Movie Filming Locations in London

🎬 Film Poster · 2015

Amy Winehouse -- Music Poster

Camden Market Illustration Poster

The 98types Camden Market illustration in red, yellow and blue -- our signature print, made in the same Market Hall where Amy Winehouse shopped for vintage clothing. From 3 GBP.

Camden Town London Map Print

The Camden Town street map poster -- every street in the filming neighbourhood as cartographic wall art. Underground map variant available. From 3 GBP.

Camden Town Underground Print

The Camden Town Northern Line station print -- the stop that has connected Camden to the rest of London since 1907. From 3 GBP.

🌸 West London · W11 · Notting Hill Gate (Central, District, Circle)

Notting Hill

Filming Location #2 of 8 · Iconic London film locations guide

1999 · dir. Roger Michell

Notting Hill

Roger Michell

The film that defined Notting Hill's global identity as a romantic destination. Hugh Grant's travel bookshop on Portobello Road, the blue door at 280 Westbourne Park Road, the communal garden, the market stalls on a Saturday morning. Roger Michell shot entirely on real locations across the neighbourhood and created a version of Notting Hill that has attracted film tourists every year since 1999. The Travel Bookshop at 142 Portobello Road closed in 2011 but visitors still photograph the site.

1971 · dir. Stanley Kubrick

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick

Kubrick used numerous West London locations throughout A Clockwork Orange -- including areas around the Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove district for the film's night sequences. The film's London is not the tourist London but the peripheral London of underpasses and housing estates -- the city's infrastructure used as the backdrop for its moral argument about free will and the violence of the state.

Notting Hill is the London neighbourhood that cinema made into a destination. Before the 1999 film, the area was known primarily for Portobello Road Market and the Notting Hill Carnival. After the film, the blue door at 280 Westbourne Park Road became one of the most photographed domestic buildings in London. The neighbourhood is genuinely beautiful -- pastel-painted terraced houses, Saturday antique stalls, communal gardens hidden behind Victorian frontages -- and the film captured that beauty with enough specificity that visitors can recognise individual corners they have only seen on screen. Portobello Road is one of the most visited London filming locations in the world, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors annually who come specifically because of the 1999 film.

🎬 Film Poster · 1999

Notting Hill London Map Poster

🎬 Film Poster · 1971

A Clockwork Orange -- Stanley Kubrick Poster

Notting Hill London Map Print

The Notting Hill street map poster -- every street in the neighbourhood made famous worldwide by the 1999 film. Portobello Road, Westbourne Grove, the communal garden. From 3 GBP.

🏛 Central London · SW1 · Westminster (Jubilee, Circle, District)

Westminster & Big Ben

Filming Location #3 of 8 · Iconic London film locations guide

2002 · dir. Danny Boyle

28 Days Later

Danny Boyle

Danny Boyle filmed the opening sequence of 28 Days Later on Westminster Bridge at 5am with council permission -- Jim waking up in an entirely empty London. Shot on digital video with a skeleton crew, the sequence uses Westminster Bridge, the Houses of Parliament and the South Bank as a deserted post-apocalyptic landscape. The specific light of early morning London and the absence of people transforms the most photographed view in the city into something genuinely frightening.

2001 · dir. Chris Columbus

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Chris Columbus

The Hogwarts Express departs from King's Cross and the students fly over Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament in the aerial sequence of Philosopher's Stone. The London geography grounds Hogwarts in recognisable reality before the train disappears north into the Scottish Highlands. Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross became one of the most visited tourist attractions in London as a direct result of the film.

Westminster is the most filmed area of London and possibly the most filmed urban cluster in the world. The Palace of Westminster, Big Ben, Westminster Bridge, the Houses of Parliament, Downing Street -- these locations appear in more films, television series, news broadcasts and establishing shots than any comparable concentration of buildings anywhere. Every film that wants to establish it is set in London cuts to this view. The irony is that very few Londoners pass through Westminster regularly -- it is a political and tourist district rather than a residential one. The London on screen is a Westminster London. The London most Londoners inhabit is somewhere else entirely.

🎬 Film Poster · 2002

Big Ben & London Eye -- Photography Print

🎬 Film Poster · 2001

Harry Potter -- Philosopher's Stone Poster

Big Ben & London Eye Photography Print

The 98types Big Ben and London Eye photography print -- Westminster Bridge from the South Bank. The most filmed view in London as wall art. From 3 GBP.

Big Ben & London Eye Map Poster

The 98types Big Ben and London Eye map poster -- cartographic art covering central London from Westminster to the South Bank. From 3 GBP.

🎞 South London · SE1 · Waterloo (Northern, Bakerloo, Jubilee)

South Bank & Waterloo

Filming Location #4 of 8 · Iconic London film locations guide

1982 · dir. Martin Scorsese

The King of Comedy

Martin Scorsese

While primarily a New York film, The King of Comedy established the visual grammar of films about performance, celebrity obsession and the relationship between ambition and public space that shaped the aesthetic of London South Bank productions for two decades. The Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, the National Theatre, the Royal Festival Hall -- these spaces operate in British cinema exactly as Scorsese's New York venues operate: as arenas where the performance of identity is the primary activity.

2019 · dir. Todd Phillips

Joker

Todd Phillips

Joker was filmed in New York but its visual language -- the staircase, the isolation, the relationship between individual breakdown and public performance -- directly reflects the South Bank aesthetics that Scorsese films established. The Venice Golden Lion winner uses urban public space as the canvas for its protagonist's transformation. The Tate Modern turbine hall sequence in numerous British films mirrors the same structural logic.

The South Bank is the artistic district of London cinema -- the stretch of Thames between Waterloo Bridge and Tower Bridge containing the Royal Festival Hall, the National Theatre, the Tate Modern, the BFI and the London Eye. Films set on the South Bank tend to be films about ideas: the romantic drama that takes culture seriously, the thriller that uses art galleries as chase locations, the character study whose protagonist walks here because walking here says something about who they are. The South Bank also provides some of the most dramatic London exteriors: the view from the north bank looking south past the Tate Modern chimney toward Tower Bridge, the Millennium Bridge in fog, the Hungerford Bridge footway at night.

🎬 Film Poster · 1982

Goodfellas -- Martin Scorsese Poster

🎬 Film Poster · 2019

Joker -- Todd Phillips Poster

Mind The Gap London Underground Print

The Mind The Gap Underground print -- the phrase every London visitor hears on their first tube journey. The Jubilee line runs directly under the South Bank. From 3 GBP.

London Eye Christmas Lights Print

The London Eye Christmas lights print -- the South Bank centrepiece at its most atmospheric. From 3 GBP.

🎬 West End · W1 / WC2 · Leicester Square (Northern, Piccadilly)

Soho & Covent Garden

Filming Location #5 of 8 · Iconic London film locations guide

1987 · dir. Bruce Robinson

Withnail and I

Bruce Robinson

Bruce Robinson's film opens in Camden and ends in Regent's Park, but its heart is in the Soho of 1969 -- the Coach and Horses on Greek Street, the cafes and bars of the West End, the specific quality of bohemian failure the district has sustained for a century. Withnail and I is the definitive portrait of a certain Soho: self-destructive, funny, despairing, completely alive. The film's London is the London of failed ambition and last drinks.

2018 · dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

The Favourite

Yorgos Lanthimos

Yorgos Lanthimos shot The Favourite at Hampton Court Palace and Hatfield House, but its social world -- the competition for proximity to power, entertainment as currency, the weaponisation of intimacy -- mirrors the dynamic of the West End creative industries exactly. The film is set in 1700 but describes contemporary media London with forensic accuracy. Every production company meeting in Soho House is a scene from The Favourite.

Soho is the London neighbourhood with the longest continuous history as a creative district. From the 1890s through the present, Soho has housed the offices, clubs, studios and late-night venues of every generation of British film, music, fashion and media. The film industry's Soho -- Wardour Street editing suites, Berwick Street record shops, Dean Street screening rooms -- is the Soho of the actual London film industry, the district where the work of making British cinema gets done between the productions. Covent Garden, adjacent, extends the creative district eastward with the Royal Opera House and the West End theatres of St Martin's Lane.

🎬 Film Poster · 1987

Almost Famous -- Rock Film Poster

🎬 Film Poster · 2018

The Favourite -- Yorgos Lanthimos Poster

The Soho street map poster -- the square mile that has contained London creative industries for three centuries. Dean Street, Wardour Street, Berwick Street. From 3 GBP.

Soho London Map Print

Covent Garden London Map Print

The Covent Garden street map poster -- the piazza, the Opera House, the market that has been London's entertainment district since the 17th century. From 3 GBP.

Oxford Street London Map Print

The Oxford Street map poster -- the most visited shopping street in Europe and the main artery of the West End. From 3 GBP.

🏗 East London · E14 / EC2 · Canary Wharf (Jubilee, Elizabeth Line)

Canary Wharf & The City

Filming Location #6 of 8 · Iconic London film locations guide

2004 · dir. Matthew Vaughn

Layer Cake

Matthew Vaughn

Layer Cake uses Canary Wharf and the City of London as the visual backdrop for a criminal operation that mirrors legitimate business -- the glass towers, the sharp suits, the language of investment applied to drug distribution. Matthew Vaughn established the aesthetic template for British crime cinema in the 2000s. The film made Daniel Craig the actor who became James Bond two years later. One Canada Square's pyramid top is visible in multiple sequences.

1993 · dir. Steven Spielberg

Schindler's List

Steven Spielberg

While primarily shot in Poland, Spielberg used City of London locations for specific sequences -- the corporate architecture of modern finance as the visual context for a story about how industry interacts with moral catastrophe. The juxtaposition of Oskar Schindler's story with the towers of contemporary financial London gives the film's historical argument its present-tense weight.

Canary Wharf and the City of London represent a specific register in British cinema -- the world of finance, power and institutional authority that British crime films, thrillers and spy dramas use as their visual antagonist. The glass towers of One Canada Square, HSBC, Citigroup -- these are the architectural emblems of late-capitalist London that British cinema has used consistently since the 1980s to signal a world of consequences. The area also contains some of the oldest fabric of the city: Roman walls are still visible in basement car parks, and medieval street plans survive beneath the modern towers, making it a location where every decade of London history is simultaneously present.

🎬 Film Poster · 2004

Canary Wharf London Map Poster

🎬 Film Poster · 1993

Schindler's List -- Movie Poster

Canary Wharf London Map Print

The Canary Wharf street map poster -- the financial district that has provided the backdrop for a generation of British crime films and Bond sequences. From 3 GBP.

The Gherkin Illustration Poster

The Gherkin -- 30 St Mary Axe -- in the 98types red, yellow and blue palette. The most recognisable building in the City of London as wall art. From 3 GBP.

🌳 West London · W2 / W8 · Hyde Park Corner (Piccadilly)

Hyde Park & Kensington

Filming Location #7 of 8 · Iconic London film locations guide

2001 · dir. Sharon Maguire

Bridget Jones's Diary

Sharon Maguire

The fight in the snow outside the restaurant, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth's confrontation in the area around Hyde Park and the Serpentine -- the specific quality of London park in winter, bare trees and grey light, that British romantic comedy uses for outdoor confrontation. The film's geography is fundamentally Kensington and Hyde Park: the flat near the park, the walk to work, the Christmas party with the terrible jumper. The Serpentine in winter is one of British cinema's most reliable emotional registers.

Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens together form the largest green space in central London -- 625 acres of Royal Park running from Bayswater to Knightsbridge. Cinema uses Hyde Park for two purposes: outdoor confrontation and social status. The park in winter -- bare trees, the Serpentine lake, distant traffic -- is the location for the romantic comedy's outdoor crisis scene. The park in summer establishes that the characters who walk here live in the expensive west of the city. Kensington's white stucco terraces, the Natural History Museum and the V&A provide the cultural establishment backdrop for every film about the British upper-middle class.

🎬 Film Poster · 2001

Hyde Park London Map Poster

Hyde Park London Map Print

The Hyde Park street map poster -- the Royal Park and green heart of West London where Bridget Jones's Diary, numerous Bond films and countless British romantic dramas have been shot. From 3 GBP.

🚊 North London · N1 / WC1 · King's Cross St Pancras (6 lines)

King's Cross & Islington

Filming Location #8 of 8 · Iconic London film locations guide

2001 · dir. Chris Columbus

Harry Potter -- Platform 9 3/4

Chris Columbus

Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross Station is the most visited fictional location in London -- a trolley embedded in the wall between platforms 4 and 5 where hundreds of visitors queue daily to be photographed. The sequence in Philosopher's Stone lasts approximately ninety seconds and transformed King's Cross from a transport hub into a pilgrimage site. The Warner Bros. shop nearby sells the associated merchandise to thousands who come specifically for this moment.

2007 · dir. Paul Greengrass

The Bourne Ultimatum

Paul Greengrass

Paul Greengrass filmed the Waterloo Station sequence of The Bourne Ultimatum using real crowds in real space, with camera operators running among commuters. The sequence established the template for every subsequent British transport hub chase scene -- the specific quality of a central London terminus at peak hours as a landscape of surveillance and escape simultaneously.

King's Cross is London's most transformed neighbourhood of the past twenty years. An area that was synonymous with urban dereliction in the 1980s and 1990s is now home to Google UK headquarters, Central Saint Martins art school, Coal Drops Yard and -- most relevantly -- Platform 9 3/4, the most visited fictional location in London. The regeneration of King's Cross has been so complete that films made here before 2010 now function as historical documents of a London that no longer exists. Harry Potter fixed the location at the moment of transformation: the Victorian station concourse, the specific light of the early 2000s, the platform wall that now has a trolley embedded in it for the tourists who come because of the film.

🎬 Film Poster · 2001

Harry Potter -- Philosopher's Stone Poster

🎬 Film Poster · 2007

Mind The Gap London Underground Print

London City Street Map Print

The full London City street map -- covering King's Cross, Islington and the entire inner London geography. Every filming location in this guide on one print. From 3 GBP.

London City Street Map Print

🗺 The Complete London Print Collection at 98types

Every London filming neighbourhood as wall art -- from the Camden street maps used as the backdrop for Back to Black to the Canary Wharf map that frames the City crime dramas, from the Mind the Gap Underground print to the Big Ben photography print that captures Westminster's most filmed view. All in the same museum-grade 260gsm satin paper with archive pigment inks. Same-day dispatch before 3pm from Camden Market.

🗺 Full City Map

The entire London street network -- every filming location in this guide on one print. From £3.

Mind The Gap -- London Underground Print

🚇 Underground · Iconic

The phrase every London visitor hears on their first tube journey. From £3.

📷 Photography · Westminster

Big Ben and London Eye Photography Print -- 98types

Big Ben & London Eye -- Photography Print

Westminster Bridge -- the establishing shot of London cinema as photography wall art. From £3.

Camden Market Illustration Poster

🎸 Camden · Our Home

Red, yellow, blue -- our Camden Market print, made in the same Market Hall where Back to Black was filmed. From £3.

🏗 City of London · Architecture

The Gherkin -- Illustration Poster

30 St Mary Axe in red-yellow-blue. The most distinctive City building as wall art. From £3.