Le professionnel (1981)

Aka The Professional
dir. Georges Lautner

Agent Joss Beaumont’s (Jean-Paul Belmondo) mission in Africa – Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.

Beaumont’s arrival in Paris – Gare du Nord, 18 Rue de Dunkerque, Paris, France.

Beaumont recruits some bums to help him – Allée des Cygnes under the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Paris, France.

Beaumont going to his wife’s apartment – Rue de l’Alboni at Avenue du President Kennedy, Paris, France.

Beaumont orchestrates a pretend fight among the bums to distract the Secret Service agents watching his wife’s apartment – Square Alboni, Paris, France.

Beaumont’s wife apartment – 5 Rue des Eaux, Paris, France

A paparazzo emerges from the back entrance of the hotel where African dictator Njala is staying – Westin Paris (formerly Hotel Inter-Continental), 3 Rue Rouget de l'Isle, Paris, France.

The paparazzo walking to his car – Rue Rouget de l'Isle, Paris, France.

Volfoni’s (Pierre Vernier) hotel – Hotel Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel (formerly Hilton International Paris), 18 Avenue de Suffren, Paris, France.

Edouard Valéras’ (Michel Beaune) apartment – 1 Avenue Emile Deschanel, Paris, France.

The car chase – Palais de Chaillot, Jardins du Trocadéro, Paris, France

Commissioner Rosen’s (Robert Hossein) car crashes – Avenue Emile Deschanel at Rue de Belgrade, Paris, France

Beaumont and Rosen’s confronation – Résidence du Point du Jour, 1 Avenue Pierre Grenier, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

The chateau – Château de Maintenon, Place Aristide Briand, 28130 Maintenon, Eure-et-Loir, France

Beaumont ambushes Inspector Farges (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) near the morgue – Institut médico-légal, 2 Place Mazas, Paris, France.

See also...

Scorpio

Le Samourai

Frantic (1988)

dir. Roman Polanski

Dr. Richard Walker’s (Harrison Ford) hotel – Le Grand Hotel, 2 Rue Scribe, Paris, France.

The hotel window view – Opera Garnier, 8 Rue Scribe, Paris, France.

The flower shop – 5 Rue Scribe, Paris, France. The shop is no longer there.

The bar where Walker is asking about his missing wife – 3 Rue Scribe, Paris, France. The bar is no longer there, replaced with expensive boutiques.

A bum (Dominique Pinon) showing the place where he saw Walker’s wife kidnapped – Passage Brady near Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin, Paris, France.

Walker going to see the hotel desk clerk in a gym – 48 Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin, Paris, France

The American embassy – 11 Rue Berryer, Paris, France. The real American embassy is located at Rue Gabriel.

The Blue Parrot club – 7 Rue du Bourg l'Abbé, Paris, France. The club has been closed and there’s some construction going on around the building. Polanski later used this location in Bitter Moon.

Walker going to Dédé’s apartment – 18 Rue Saint-Nicolas, Paris, France. Many thanks to Adam Roberts from the Invisible Paris blog for helping me to find this location.

The passage leading to Dédé’s apartment – Cour des 3 Frères, Paris, France. The passage is actually across the street from Rue Saint-Nicolas and not behind the door that Walker enters. Many thanks to Adam Roberts from the Invisible Paris blog for helping me to find this location

Michelle’s (Emmanuelle Seigner) apartment roof – this was filmed on a studio set

Walker and Michelle leaving the boat where they’ve been hiding – Voie Georges Pompidou near the Pont de Grenelle, Paris, France

Port Debilly looking toward the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Paris, France

The exchange that goes awry – the yellow level of the Centre Pompidou parking garage, 31 Rue Beaubourg, Paris, France

Walker and Michelle getting out of the car with a dead driver – Rue de Rivoli at Rue Saint-Denis, Paris, France.

The bar where Walker and Michelle meet with American government agents – Bistrot Marguerite, 1 Place de l'Hôtel de ville, Paris, France

A Touch of Class club – Still searching for this location but it was probably a studio set.

Waiting for the exchange – Pont de Grenelle, Paris, France. The Maison de Radio France is visible on the right.

The exchange – Allée des Cygnes under the Pont de Grenelle, Paris, France. It's located on a narrow artificial island in the Seine, known as the Île aux Cygnes (Isle of the Swans.)

The final confrontation – near the Statue of Liberty at the westernmost tip of the Île aux Cygnes. It’s a one-fourth scale replica of the New York City landmark that was given to the city of Paris by the American community of Paris in 1889, commemorating the centennial of the French Revolution.

See also...

Marathon Man

The Fugitive