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Belizaire the Cajun
Louisiana The 1850sIn 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire (Armand Assante) is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who don't see eye to eye with local racists who wish to eradicate all Cajuns. Complicating matters is the fact that Belizaire's former flame (Gail Youngs) is now married to his biggest rival (Will Patton), an affluent landowner's son. Before he knows it, Belizaire is caught up in a web of murder, lies and prejudice.
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Double Trouble
LouisianaA stuntman and a saxophonist stand in for two billionaires threatened by killers.
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Tightrope
LouisianaA cop on the edge. — Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
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A Soldier's Story
Louisiana The 1940sAlone, far from home, and far from justice, he has three days to learn the truth about a murder... and the truth is a story you won't forget. — In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
LouisianaBlanche 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 spent all the money, and wants to find out all he can about her. Even more friction develops between the two while they are in the apartment together...
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Louisiana
Louisiana The 19th CenturyVirginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.
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Cat People
LouisianaThey are something more than lovers who are about to become something less than human. — After years of separation, Irina and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irina is drawn to the cat -- and the zoo curator is drawn to her. Soon, Irina's brother will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they turn into predatory jungle cats.
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Louisiana The 1980sThe night no one comes home. — Dr. Daniel Challis and Ellie Grimbridge stumble onto a gruesome murder scheme when Ellie's novelty-salesman father, Harry, is killed while in possession of a halloween mask made by the Silver Shamrock mask company. The company's owner, Conal Cochran, wants to return Halloween to its darker roots using his masks -- and his unspeakable scheme would unleash death and destruction across the country.
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Swamp Thing
LouisianaScience changed him into a monster. Love changed him even more! — Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed. Arcane, desperate for the formula, attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. An explosive chase ensues that ultimately ends with a confrontation between Holland and a changed Arcane...
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The Toy
Louisiana The 1980sWhen U. S. Bates told his son he could have any present he wanted, he picked the most outrageous gift of all... Jack Brown. — On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.
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Cane River
LouisianaSet in Louisiana, the film is a romantic drama that examines the social and financial inequality faced by Black people in the region.
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Southern Comfort
Louisiana The 1970sIt's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong there. — A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
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The Beyond
Louisiana The 1920s The 1980sBeyond death... Beyond Evil... Beyond the dreaded gates of hell. — A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
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Macabre
LouisianaPrepare yourself for the Shock of a Lifetime! Once she kept a lover on the side. But that's nothing compared to what she's keeping in the freezer. — A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
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The Baltimore Bullet
LouisianaHide your women. Lock up your cash. Billie Joe & the Baltimore Bullet are on their way! — A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.
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The Evictors
Louisiana The 1940sIt was a small Louisiana town where people live and love and die and no one ever thought of locking their doors… except in the Monroe house. — In the 1940s, a young couple moves into a remote house near a small town in Louisiana. The house has a history of violence that seems to be repeating itself…
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Pretty Baby
Louisiana The 1910sIn 1917, in the red-light district of New Orleans, they called her "Pretty Baby" — Hattie, a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet. When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with Bellocq is compromised for Violet after her mother returns to town.
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Mardi Gras Massacre
LouisianaEveryone is celebrating nobody hears the screams of the victims for the sacrifice. — Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
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Casey's Shadow
LouisianaThis crazy mixed-up family doesn't stand a chance of winning a million bucks. Wanna bet? — Casey's family raises and trains race horses, and their latest undersized foal named Casey's Shadow does not seem to have a lot going for it, but may turn out to be a champion.
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Five Days from Home
LouisianaA gentle man. A desperate man. — A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son.
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Superdome
LouisianaIt's The Biggest Event Of The Year - The Superbowl! Thousands of Men and Women Seeking Excitement, Glamour and Romance ... But A Desperate Killer Threatens To Turn It Into A Nightmare. — It's Superbowl. And there's a lot of drama, one of the players, Dave Wolecki, has been so preoccupied with the game and if his bum knee will hold out until the game, has been completely ignoring his wife. And McCauley, the team's star quarterback, is being courted by a management firm, and the man the firm has assigned to get him into the firm has been told that if he doesn't get him, he will be out. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's a killer running around. It seems that the syndicate doesn't want the highly favored Cougars to win. They tried to get the team's trainer to drug or incapacitate some players, and when he refuses he is killed. So, the team's manager has to try and find out who the killer is, before he does some real damage.
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The Rescuers
LouisianaTwo tiny agents vs. the world's wickedest woman in a dazzling animated adventure! — What can two little mice possibly do to save an orphan girl who's fallen into evil hands? With a little cooperation and faith in oneself, anything is possible! As members of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society, Bernard and Miss Bianca respond to orphan Penny's call for help. The two mice search for clues with the help of an old cat named Rufus.
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Scalpel
LouisianaHer face was his fortune. — A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.
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Return to Boggy Creek
LouisianaThree children and two adults become trapped in the woods during a hurricane and it is up to a Bigfoot-like creature called 'Big Bay-Ty' to come to their rescue.
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Obsession
Louisiana The 1970s The 1950sA bizarre story of love. — New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland’s life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in in love with Sandra Portinari, who bears a striking resemblance to his wife.
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The Savage Bees
LouisianaIn 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.
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Eaten Alive
LouisianaMeet the maniac & his friend — A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.
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Leadbelly
Louisiana The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sYou can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly! — The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
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Drum
Louisiana The 19th CenturyMANDINGO lit the fuse... DRUM is the explosion! — A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
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Sounder, Part 2
Louisiana The 1930sPoor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.
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Hard Times
Louisiana The 1930sNew Orleans, 1933. In those days words didn't say much. — 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.
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The Drowning Pool
LouisianaHarper days are here again... — Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.
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Mandingo
Louisiana The 1840sExpect The Savage. The Sensual. The Shocking. The Sad. The Powerful. The Shameful. Expect The Truth. — Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. Meanwhile, Warren buys a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and to earn money as a prize-fighter.
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'Gator Bait
LouisianaUNTAMED AND DEADLY, she ruled the swamp with a BLAZING GUN and a LUSCIOUS SMILE — Desiree lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. Ben and deputy Billy hope to get a little sexual comfort from the "Cajun swamp rat" when they catch Desiree trapping 'gators, and give chase. Desiree outsmarts them but Billy accidentally shoots Ben and tells his sheriff dad that Desiree did it. Ben's dad and sons join them in the search party and quickly get out of control. Soon the hunters become the hunted as Desiree exacts her revenge for their violence against her family.
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Live and Let Die
LouisianaRoger Moore as James Bond. — James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
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Fear Is the Key
LouisianaIn the right hands, fear is the deadliest weapon of all. — A desperate man with nothing to lose initates a dangerous chain of events. Features Ben Kingsley in his cinematic debut.
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Sounder
Louisiana The 1930sThe Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.
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The Muppet Musicians of Bremen
Louisiana The 1890sFour mistreated farm animals seek refuge as a band of traveling musicians in this musical tale narrated by Kermit the Frog.
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WUSA
LouisianaLove it or leave it. — Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA's reactionary editorial stance on the air, even if he doesn't agree with it. Rheinhardt finds his cynical detachment challenged by a lady friend, Geraldine, and by Rainey, a neighbour and troubled idealist who becomes aware of WUSA's sinister, hidden purpose. And when events start spinning out of control, even Rheinhardt finds he must take a stand.
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Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
LouisianaWhen she married Jeb Stuart Thompson, she didn't know what was expected of her. Now she knew. — A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother.
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Easy Rider
Louisiana The 1960sA man went looking for America and couldn’t find it anywhere... — A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
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Bonnie and Clyde
Louisiana The 1930sThey’re young… they’re in love… and they kill people. — In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
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Hotel
LouisianaWarner Bros. unlocks all the doors of the sensation-filled best-seller! — This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
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Frankie and Johnny
LouisianaELVIS Turns The Land Of The Blues Red Hot With 11 Great Songs! — Johnny is a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. After a fortune-teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck, the appearance of a new 'lady luck' soon causes a cat fight with Johnny's girlfriend, Frankie.
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Chamber of Horrors
LouisianaA one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.
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The Cincinnati Kid
Louisiana The 1930sHe'd take on anyone, at anything, anytime. — An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Louisiana The 1960s The 1920sThe years will soon erase a lover's lies...the blood on his face! — An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
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Black Like Me
Louisiana The 1950sIt's All True...Every Living Moment! — Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
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Toys in the Attic
LouisianaToys in the Attic Plays With Fire! — Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters Carrie and Anna welcome the couple, who arrive with expensive gifts. The sisters hope Julian will help with their expenses, and he tells them that while his profitable factory went out of business, he did manage to save money. It turns out that Julian pulled off a real estate scam and took off with the money. Carrie is obsessed with her brother. Her jealousy of Lily pushes her to discover the shady land deal for herself and she does everything she can to wreck their marriage.
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