Germany Film Locations

Real film and TV locations across Germany — see where to camp nearby and plan a visit.

Leipzig/Halle Airport
Leipzig/Halle Airport

This working cargo and passenger airport near Leipzig doubled as the airport in Captain America: Civil War's climactic superhero showdown, alongside the nearby Tempelhof site.

Captain America: Civil War
Harz Mountains
Harz Mountains

Germany's northernmost low mountain range, known for its dense forests, half-timbered towns, and narrow-gauge steam railways, provided rural backdrops for scenes in The Monuments Men.

The Monuments Men
Brandenburg Gate
Brandenburg Gate

Germany's most iconic landmark and the historic dividing line of the Berlin Wall has featured in numerous films, including The Bourne Supremacy, Bridge of Spies, and Unknown, usually as visual shorthand for Berlin and Cold War history.

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Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf
Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf

This atmospheric wooded cemetery near Potsdam, with its striking Scandinavian-style wooden church built in 1908–1911, provided the eerie cemetery and church setting for Netflix's Dark.

Dark
Bendlerblock
Bendlerblock

This Berlin government complex, the real site where Claus von Stauffenberg was executed after the failed 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, was used as a filming location in Tom Cruise's Valkyrie — the same courtyard where the historical events took place.

Valkyrie
Glienicke Bridge
Glienicke Bridge

Nicknamed the "Bridge of Spies" for the real Cold War prisoner exchanges once conducted here between East and West, this steel bridge over the Havel between Potsdam and Berlin gave Steven Spielberg's 2015 film both its title and its climactic setting.

Bridge of Spies
Alexanderplatz
Alexanderplatz

Jason Bourne's tense meeting with Nicky Parsons beneath Alexanderplatz's iconic World Time Clock, amid a staged demonstration, was filmed on location in central Berlin.

The Bourne Supremacy
Görlitz
Görlitz

Often called "Germany's Hollywood", this beautifully preserved historic town on the Polish border has stood in for dozens of other cities in over 100 productions, including The Grand Budapest Hotel, Inglourious Basterds, Around the World in 80 Days, and The Book Thief — largely because its architecture survived WWII almost untouched.

The Grand Budapest HotelInglourious BasterdsAround the World in 80 DaysThe Book Thief
Neuschwanstein Castle
Neuschwanstein Castle

This fairytale 19th-century castle in the Bavarian Alps — widely believed to have inspired Disney's own castle logo — appeared in The Monuments Men and Around the World in 80 Days, and remains one of the most-visited castles in Europe.

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Tempelhof Airport
Tempelhof Airport

This decommissioned Nazi-era airport, now one of the world's largest public parks, appeared as itself in The Hunger Games and doubled for an airport battle in Captain America: Civil War — its vast open field and monumental terminal building are instantly recognisable.

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Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Studios

Founded in 1912, this is Europe's oldest major film studio, still in continuous operation today — its sound stages and backlots have hosted Cloud Atlas, The Matrix Resurrections, The Hunger Games, V for Vendetta, and The Pianist, among hundreds of other productions.

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