Films Set in Budapest
The following films or television series episodes had a plot or part of a plot set in Budapest but were not shot on location. Ladies In Love (1936) - with Tyrone Power, Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Constance Bennett and Don Ameche. Three women rent a luxury apartment in Budapest while in search of wealthy husbands. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) - with James Stewart, Margaret Sullivan and Frank Morgan. Two employees of a Budapest shop clash with each other, neither knowing that the other is the unmet lover they have been corresponding with.
- MacGyver Season 1 Episode 3, "The Thief of Budapest" (1985) - In this episode Budapest looks like a mixture of a city in Turkey and one in Italy. Also, Budapest is set to be a five-minute drive away from the Austrian border, when in reality it is about 200 kilometres away.
- Van Helsing (2004) - Important pieces of plot take place in the Budapest of 1890s, which was only shown as a background image which merged artist's concepts with a contemporary tourist photograph of the city.
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