Here we've displayed a list of the best New Orleans films : JFK(1991), A Streetcar Named Desire(1951), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008), Ballets Russes(2005), Suddenly, Last Summer(1959), Interview With the Vampire(1994), Mardi Gras: Made in China(2005), Jezebel(1938), A Tuba to Cuba(2018), Trouble the Water(2008), Easy Rider(1969), Angel Heart(1987) ... ...
Drama, History
USA|France
1991
189 Minutes
Kevin Costner Sissy Spacek Joe Pesci Tommy Lee Jones Gary Oldman Jay O. Sanders Michael Rooker Laurie Metcalf Gary Grubbs John Candy Jack Lemmon
district attorney assassin businessman informant wife passionate spirited new orleans washington, d.c. dallas courtroom conspiracy assassination deception political intrigue historical events trial mystery discovery 1960s
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
Drama
USA
1951
122 Minutes
Marlon Brando Vivien Leigh Kim Hunter Karl Malden Rudy Bond Nick Dennis Peg Hillias Wright King Richard Garrick Mickey Kuhn Charles Wagenheim
sister husband wife emotional tense sultry new orleans city apartment abuse disillusionment family marriage mental illness fall rivalry 1950s
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Drama, Romance, Fantasy
USA
2008
167 Minutes
Brad Pitt Cate Blanchett Taraji P. Henson Julia Ormond Jason Flemyng Mahershala Ali Jared Harris Elias Koteas Phyllis Somerville Tilda Swinton Lance E. Nichols
dancer baby elderly person daughter friend emotional striking moving new orleans hospital paris loss love death aging love growing up 20th century
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.
Documentary
USA
2005
121 Minutes
Daniel Geller
ballerina ballet instructor irina baranova alicia markova impresario endearing striking creative st. petersburg, russia monte carlo, monaco melbourne, australia paris new orleans stage ballet ballets russes soviet union performance rise transformation
Ballets Russes is an intimate portrait of a group of pioneering artists -- now in their 70s, 80s and 90s -- who gave birth to modern ballet.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
UK|USA
1959
114 Minutes
Elizabeth Taylor Montgomery Clift Katharine Hepburn Albert Van Dekker Mercedes McCambridge Gene Raymond Mavis Villiers Patricia Marmont Joan Young Maria Britneva Sheila Robbins
debutante aunt surgeon patient brooding dark melodramatic mental institution new orleans house mental illness betrayal family history death trauma family dysfunction discovery mystery forbidden love 1930s
A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
Horror, Romance, Drama
USA
1994
122 Minutes
Tom Cruise Brad Pitt Antonio Banderas Stephen Rea Christian Slater Kirsten Dunst Domiziana Giordano Thandie Newton Indra Ové Laure Marsac
lord vampire woman young girl actor journalist brooding intricate sultry louisiana paris san francisco new orleans abandoned building cemetery death supernatural aging regret love
A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
Documentary
USA
2005
78 Minutes
factory worker factory director teenager mardi gras reveler passionate engaging fascinating china fuzhou factory dormitory new orleans new york city globalization child labor china manufacturing mardi gras discovery pursuit
This examination of cultural and economic globalization follows the life-cycle of Mardi Gras beads from a small factory in Fuzhou, China, to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and to art galleries in New York City.
Drama
USA
1938
104 Minutes
Bette Davis Henry Fonda George Brent Margaret Lindsay Donald Crisp Fay Bainter Spring Byington Richard Cromwell Henry O'Neill
southern belle banker aunt doctor suitor emotional melodramatic louisiana new orleans family home romance wealth social standing bad behavior love triangle love wretched excess 19th century
In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
Documentary, Music
Cuba|USA
2018
84 Minutes
T.G. Herrington Preservation Hall Jazz Band
jazz musician friend band member confident cool endearing engaging inspiring cuba new orleans music heritage jazz connections adventure discovery 2010s
A TUBA TO CUBA follows New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they retrace their musical roots from the storied city of jazz to the shores of Cuba and in turn discover a connection that runs much deeper than could have been imagined.
Documentary
USA
2008
93 Minutes
wife husband neighbor refugee powerful gutsy intense new orleans hideout family home hurricane katrina class distinctions racism flooding natural disasters quest transformation sacrifice 2000s
A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning.
Drama
USA
1969
94 Minutes
Peter Fonda Dennis Hopper Jack Nicholson Antonio Mendoza Phil Spector Mac Mashourian Warren Finnerty Tita Colorado Luke Askew Luana Anders Sabrina Scharf
biker hippie redneck prostitute lawyer cool hedonistic wild highway california new orleans commune road trip america freedom drugs quest discovery adventure 1970s
Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|Canada|USA
1987
113 Minutes
Mickey Rourke Robert De Niro Lisa Bonet Charlotte Rampling Stocker Fontelieu Brownie McGhee Michael Higgins Charles Gordone Kathleen Wilhoite
private investigator singer daughter satan magician dark gripping suspenseful new york city new orleans hotel racetrack mystery murder secret detective voodoo investigation mystery pursuit
A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1950
93 Minutes
Richard Widmark Paul Douglas Barbara Bel Geddes Jack Palance Zero Mostel Dan Riss Tommy Cook Edward Kennedy
dockworker doctor criminal police officer wife mayor brooding frenetic suspenseful melodramatic new orleans louisiana crime plagues media health mystery transformation pursuit quest
A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.
Documentary
USA
2007
95 Minutes
Nadia Conners
mikhail gorbachev stephen hawking cia director designer leonardo dicaprio scientist engaging fascinating disheartening incredible earth factory new orleans wilderness ocean film set science environment history politics
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems.
Drama
USA
1965
113 Minutes
Steve McQueen Edward G. Robinson Ann-Margret Karl Malden Tuesday Weld Joan Blondell Rip Torn Jack Weston Cab Calloway Jeff Corey Theo Marcuse
gambler friend girlfriend competitor wife suspenseful tense gritty cool new orleans poker ambition fixed game showdown adultery underdog quest 1930s
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Documentary
USA
2005
110 Minutes
singer musician performer cool engaging creative spirited new orleans stage performance musical influences musicians jazz blues gospel rise transformation 2000s
MAKE IT FUNKY! tells the story of New Orleans through words, sound and picture in this extraordinary documentary featuring the best of New Orleans' musicians, plus special guests Ahmet Ertegun, Bonnie Raitt, and Keith Richards.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
72 Minutes
Bob Hope Paulette Goddard Gale Sondergaard John Beal Douglass Montgomery Nydia Westman George Zucco
relative friend attorney housekeeper maniac playful creepy new orleans mansion study bedroom secret passageway haunted houses inheritance impersonation lawyers insanity murder mystery quest
When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Musical, Fantasy
USA
2009
95 Minutes
waitress prince witch doctor old woman mother creative dreamy new orleans restaurant swamp romance voodoo poverty class distinctions race relations working class discovery metamorphosis 1920s
A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
Drama
USA
1957
87 Minutes
Rock Hudson Robert Stack Dorothy Malone Jack Carson Robert Middleton Alan Reed Alexander Lockwood Chris Olsen Robert Wilke Troy Donahue William Schallert
journalist stunt pilot wife mechanic son showman melodramatic thrilling passionate striking new orleans carnival air show party family home airplane obsession aviation love triangle unhappy marriage
Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.
Drama
USA
1966
110 Minutes
Natalie Wood Robert Redford Charles Bronson Kate Reid Mary Badham Robert Blake Alan Baxter Dabney Coleman Jon Provost
southern belle mother businessman lover wealthy man melodramatic solemn mississippi new orleans small town mother/daughter relationship love triangle betrayal big business reputation railroad forbidden love rivalry temptation revenge
The dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|UK
2006
128 Minutes
Denzel Washington Val Kilmer Jim Caviezel Paula Patton Adam Goldberg Bruce Greenwood Elle Fanning Matt Craven Patt Noday Mark Phinney Enrique Castillo
fbi agent terrorist love interest police officer murder victim surveillance expert suspenseful tense new orleans ferry shack hospital city mississippi river crime love death terrorism deja vu bomb
After a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims.
Musical
USA
1958
116 Minutes
Elvis Presley Carolyn Jones Dolores Hart Dean Jagger Liliane Montevecchi Walter Matthau Paul Stewart Vic Morrow
singer juvenile delinquent pharmacist club owner kept woman dark tense new orleans club school apartment unemployment troubled youth graduation jazz singing father/son relationship underdog temptation love
A troubled youth's singing sets New Orleans rockin'. With a sweet girl to love him and nightclubbers cheering, it seems he will shake off his past and head for the top. But will a mobster and his man-trap moll snare him in a life of crime?
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1987
119 Minutes
Michael Douglas Glenn Close Anne Archer Ellen Hamilton Latzen Stuart Pankin Ellen Foley Fred Gwynne Meg Mundy
lawyer wife editor husband mistress daughter tense disturbing frightful new orleans apartment subconscious mind adultery stalking obsession insanity marriage temptation revenge fall
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Drama
Canada
1991
99 Minutes
Don McKellar Valerie Buhagier Earl Pastko Jello Biafra Peter Breck
barber jazz musician satan roadie drug smuggler offbeat quirky amusing ontario, canada new orleans highway car road trip drug smuggling deception quest discovery pursuit 1990s
A small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans with an unpredictable woman and a coffin.
Fantasy
USA
1943
93 Minutes
Charles Boyer Barbara Stanwyck Edward G. Robinson Robert Benchley Betty Field Bob Cummings Thomas Mitchell
gentleman seamstress law student psychic lawyer circus performer chilling melodramatic club party circus new orleans ocean liner london dreams fate murder beauty deception supernatural
An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.
Musical
USA
1941
89 Minutes
Priscilla Lane Betty Field Richard Whorf Lloyd Nolan Jack Carson Wallace Ford Howard da Silva Elia Kazan
convict jazz musician jazz singer femme fatale pianist dark quirky amusing st. louis new orleans new jersey roadhouse stage jazz ambition touring friendship scam crime rise
"Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1927
141 Minutes
James B. Lowe Eulalie Jensen Margarita Fischer Virginia Grey Mona Ray Aileen Manning Arthur Edmund Carewe George Siegmann Lassie Lou Ahern Jack Mower Vivien Oakland
slave fiancé son lawyer villain melodramatic intricate powerful kentucky plantation new orleans steamboat inn slavery mother/son relationship freedom american south love pursuit revenge
Slavery tears apart a black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2013
110 Minutes
Sylvester Stallone Arnold Schwarzenegger Jim Caviezel Curtis Jackson Sam Neill Vinnie Jones Faran Tahir Vincent D'Onofrio Amy Ryan Graham Beckel Matt Gerald
inmate tough guy prison guard intense unrestrained gripping solitary confinement maximum security prison cargo ship new orleans escape security escape revenge 2010s
When a structural-security authority finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison, he has to use his skills to escape with help from the inside.
Drama
USA
1978
109 Minutes
Brooke Shields Keith Carradine Susan Sarandon Frances Faye Antonio Fargas Gerrit Graham Mae Mercer Diana Scarwid Barbara Steele Matthew Anton Seret Scott
prostitute photographer daughter madam husband melodramatic moving shocking new orleans brothel st. louis red-light district prostitution mother/daughter relationship loss of innocence virginity may-december romance sex forbidden love growing up
A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.
Drama
USA
1945
99 Minutes
Alan Ladd Gail Russell William Demarest Bruce Cabot Stanley Clements Spring Byington Rex Williams Darryl Hickman Marjorie Woodworth
gambler gangster jockey trainer henchman schoolteacher suspenseful gritty fiery new orleans california racetrack horse racing organized crime theft double-cross debt quest revenge love
Salty owes money to Doc Baxter; he and his pal Smitty have one month to pay up. They get a race horse and a disbarred jockey, Johnny Cates, who must fake his identity to race. Johnny and ... See full summary »