Home / Explore places / Slovenia
Stories Set in Slovenia
Set between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea, Slovenia is a small forested country of mountains and valleys. Rule from Vienna for centuries and then membership in Yugoslavia until independence in 1991 made it a crossing of languages and empires, so stories here often turn on borders and transit. Its entries include From Russia with Love and Murder on the Orient Express. Open Slovenia on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Slovenia on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Slovenia
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 15 books, 35 movies and 1 game set in Slovenia.

From Russia with Love
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the…

Underground
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties tragedies love and hate.

Time of the Gypsies
In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia Perhan an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves.

Murder on the Orient Express
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in…

When Father Was Away on Business
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to…

Force 10 from Navarone
World War II 1943. Mallory and Miller the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

Once Brothers
Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac were two friends who grew up together sharing the common bond of basketball. Together they lifted the Yugoslavian National team to unimaginable heights. After conquering Europe they both…

Balkan Spy
Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.

Houston, We Have a Problem!
The cold war the space race and NASA’s moon landing are landmark events that defined an era. But they are also fodder for conspiracy theories. In Houston We Have a Problem! filmmaker Žiga Virc adds new material to the…

The Weight of Chains
The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film…
The 10 stories above are just a sample of the 51 in the catalogue for this entry. For the full live catalogue, open Slovenia 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
Croatia · Italy · Austria · All places