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The 2010s: 2010–2019
2010–2019 · worldwide, all places
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Smartphones put the internet in every pocket, streaming ended the television schedule, and protests from Tahrir Square in 2011 to Zuccotti Park livestreamed themselves. The decade's mood mixed startup optimism with the grind of austerity and the Syrian war.
2011's uprisings played out on phone cameras. Bong Joon-ho's Parasite follows a poor Seoul family into a rich one in 2019, and Makoto Shinkai's Your Name swaps two teenagers between Tokyo and the countryside. Open the 2010s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
10 famous stories set in the 2010s
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Browse 5,904 books, 21,060 movies, 714 TV shows and 650 games set in the 2010s (2010–2019).
Inside Out
When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy Fear Anger Disgust and Sadness work together but when Joy and Sadness get lost they must journey through unfamiliar…
Inception
Cobb a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception" the…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only…
Deadpool
The origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with…
Parasite
All unemployed Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Your Name.
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen…
Whiplash
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost even his humanity.
Gone Girl
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
The Intouchables
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
The Avengers
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security Nick Fury director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D. finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the…
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