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Stories Set in Naples
Louder, poorer and more alive than any Italian city dares: Naples sprawls under a volcano that could end it any century now. That fatalism fuels everything from Sorrentino's autobiographical The Hand of God to Bourne-style chases through the alleys. Open Naples on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 20 books, 116 movies and 2 TV shows set in Naples.
The Bourne Supremacy
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne…
The Hand of God
In 1980s Naples Italy an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.
Marriage Italian Style
When Domenico first meets Filomena in Naples during World War II he is instantly smitten. Flash forward to the postwar years and the two meet again sparking a passionate affair that spans two decades. But when Filomena…
The Sucker
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels…
I'm Starting from Three
Gaetano a young Neapolitan decides to leave home work and friends to look for other moments of life and meet other people.
Gomorrah
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and…
Diego Maradona
Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and Argentina in the…
The Art of Happiness
Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never…
Natale in casa Cupiello
Luca Cupiello like every Christmas prepares the crib amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia the other daughter writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves…
Gomorrah
Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self-…
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