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Stories Set in Sydney
Harbour ferries, Bondi mornings, ballroom sequins and desert buses leaving town — Sydney films sunshine with an edge. These ten span Strictly Ballroom to the Matrix; filter the city's stories by era on StoryTerra's map.
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Browse 56 books, 79 movies and 5 games set in Sydney.
The Fall Guy
Fresh off an almost career-ending accident stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Filmed in front of 76000 fans at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney Australia "The 1989 World Tour Live" captures Taylor Swift's entire performance while also mixing in behind-the-scene rehearsal and special guest footage from…
The Protector
A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective Kham must take on all comers including a gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly…
Big Little Lies
From the author of Truly Madly Guilty and The Husband s Secret comes a novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s…
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus Priscilla the three…
Long Story Short
Teddy wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that he's jumped forward a year in his life to his first anniversary. Trapped in an endless cycle of time jumps transported another year ahead every few minutes…
Sydney 2000 Olympics Closing Ceremony
The 2000 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony took place on 1 October 2000 in Stadium Australia. The Closing Ceremony attracted 114714 people the largest attendance in modern Olympic Games history. IOC President Juan…
What Alice Forgot
Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child.So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the…
Dance Academy: The Movie
This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now.
The Husband's Secret
At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be readMy darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died...Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death.…
The 10 stories above are just a sample of the 140 in the catalogue for this entry. For the full live catalogue, open Sydney 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.