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Stories Set in Luxembourg — top stories

Luxembourg is a tiny landlocked country in western Europe, with a fortress capital set above steep river gorges. Its steel industry and postwar role as a seat of European institutions drew bankers and officials from abroad, so stories here often involve money, borders and quiet power. Its entries include Waterloo and Patriot. Open Luxembourg on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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10 famous stories set in Luxembourg

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 3 books, 9 movies and 1 TV show set in Luxembourg.

Waterloo

Waterloo

Paramount-Mosfilm-Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica
movie

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba ending two decades of war Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the…

Setting: Waterloo, BelgiumTime Period: 1815
Patriot

Patriot

tvshow

To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.

Setting: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; Luxembourg; Paris, FranceTime Period: Contemporary 2010s
Sharpe's Waterloo

Sharpe's Waterloo

Carlton Television-Picture Palace-Celtic Films Entertainment
movie

Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French in June of 1815.

Setting: Waterloo, BelgiumTime Period: 1815
Superchamp Returns

Superchamp Returns

Samsa Film-Artémis Productions-Shelter Prod-Nakofx
movie

In order to save tiny Luxembourg from a cosmic catastrophe a civil servant in a midlife crisis has to find back his lost superpowers and face his biggest fear: his family.

Setting: Fantasy: LuxembourgTime Period: 2018
The Ninth Day

The Ninth Day

Provobis Film
movie

A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.

Setting: LuxembourgTime Period: 1942
Gutland

Gutland

ARD-Novak Prod-Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles-Les Films Fauves-Bauer & Blum
movie

Early one summer morning a young man with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag emerges from the forest. In a nearby village he asks around for work but the farmers suspicious to the point of hostility are not very…

Setting: LuxembourgTime Period: 2010s
Counterpoint

Counterpoint

Universal Pictures
movie

In December of 1944 Lionel Evans an internationally renowned American conductor is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack Evans and his…

Setting: Luxembourg; BelgiumTime Period: December 1944
Sharpe's Waterloo

Sharpe's Waterloo

by Bernard Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
book

Richard Sharpe and the Waterloo Campaign, 15 June to 18 June 1815. It is 1815. Sharpe is serving on the personal staff of the inexperienced and incompetent Young Frog, William, Prince of Orange, who has been given…

Setting: ['Waterloo (Belgium)']Time Period: 1815; Waterloo Campaign
The Expats

The Expats

by Chris Pavone (Goodreads Author)
book

Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a…

Setting: Luxembourg City, LuxembourgTime Period: UNKNOWN
Little Secrets

Little Secrets

Red Lion-Amour Fou Filmproduktion
movie

October 1962 the height of the Cuban missile crisis… Norbi 12 lives in a small industrial town typical of southern Luxembourg. His father very authoritarian owns a bookstore-stationery that also serves as a store for…

Setting: LuxembourgTime Period: 1962

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