77 Films & TV Shows Set In Louisiana During The 20th Century
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The Mauritanian
New Mexico New York Louisiana ๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ฒ๐ท Mauritania The 2000s The 2010s The 1980sA detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
California Louisiana England ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐จ๐ณ China Africa - General The 1960s The 1920s The 2020s The 2030s The 2060s The 18th CenturyThe future awaits โ Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legendsโto seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
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Captain Marvel
California Louisiana The 1980s The 1990s The 2010sHigher. Further. Faster. โ The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universeโs most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Lady and the Tramp
Louisiana The 1900sBe loyal. Be brave. Be loved. โ The love story between a pampered Cocker Spaniel named Lady and a streetwise mongrel named Tramp. Lady finds herself out on the street after her owners have a baby and is saved from a pack by Tramp, who tries to show her to live her life footloose and collar-free.
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Galveston
Texas Louisiana The 1980sHell is real โ After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galveston, an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable.
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Green Book
New York Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Iowa Kentucky North Carolina Tennessee Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Georgia The 1960sInspired by a True Friendship โ Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
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American Made
Arkansas Louisiana ๐จ๐ด Colombia The 1970s The 1980sBased on a True Lie โ The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
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LBJ
District of Columbia Texas Louisiana The 1960sThe story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
๐จ๐ฆ Canada Louisiana North Dakota The 1930s The 1950s The 1970s The 1960s The 1980sDocumentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story built around the incredible lives and careers of the some of the greatest music legends.
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Hands of Stone
New York Nevada Louisiana Quebec ๐ต๐ฆ Panama The 1980s The 1960s The 1970s The 2000sNo mรกs. No surrender. โ The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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The Final Girls
Louisiana The 1980s The 2010sA young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
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A Sort of Homecoming
Louisiana The 1980s The 2010sIn this round, you make your own destiny. โ A Sort of Homecoming tells the story of Amy, a New York news producer who thought she left her high school experiences long in the past. She unexpectedly returns to Louisiana at the request of her high school debate coach. Their strained reunion brings back memories of her tumultuous senior year of high school.
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Bad Country
Louisiana The 1980sWhen Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.
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Oldboy
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea Louisiana The 2000s The 2010s The 1990sAsk not why you were imprisoned. Ask why you were set free. โ An everyday man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.
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Mighty Fine
Louisiana The 1970sSet in the 1970's, MIGHTY FINE is the story of Joe Fine (Chazz Palminteri) a charismatic, high-spirited man, who relocates his family--wife Stella (Andie MacDowell), a Holocaust survivor, daughters Nathalie (Jodelle Ferland) and Maddie (Rainey Qualley)--from Brooklyn to New Orleans, in search of a better life. Unfortunately, Joe's spending spree is wildly out of touch with reality, as his apparel business is teetering on the brink of collapse, a fact he refuses to accept. Written and directed by Debbie Goodstein, MIGHTY FINE is told from the perspective of an adult Nathalie remembering the events of her youth, and is inspired by Goodstein's memories of her own father. MIGHTY FINE ultimately shows how coming to terms with the past without judgment is the most fruitful way to move toward the future.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Pennsylvania Nevada Louisiana ๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria Africa - General ๐จ๐ฆ Canada The 1970s The 1940s The 1910s The 1860s The 1840sWitness the Origin. โ 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.
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The Princess and the Frog
Louisiana The 1920s The 1910sEvery love story begins with a kiss... โ 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.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
New York Louisiana Florida ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 2000sLife isn't measured in minutes, but in moments. โ I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
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All the King's Men
Louisiana The 1950sSome people will do anything to gain power. Some will do anything to keep it. โ The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren.
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The Call of Cthulhu
Rhode Island Louisiana ๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐ฌ๐ฑ Greenland New South Wales ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1920s The 1900s The 1870sA dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.
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Deacons for Defense
Louisiana The 1960sInspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of Bogalusa are still treated like third-class citizens, their fundamental rights as human beings persistently trampled by the white power structure, in general, and the local branch of the KKK. The story follows the formation of local black men, particularly ex-war veterans who after the struggles become too overbearing organizes the group, "Deacons for defense", an all-black defense group dedicated to patrolling the black section of town and protecting its residents from the more violent aspects of "white backlash."
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Catch Me If You Can
๐ซ๐ท France Georgia Louisiana New York California Florida The 1960sThe true story of a real fake. โ 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 only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Louisiana The 1990s The 1930sThe Secret Is Out. โ A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
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Sonny
Louisiana The 1980sHis life was the morning after, until he decided to change the night before. โ New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but he wants to leave that behind. However, the job his Army buddy promised doesn't materialize, and he can't escape his past.
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Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story
Louisiana The 1990sHer most intimate moments, secretly videotaped... And it was perfectly legal. โ A Louisiana woman discovers that a trusted neighbor has installed video surveillance equipment in her home to spy on her family. As a result, the real-life Wilson lobbied for a 1999 state law passed in nine other states since making video voyeurism a felony.
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