Follow the Paris Film Trails and explore famous or little-known parts of the city that have featured in classic and recent movies. Over 650 film shoots take place in Paris each year, and some 4,000 different outside locations have been used. The lm Trails are pocket guides for lovers of Paris and the cinema.

Tell the story of an amorous encounter somewhere in Paris – in just five minutes. This was the challenge that twenty film-makers from around the world agreed to take up for PARIS JE T’AIME. The result is a sensitive and moving film that makes us look at Paris in a new light...

Hassan has been knifed and is lying in the centre of the Place des Fêtes. Sophie, a nurse, comes to the dying man’s assistance. He realizes that he has seen her before and that their encounter could have changed his life...

This was originally a piece of land planted with vines, fruit trees and lucerne. In 1835 it was acquired by the municipality of Belleville as a site for saint’s day celebrations and fun fairs. Today it is a resolutely modern square, with a central area redeveloped by architect Bernard Huet.

A young blind man looks back over his relationship with a pretty actress, from the day they first met. Then she tells him it is all over. A colourful parable about perception and forgiveness.

Covering over four kilometres (two of them underground), the Canal Saint-Martin links the Bassin de la Villette with the Seine. Opened in 1825, it has nine locks and two swing bridges and is used by working barges, tourist boats and pleasure craft. It inspired Marcel Carné’s film Hôtel du
Nord (1938) and was the setting for L’Atalante by Jean Vigo (1934).

A man decides to leave his wife. But when she tells him she has cancer, he realizes how much he loves her and completely changes his life to stay by her side.

3 - Boats using the Canal Saint-Martin emerge into the Port de l’Arsenal, a harbour epitomizing the romantic atmosphere of the city’s waterways. It stretches from Place de la Bastille to the Seine and has moorings for 180 craft up to 25 metres in length.

4 - A typical Paris covered market in Place d’Aligre, full of colours and smells. Its stalls are heaped with produce from all over the world. Nearby is the attractive Square Trousseau, a garden laid out in 1902 on the site of a home for abandoned children.

Distraught, Suzanne wanders Paris at night. In Place des Petits Pères she meets a strange cowboy, who takes her to the son she has lost. The reunion is brief but intense...

5 - Built by Hardouin-Mansart in honour of Louis XIV, this circular square has a diameter of over 60 metres. Few of the streets converging on it continue in a straight line on the opposite side, so the central equestrian statue of the king is always seen from a different angle. Today Place des Victoires is a top spot for fashion in Paris.

6 - Take the Rue Vide Gousset and you will come to the charming Place des Petits Pères, a paved square named after the Augustinian monks once seen here.

Three boys are hanging around on a bank of the Seine, clumsily trying to pick up passing girls. One of the three, François, is attracted to Zarka, a girl wearing a veil who has been insulted by his friends. He waits for her at the entrance to the Mosque…

7 - The Tino Rossi Garden is a peaceful riverside promenade. In the 17 TH century, Parisians came here to bathe in the Seine. Reached by a staircase, the garden is an open-air sculpture museum displaying works by modern and contemporary sculptors such as Brancusi, Zadkine, César and Rougemont.

8 - The Paris Mosque was built as a tribute to the 100,000 Muslims who fought in the First World War. Inspired by the Mosque of Fez, Morocco, it is constructed in a Hispano-Moresque style, with a minaret 33 metres high. It houses a religious library, a restaurant, a tearoom, a hammam and the Muslim Institute.

Carol, an American tourist, describes her solo trip to Paris. She speaks in French, with a slight but charming accent. During her stay she comes to
realize that she loves Paris – and Paris loves her too.

9 - Opened in 1824, the 19-hectare Montparnasse Cemetery is a haven of peace in the city. The famous figures buried here include Baudelaire, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Seberg, Jacques Becker and Joseph Kessel.

10 - Designed by Alphand and completed in 1878, this is one of the city’s largest parks. The 16-hectare site includes three large expanses of grass and a lake, and is dotted with sculptures in bronze and wood. A popular place to relax among Parisians and foreign students living in the neighbouring Cité Universitaire.