Visiting Filming Locations of "Mission: Impossible" (1996) in Prague, Czech Republic & London, England, UK

Directed by Brian De Palma
Produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner
Screenplay by David Koepp and Robert Towne
Based on Mission: Impossible by Bruce Geller
Starring Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Henry Czerny, Emmanuelle Béart, Jean Reno and Ving Rhames

Mission: Impossible is a 1996 American action spy film directed by Brian De Palma, produced by and starring Tom Cruise. Based on the television series of the same name, the plot follows Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his mission to uncover the mole who has framed him for the murders of his entire IMF team. Work on the script had begun early with filmmaker Sydney Pollack on board, before De Palma, Steven Zaillian, David Koepp, and Robert Towne were brought in. Mission: Impossible went into pre-production without a shooting script. De Palma came up with some action sequences, but Koepp and Towne were dissatisfied with the story that led up to those events.

The film was a critical and commercial success, eventually becoming the third highest-grossing film of 1996. The film's success spawned four sequels, Mission: Impossible II (2000), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015). -Wikipedia

 First shot of Prague. Platnéřská 4.

Tom Cruise In the embrace of colleague Kristin Scott Thomas while observe the enemy.

ul. Na Kampě.

When shit hits the fan.

Na Kampě and Karlův most.

All of the team are dead. Ethan is calling to his boss.

Dětský ostrov, Janáčkovo nábřeží.

Explosion in Aquarium restaurant: Ethan can escape now!

Staroměstské nám.

Ethan is coming back to the base after the escape from Aquarium restaurant.

Platnéřská 4.

Ethan wants to meet mysterious Max.

Na Příkopě 27.

The London safe house in which Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and Franz Krieger (Jean Reno) hole up, is above Liverpool Street underground station.

Hunt meets up with Phelps nearby, on Liverpool Street Railway Station. The row of telephones, where Hunt and Phelps meet, has been replaced by cashpoint machines.

 

The terrace pub, where Ethan finally unwinds, is the Anchor Tavern, Bankside on London’s south bank by Southwark Bridge.

source: movie-locations.com and filmovamista.cz

Visiting Filming Locations of "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" (2015) in London, England, UK

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Produced by J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Tom Cruise, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger
Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie
Story by Christopher McQuarrie and Drew Pearce
Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson and Ving Rhames

In the film, IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is on the run from the CIA, following the IMF's disbandment as he tries to prove the existence of the Syndicate, an international criminal consortium. -Wikipedia

The vinyl store is sadly just an invention. In reality it was a dry cleaning business, Classi Clean, 5 Air Street, now gone.

Hunt phones the IMF organisation from one of those very boxes on Great Windmill Street off Shaftesbury Avenue. The boxes are real, but there's some set dressing.

Ilsa on Westminster Bridge.

King’s Cross Station, where the IMF team meets up with Ilsa and where Benji gets abducted. The open, and very empty, concourse in front of platforms 4 to 8 was disguised with plenty of set dressing, and little of what you can see exists apart from the trains. This is what I could figure out.

The return of Benji is staged at a terrace restaurant on the Thames riverside in front of the Tower of London, and in the shadow of the Victorian Gothic Tower Bridge.

Source: movie-locations.com

Visiting Filming Locations of "The Ipcress File" (1965) in London, England, UK

Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Produced by Harry Saltzman
Screenplay by Bill Canaway and James Doran
Based on The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton
Starring Michael Caine

The film was intended as an ironically downbeat alternative portrait of the world of spies portrayed in the successful and popular James Bond films, even though one of the producers and others in the production team were also responsible for the Bond franchise. In contrast to Bond's public school background and playboy lifestyle, Palmer is a cockney who lives in a Notting Hill flat and has to put up with red tape and inter-departmental rivalries. When appointed to a new post, he immediately asks whether he will get a pay rise (by contrast, Bond's salary is hardly mentioned and he only goes to the best hotels, often using the presidential suite). The action is set entirely in "a gritty, gloomy, decidedly non-swinging" London with humdrum locations. And although Palmer is, like Bond, a gourmet, he shops in a supermarket. -Wikipedia

Check out the sequel Billion Dollar Brain locations here.

Fight on the steps: Royal Albert Hall steps

Dalby and Ross plot their devious strategies: St James’s Park

Meeting with Major Dalby: Serpentine Road, Hyde Park