This work establishes a conversation between film studies and the ‘new’ cultural geography as a way to a potentially useful cross-disciplinary theoretical framework, for commenting on the intrinsic relationship that exists between the city and its cinematic counterpart. To fully understand how the city landscape relates to its cinematic image, it is necessary to examine how the representation of its geography works within the paradigm of film representation of the real and the fictional space. This paper, thus, presents an overview on the production of visual imaginations and the urbanscapes put into action by the cinematic apparatus. The discussion evolves around a cinematic geography that is built and related to the geographic concepts of landscape and place that are associated to the ‘real place’ and the ‘fictional place’. An analysis of the contemporary Brazilian film – Cold Tropics (Recife Frio, 2009) – directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, is then presented.