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Live music pouring out of every doorway, tacos at midnight, and a state capitol full of people the locals cheerfully ignore. Austin branded itself the weird holdout in a buttoned-up state, and film crews bought the myth wholesale. The Last of Us hid survivors here; Whip It rolled derby through it. Open Austin on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Live snapshot of the top 10 most popular catalogue items (2026-09-05). Click any card to open this entry on the live map.
Browse 37 books, 42 movies, 3 TV shows and 3 games set in Austin.
The Last of Us
A third person shooter/stealth/survival hybrid, in which twenty years after the outbreak of a parasitic fungus which takes over the neural functions of humans, Joel, a Texan with a tragic familial past, finds himself…
Hypnotic
A detective becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program while investigating a string of reality-bending crimes.
9-1-1: Lone Star
Nearly 20 years ago, Owen Strand was the lone survivor of his Manhattan firehouse on 9/11. In the wake of the attack, Owen had the unenviable task of rebuilding his station. After a similar tragedy happens to a…
Whip It
In Bodeen Texas Land Of The Dragon an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.
Tower
Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses heroes and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting when the worst in one man brought out the…
Dave Chappelle: Deep in the Heart of Texas
Comedy icon Dave Chappelle makes his triumphant return to the screen with a pair of blistering fresh stand-up specials. Filmed at the Moody Theater in Austin Texas in April 2015.
Walker
Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there's harder work to be done at home.
Slacker
Austin Texas is an Eden for the young and unambitious from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The…
Song to Song
In this modern love story set against the Austin Texas music scene two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’…
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits
Noir rock hits ACL with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. The Australian group’s set ranges across their 30-year career from their first album to their latest Push the Sky Away.
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