Movies and TV shows set in new orleans – page 4

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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe – for a time when he’s no ...
Style: independent film, sad, surreal, emotional, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: poverty, climate change, children, global warming, father daughter relationship, childhood, community, magic realism, child protagonist, coming of age, flood, single father ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa, southern usa
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Dream House Nightmare (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young couple buy their dream home in New Orleans, only to be tormented by an obsessive mother who believes the house should be hers.
Style: surprise ending
Plot: abusive husband, pregnant woman, nightmare, pregnancy, halloween, stalker, deep south, tree, house, trick or treating, halloween costume
Place: new orleans
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My Future Boyfriend (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: P-A-X-497/341, aka “Pax” , a curious young man from the well-ordered but loveless future, travels to present day New Orleans in search of romance novelist Elizabeth Barrett – whose book he has come upon during an archeological dig in the year ...
Style: sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: time travel, fish out of water, lifestyle, fall in love, love and romance, obsessive quest, teaching the ways of the world, escapades, disorder, misfit, time jump, girl ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
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The Savage Bees (1976)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this horror-drama the festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
Style: natural horror, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: disaster, mardi gras, insect, killer animal, monster, animal attack, pandemic, trapped, festival, bee, killer bee, automobile ...
Time: 70s
Place: new orleans, usa
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The Yellow Handkerchief (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Style: road movie, realistic, uplifting, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: self discovery, unlikely couple, starting over, adolescence vs adulthood, on the road, haunted by the past, social misfits, unlikely partners, couple relations, youth, crumbling marriage, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana, southern usa
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 6.0
 4K
Blaze (1989)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl, an unapologetic habitue of strip joints, falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. When Earl and Blaze move in together, ...
Style: sexy, anime, realistic, serious, political comedy
Plot: stripper, politics, political corruption, politician, civil rights, governor, forbidden love, eccentricity, government, suburbs, intrigue, american politics ...
Time: year 1989, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa
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 4.8
 355
I'm Bout It (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: I'm Bout It is a 1997 film by rapper Master P. The plot details his life in a New Orleans uptown ghetto. Master P wrote, directed and acted in the film.
Style: hood, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: hip hop, urban, ghetto, discrimination, rapper, hip hop culture, profanity, friends, urban ghetto, gang, criminal heroes, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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Tune in Tomorrow... (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro ...
Style: witty, independent film, retro, talky, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, radio, radio station, age difference, aunt, past, older woman younger man sex, couples, parents and children, infidelity, love affair, college ...
Time: 80s, 1950s, year 1951
Place: new orleans, usa
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and ...
Style: talky, serious, realistic, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: rape, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, mental illness, family problems, couples, family relations, haunted by the past, down on your luck, siblings relations, infidelity, human nature ...
Time: 50s
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana
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 6.4
 93K
Renfield (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.
Style: psychotronic, gothic, horror comedy, bleak, captivating ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: vampire, dracula, master servant relationship, support group, servant, chase, love, policewoman, haunting, prisoner, violence, police ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new orleans
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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021)
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Mona Lisa, a young woman with psychokinetic powers, breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she slips easily into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, supernatural thriller
Plot: sadistic psychopath, superpower, female protagonist, female psychopath, mentally unstable, socially awkward, supernatural power, supernatural ability, on the lam, psychopath, antisocial behavior, social problems ...
Place: new orleans
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 3.5
 438
Nocturna (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two New Orleans detectives become embroiled in a centuries-long feud between two secretive factions of vampires while investigating a runaway child's case. Torn between their everyday lives and the dangerous lure of immortality, the detectives ...
Style: psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: vampire, female vampire, police detective, police, feud, runaway, runaway child, violence, vengeance, creature, supernatural power, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans
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Lwa: All Saints' Eve (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Monique, the owner of a New Orleans voodoo shop wakes up from a disturbing dream. When a series of seeming coincidences forces her to lead a group of tourists into the bayous for a tour, she finds that she is actually part of a sinister bargain ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, bleak, disturbing
Plot: voodoo, strong female lead, reluctant hero, good versus evil, monster, swamp, supernatural, danger, folk horror, black cast, female protagonist, chase ...
Place: new orleans, nashville tennessee
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HeartLand Blues (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The story Follows Reid Morrison, a down and out musician who tries to escape his hometown mistakes and start over in New Orleans. Thinking the mistakes he has made will never be forgiven, he attempts to seclude himself from anything worth while. ...
Style: captivating
Plot: confronting the past, blues, musician, musician's life, music, love affair, lifestyle change, relationships, changing lives, new life, troubled past, secret past ...
Place: new orleans
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 7.7
 55K
Down by Law (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style: independent film, road movie, black and white, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, friendship, prison escape, on the road, pimp, swamp, misfit, fight, character study, gangster, crime gone awry, escape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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 7.2
 12K
Hard Times (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.
Style: realistic, harsh, tense, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: boxing, streetfighting, street fighter, illegal fistfight, great depression, martial arts, hand to hand combat, contests and competitions, ambition, life is a bitch, tough heroes, drifter ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: new orleans, usa, los angeles, louisiana
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Dead Man Walking (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who in his last days forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality as she accompanies him to his execution.
Style: touching, thought provoking, sad, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, death row, death penalty, nun, rape, court, death sentence, murder, confession, lethal injection, execution, justice ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: louisiana, new orleans, united kingdom, southern usa
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 7.2
 270
The Big Easy (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Big Easy television series was inspired by the film of the same name from 1987. The show premiered on the USA Cable Network August 11, 1996. Tony Crane played New Orleans police lieutenant/detective Remy McSwain, Susan Walters played state ...
Style: detective, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cynical
Plot: criminal, deep south, lawyer, district attorney, police detective, crime investigation, unlikely partners, law enforcement, legal, partner, special agent, fighting crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: new orleans, usa
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 6.6
 1K
K-Ville (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: K-Ville is an American television drama created and executive produced by Jonathan Lisco, centering on policing New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Deran Sarafian directed the pilot. On May 15, 2008, the series was officially canceled.
Style: serious, rough, sincere, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: partner, unlikely partners, police investigation, law enforcement, demolished city, chief of police, partners against crime, against the rules, political corruption, police detective, fighting crime, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, louisiana
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 4.3
 487
Fractured (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The film follows "Dylan White" who works as a cook in Baton Rouge. He is also in a solid relationship with his girlfriend "Brandy". Things are great until strange events prompt him to seek out the truth about himself -- following ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: dull life, danger, memory loss, sexual relations, riddles and clues, gory, memory lapse, sadistic horror, sex trafficking, amnesia, human trafficking, dark past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans
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House of Bones (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, horrifying, terrifying ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, imaginary, danger, escapades, curses spells and rituals, survival, trapped, haunted, media, terror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, louisiana
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 5.7
 8K
No Mercy (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, murder, danger, fighting crime, revenge, pursuit, crime boss, death of partner, investigation, vigilante, swamp, fall in love ...
Time: 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa, chicago
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 6.4
 363K
The Expendables (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert, heavy weapons specialist, demolitionist, and a loose-cannon sniper. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church ...
Style: exciting, bloody, brutal, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: gunfight, martial arts, tough guy, mercenary, sniper, chase, machismo, assassin, showdown, military, fistfight, shootout ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: latin america, new orleans, somalia, fictional island
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 7.0
 323K
RED (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Style: exciting, entertaining, action comedy, witty, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot: spy, cia, hitman, secret service, chase, assassin, mission, gunfight, on the run, ex cia agent, female spy, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, iran, kansas city, new york ...
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Hurricane Season (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins(Forest Whitaker), gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually ...
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, hurricane katrina, rivalry, high school, sport team, basketball coach, contests and competitions, starting over, athlete and trainer, human spirit, cheerleader, society ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
Style: exciting, intense, suspenseful, stylized, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, manly, chick flick, kids, boys' night ...
Plot: superhero, mutant, supernatural ability, immortality, x men, superhuman powers, revenge, good versus evil, telepathy, army, comic book, vengeance ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, future, 20th century
Place: new orleans, canada, usa, vietnam, ohio ...
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Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not ...
Style: clever, exciting, captivating, entertaining, suspense ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: con artists, adaptation, master criminal, prodigy, creativity, fbi, con men, deception, entrepreneur, biopic, chase, race against time ...
Time: 60s, year 2002, 70s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new york, new orleans, los angeles, georgia, america ...
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Queen of the Damned (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal ...
Style: gothic, sexy, atmospheric, suspenseful, light ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: vampire, goth, rock star, vampire human love, fatal attraction, supernatural, immortality, vampirism, brutality, vengeance, female vampire, blood ...
Time: 2000s, y2k, year 2002, 1780s, 18th century
Place: new orleans, america, california, europe, usa ...
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 6.7
 73K
The Client (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is ...
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, tense, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, mafia, boy, witnessing a crime, lawyers and clients, conspiracy, investigation, witness protection, courtroom, court, courtroom drama, legal ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, tennessee, memphis, usa
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 5.6
 33K
Hatchet (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
Style: slasher, scary, horror comedy, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: swamp, gory, serial killer, supernatural, survival horror, urban legend, survival, backwoods, murder, tour guide, blood, danger ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa, southern usa
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