Relevant directors

These are some of the international filmmakers who have chosen Spain as the best place to shoot. We also detail the films they have made in Spain and the regions in which those productions were filmed.

Anthony Mann

'The fall of Empire of the Roman Empire' (Madrid, Segovia and Valencia), ‘El Cid’ (Cuenca, Madrid, Castellón, Zamora, Toledo, Burgos, Palencia, Valladolid, León and Gerona)

David Lean

‘Doctor Zhivago’ (Soria, Madrid, Granada, Ávila and Salamanca), ‘Lawrence de Arabia (Almería, Granada and Sevilla)

Franklin J. Schaffner

‘Patton’ (Almería, Navarra and Segovia), ‘Nicholas and Alexandra’ (Gerona, Segovia, Soria, Madrid, Almería and Guadalajara), ‘Papillon’ (Guipúzcoa and Madrid)

Michelangelo Antonioni

‘Professione: reporter' (Almería and Barcelona)

Nicholas Ray

’55 days at Peking'  (Madrid), ‘King of Kings’ (Madrid, Toledo, Ciudad Real y Ávila)

Orson Wells

‘Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight)' (Soria, Barcelona, Madrid, Segovia, Ávila, Toledo, Salamanca and Navarra), ‘Mr. Arkadin’ (Segovia, Madrid, Valladolid, Sevilla, Gerona and Barcelona), ‘The inmortal Story’ (Madrid, Guadalajara and Segovia), ‘Fraude’ (Ibiza)

Paul Greengraas

‘The Bourne Ultimatum'  (Madrid), ‘Green zone’ (Murcia, Alicante and Albacete)

Richard Lester

‘Robin and Marian’ (Navarra and Zamora), ‘The three Musketeers’ (Madrid, Toledo, Segovia and Alicante), ‘The four Musketeers’’ (Madrid, Almería, Alicante, Cuenca and Segovia), ‘The Return of Musketeers' (Madrid, Segovia and Toledo), ‘How I won the war'  (Almería, Cádiz, Cantabria, Vizcaya and Madrid), ‘Golfus de Roma’ (Madrid, Ávila and Segovia), ‘Cuba’ (Cádiz, Granada and Málaga).

Ridley Scott

‘Exodus’ (Fuerteventura and Almería), ‘The Counselor’ (Alicante, Navarra and Murcia), ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ (Huesca, Córdoba, Segovia, Sevilla and Ávila), ‘1492, Conquest of Paradise’ (Salamanca, Sevilla and Cáceres)

Sergio Leone

‘C'era una volta il Wast' (Almería y Granada), ‘Il bouno, il brutto, il cattivo’ (Burgos y Almería), ‘Per qualche dollaro in più' (Almería, Madrid y Granada), ‘Per un pugni di dollari' (Madrid y Almería), ‘Il colissi di Rodi' (Asturias, Cantabria, Madrid, Cuenca, Granada y Segovia)

Steven Soderbergh

‘Che’ (Madrid, Huelva y Toledo), ‘Haywire’ (Barcelona)

Steven Spielberg

‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' (Almería and Granada), ‘Empire of the Sun’ (Cádiz)

Terry Gilliam

‘Las aventuras del barón Munchausen’ (Almería y Zaragoza), ‘El hombre que mató a Don Quijote’ (Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura y Madrid)

Woody Allen

‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ (Barcelona and Asturias)