020) and Wadjda (2012). 1 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Riyadh?
The Tambour of Retribution (2020), covered by 7 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Riyadh?
Riyadh is in Saudi Arabia, at 24.6500, 46.7100.
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 B.alotaby, CC BY-SA 4.0.