47 Movies Filmed on Stunning Beaches You Should Visit
Fast Five (2011)
Where? Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil and Puerto Rico.
When to go? Visit Rio from January until May and Puerto Rico all year round.
Set in Rio but scenes were shot both in Rio de Janeiro and Puerto Rico. The Rio film unit captured aerial shots of the city including Sugarloaf Mountain, Fort Copacabana, Ipanema Beach, the Dona Marta lookout point and the Christ the Redeemer statue.
Gisele and Han hang out at a bar on a beach in Rio.
The promotional scene from the Fast Five trailer of the complete heist team walking down a beach was filmed on Copacabana Beach.
The final beach scene filmed in Puerto Rico.
