The movie industry spend a lot of time and money scouting out beautiful and interesting locations for their films. These location provide eye candy, help create the right ambiance and a sense of occasion. With this in mind, we thought we’d base our recommendations for holiday destinations on locations we’ve seen in movies over the years.
Koh Phi Phi Leh, Thailand
This is the small island in southern Thailand used as the primary location for the film The Beach.
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Hobbiton, New Zealand
Hobbiton, a small village within a sheep farm constructed for the filming of The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy.
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Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo was chosen for the dramatic real life backdrop for Lost in Translation
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Paris's arty Montmartre district
The Café des Deux Moulins situated in this district played an important role in the cult classic film Amélie.
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St. Vincent
Opening scenes from Pirates Of The Caribbean - Curse of The Black Pearl were filmed on the leeward coast of this picturesque island.
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Salzburg, Austria
This city played host to one of most well known films of all time, The Sound of Music.
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London
Filmed in London and around Britain, The King's Speech is currently the most successful all British film made so far.
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New York
Famous for hundreds of movies, but the ones which sticks out for us are the classic Ghostbusters films.
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Las Vegas
Another American city also playing host to many films including The Hangover is Las Vegas.
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Dubai
With the world’s tallest building and Tom Cruise’s obsession with hanging off of impossibly tall things, it would only be a matter of time before they filmed a Mission: Impossible film, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
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