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Stories Set in Bogotá
Bogotá is a cool, rainy capital high in the Andes, built on gold, government and traffic. Decades of conflict followed by a fragile urban revival gave it a tough screen persona of cops, reporters and survivors. Colombiana and Orozco the Embalmer both play it that way. Open Bogotá on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Bogotá on the StoryTerra map6 famous stories set in Bogotá
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Browse 2 books and 4 movies set in Bogota.
Colombiana
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders…
Orozco the Embalmer
In 1996 Tsurisaki Kiyotaka one of Japan’s most infamous death photographers ventured into the center of Hell itself - the Rue Morgue neighborhood of Bogota Colombia. With death and murder rampant the corpses eventually…
The Art of Losing
A body is discovered impaled on a stake near a scenic lake near Bogota. A journalist try to find what happened. With a friend they set about to find the cause of the crime and uncover an intricate real estate fraud…
The White Album
First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark…
Hotel Colonial
Marco Veniera goes to Bogota Columbia to find his brother Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search he meets fiery and exotic Irene Costa who leads him into the depths of the Amazon jungle. But it's every man…
The Cobra
The cocaine industry is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil seed across Western society. Its usage causes incalculable misery, poverty and death. Slowly, gradually, inexorably it…
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