LibGuides: Filmmaking in Louisiana: Louisiana Film History

Louisiana Film History

Film Titles
This section is a listing of films made in or about Louisiana arranged by year of release.
Films by Parish
You can click on each parish to see what we has been done up until 2010. We have started cross referencing our poster database so you can see posters issued for that title. Please be patient while we continue to add more information.

Reference Books

Louisiana Film History by Susan Poole; Ed Poole
Call Number: La 791.4309 Poo 2012
ISBN: 9780985568610
Publication Date: 2012-10-07
Hollywood on the Bayou by Ed Poole; Susan Poole
Call Number: La 791.43 Poo 2011
ISBN: 9780981569529
Publication Date: 2011-05-05

Experts

Ed and Susan Poole are film accessory collectors and researchers who have been in the industry for over 30 years. Thier online site LearnAboutMoviePosters.com features much information including the 1st cross-referernce movie poster research database, MoviePosterDataBase.com.

Their passion is recording Louisiana's film history and making it available so that the hisotry and documentation will not be lost, and as poart of that effort they also maintain the Hollywoood on the Bayou website.

Louisiana Film Historians Ed & Susan Poole

DVDs at the State Library

These feature films are available on DVD from the State Library. Check with your local parish library about availability. Your local public library may have these films as well as others.

All the King's Men
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 All 1949
ISBN: 0767827880
1st floor -- AV Collection
The apostle
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Apo 1997
ISBN: 0783279728
Sonny is a gifted Southern preacher loved by his community. When Sonny loses control and commits a crime of passion, he is forced to run from the law. Hiding out in the small town of Bayou Boutte, Sonny adopts a new identity and sets out on a new mission--to find the road to redemption. Filmed on location in Louisiana.
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Aut 1973
ISBN: 0738924670
Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
Belizaire the Cajun
Call Number: La DVD 791.4372 Bel 2011
This riveting adventure film takes you on a journey deep into Cajun culture, and the mysterious, often treacherous world of the Louisiana bayou in the 1800s.
The big easy
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Big 1986
ISBN: 1573625418
A criminal's murder triggers a bloody gangland drug war. A saucy blend of New Orleans nightlife, romance and suspense.

Filmed in New Orleans, La.
Blaze
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Bla 1989
ISBN: 0788851470
Based on the real life story of stripper Blaze Starr and her romance with Louisiana governor Earl K. Long.

Based on the book Blaze Starr : my life as told to Huey Perry
Filmed in Louisiana.
Cat people
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Cat 1982
ISBN: 0783270534
A young woman is victim of a heritage that transforms her into a deadly panther when she makes love.

Filmed in New Orleans, La.
Dead man walking
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Dea 1995
ISBN: 0792842685
Tells the story of convicted killer Matthew Poncelet and Sister Helen Prejean, his spiritual advisor, and the journey they undertake in search of the truth.

Filmed at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
Dirty rice
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Dir 1997
Filmmaker Pat Mire takes us on a trip to a rural Cajun community to follow the fortunes of a young architect who leaves New Orleans to return to his parents' rice farm following the death of his father.
Down by law
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Dow 1986
ISBN: 0780026063
A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for a crime they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
Everybody's all-American
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Eve 1988
ISBN: 0790785315
Story of a football hero and his wife. The Greys have it all, then lose it and rediscover the one thing they really need: each other.

Filmed in the Baton Rouge, LA area.
Hush-hush sweet Charlotte
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Hus 1964
A southern belle finds out the truth about her husband's murder when her cousin reopens the case.

Filmed in and around Houmas House near Darrow, La.
In the Electric Mist
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 In t 2008
While on an investigation into a series of grisly murders, veteran detective Dave Robicheaux navigates his way through the Louisiana bayou and the dark, sultry world of New Orleans mobster 'Baby Feet' Balboni. Layers of corruption and long-dead secrets reawaken grudges and a lethal alliance.
Kate Chopin: the joy that kills
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Kat 1985
A drama about a young woman whose heart ailment keeps her prisoner in her home, at the insistence of her over-protective husband.
King Creole
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Kin 1958
ISBN: 0792164849
A New Orleans teenager struggles to graduate from high school while working at a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family.
A lesson before dying
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Les 1999
ISBN: 0783117159
A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.
Little Chenier
Call Number: La DVD 791.4372 Lit 2008
The story of a young man, and his mentally challenged brother, living a simple life on a houseboat in the Louisiana bayou. Their quiet life is shattered when one of them is accused of a crime.
Louisiana story
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Lou 1948
ISBN: 0780024796
Through the eyes of a young Cajun boy living on the Bayou. Tells the story of disruption and change when an oil rig brings industry into his pristine world.
The moon dog
Call Number: J DVD 813.54 Moo 1991
No one ever ventures into the swamp on a fullmoon night. There is talk of werewolves in the bayou -- the local doctor is one. A young boy, David meets him face-to-face and is himself transformed into a wereworlf. but thanks to the friendship of Paul, the evil spell is broken.
Mound of the shells
Call Number: J DVD 813.54 Mou 2007
Knowing she is expected to tell the class an interesting story about her vacation in the swamps of Louisiana, a little girl hears a story about a local man who found a pile of treasure on a mound of shells. After the adventures our heroine undergoes, she is not quite sure that the story is just a legend -- and she has quite a report to give when she returns to school.
Naughty New Orleans
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Nau 1954
In a city of colorful personalities, this is the tale of Julianne, a headline dancer at a Bourbon Street club who's boyfriend does not know where she works. Shot on location, it is a classic burlesque show and chick flick in one.
Passion fish
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Pas 1992
ISBN: 0767821432
A handicapped ex-soap opera star and her nurse explore the murkier aspects of men, romance, and family in the Louisiana bayou.
The pistol
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Pis 1991
The true story of 'Pistol' Pete Maravich, a scrawny five-foot-two eighth grader. He believed that if he commited himself totally to his dream, that he would one day play professional basketball and win a championship ring.
Pretty baby
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Pre 1978
A photographer obsessed with the prostitutes in New Orleans' red-light district in 1917 is bewitched by a twelve-year-old child prostitute.

Filmed in New Orleans.
The reaping
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Rea 2007
Investigative scholar Katherine Winter is a debunker of modern 'miracles, ' bringing scientific light to superstition and fraud. But events in Haven, Louisiana, defy even her expertise. There, the 10 Biblical Plagues, including locusts, frogs and a river of blood, seem to be recurring. And the more she seeks answers, the more she questions her own beliefs.
Runaway jury
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Run 2003
After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun. Her lawyer argues that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the weapon was not following federal regulations. As the case goes to trial, the firearm manufacturer takes no chances on the outcome, and they hire Rankin Fitch, a "jury consultant" who makes it his business to see that he knows enough about the jurors to be able to guarantee the result of the trial.

Filmed in Louisiana.
Schultze gets the blues
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Sch 2003
Schultze is a recently retired miner who, like his father before him, entertains polka audiences with his accordion. When he discovers the fiery energy of Zydeco music on his radio, the rigid monotony of his daily routine takes a spicy turn. Schultze learns to play his accordion with a new snap and style. His new-found fascination ultimately leads him on a life-changing journey to the Louisiana delta.
Sounder
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Sou 1972
Story of a black sharecropper family in Louisiana during the Depression. A father steals food for his family; his wife provides love, security and strength while he is in prison; and their oldest son bravely becomes the man of the house until his father returns.
Notes:
Videodisc release of the 1972 motion picture.
Based on the novel by William H. Armstrong.
Home use only.
Filmed on location in Louisiana.
Steel Magnolias
Call Number: http://DVD 791.4372 Ste 1989
ISBN: 0767848896
A young diabetic's decision to have a baby may cost her life. This choice leaves her own mother torn between love and anger, while her loyal friends support her and try to deal with their own feelings.

Filmed on Location in Natchitoches, LA.
A streetcar named Desire
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 Str 1951
The story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is raped and driven mad by her brother-in-law.