I was researching this for my next possible novel, and thought other, better novelists might find it useful:

  • Love and Death
  • Etoile
  • Music Box
  • Howling V: The Rebirth
  • The Cremaster Cycle
  • Gloomy Sunday
  • Au Pair
  • In the Beginning
  • An American Rhapsody
  • Last Run
  • Dinotopia
  • Perlasca Un eroe Italiano
  • I Spy
  • Underworld
  • 8mm 2
  • Munich
  • Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
  • Transporter 3
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
  • Iris
  • Budapest
  • Pillars of the Earth
  • Juan
  • La Rafle
  • The Debt
  • Carlos
  • The Rite
  • The Borgias
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
  • Season of the Witch
  • Bel Ami
  • Silent Witness
  • Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
  • In the Land of Blood and Honey
  • A Good Day to Die Hard
  • Dracula
  • World War Z
  • 47 Ronin
  • Doctor Stranger
  • Hercules
  • The Last Kingdom
  • Underdog
  • Spy
  • The Martian
  • Inferno
  • Maigret
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Atomic Blond
  • Red Sparrow
  • Man to Man
  • Homeland, season 7
  • Terminal
  • The Spy Who Dumped Me
  • Colette
  • The Alienist
  • Robin Hood
  • Midsommar
  • Hanna
  • Treadstone
  • Gemini Man
  • Terminator: Dark Fate
  • 6 Underground
  • Strike Back
  • Dune
  • Bloodshot
  • Black Widow

    Films that have disguised Budapest as other cities

  • as Paris: Escape to Victory
  • as Moscow: Red Heat
  • as Paris: Cyrano de Bergerac
  • as Paris: M. Butterfly
  • Mortal Kombat
  • as Buenos Aires: Evita
  • Il Fantasma dell'Opera
  • as Rome: Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
  • as East Berlin: Spy Game
  • as Berlin: Max
  • as London: Being Julia
  • as Rome, Paris, and London, among others: Munich
  • Eragon
  • as Berlin: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
  • as Vienna: The Nutcracker in 3D
  • as East Berlin: The Debt
  • as Paris: Bel Ami
  • Season of the Witch
  • The Eagle
  • as Monte Carlo: Monte Carlo
  • The Raven
  • as Moscow: A Good Day to Die Hard
  • World War Z
  • as Warsaw: The Art of the Steal
  • as Beijing: The Martian
  • as Paris and Rome: "Spy"
  • as a Moldovan city: Spectral
  • as Berlin: "Atomic Blonde"

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