For many people, Málaga is considered an ideal city to live and to enjoy a pleasant vacation. A clear example of this is that a study carried out in 2016, reflected that Málaga was the only Spanish city among the 10 cities with the best quality of life in Europe. No wonder then, many film producers have chosen the province to record film scenes in a number of incomparable locations in the city. Do you want to know which were the best Movies filmed in Malaga?
The best movies filmed in Malaga
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‘The Last of the Philippines’ (1945)
The Garden of ‘La Concepción’ has been an ideal frame for the accomplishment of great cinematographic productions, due to its different atmospheres with subtropical vegetation, it has been able to set the scene for warlike environments in the Amazon or even in the Philippines. To take a walk around La Concepción is to remember and relive the town of the Baler site and where a very young Tony Leblanc rode on horseback to carry a message to the Spanish troops isolated there. The movie filmed in Malaga, was considered of “national interest”.
‘The Tiger is perfumed with dynamite’ (1965)
With the rise of James Bond cinema, secret agent El Tigre was visiting Málaga for the filming of one of his missions in the French production ‘the tiger is perfumed with dynamite’, which was played by the charismatic French actor, Roger Hanin. Following in the footsteps of his admired Hitchcock, but moving away from the postulates of the new wave, the French filmmaker was facing a commercial production of series B that sought to eat ground to agent 007 that had begun to reign on the billboard around the world in 1962. This sequel set in French Guiana and whose mission, the search for a stolen treasure was developed in Málaga. In this film production made in Málaga, you can clearly see the Málaga Port lighthouse , a cathedral with a single tower and even the botanical garden of La Concepción.
El Camino de los ingleses (2006)
A production directed by a lover of Málaga, Antonio Banderas put Málaga back in the international showcase with ‘El Camino de los ingleses’. This movie was filmed in parts on the Antonio Machado promenade, in the heart of the city. The production reflects a young man whose kidney disease has led to a hospital stay. The shoot had a very young Mario Casas among the leading actors in the production. It is there where he meets an educated man interested in poetry, which has initiated him into this world and has shown him that he can imagine a better inner life and choose it with this genre, using Dante’s Divine Comedy as a starting point.
Málaga: ‘men who did not love women’ (2009)
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, this production is part of the dramatic and suspense genre that earned him the BAFTA award for the best non-English speaking film. The promenade Pablo Ruiz Picasso of Málaga recreates “to perfection”, the Cayman Islands. In this final sequence, the plot focuses on the beach and the Málaga promenade, which immediately take on a special meaning in the main story of this film set in Stieg Larsson’s bestseller.
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There have been many movies filmed in Malaga, such as: Bambú, Adventures of the Barber of Seville, Sunrise in Puerta Oscura, Fuego sobre África. The collection is endless and I am sure that in the next few years we will be able to tell you more movies recorded in Málaga.