170,000 Movies Mapped by Where Their Stories Take Place

# What the map does World Cinema Atlas is an interactive globe that places 170,000 films and TV series at the geographic points where their stories take place. Instead of showing where scenes were filmed, it shows where the narrative itself is set. That lets you discover cinema and TV tied to a location's on-screen story world — your hometown, a famous city, or an imagined landscape.

# How it works on first look As you zoom in on the globe, clusters of lights resolve into individual movie posters. Click a poster to see the film or series associated with that spot. You can also search the map by location name to pull up titles set in a specific town, region, or country.

# Practical filters and browsing

# Why this matters compared with filming-location maps

# Beyond Earth and into fiction The atlas is not restricted to real-world settings. It includes views for stories set on real planets beyond Earth, like Mars, and for entirely fictional worlds. That means you can explore cinematic and TV narratives set in constructed universes such as Tolkien's Middle-earth alongside films set in real cities.

# Typical uses

• Find what films or series are set in your hometown to compare story geography with actual locations.
• Browse by genre and era to see how a city or region has been used in different kinds of stories over time.
• Explore non‑Earth and fictional settings to map out science fiction or fantasy story worlds geographically.

# Where it fits in your toolkit Use World Cinema Atlas together with filming-location maps if you care both about where scenes were shot and about where their stories are set. If you want to visit locations used in production, consult a filming-location map. If you want to study or enjoy the geography of narrative — where stories say they happen — use World Cinema Atlas.

# Quick comparison Movie Scene Map: shows filming locations, useful for physical visits to on-set spots. World Cinema Atlas: shows narrative locations, useful for understanding which stories are set where, including fictional and extraterrestrial settings.

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