The city of Miami is a favorite location among producers who wants to film movies or TV shows in a tropical sunny scenario. Miami beaches and South Beach art deco style offers film makers a great opportunity for filming in an emblematic place world-known.
Miami is identified for most people around the world as a paradise for tourist since they can find all kind of entertainment including a wide range of familiar activities, singles attractions and much more. South Florida is also known for its tendency to make people feel that they can lose the innovations like in no other place in the world. Movies such as Bad Boys, Casino Royale, and 2 fast and 2 Furious have been filmed in our tropical paradise. Movies in Miami have been filmed in several locations around the city and they are part of the Miami entertainment.
Our fabulous city is also a good place to filmed action movies because it has several locations and highways that are perfect for this sort of filming. Several action scenes have been filmed in Miami’s highways through the years; some of them are classic car chasing sequences.
Miami Vice is one of the most emblematic and recent action movie filmed in Miami. We must say that this movie is a big classic among Floridians and it tries to capture the Miami’s feeling. The movie is an adaptation of the 80’s TV show “Miami Vice” who star was Don Johnson. Not only action movies have been filmed in Miami but also some Oscar winning movies. One of the most awarded movie filmed in Miami is Adaptation with Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep, and Chris Cooper. Another movie is “Ali” which brings to the big screen the live of professional boxer Muhammad Ali. Will Smith was in charge of giving live to Muhammad Ali in the movie. His performance gave him an Oscar nomination. Shooting movies in Miami is a great business for producers. Production companies often shot advertising movies or feature movies in Miami. These movies that show the beauty of Miami definitely help give more value to the Miami entertainment industry. Movie makers for sure need to rent locations either to shoot the movie or to accommodate a large team of artists and technicians. If you are planning to make a movie in Miami look for great vacations rentals that will help you to accommodate your team for a reasonable budget.
Movies that have been filmed in Miami:
Miami Vice
2 Fast 2 Furious
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Adaptation
Ali
Bad Boys
Bad Boys II
Casino Royale
Deep Throat
Déjà Vu (film)
From Justin to Kelly
Goldfinger
Good Morning, Miami
Meet the Fockers
Miami Vice
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
Porky's
Red Eye
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
Scarface (1983 film)
There's Something About Mary
The Specialist
Transporter 2
True Lies TV shows that have been filmed in Miami:
CSI: Miami
Miami Vice
Hogan Knows Best
The Jackie Gleason Show (1960s incarnation)
Moon Over Miami (TV series)
The Real World: Key West (MTV)
The Real World: Miami (MTV)
Reno 911!: Miami
Top Chef (Season 3)
The Golden Girls | 
