This is a list of locations featured in the Mission: Impossible film series. Some of the scenes were shot in another location than the one mentioned in the movie. For example, the scene in the Austrian Alps in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) was actually shot in Norway. [1]
Locations are listed in order of appearance. Studio sets are not included.
Location | Real life landmarks | Details |
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Mission: Impossible (1996) | ||
Prague, Czech Republic | The Charles Bridge, The Old Town and Liechtenstein Palace | The first part of the film is set in Prague, where the IMF team has a mission inside the United States embassy. However, the building shown in the movie is not the location of the real-life embassy but the Liechtenstein Palace . Agent Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) is seen running across the Charles Bridge to reach the embassy building. [2] [3] |
Langley, Virginia, United States | The CIA headquarters | The IMF team enters the CIA headquarters' vault to steal some files in what became one of the most recognizable scenes of the movie franchise. [4] |
London, England | The Liverpool Street tube station | The IMF team stays in a safehouse very near the Liverpool Street tube station. Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) goes to the station to use a public phone, then goes to a café inside the station to discuss with Agent Phelps. [5] |
Between the United Kingdom and France | The Channel Tunnel | The final action scene takes place on board a train departing the United Kingdom and crossing the underwater tunnel en route to France. [6] |
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) | ||
Utah,United States | Dead Horse Point | Ethan Hunt is seen climbing one of the rocks. [7] |
Seville, Spain | The Giralda and the Cathedral of Seville | Ethan Hunt meets Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandiwe Newton) and stops her from stealing jewels in a private house. |
Sydney | The Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Bridge, and the Sydney Tower | In the first half of the movie, Nyah Nordoff-Hall arrives in Sydney to meet her ex-boyfriend. The rest of the story happens in Sydney where shots of the Sydney Harbour can be seen. The ending scene takes place in a park just behind the Opera House. |
Mission: Impossible III (2006) | ||
United States | Agent Ethan Hunt lives in an unnamed city with his fiancée. | |
Berlin, Germany | The IMF team has a mission in a factory in a fictive city of Kriesburg, which is said to be located outside Berlin. | |
Rome, Italy and Vatican City | Basílica of Saint-Peter and St. Peter's Square | Agent Ethan Hunt and his team infiltrate the Vatican City by climbing a wall in Rome. |
Shanghai, China | The Oriental Pearl Tower | Agent Ethan Hunt flies to Shanghai to a safehouse. He breaks into the fictive Hengshan Lu building located very near the Oriental Pearl Tower. |
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) | ||
Budapest, Hungary | The Hungarian Parliament Building, the St. Stephen's Basilica, the Keleti train station | The Parliament building and the basilica are visible for only a few seconds. The opening scene takes place very near the Keleti train station. Agent Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) is seen at the top of the clock tower near the station. |
Moscow, Russia | The Kremlin | Ethan Hunt escapes from a prison in Moscow. He sneaks into the Kremlin with Benji Dunn to steal some files. The Kremlin building is partially destroyed shortly later by an explosion, with the Spasskaya Tower completely collapsing. |
Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Burj Khalifa | Meeting of Ethan Hunt with Sabine Moreau, a climbing scene on the glass façade of the building |
Mumbai, India | Multistorey car park | Final confrontation of Hunt with Kurt Hendricks |
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) | ||
Minsk, Belarus | Machulischi Air Base | Agent Ethan Hunt jumps on a plane taking off from an unnamed airfield in Minsk. |
London, England | The Thames, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus | Agent Ethan Hunt goes to a vinyl disk store to find a disk containing a secret message. |
Washington DC, United States | The Capitol | Agent William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) is questioned by members of the United States Senate. |
Havana, Cuba | Agent Ethan Hunt is tracked by the CIA. A team located him in Havana but realizes that he is not hiding there anymore. | |
Paris, France | The Eiffel Tower | Agent Ethan Hunt is hiding in a room in the center of Paris. The Eiffel Tower is visible from the window. |
Vienna, Austria | The St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Vienna State Opera | Agent Benji Dunn arrived in Vienna to attend an opera play. The St. Stephen's Cathedral is visible for a few seconds. A long action scene takes place inside and outside the Vienna Opera. |
Casablanca, Morocco | Three MIF agents infiltrate an underwater vault beneath a power plant. | |
Washington DC, United States | The Washington Monument | Agents William Brandt and Luther Stickell meet briefly on a helipad in Washington DC, with the Washington Monument in the background. |
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) | ||
Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany | Ramstein Air Base | Ethan Hunt meets Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin), the new IMF Secretary at the Ramstein air base and board a military plane for his next mission. |
Paris, France | Grand Palais | Agent Ethan Hunt jumps with agent August Walker from a military plane and both land on the Grand Palais, in the center of Paris. |
Place du Trocadéro, Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde, Tuileries Garden, Seat of the French Ministry of Economics, The Arc de Triomphe | The new Director of the CIA Erika Sloane (Angela Bassett) meets agent Walker on the Trocadéro square, near the Eiffel Tower. Later, a French SWAT team transports Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) on a helicopter that flies over the Eiffel Tower, the Place de la Concorde, the Seine river and the Tuileries Garden, and lands near the seat of the Ministry of Economics. Solomon Lane is later kidnapped by the IMF team and Hunt is chased by the police in the center of Paris. He drives past the Arc de Triomphe and many other Parisian landmarks are visible in the background. | |
London, England | St Paul's Cathedral, Blackfriars Bridge, Tate Modern | Ethan Hunt chases August Walker (Henry Cavill), across London to retrieve plutonium meant to be used for nuclear weapons. |
Kashmir (disputed territory between India, China, and Pakistan | Himalayas | Ethan Hunt pursues John Lark in a helicopter chase. |
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) | ||
Between Russia and United States | Bering Sea | The location for the submarine prologue sequence. |
Yemen | Rub' al Khali Desert | Agent Ethan Hunt travels to the Rub al-Khali desert in the Arabian Peninsula and successfully recovers a key piece of the key held by Ilsa Faust. |
Amsterdam, Netherlands | Ethan Hunt receives his mission briefing. | |
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi International Airport | The movie starts with a mission inside the airport's terminal. [8] (The scene was actually shot at Birmingham New Street Railway Station). [9] |
Rome, Italy | Via dei Funari, Via Nazionale, Via di S. Maria Maggiore, and Via dei Serpenti. [10] [11] | |
Venice, Italy | St. Mark's Basilica and Doge's Palace | |
Innsbruck, Austria, UK | Central Eastern Alps, North York Moors Railway | The climatic train sequence. |
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) | ||
Upcoming movie | ||
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