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Stories Set in Marseille
France's oldest city and its roughest port, where ferries leave for Algiers and deals get done on the docks. Crime stuck to Marseille because the real thing never left. The French Connection chased it; The Transporter delivers for it. Open Marseille on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Marseille on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Marseille
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Browse 13 books, 59 movies, 2 TV shows and 2 games set in Marseille.

Breathless
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

The Transporter
Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive it sets in motion…

The French Connection
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

The Stronghold
A police brigade working in the dangerous northern neighborhoods of Marseille where the level of crime is higher than anywhere else in France.

Le Cercle Rouge
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld however after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman…

Taxi
In Marseilles (France) skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction he will help Emilien a loser…

The Count of Monte Cristo
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only…

22 Bullets
Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then one winter morning he's left for dead in the parking…

Stillwater
Bill Baker an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter Allison who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers cultural…

The Connection
Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control…
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