Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, is a beautiful city with magnificent buildings, historical monuments, and nice-looking streets.
The architectural setting of the city makes it a popular place for tourism, vacations, and movie production.
It is no wonder that the movies filmed in Prague are filled with fascinating locations.
Prague is most often used as a film-shooting location due to its low cost of production and general environmental setting.
It is common to see A-list actors in the city during movie shooting.
1. Amadeus (1984)
- Director: Milos Forman
- Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Jeffrey Jones, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow.
- IMDb Rating: 8.4/10
The first on our list of movies filmed in Prague is Amadeus, a drama and historical film about Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), an older man who is thrown into an asylum after trying to kill himself.
A priest visits him, and he confesses to killing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce).
He narrates his story as a court music composer to Emperor Joseph II of Austria (Jeffrey Jones).
Salieri believes Mozart’s musical gift is from God, and he wishes to use this miraculous gift to praise God through music.
When he learns of Mozart’s vulgar living, he becomes angry with God for allowing a devilish creature to have such talent.
His anger with God and obsession with Mozart led him to commit a grave sin.
The movie was shot in locations across the city of Prague. From the Count Nostitz Theatre to the Old Town Square (where all Mozart’s performances were shot), the Barrandov Studios, and the Invalidovna building, formerly known as “hôtel des Invalides.”
The Emperor’s palace was shot at the Archbishop’s Palace on Hradcanske Square.
2. Mission: Impossible (1996)
- Director: Brian De Palma
- Cast: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Henry Czerny, Emmanuelle Béart, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave
- IMDb Rating: 7.2/10
It will interest you to know that the Mission Impossible franchise shot one of its series in the beautiful city of Prague.
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), and Claire (Emmanuelle Béart) go on an undercover assignment to bring a list of all agents and spies in the I.M.F. organization.
The secret team is ambushed, and Jim Phelps dies in the attack. The C.I.A. falsely accuses Hunt of being involved in the attack.
Hunt teams up with Claire and two other disavowed Agents, Franz Krieger (Jean Reno) and Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), to help him retrieve the list.
Mission: Impossible is one of the first Hollywood movies set and shot in notable places in Prague, like the Charles Bridge, the Old Town Square, and other areas.
Only some exterior shots were taken of a train that runs in Scotland.
3. XXX (2002)
- Director: Rob Cohen
- Cast: Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas
- IMDb Rating: 5.8/10
Xander “XXX” Cage (Vin Diesel), an extreme fighter, gets an offer from the U.S. government to infiltrate a Russian crime organization. N.S.A. Agent Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) forces the fighter to cooperate so he will not go to jail.
Xander must use his natural athletic prowess and tactics to fight the crime ring and defeat a ruthless Yorgi (Marton Csokas) to protect Prague.
The XXX movie is also one of the most exciting movies filmed in Prague. Some scenes were filmed in places such as California and Tahiti.
Not only were the significant scenes set in Prague, but the variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber Sukhoi Su-1 used in the film were Czech Su-22s.
4. Blade II (2002)
- Director: Guillermo del Toro
- Cast: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela, Norman Reedus.
- IMDb Rating: 6.7/10
Blade II is a horror and action movie filmed in Prague. The indestructible half-human/half-vampire hybrid, Blade (Wesley Snipes), fights with rare, insatiable bloodlust creatures that feed on humans and vampires.
Blade, Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), and an armory expert called Scud (Norman Reedus) will have to team up with the Shadow Council and Bloodpack to take down Nomak (Luke Goss).
Will Blade team up with the very community he vows to destroy?
Filming Blade II happened in Prague Studios and Barrandov Studios, two film studios in Prague.
5. Les Misérables (1998)
- Director: Bille August
- Cast: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Claire Danes, Hans Matheson
- IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
Jean Valjean (Liam Neeson), a Frenchman, is released from prison on parole, but he attempts to rob a bishop.
The priest instead gives him silverware and refuses to call the police on him. This action changes Jean’s mind, and he decides to do good.
He becomes mayor of a small town and finances a factory using the money he earns from selling silverware.
He adopts a young girl called Cosette (Claire Danes and Mimi Newman) and falls in love with Marius (Hans Matheson). However, Javert (Geoffrey Rush), a policeman who recognizes Jean, tries to bring him down for his past crime.
The movie set and location was Barrandov Studios, the largest film studio in Prague and the Czech Republic.
The Hradčany Square was used and set to look like Paris.
6. EuroTrip (2004)
- Director: Jeff Schaffer
- Cast: Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester.
- IMDb Rating: 6.6/10
Eurotrip is another movie filmed in Prague. The movie centers on Scott Thomas (Scott Mechlowicz), a student from Ohio High School who plans to attend pre-med school.
Still, he is suddenly dumped by his girlfriend, Fiona (Kristin Kreuk), a whorish girl, during their graduation.
Scott confides in his online pen-friend, Mike, whom he has thought to be a boy. After Mike makes advances to Scott, the latter blocks him.
However, when he discovers Mike is Mieke (Jessica Boehrs), a beautiful girl living in Berlin, Scott decides to go on a trip to Berlin with his friends – Cooper Harris (Jacob Pitts), Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and Jamie (Travis Wester).
All scenes in the movie EuroTrip were shot in Prague, including the locations set to look like Ohio, which were filmed at the International School of Prague.
Other settings include Prague’s National Museum, Hlavní nádraží (Prague’s main railway station), Pilsen, the D5 motorway, and Rudolfinum.
7. Extraction 2 (2023)
- Director: Sam Hargrave
- Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Adam Bessa, Tornike Gogrichiani, Tinatin Dalakishvili
- IMDb Rating: 7/10
After narrowly escaping his last mission, the mercenary Tyler Rake has another mission: to help the family of a crime organization lord escape from a prison facility where the ruthless criminal is being detained.
Tyler and his team must fight against the crime lord, his son, Sandro, who idolizes his father and other enemies. Will the expert mercenary survive this mission?
Extraction 2 was scheduled to be filmed in Australia; due to COVID-19 measures, the crew had to move the location to Prague.
After major shots were taken in Prague, minor scenes were shot in Austria; however, reshoots for the movie were again done in Prague.
8. Casino Royale (2006)
- Director: Martin Campbell
- Cast: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Dame Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Mads Mikkelsen.
- IMDb Rating: 8/10
Casino Royale, one of the movies filmed in Prague, is about James Bond (Daniel Craig), who earns the title of 00 but must go on a mission to defend the title.
He is set against Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), a banker to a terrorist who needs to win a game to get back his money.
M (Dame Judi Dench), the boss of M16, sends Bond alongside Vesper Lynd Eva Green) to visit the casino and prevent the banker from winning.
Bond must seek the help of two more people, Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) and Rene Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini), to carry out this mission.
In this movie, Prague was set as other locations, like the Miami airport, which was filmed at the Václav Havel Airport; Strahov Monastery was used for the British House of Commons; and the grand Venetian hotel was the Prague National Museum.
9. The Illusionist (2006)
- Director: Neil Burger
- Cast: Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell
- IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
Eisenheim (Edward Norton), a magician in the early 1900s, falls in love with Sophie (Jessica Biel), the Duchess von Teschen, a woman far above his social standing.
She becomes engaged to marry Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell), who has a history of being abusive to women.
Eisenheim must free her from the marriage and stop Leopold planning a coup d’etat to usurp the Crown of Austria.
Although the movie is set in Vienna, the location is Prague, and the city is made to have an architectural scenery like 19th-century Vienna.
Locations for the film include Divadlo na Vinohradech, Tábor, and Cesky Krumlov.
10. Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
- Director: Jon Watts
- Cast: Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei,
- IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
You would be surprised to know that Spider-Man: Far from Home was also filmed in Prague.
Spider-Man: Far from Home was about Peter Parker (Tom Holland), who decides to go on a European vacation with Ned (Jacob Batalon), M.J. (Zendaya), and his other friends.
However, the trip went south after mysterious creatures, known as Elementals, attacked the world.
Peter joins Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and another inter-dimensional newcomer named Quentin Beck/Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) to defend the Earth and discover the reason for the attack.
The movie was filmed in multiple locations in countries like Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, and the United States.
Prague was selected as a filming location for its Eastern European architecture.
11. The Bourne Identity
- Director: Doug Liman
- Cast: Franka Potente, Matt Damon, Chris Cooper,
- IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
A mystery man, Bourne (Matt Damon), is rescued at sea at night by a fishing boat crew. However, he loses his memory, including his identity.
Later, he remembers little details about himself, like his real name, Jason Bourne.
He hates his fake passport and gun, so he sets out with his friend, Marie Helena Kreutz (Franka Potente), to search for his new identity from one country to the other.
While he is on the search for his identity, someone wants him dead.
Bourne Identity is among the movies filmed in Prague. Filming took place in many countries, including Prague.
The movie used locations in Prague, such as Kampa Park, Trojanův mlýn, Boscolo Prague Hotel, Barrandov Studios, and Politickych Veznu.
12. Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)
- Director: Anna Foerster
- Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Theo James, Tobias Menzies, Lara Pulver
- IMDb Rating: 5.7/10
Last but not least, Underworld: Blood Wars is on her list of movies filmed in Prague.
Vampire death dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) defends herself against the attacks of the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her in the past.
She teams up with David (Theo James) and his father, Thomas (Charles Dance), to end the eternal war between the Lycans and the vampires.
Although this war might require an ultimate sacrifice from her, will she still go ahead? Will she win the war?
All scenes of Underworld: Blood Wars were shot in the Czech Republic. While major shots were taken in Prague, other scenes were filmed in cities in the same country.
