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Toys palace
Paris, France
Located four minutes from the famous Moulin Rouge is âToys palace,â the sex shop where Nino sometimes worked.
In the movie, the name of the shop was changed to Palace Video.
This is the scene where AmĂ©lie enters the sex shop in hopes of returning the photobook to Nin, but heâs not there.
Studio 28
Paris, France
Amélie sometimes likes to go to Studio 28 on Fridays to watch a good foreign film.
Studio 28 is the oldest cinema in Paris, named after the date it was founded (1928). Many of the movies here are artsy foreign films with French subtitles.
From time to time, they have a showing of the movie AmĂ©lie which is surreal to watch because thereâs a scene in the movie of Amelie watching a movie at studio 28.
Café des 2 Moulins
Paris, France
Amélie Poulain works as a waitress in Café des 2 Moulins, a pivotal location in the movie where many scenes take place. One memorable moment is when Amélie helps a blind man cross the street and vividly describes the surroundings to him. Interestingly, visitors can still enjoy the ambiance of the café and even indulge in a crÚme brûlée, reminiscent of the iconic scene where Amélie cracks the caramelized sugar crust with her spoon.
Le Verre a Pied
Paris, France
Le Verre à Pied (wine glass stem) is the tiny but quaint local wine bar/restaurant where Amélie eavesdrops on 50-year-old Dominique Bretodeau, telling the story how an anonymous person returned a metal box full of his childhood memorabilia.
Dominique had hidden the metal box as a boy when he lived in AmĂ©lieâs apartment decades earlier.
You can pop into Le Verre Ă Pied for a glass of wine or stick around for lunch and order the âplat du jour.â
Maison Collignon
Paris, France
Amélie frequents this grocery, where she chats with neighbors and befriends Lucien. The grocery, formerly "Chez Ali" and now "Maison Collignon," still sells produce and Amélie-themed souvenirs. It remains a nostalgic spot for fans with press articles showcasing the film's success.
Lamarck-Caulaincourt Metro
Paris, France
Walk along rue Lamarck toward the Lamarck-Caulaincourt Metro station.
This is the scene where Amélie does her second act of kindness after she returned the box of trinkets she found in her apartment to its owner.
Amélie sees a blind man trying unsuccessfully to cross the street and quickly scoops him up.
Canal Saint-Martin
Paris, France
Take a walk along the 4.5 km long Canal Saint-Marin where Amélie famously skipps some stones into the canal water.
Audry Tautou, who plays AmĂ©lie, didnât know how to skip stones, so it was added in with special effects.
Itâs common to see people sitting along the waterâs edge, hanging out, eating, chatting and just being French.
Carrousel de Saint-Pierre
Paris, France
This is the scene where Amélie calls Nino on the public phone booth next to the carrousel in the Saint-Pierre square at the bottom of the Sacré Coeur. The telephone booth is no longer there.
This brief exchange on the phone at Sacre Coeur and at the Cafe des 2 Moulins are the only two times that Amélie and Nino exchange a dialogue during the course of the entire film.
The SacrĂ©-CĆur Basilica is perched at the highest part of Montmarte hill district and visible from a distance like the Eiffel tower. Its construction was completed in 1914 and is considered the main tourist attraction of the Montmartre district.
Amelie
2001
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