🏙 Towns & cities
Tehran
capital city of Iran
🇮🇷 Iran · 35.6889, 51.3897
Tehran is recorded as a filming location for 11 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Tehran, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 3 more.
1 place inside Tehran has a page of its own — listed below. Everything shot at it is already named above, recorded against Tehran as well.
“The film deals with the "Canadian Caper", in which Mendez led the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran, Iran, under the guise of filming a science-fiction film during the 1979–81 Iran hostage crisis.”
Movies and TV series filmed in Tehran
- A Separation 2011
- Taste of Cherry 1997
- Children of Heaven 1997
- The Circle 2000
- The Mirror 1997
- Leila 1997
- Jeyran 2022–
- Hamoun 1990
- Killing Mad Dogs 2001
- The Book of Law 2009
- The Corridor 2013
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Tehran 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.
- Argo 2012
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The Salesman
2016
“Although he was planning to film a Spanish language-project abroad, Farhadi opted to delay it to return to Tehran to make The Salesman in 2015.” Wikipedia
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Shahrzad
2015–2016
“The series was shot in Ghazali Cinematic Town in the western part of Tehran.” Wikipedia
Filming locations inside Tehran
1 place inside Tehran, with a page of its own. Every production shot at it is already listed above, because Wikidata records it against Tehran too.
Set here, per Wikipedia
Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Tehran, 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.
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Battlefield 3
“The game features maps set in Paris, Tehran (as well as other locations in Iran), Sulaymaniyah in Iraq, New York City, Wake Island, Oman, Kuwait City, and other parts of the Persian Gulf.” Wikipedia
Filming locations nearby
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🎬 Studios & sets
Yusef Cinema Town
🇮🇷 Iran
cinema town in Ray County, Iran
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🏙 Towns & cities
Ghazali Cinema Town
🇮🇷 Iran
cinema town in Tehran, Iran
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Tehran?
14 productions are recorded as filmed in Tehran, including A Separation (2011), Taste of Cherry (1997) and Children of Heaven (1997). 3 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Tehran?
A Separation (2011), covered by 46 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Tehran?
Tehran is in Iran, at 35.6889, 51.3897.
What other filming locations are near Tehran?
Yusef Cinema Town and Ghazali Cinema Town, 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 Amir Pashaei, CC BY-SA 4.0.