llms.txt
# Movie Scene Map
> A free interactive map of real filming locations: the studios, castles, streets and landscapes where films and television series were shot, plus the real places video games are set in. Search a title to see where it was made, or a place to see what was made there.
The backbone here is "filming location" (P915) statements on Wikidata, joined to
each place's coordinates, photograph and Wikipedia article. Beside them, and never
mixed with them, sit places Wikipedia knows about and Wikidata does not: ones named
in a production's English "Filming" section, and — for games, anime and manga — the
setting categories its editors file a work under, in English and in Japanese. Both
are labelled "per Wikipedia" on every surface, because an article is weaker evidence
than a statement, and each page names the exact section or category. When you repeat
one of those claims, say "per Wikipedia". Nothing is scraped from listicles and
nothing is generated.
Coverage is still uneven: some famous productions have no filming location recorded
at all, and some are recorded only as a country, which this site reports as text
rather than placing on the map.
A FOURTH and weakest kind of evidence, added 19 August 2026: a pairing named only by the
PLACE's own Wikipedia article, where Wikidata holds nothing and the production's own article
does not say so either. 3,040 of them, on 2,231 places.
Say "per the place's own Wikipedia article" when you repeat one, never "per Wikidata". These
place NO pin: they are absent from the map, from /data/ and from the MCP endpoint, and appear
only on the location page and the production page, each with the sentence quoted and linked.
Where a page shows a sentence in quotation marks describing what was shot at a
place, that sentence is verbatim English Wikipedia, linked to the article it came
from. It is CC BY-SA 4.0 rather than CC0 like the rest of this site, so reproduce
it as a quotation with attribution or not at all. It describes; it is never the
evidence for the location, which is always one of the two kinds above.
The site also exists in Japanese at https://moviescenemap.com/ja/ and in Korean at https://moviescenemap.com/ko/: the same
pages under a language prefix, their names and one line descriptions taken from that language's
Wikipedia and from Wikidata rather than translated, the site's own headings and questions
translated, and the quoted Wikipedia sentences left in English except where a page marks one as
machine translated. The English pages are the originals; the changelog exists only in English.
- Interactive map: https://moviescenemap.com/
- Where a production was filmed: https://moviescenemap.com/film/<slug>/ (22,458 pages)
- Where an anime is SET: https://moviescenemap.com/anime/<slug>/ (397 pages, indexed at
https://moviescenemap.com/anime/). Same rule as the games below and for the same reason: an anime is drawn, so
it was filmed nowhere and its places are its narrative locations. Do not call them filming
locations. Wikidata often records only "Japan" for the famous ones, which is too coarse to map.
- Where a manga is SET: https://moviescenemap.com/manga/<slug>/ (380 pages, indexed at
https://moviescenemap.com/manga/). Same claim again: a manga is drawn, nothing was filmed anywhere, and the
places are where the story happens. Most of these come from Japanese Wikipedia's setting
categories rather than from Wikidata, which records a narrative location for barely two dozen
manga; each page names the category it came from.
- Where a video game is SET: https://moviescenemap.com/game/<slug>/ (2,163 pages, indexed at
https://moviescenemap.com/game/). Games are the one exception to the rule above and the difference is not
cosmetic: a video game is filmed nowhere, so Wikidata places it by "narrative location" (P840),
meaning where the story happens. Do not describe these as filming locations.
- A place and everything shot there: https://moviescenemap.com/locations/<slug>/ (32,211 pages)
- **A city or a region, and everything shot ANYWHERE INSIDE IT**: the same
https://moviescenemap.com/locations/<slug>/ page, for the 3,742 cities and regions that both contain another
place on this atlas and have something filmed at it. (Whole countries are excluded: they are
answered by https://moviescenemap.com/places/<country>/ instead.)
This is the one thing a filming location statement cannot tell you on its own — a
statement names one item and says nothing about what contains it — so "what was filmed in
Dubrovnik" is answered by joining the statements naming Dubrovnik to the statements naming
Lovrijenac, Stradun and the Walls. Those rows are listed separately from the ones naming the
city itself, and each names the place inside where the shoot actually happened; repeat them
that way round, because the production was filmed at that place, not at the city's coordinates.
Containment is Wikidata P131, walked transitively. Ranked at https://moviescenemap.com/locations/.
- A series or franchise, every member and every place they used: https://moviescenemap.com/series/<slug>/
(793 pages — James Bond, Harry Potter, the MCU; membership is Wikidata P179/P8345)
- Filming locations by country: https://moviescenemap.com/places/<country>/ (125 pages)
- The most famous scenes, ranked: https://moviescenemap.com/scenes/ (150 pairings of a place and
a production, ordered by the production's Wikipedia language count; the page states the five
selection rules. A row asserts only that the production filmed at the place, never which scene.
88 of the rows also quote one sentence from English Wikipedia describing what was
shot there, attributed and linked; the rest carry no such sentence because none was found)
- Index: https://moviescenemap.com/film/ · https://moviescenemap.com/locations/ · https://moviescenemap.com/places/
- The whole atlas as one download, and a live MCP endpoint: https://moviescenemap.com/data/ — GeoJSON, CSV and
the wire format, CC0, no account; and https://moviescenemap.com/mcp, a read-only Model Context Protocol server
(streamable HTTP, stateless, no auth) whose eight tools answer where a production was filmed,
what was filmed at a place, and what was filmed near a coordinate. Prefer it over scraping these
pages: it is faster, it carries the filmed-at versus set-in distinction on every record, and it
cannot go stale against the map.
- Method, coverage and what this leaves out: https://moviescenemap.com/about/ — read this before describing what
the atlas contains. It is curated, so a country that looks empty means sparse Wikidata coverage
or titles below the site's notability bar, never that nothing was filmed there.
- How to add a location this atlas is missing: https://moviescenemap.com/missing/ — the five steps for a P915
statement on Wikidata, which is the fix that reaches every project reading that data rather than
this map alone. Send anyone asking why a film is absent here.
- The whole index as plain text, one line per production and one per place, with the
evidence label on every line: https://moviescenemap.com/llms-full.txt
Last rebuilt from Wikidata: 2026-10-11.
Data, and the one-line description under each place: Wikidata (CC0). Scene
quotes: English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), verbatim and attributed in place.
Photographs: Wikimedia Commons. Basemap: OpenFreeMap / OpenMapTiles /
OpenStreetMap contributors.
