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Stories Set in the United States
Jazz-Age Long Island, the Old West, small-town Alabama, Baltimore corners and Los Santos freeways — the US contains multitudes of fictional worlds. These ten landmarks barely scratch the surface; open the country on StoryTerra's map to browse by city — New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans — and by decade.
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Browse 15,807 books, 30,800 movies, 1,292 TV shows and 1,615 games set in United States of America.
The Godfather
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955 a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life his youngest son Michael…
The Shawshank Redemption
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his…
Pulp Fiction
A burger-loving hit man his philosophical partner a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back…
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy Brooklyn’s full-time friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse where he encounters the Spider Society a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the…
Inside Out
When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy Fear Anger Disgust and Sadness work together but when Joy and Sadness get lost they must journey through unfamiliar…
Deadpool & Wolverine
A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary Deadpool behind him. But when his homeworld faces an existential threat Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even…
Inception
Cobb a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception" the…
Back to the Future
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955 inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by…
Forrest Gump
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved his one true…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only…
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