Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "french-quarter-new-orleans"

1. Wild at Heart (1990)

R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, J.E. Freeman

Votes: 100,935 | Gross: $14.56M

2. Forever My Girl (2018)

PG | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

After being gone for a decade a country star returns home to the love he left behind.

Director: Bethany Ashton Wolf | Stars: Alex Roe, Jessica Rothe, Abby Ryder Fortson, Travis Tritt

Votes: 21,303 | Gross: $16.38M

3. Double Jeopardy (1999)

R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Benjamin Weir

Votes: 95,853 | Gross: $116.74M

4. Runaway Jury (2003)

PG-13 | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman

Votes: 104,570 | Gross: $49.44M

5. Angel Heart (1987)

X | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

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.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling

Votes: 95,795 | Gross: $17.19M

6. Live and Let Die (1973)

PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organisation and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James

Votes: 115,450 | Gross: $35.38M

7. Stolen (2012)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A former thief frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi.

Director: Simon West | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Malin Akerman, Josh Lucas, Danny Huston

Votes: 46,434 | Gross: $0.30M

8. Hard Target (1993)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her missing father. In the process, they discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance.

Director: John Woo | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Chuck Pfarrer

Votes: 56,254 | Gross: $32.59M

9. Blue Bayou (2021)

R | 117 min | Drama

As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.

Director: Justin Chon | Stars: Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O'Brien, Linh-Dan Pham

Votes: 10,446

10. Johnny Handsome (1989)

R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms.

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Morgan Freeman

Votes: 11,004 | Gross: $7.24M

11. Tightrope (1984)

R | 114 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

New Orleans single dad and cop Wes Block goes after a serial rapist-killer, but when he gets too close the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.

Directors: Richard Tuggle, Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood

Votes: 19,179 | Gross: $48.14M

12. Zandalee (1991)

R | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Thierry's wife Zandalee married the poet he once was. Taking over his dad's company in New Orleans gives him stress and impotence. Thierry meets his high school buddy Johnny at a bachelor party. The painter Johnny can satisfy Zandalee.

Director: Sam Pillsbury | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Erika Anderson, Judge Reinhold, Joe Pantoliano

Votes: 4,181

13. No Mercy (1986)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A Chicago detective, seeking to avenge his partner's death, travels to New Orleans, where he unexpectedly becomes involved in a cat and mouse game of survival.

Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé, George Dzundza

Votes: 8,468 | Gross: $12.30M

14. Avenging Force (1986)

R | 104 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A senator is targeted by the Pentangle, a right wing paramilitary group. His pal, a former CIA agent and martial artist, tries to help him. The group kidnaps the agent's sister and tries to hunt him down, "The Most Dangerous Game" style.

Director: Sam Firstenberg | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, James Booth, William Wallace

Votes: 3,339 | Gross: $4.68M

15. The Drowning Pool (1975)

PG | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Harper's a big-city PI, who travels to Louisiana to help an old girlfriend who's worried her husband will find out she's been cheating on him.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton

Votes: 6,186

16. Let's Do It Again (1975)

PG | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two Atlanta men raise funds for their charity by rigging boxing matches in New Orleans, but their tricks attract the mob's attention.

Director: Sidney Poitier | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos

Votes: 3,300

17. Sonny (2002)

R | 110 min | Crime, Drama

An honorably discharged soldier returns home to New Orleans, hoping to break away from his upbringing as a trained prostitute, but his brothel-madam mother has other expectations.

Director: Nicolas Cage | Stars: James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Mena Suvari, Harry Dean Stanton

Votes: 4,572 | Gross: $0.02M

18. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Drama, Horror

Gabriel Knight, the owner of a New Orleans, Louisiana bookstore, gets tangled up in the investigation of a series of voodoo-related murders currently plaguing the city.

Director: Jane Jensen | Stars: Tim Curry, Mark Hamill, Leah Remini, Virginia Capers

Votes: 746

19. J.D.'s Revenge (1976)

R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

Murdered on Bourbon Street in 1942 New Orleans, a gangster returns from the dead 34 years later possessing the body of a young, black law student in his quest for revenge.

Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Glynn Turman, Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Carl W. Crudup

Votes: 1,448

20. French Quarter (1978)

R | 101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

Chronicles the life of a young New Orleans prostitute and her co-workers.

Director: Dennis Kane | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Davison, Alisha Fontaine, Ann Michelle

Votes: 272

21. The Steel Trap (1952)

Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A Los Angeles bank assistant-manager devises a plan to steal money from the bank's vault and to flee to Brazil with his unsuspecting wife.

Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale, Walter Sande

Votes: 1,201

22. New Orleans Uncensored (1955)

Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A Navy veteran purchases a government surplus vessel and becomes involved in the capture of waterfront racketeers.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Arthur Franz, Beverly Garland, Helene Stanton, Michael Ansara

Votes: 412

23. The Exotic Ones (1968)

89 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

In the Louisiana bayous, a trio of hunters captures a monster called the Swamp Thing and take it to New Orleans, where--naturally--they display it in a strip joint. When the monster's ... See full summary »

Director: Ron Ormond | Stars: Georgette Dante, Edward B. Moates, Donna Raye, Gordon Terry

Votes: 166

24. Above & Beyond (2001)

PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Romance

A cop, who falls in love with his best friend's wife, is being tormented by his responsibility for the friend's immobility. Meanwhile, the paralyzed friend (also a cop) is trying to fight for his own dignity.

Director: Stuart Alexander | Stars: Costas Mandylor, Alexandra Paul, Adam Baldwin, Robert Costanzo

Votes: 206

25. On Hostile Ground (2000 TV Movie)

90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A geologist tries to prevent a huge sinkhole from devouring New Orleans during Mardi Gras.

Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: John Corbett, Jessica Steen, Brittany Daniel, Andrew Kraulis

Votes: 490 | Gross: $0.00M

26. Transpose (2010)

Not Rated | 81 min | Drama, Thriller

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Director: Jeffrey H. Hunter | Stars: Edward Cummings, Don Banks, Chanta Braud, James Brown

27. Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull (2007 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Teen detective Nancy Drew and her best friend Bess Marvin travel to New Orleans and search for a missing crystal skull rumored to make its owner immortal.

Director: Mike Paganini | Stars: Lani Minella, Jennifer Pratt, Scott Carty, Jason Sharp

Votes: 100

28. Robin Hood of the Bayous (2010)

21 min | Documentary, Short, History

For the first time, explore evidence of a secret New Orleans underground to smuggle aid to the poor by 18th century Ursuline nuns and the pirate/patriot brothers Lafitte.

Director: Karin Rownd Kwiatkowski | Stars: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Zach Brutsché, Deidre Madsen, Brian Patterson

Votes: 20

29. Southern Success (1972)

11 min | Documentary, Short, Sport

Follows a Little League baseball team on their trip through the South to a regional championship game. Includes views of the French Quarter, Six Flags over Georgia, Stone Mountain, southern mansions, and a safari land.

Directors: Jim Freeman, Greg MacGillivray

30. Crash Where You Land (1998)

30 min | Documentary, Short

A glimpse into the world of seven homeless teenagers, who strive to live life on their terms in the mean streets of New Orleans' infamous French Quarter.

Director: Dax Phelan

31. Angels Die Slowly (2010)

Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Thriller

A Goth couple who also happen to be serial killers seduce and kill a young executive. Before dying, he alerts a friend, a Bourbon street bouncer, who searches the famous French Quarter of ... See full summary »

Director: Charlie Brown | Stars: Heidi Van Horne, Armando Leduc, Victoria Charters, Michael Dardant

Votes: 19

32. The Big Party (1947)

17 min | Documentary, Short

A behind-the-scenes look at the New Orleans Mardi Gras and a searching exploration of the city, this featurette catches the flavor of the carnival and the spirit of New Orleans' enterprise behind it.

Director: Howard Winner | Star: Dwight Weist

33. Big Freedia: Y'all Get Back Now (2011 Music Video)

3 min | Music

On the outskirts of New Orleans lies a massive NASA manufacturing plant, run by a modest-sized nuclear reactor, built on top of a former Voodoo Indian burial ground. Due to the storm and ... See full summary »

Directors: Josh Ente, Bob Weisz | Stars: Big Freedia, Corinne Loperfido, Max Goldblatt, Levy Easterly

Votes: 8

34. Outlaws (1986–1987)
Episode: Orleans (1987)

Crime, Sci-Fi, Western

When the guys are strapped for cash, Ice recalls some money he stashed away when he was a gambler in New Orleans before he joined the gang in New Orleans. When they get there they discover ... See full summary »

Director: Phil Bondelli | Stars: Rod Taylor, William Lucking, Charles Napier, Patrick Houser

35. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: Jones (2007)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The BAU travels to New Orleans' French Quarter where a Jack the Ripper type serial killer is on the loose.

Director: Steve Shill | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore

Votes: 2,978

36. Monsterland (2020)
Episode: New Orleans, Louisiana (2020)

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A New Orleans socialite wrestles with her past.

Director: Craig William Macneill | Stars: Nicole Beharie, Hamish Linklater, Kaitlyn Dever, Marquis Rodriguez

Votes: 504

37. The Big Easy (1996–1997)
Episode: End of the World (1997)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama

When a bomb explosion at a local health club kills a patron, Remy and the team must find the bomber before he strikes again. But when Janine is taken hostage by the bomber after she ... See full summary »

Director: Gilbert M. Shilton | Stars: Tony Crane, Leslie Bibb, Eric George, Barry Corbin

38. Battleground Earth: Ludacris vs. Tommy Lee (2008– )
Episode: Raise the Roof (2008)

TV-MA | Music, Reality-TV

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Directors: Steve Jones, Adam Reed, Ian Stevenson | Stars: Nina Bergman, Willie Box, Cedric The Entertainer, Johnny Colt

39. Timewatch (1982– )
Episode: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)

99 min | Documentary, History

A detailed look at the early life of Oswald and his movements on the day of the Kennedy assassination.

Stars: James P. Hosty, Gerald Posner, G. Robert Blakey, Evelyn Segal

Votes: 10

40. Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode: Louisiane (2007)

Documentary

A nice journey of Sophie from the neighborhoods hit by Katrina hurricane ( Ginnie Baumann Bilotta and her "Disaster Tour", about 200.000 houses have been damaged by the hurricane) to the ... See full summary »

Director: Vincent Chaffard | Star: Sophie Jovillard

41. Banshee (2013–2016)
Episode: All the Wisdom I Got Left (2015)

TV-MA | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Hood and Brock track down Chayton to Louisiana. Rebecca makes new enemies for her uncle. Colonel Stowe prepares his revenge for the robbery at the base.

Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Antony Starr, Ivana Milicevic, Ulrich Thomsen, Frankie Faison

Votes: 2,419

42. Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad (2019– )
Episode: New Orleans (2019)

22 min | Adventure, Reality-TV

The final chapter in Bradley and Barney's voyage sees them visit New Orleans where they feed alligators, have a spiritual MOT and lead a street parade.

Director: Phil Ashton | Stars: Bradley Walsh, Barney Walsh, Alexander Armstrong, Divine Prince Ty Emmecca

Votes: 15