What if technology can create special effects and ideal locations? The truth is that some places are just unique and irreplaceable for movies to be filmed. Paris, the city of lights and love, the center of fashion, literature, arts, gastronomy and new ideas with beautiful architecture is considered one of them, having been chosen numerous times by top film productions. This time we have rounded up the 10 highest – rated movies – recommended to watch – that have been filmed entirely or partly in magical Paris.
Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Arc de Triomphe, Les Champs-Élysées, Montmartre as well as romantic and historic neighborhoods are featured in these movies promoting the Parisian culture, glamour, romance and a slight sense of Boheme.
1. Midnight in Paris (2011)
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance – IMDb: 7,7/ 10
A nostalgic screenwriter, being on a trip with his fiancée’s family, finds himself mysteriously traveling back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
2. Amélie (2001)
Comedy, Romance – IMDb: 8,3 / 10
Amélie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, takes the decision to help those around her with her own sense of justice. On this journey of life, she discovers love.
3. La vie en rose (2007)
Biography, Drama, Music – IMDb: 7,6 / 10
We are talking about the biography of the legendary French singer Édith Piaf. Being abandoned by her mother, she was raised in a brothel by her grandmother. She was then discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her successful career, her life was full of drama.
4. Intouchables (2001)
Biography, Comedy, Drama – IMDb: 8,5 / 10
An aristocrat, after becoming a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, hires a young man to be his caregiver. How will these two men live together?
5. Ratatouille (2007)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy – IMDb: 8,0 / 10
A rat who can cook like a great chef makes an alliance with a young kitchen worker at a very famous restaurant in Paris.
6. The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Mystery, Thriller – IMDb: 6,6 / 10
Da Vinci’s secrets and clues in paintings with the combination of a murder inside the Louvre lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
7. The curious case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Drama, Fantasy, Romance – IMDb: 7,8 / 10
It is about the story of Benjamin Button, who starts aging backward, being all the more young with bizarre consequences and complicated relationships.
8. Ronin (1998)
Action, Adventure, Crime – IMDb: 7,3 / 10
A freelancing former U.S Intelligence Agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by the Irish and the Russians.
9. Moulin Rouge (2001)
Drama, Musical, Romance – IMDb: 7,6 / 10
The story is about a young poet, Christian, who falls in love with the gorgeous star, cabaret actress and courtesan Satine of Moulin Rouge, whom a jealous duke covets.
10. Les Miserables – Leam Nesson (1998)
Crime, Drama, History – IMDb: 7,5 / 10
A former criminal has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him.
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