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1) Swamp thing
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brilliant scientist and a sexy agent have developed a secret formula that could end world hunger and change civilization forever. However, their arch nemesis is plotting to steal the serum. Looting the lab and kidnapping the agent, the madman douses the scientist with the secret chemicals and leaves him for dead in the swamp. The scientist is transformed into a half human/half plant superhero that will stop at nothing to rescue the beautiful woman...
2) Antebellum
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Abby Arcane is investigating a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana. When a mysterious creature emerges from the murky marsh, she finds herself facing the nightmares of a supernatural world where no one is safe. With nature wildly out of balance and coming for the people of Marais, in the end, it may take some Thing from the swamp to save it.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995.
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Language
English
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Description
Presents the script of a 1988 play about a group of women in Chinquapin, Louisiana, who learn to draw upon their underlying strength and love to meet the challenges of life.
The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses...
6) Down by law
Series
Criterion collection volume 166
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Playwright Siddalee Walker is on the verge of opening a new play. She gives a magazine interview in which she discusses her unhappy childhood. Her mother is furious and cuts her off. Her mother's friends, who as children formed a secret society, the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, kidnap Siddalee from her New York apartment and take her home to Louisiana. The Sisterhood hopes to explain her mother's history and to patch up the rift between mother and daughter.
8) Bayou caviar
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A thrilling story of sex, murder and revenge set in Louisiana.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
10) Down by law
Series
Criterion collection volume 166
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The story of three different men in a Louisiana prison and their eventual journey.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, season five goes deep into the battle between the Vampire Authority and 'vampire fundamentalists': a political power play whose outcome could decide not only the fate of Sookie and her Bon Temps friends, but of all human existence.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana boasts a wide array of colorful locals. Sookie Stackhouse is a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds. Bill Compton is a 173 year-old vampire who's just moved back to town. Sookie's brother Jason is a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble. Tough-as-nails Tara is Sookie's loyal best friend and Sam is the owner of Merlotte's who tries to keep his feelings for Sookie...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Davenport, a proud black army attorney, is sent to Fort Neal, Louisiana, to investigate the ruthless shooting death of Sergeant Waters. Through interviews with Sarge's men, Davenport learns that he was a vicious man who served the white world and despised his own roots. Was the killer a bigoted white officer? Or could he have been a black soldier embittered by Waters' constant race baiting?
14) Red clover
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Sixty-six years ago, the town of Irish Channel in Louisiana was the site of a horrible massacre on St. Patrick's Day. While some blame a terrible storm that blew through the town, there are those that don't talk about what really happened. Since the massacre, St. Patrick's Day festivities in town were banned, but now the Mayor believes that it is finally time to celebrate. The townspeople must battle a vengeful leprechaun that nearly destroyed their...
15) Eve's bayou
Series
Criterion collection volume 1154
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old" "So begins Kasi Lemmons's spellbinding feature debut, an evocative journey into the maze of memory steeped in a fragrant southern-gothic atmosphere. In 1960s Louisiana, a young girl sees her well-to-do family unravel in the wake of the infidelities of her charming father setting in motion a series of deceptions and betrayals that will upend her world and challenge her understanding of reality. Rooted...
16) Blaze
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Paul Newman stars as a fiery, eccentric governor who falls head over heels in love with dazzling Blaze Starr, an innocent New Orleans stripper with a heart of gold. Forced to choose between the office he holds and the woman he loves, he chooses both, igniting an outrageous scandal full of trouble, tenderness and sexy high-spirited fun.
17) Passion fish
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
After an auto accident leaves her paralyzed, ex-soap opera star May-Alice Culhane returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana where she proceeds to drive away a succession of nurses-- until Chantelle. May-Alice and Chantelle form an unlikely friendship, and explore the bayou, as well as the murkier aspects of men, romance, and family.
18) Eve's bayou
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Eve's family seems perfect until she catches her doctor father more than just examining one of his patients and Eve's tormented by the family secrets that come out.
19) Manon Lescaut
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2000
Language
Italiano
Description
The Chevalier des Grieux meets and seduces the young Manon when she is being escorted by her brother to a convent. Manon lives with des Grieux in Paris, but leaves him for a rich admirer. She is later arrested, charged with prostitution, and deported to Louisiana. Des Grieux accompanies her and during an escape attempt she dies in his arms.
20) No mercy
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
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.
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