A narrow cobbled street curving between a stone wall and trees — Outside: rue Saint-Vincent, Montmartre. Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Montmartre · Paris · 2001

Amélie

Café · Tabac · Petits plaisirs

Audrey Tautou with her dark hair pinned up, smiling, in a white strapless dress — Audrey Tautou, Cannes, 1999. Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0

A film made of small pleasures in real streets. Most are still on offer: crack, swing, walk, follow, tape and throw your way through them.

Her father’s garden gnome is on the sill.

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15 rue Lepic · the café

Crack the crème brûlée.

Amélie works as a waitress at the Café des Deux Moulins on rue Lepic. Paris’s tourist office still tells you what to order, and how to eat it.

The crust is whole. Tap it with the spoon.

The dessertOne more tap.
The roomOne more tap.
The cabinetOne more tap.
The hoursOne more tap.

The café's busy interior: tiled floor, a long bar and customers at small tables under warm light — Inside the Café des Deux Moulins, February 2018. Mario Sánchez Prada from London, United Kingdom · CC BY-SA 2.0

The Café des 2 Moulins on a street corner, with a red awning and tables on the pavement — Café des 2 Moulins on the corner of rue Lepic, August 2019. Mig Gilbert from Brighton · CC BY-SA 2.0

A working café and bistro: Monday to Friday 7am–2am, Saturday and Sunday 9am–2am. Go in as a customer.

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Café des Deux Moulins

Breakfast or a crème brûlée at the café

15 rue Lepic · Mon–Fri 7am–2am · Sat–Sun 9am–2am

Amélie’s café is a working neighbourhood bistro. Sit down, order, and crack the crust.

See the café

Hôtel 29 Lepic

29 rue Lepic

A three-star hotel of 37 rooms on rue Lepic, the same street as the café, run by the Briet family, hoteliers for four generations. Not a filming location. Pictured: the Café des Deux Moulins, at number 15.

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56 rue des Trois Frères · round the corner

The shop that took the film’s name.

In the film this is Collignon’s shop, where Lucien works. Its real name is Au Marché de la Butte.

It sells fruit, vegetables and groceries, and a few Amélie souvenirs.

Now: The BFI found it still open in 2026, with its own crêperie named in honour of the film.

A working grocer on a residential corner. Shop or look; don’t block the stalls.

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A corner grocer with a long red awning, green fruit stalls and a hanging Maison Collignon sign — Au Marché de la Butte, with the Maison Collignon sign above, July 2026. Matthias Süßen · CC BY-SA 4.0

Steep stone steps with handrails running down between plain Montmartre houses — The steps of the Passage des Abbesses, April 2017. Guilhem Vellut from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0

Passage des Abbesses

Seen from the shop: the road and the steps at the top of the Passage des Abbesses.

Public steps, open at all hours, a few metres from the grocer.

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Upstairs

Amélie’s flat

Amélie lives above a grocer’s shop in Montmartre. Private flats above a working shop. See the windows from the street and go no further. Not on the map.

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10 rue Tholozé · the cinema

Looking at faces in the dark.

Move the torch round Studio 28. Four things are hidden in the room.

Clusters of pointed, polka-dot lampshades glowing on a dark wall — Jean Cocteau's light fittings in the Studio 28 auditorium, 2021. Tatvam · CC BY-SA 4.0

0 of 4 found.

1. Still in the dark
2. Still in the dark
3. Still in the dark
4. Still in the dark

The arched entrance of Studio 28 with a neon sign and red steps, lit at night — Studio 28 on rue Tholozé at night, September 2019. Tatvam · CC BY-SA 4.0

Films are still showing today; a full-price ticket is €9.50. Behind the screen there is a quiet garden tea room.

An art-house cinema with screenings every day and a garden tea room. Full price €9.50.

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Cinéma Studio 28

A film at Studio 28

10 rue Tholozé · Full price €9.50

Watch whatever is showing in the room where Amélie watched the audience, under Cocteau’s lamps, then tea in the garden.

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Up the Butte · on foot

Take his arm. Tell him everything.

Amélie takes a blind man’s arm and describes the street to him on the way to the métro.

Rue Lepic
Take his arm. We’re on rue Lepic, by the café.

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The very first shot

Rue Saint-Vincent

The film opens on a view of rue Saint-Vincent; the lens makes the narrow road look wide. Jeunet’s team scrubbed every location of rubbish, dirt and graffiti.

The street runs through the old village of Montmartre, beside the vineyard.

A public cobbled street, steep in places, open at all hours.

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Rows of vines on a slope behind a railing, above a cobbled crossroads — The vineyard of Montmartre beside rue Saint-Vincent, July 2014. Mbzt · CC BY-SA 4.0

6 place Saint-Pierre · below Sacré-Cœur

Follow the blue arrows.

Nino follows painted arrows up the tiers of Square Louise-Michel to a payphone.

A wide square with a carousel at left, terraced gardens rising behind and the white basilica at the top — Place Saint-Pierre, with the carousel, the lowest tier of Square Louise-Michel and Sacré-Cœur above, September 2014. Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France · CC BY 2.0

Tier 1 of 5

The lowest tier

The treasure hunt opens on a shot of Sacré-Cœur from the lowest tier of Square Louise-Michel. Paris’s tourist office sends you here, to the square with the old-fashioned carousel, for the phone box and the arrow trail.

Square Louise-Michel. Free. To 24 October 2026: weekdays 8am–7.30pm, weekends 9am–7.30pm. Part of the garden is closed for safety.

Sacré-Cœur. Basilica daily 6.30am–10.30pm, free. Dome 10.30am–7.30pm, last entry 7pm: €8, 280 steps, no lift.

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Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre

The dome of Sacré-Cœur

Sacré-Cœur · 10.30am–7.30pm · €8, children €5

Two hundred and eighty steps up a narrow stair to the highest view on the Butte. No lift; not for small children or anyone uneasy in tight spaces.

Plan the climb

Place du 11 Novembre 1918 · the station

Torn pictures: tape them back together.

The chase begins with a shot of the station entrance on rue d’Alsace. Nino chases the mystery man up the steps of rue d’Alsace and drops his book; Amélie picks it up. Paris’s tourist office says there is still a photo booth in the station. Here are six torn pictures to mend.

0 of 6 mended.

The Gare de l'Est from Place du 11 Novembre 1918, August 2016. Guilhem Vellut from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0
Gare de l’Est
The Gare de l'Est concourse, lined with shops, August 2011. Mbzt · CC BY-SA 3.0
The concourse
The double staircase on rue d'Alsace, beside the Gare de l'Est, August 2024. Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rue d’Alsace
Audrey Tautou at the Berlin International Film Festival, February 2015. Siebbi · CC BY-SA 3.0
Audrey Tautou
Jean-Pierre Jeunet at the Deauville festival, 2009. Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Yann Tiersen playing the violin on stage, March 2007. Paul from Görlitz, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0
Yann Tiersen

Gare de l’Est. A working mainline station; the concourse is public.

The steps of rue d’Alsace. Public steps and a pedestrian street, open at all hours.

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Amélie walks in Montmartre

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A canal lock under chestnut trees, with a tour boat waiting and an iron footbridge beyond — The Récollets locks on the Canal Saint-Martin, from the passerelle Bichat, June 2013. JLPC · CC BY-SA 3.0

Quai de Valmy · the canal

One good throw. Count the skips.

Hold, let go when the bar is nearly full. Every skip brings back one more thing about the canal.

No stone thrown yet.

Amélie skips stones on the Canal Saint-Martin.
Skip 2 brings this one back.
Skip 3 brings this one back.
Skip 4 brings this one back.
Skip 5 brings this one back.

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Canauxrama

Through the locks of the Canal Saint-Martin

From 13 quai de la Loire · €23 per adult

A two-and-a-half-hour cruise through old Paris on the canal where Amélie skims her stones.

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Where it is now

11 places you can visit today, in three walks. Amélie’s flat above the grocer is private and is not on the map.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working café and bistro: Monday to Friday 7am–2am, Saturday and Sunday 9am–2am. Go in as a customer.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working grocer on a residential corner. Shop or look; don’t block the stalls.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Public steps, open at all hours, a few metres from the grocer.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An art-house cinema with screenings every day and a garden tea room. Full price €9.50.

Café des 2 Moulins on the corner of rue Lepic, August 2019. Mig Gilbert from Brighton · CC BY-SA 2.0
15 rue Lepic, 18th arrondissement
Café des Deux Moulins
Amélie works here as a waitress.
A working café and bistro: Monday to Friday 7am–2am, Saturday and Sunday 9am–2am. Go in as a customer.
Where this comes from
Au Marché de la Butte, with the Maison Collignon sign above, July 2026. Matthias Süßen · CC BY-SA 4.0
56 rue des Trois Frères, 18th arrondissement
Au Marché de la Butte
In the film this is Collignon’s shop, where Lucien works. Its real name is Au Marché de la Butte.
A working grocer on a residential corner. Shop or look; don’t block the stalls.
Where this comes from
The steps of the Passage des Abbesses, April 2017. Guilhem Vellut from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0
Off rue des Trois Frères
Passage des Abbesses
Seen from the shop: the road and the steps at the top of the Passage des Abbesses.
Public steps, open at all hours, a few metres from the grocer.
Where this comes from
Studio 28 on rue Tholozé at night, September 2019. Tatvam · CC BY-SA 4.0
10 rue Tholozé, 18th arrondissement
Studio 28
The scene of Amélie watching faces in the cinema dark was filmed at Studio 28.
An art-house cinema with screenings every day and a garden tea room. Full price €9.50.
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Stay

Sleep on the Butte.

A family hotel on the café’s street, and a 1911 hotel with a rooftop over Paris. Neither is in the film.

Hôtel 29 Lepic

29 rue Lepic

A three-star hotel of 37 rooms on rue Lepic, the same street as the café, run by the Briet family, hoteliers for four generations. Not a filming location. Pictured: the Café des Deux Moulins, at number 15.

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Terrass’’ Hôtel

12–14 rue Joseph de Maistre

Built in 1911 below the Butte, with a rooftop that looks out over Paris. Not a filming location. Pictured: Sacré-Cœur, a short climb away.

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