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Hollywood in Cape Town: Real Movie & TV Locations You Can Visit
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items Cape Town is one of the most filmed cities on Earth, and it's played everywhere from Islamabad and Hong Kong to Los Angeles and a post-apocalyptic future. Here are the real spots behind Safe House, Tomb Raider, Invictus, Homeland, The Kissing Booth, ...
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City Centre
Safe House (2012) and Homeland season 4: in Safe House, the stadium grounds and the nearby Green Point station set up a tense handoff and escape for Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. Homeland later used the stadium among the city buildings that st...
DHL Stadium (Cape Town Stadium)
Homeland season 4 (2014): this brutalist 1970s arts complex on the Foreshore played the US Embassy in Islamabad, the setting for some of the season's most intense scenes with Claire Danes. It's also listed as a location in the superhero film Chronicl...
Artscape Theatre Centre
A Hollywood triple threat. Homeland season 4 filmed a funeral episode inside, Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) used the cathedral in its walled ‘Last City’, and Matthew McConaughey strides through the precinct in The Dark Tower (2017). It's also Ar...
St George's Cathedral
Homeland season 4 (2014): the crew dressed Darling Street as the streets of Islamabad, including a taxi scene with Claire Danes outside the Eastern Food Bazaar. Right next door is the Grand Parade, where Nelson Mandela gave his first speech after his...
Darling Street & the Grand Parade
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018): the city's main train station and the tunnels beneath the city centre were used to build the film's post-apocalyptic ‘Last City’. The station's big modernist concourse and the busy Adderley Street strip outside are...
Cape Town Station
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) and The Kissing Booth 2 (2020): the glassy convention centre became part of Maze Runner's futuristic city, then doubled as the airport in The Kissing Booth 2. Its reflective facades and the canal walk to the V&A...
CTICC (Cape Town International Convention Centre)
The Kissing Booth 2 (2020): the senior-year ball was filmed inside this Art Deco landmark's grand old banking hall. Built in the 1930s as the headquarters of Old Mutual, it's one of the finest Art Deco buildings in Africa, with a granite facade and a...
Mutual Heights
Coast & Beaches
Tomb Raider (2018): the fishing harbour was dressed up as a bustling Hong Kong port, complete with floating walkways and restaurants, for Alicia Vikander's Lara Croft scenes. Today you'll find seals, fish and chips, and boat trips to Duiker Island. C...
Hout Bay Harbour
Invictus (2009): in one of the film's most moving scenes, Matt Damon's Springbok captain visits Nelson Mandela's real prison cell, and it was filmed right here on the island. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a must for anyone visiting Cape Town....
Robben Island Museum
The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) and 3 (2021): Camps Bay played Los Angeles' Venice Beach for the beach party in The Kissing Booth 2, and the cast strolled the seafront promenade along Victoria Road in the third film. It's Cape Town's glamour beach: palm t...
Camps Bay Beach
Safe House (2012): South African Tourism lists ‘the fine white sands of Clifton’ among the Cape Town locations in the Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds thriller. The four sheltered Clifton beaches, separated by granite boulders and reached by steep...
Clifton Beaches
The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) and 3 (2021): this relaxed beachfront restaurant on Hout Bay beach became the seaside cafe and bar where Elle works, with the Sentinel peak towering in the background. You can sit right where the scenes were shot with your ...
Dunes Beach Restaurant & Bar, Hout Bay
1923 (Paramount+): the Yellowstone prequel starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren brought its cameras to this historic fishing village in November 2022. Kalk Bay's harbour, colourful boats and old stone buildings slip easily into another era. Visit ...
Kalk Bay
Suburbs & Townships
Safe House (2012): Denzel Washington's rogue agent heads to Langa to find forged documents, setting off the film's famous rooftop chase. Langa is Cape Town's oldest township, founded in 1927, and it's full of history, music and art. The best way to e...
Langa
The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) and 3 (2021): UCT's Upper Campus, including Smuts Hall, played Elle and Lee's Los Angeles high school, and the third film shot in the beautiful old Jagger Library reading room before it was damaged in the 2021 fire. Set on ...
University of Cape Town