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Turin was Italy's first capital and its car factory, all arcades and espresso under Alpine peaks. Argento gave it giallo nightmares like Deep Red; the original Italian Job blew up its traffic instead. Open Turin on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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10 famous stories set in Turin

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Browse 14 books, 33 movies and 1 game set in Turin.

Deep Red

Deep Red

Seda Spettacoli-Rizzoli Film
movie

One night musician Marcus Daly looking up from the street below witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene he just manages to miss the perpetrator... or so he thinks.

Setting: Rome, Italy; Turin, ItalyTime Period: 1970s
The Italian Job

The Italian Job

Paramount-Oakhurst Productions
movie

Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino Italy right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far so Charlie takes…

Setting: Turin, Italy; London, UKTime Period: 1960s
Scent of a Woman

Scent of a Woman

Dean Film
movie

An army cadet accompanies an irascible blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.

Setting: Turin; Naples, ItalyTime Period: 1970s
The Organizer

The Organizer

Lux Film-Avala Film-Vides Cinematografica-Méditerrannée Cinéma Production
movie

The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is sent by…

Setting: Turin, ItalyTime Period: Turn of the Century
The Seduction of Mimi

The Seduction of Mimi

Euro International Film
movie

Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer - but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When…

Setting: Sicily, Italy; Turin, ItalyTime Period: 1970s
Heaven

Heaven

Miramax-X Filme Creative Pool-Mirage Enterprises
movie

A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.

Setting: Turin, ItalyTime Period: 2000s
Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams

RAI-MiC-Film Investment Piedmont (FIP)-Film Commission Torino Piemonte-Ad Vitam Production-IBC MOvie-Kavac Film
movie

Turin 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the…

Setting: Turin; Sarajevo, Italy; BosniaTime Period: 1969; 1990s
Anche se è amore non si vede

Anche se è amore non si vede

Medusa Film-Sky Cinema-Mediaset Premium-Tramp Limited
movie

Salvo and Valentino are two Sicilian friends who have moved to Turin and now run a small business together. They drive foreign tourists around in a double-decker bus and Salvo always tries to approach the pretty girls.

Setting: Turin, ItalyTime Period: 2010s
Sleepless

Sleepless

Medusa Film-Tele+-Opera Film (II)
movie

An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin Italy after a 17-year hiatus.

Setting: Turin, ItalyTime Period: 2001
Le Amiche

Le Amiche

Trionfalcine
movie

Clelia a self-made woman coming from humble means travels back to Turin her hometown to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel she encounters some upper middle-class women and she…

Setting: Turin, ItalyTime Period: 1950s

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