Director Christopher Nolan's epic about the evacuation of British and Allied troops from northern France was shot this summer on some of the same beaches where the action took place in 1940.
The five-week shoot which involved 1,500 extras was one of 36 foreign productions drawn to France in 2016 after tax breaks jumped from 20 percent to 30 percent of the cost of the film.
Parts of the Oscar-nominated "Jackie", starring Natalie Portman as the late US First Lady Jackie Kennedy, were made in Luc Besson's Cite du Cinema studios in Paris, and several scenes in "Fifty Shades Darker", the sequel to the erotic blockbuster "Fifty Shades of Grey" were also shot in the city.
France also hosted the eight-week shoot of the Bollywood romance "Befikre", and industry insiders have high hopes that it will also capture "Mission Impossible 6", the next episode in the Tom Cruise vehicle.
Valerie Lepine, of the French film commission, Film France, said spending by foreign film companies "almost tripled" to 152 million euros ($162 million) from 57 million in 2015.
"We have made massive progress this year," she added.
