The King's Speech, Tom Hooper, 2010
The latest addition to London's locations map, this is the "Harley Street" consulting room where Geoffrey Rush cured Colin Firth's Oscar-winning stammer in The King's Speech. Beneath the mouldering paintwork, it's actually a beautifully preserved Georgian townhouse – with a fine vaulted ceiling, generous leaded windows and distinctive curved skylights. The property was also used for Amy Winehouse's Rehab video, not to mention the occasional gay porn film – though that attracts fewer pilgrims. There's no easy way to get in, but it's often hired for corporate functions, so you've got options.
• 33 Portland Place, 33portlandplace.com
Blowup, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966
Whatever David Hemmings did or didn't see through his camera in
Antonioni's Swinging London milestone, here's where he saw it, or
didn't. It doesn't quite look the same since Antonioni apparently had
the paths and even the grass painted, and built false houses in the
background. You can retrace Hemmings' footsteps up to the fateful
clearing where he snaps Vanessa Redgrave in a clandestine clinch, then
back down the steps where she confronts him. "You can't photograph
people like that … This is a public place, everyone has the right to be
left in peace," she says, betraying the film's bygone intrusion-free
era. The tennis courts where the students have their game of imaginary
tennis are still there, too.
• Maryon Park, Charlton
Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg, 2007
London's oldest public bathhouse is a soothing place to visit even if you're not a movie buff, though you might want to erase from your memory its 15 minutes of excruciating fame in David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises. "It's a good place for business meetings," a Chechen gangster tells Mortensen, "because you can see what tattoos a man has." Not such a good place to be assaulted by two knife-wielding Russian thugs when you're naked, mind. If you weren't wincing from the violence, you might have had time to appreciate the well-appointed steam rooms and handsome deco tiling. It's currently being refurbished, but will open to the public again in May 2012.
• Ironmonger Row Baths, Ironmonger Row, aquaterra.org/ironmonger-row-baths
Repulsion, Roman Polanski, 1965
South Kensington doesn't look quite so posh from Catherine Deneuve's (admittedly skewed) perspective in Roman Polanski's 1965 thriller. She lives and works and gets ogled by workmen around the area in the movie, but the best moment is seeing the future French diva confronted with the decidedly unglamorous local cuisine when she visits Dino's, next to the tube station. "You can't eat stuff like this. Come on, I'll take you to Wheeler's," says her suitor John Fraser, eyeing her battered cod and chips. The restaurant's virtually unchanged since – so the food can't be bad.
• Dino's, 1-3 Pelham Street
Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan, 2005
Everyone knows Gotham City is in America, right? In most of Christopher Nolan's two Batman movies, Chicago is the doppelganger for the exterior shots of the city, but many of the locations are actually closer to home. The Gotham City State Courts, for example, is the Jewelers Building in downtown Chicago on the outside, but inside, it's the art deco lobby of Senate House, the University of London's handsome 1930s building in Bloomsbury. It's here that Christian Bale's plan to avenge the death of his parents is pre-empted, when the killer, "Joe Chill", is gunned down by Tom Wilkinson's hoods.
• Senate House, Malet St
Sense and Sensibility, Ang Lee, 1995
The beautiful Georgian Chandos House, off Wimpole Street, fits the bill perfectly as Imelda Staunton and Hugh Laurie's London pad in Ang Lee's Austen drama par excellence. They probably didn't need to change a thing inside, as the restored interiors are just as well-preserved as the outside. It's here that Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet have their tearful showdown after learning of Hugh Grant's engagement – if you weren't too distracted by the tasteful paint colours and antique furnishings. It's available for hire, so if you really love the film, you could even have your wedding here.
• Chandos House, Queen Anne Street, chandoshouse.co.uk
An Education, Lone Scherfig, 2009
Home to one of the most illustrious studios in British cinema, Ealing was already pretty well-established on the movie map (the studio is still in operation). But Carey Mulligan's rendition of Lynn Barber's 1960s coming of age showed us the full suburban splendour of the area – even if it was standing in for Twickenham. Mulligan's house is on Carbery Avenue, and her school is the Japanese School on Creffield Road, while her local shops are at St John's Parade – dressed up for the period. Surprisingly, the cafe where she brushes off her schoolboy would-be suitor is practically unchanged.
• Carbery Avenue, Ealing
Shaun Of The Dead, Edgar Wright, 2004
Crouch End was such a nice place to live before the zombie infestation brought property prices down. Still, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost give you a fine guided tour of the area – albeit with marauding undead in shuffling pursuit. From their flat on Nelson Road, the newsagent really is just round the corner, on Weston Park. It's a bit more of a walk to their "local", The Winchester, however: it's several miles away, south of the river in New Cross (Duke Of Albany, on Monson Road).
• Crouch End, movielocationsguide.com/Shaun_of_the_Dead/filming_locations
A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick, 1971
Thamesmead in south-east London, is one of the best movie sites in the city and a grim day out for all the family. Stanley Kubrick didn't have to look far for futuristically dystopian locations in the early 1970s, and this brutalist London landscape is pretty much as he left it. Stroll along the "Flat Block Marina" (Southmere Lake) beside which Malcolm McDowell tolchucked his upstart droogs, and look for the Tavy Bridge Centre, which doubled as McDowell's apartment. If you're looking for the famous underpass where they assault the tramp, though, it's over in Wandsworth.
• Thamesmead
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chris Columbus, 2001
You could go and view the trolley protruding from the wall at "Platform 9¾" in King's Cross Station for your dose of Potter tourism, but a more pleasant stop on the trail is the City of London's beautiful Victorian Leadenhall Market. The curved-fronted entrance to the Leaky Cauldron is at 42 Bull's Head Passage – it's actually an optician's. Then the secret "Diagon Alley" was filmed in the market itself, though being a muggle, you might not recognise it as such. If you're disappointed that there's no Eeylops Owl Emporium or Quality Quidditch Supplies, you can always have a pint in The Lamb, where John Wayne started a bar-room brawl in the 1975 film Brannigan.
• Leadenhall Market
