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

Deep Red
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.

The Italian Job
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…

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

The Organizer
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…

The Seduction of Mimi
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…

Heaven
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.

Sweet Dreams
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…

Anche se è amore non si vede
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.

Sleepless
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.

Le Amiche
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…
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