Home / Explore places / Hungary / Budapest
Stories Set in Budapest
Two cities on one Danube — Buda's castle hill, Pest's boulevards, ruin bars and 1956 barricades. These ten span empire to startup chaos; filter the city's stories by era on StoryTerra's map.
Open Budapest on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Budapest
Live snapshot of the top 10 most popular catalogue items (2026-09-04). Click any card to open this entry on the live map.
Browse 27 books, 40 movies and 2 games set in Budapest.

The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of…

The Shop Around the Corner
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Spy
A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer and prevent diabolical global disaster.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative…

Gemini Man
Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict…

On Body and Soul
Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled incredulous a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence they try to recreate in broad…

Dracula
You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.A rich selection of background and source materials is provided in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier…

Kontroll
A tale about a strange young man Bulcsú and the fellow ticket inspectors on his team who work aboard the subterranean Budapest Metro. A tale about racing along the tracks and about a mysterious serial killer. And a tale…

Queen: Hungarian Rhapsody - Live in Budapest '86
On 27th July 1986 British stadium rock band Queen broke new ground by playing for the first time in Hungary a country which was still under a communist dictatorship behind the Iron Curtain.

Gloomy Sunday
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of…
The 10 stories above are just a sample of the 69 in the catalogue for this entry. For the full live catalogue, open Budapest in the StoryTerra app. On the live map you can also filter by the exact time the stories take place — any year, decade or century, from BCE to the future.
Keep exploring
Hungary · Vienna · Prague · All places