The Main Stream (2002)

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.

Há sempre algo sanguinário no pântano da Louisiana. Mas nunca houve algo assim. Uma série de terríveis, geneticamente modificados, peixes carnívoros vasculhando as águas tranquilas do rio em busca de presas. Ao deixar um rastro de corpos mutilados pelas margens do rio, as criaturas mobilizaram as autoridades locais que estão fazendo de tudo para descobrir o responsável pela carnificina. E logo fica claro que eles não estão lidando com um predador qualquer, mas com assassinos sem piedade. Cientificamente gerados a partir de uma cobra mortal e geneticamente condicionados a respirar dentro e fora da água, estes peixes conseguem rastrear qualquer trilha humana. Eles são rápidos e estão famintos!

Em Louisiana, Laurette tem uma discussão com seu namorado, o DJ Zack também conhecido como Lee Baby Simms, e rompe com ele. O doido Zack bebe álcool pelas ruas e seu amigo Preston lhe oferece US $ 1.500 para dirigir um Jaguar para o outro lado da cidade. No entanto, há um problema - um homem está preso no porta-malas do carro. Zack é preso e enviado para a prisão Orleans Parish. Enquanto isso, o cafetão Jack é detido por seu conhecimento do crime, preso e colocado na mesma cela que Zack. Quando o italiano Roberto, também conhecido como Bob, que não fala Inglês muito bem se junta a eles na mesma cela, o trio desenvolve uma estranha amizade. Bob propõe um meio de escapar da prisão.

The definitive film on the history of the toe-tapping, foot-stomping music of French Southwest Louisiana. Includes many Cajun and Zydeco greats, featuring Michael Doucet and Beausoleil, Clifton Chenier, Marc and Ann Savoy, D.L. Menard, and many others.

Another short documentary of "Real Food, Roots Music, and People Full of Passion for what they do!", Spend It All is Les Blank's spirited look at the French-speaking Cajun community of southwest Louisiana.

Quando duas famílias rivais se deparam com uma nova espécie de crocodilos assassinos, precisam colocar suas diferenças de lado e unir forças se quiserem sobreviver a essa ameaça.

Parentes de um milionário excêntrico reúnem-se em sua mansão assustadora no 20º aniversário da sua morte para a leitura de seu testamento.

Com poucos diálogos e sem atores profissionais, o filme sustenta-se na trilha sonora e nas paisagens exóticas e majestosas dos pântanos da Louisiana, sob o olhar de uma criança canadense de origem francesa.

New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. Journalist's wild drug addicted daughter just adds to tensions between two families' cultures.

A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.

A sweet city girl initiated into the rugged ways of the Louisiana swamp by her good-natured Cajun husband "Big T". She ends up putting her newly acquired survival skills to good use when she is kidnapped by Big T's chief rival Leroy and his swarthy, brutish family as part of an ongoing feud.

When gang leader Rob Brown is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved American Indian community in northern Minnesota. As Rob reckons with his past, his seventeen-year-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future: becoming the most powerful and feared Native gangster on the reservation.

In 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.

Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps run into a Bigfoot-type creature.

A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisians swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old conjure woman Mandy returns with her daughter Chloe to their bayou home after fifteen years. Chloe was too young to remember much about the bayou, but once Mandy had been a famous voodoo priestess in these parts. But after the whites lynched her husband Sam, she took her little girl & moved away into the Everglades. She seems to have gone a little mad in the intervening years & has returned swearing a belated vengeance against the murdering white folks.

One of the most frequently dramatized of all William Faulkner stories, Old Man is based on a section of Faulkner's 1939 novel The Wild Palms. Set during the cataclysmic 1927 Mississippi river flood, the story revolves around the curious relationship between prison convict J.J. Taylor (Arliss Howard) and a young, pregnant woman named Addie (Jeanne Tripplehorn). Pressed into service to rescue victims of the flood, Taylor finds Addie stuck in a tree, her husband nowhere in sight. Managing to get Addie down, Taylor finds himself cut off from the other rescuers, and thus is solely responsible for the future wellbeing of the stranded woman and her unborn child.

Shot on location in rural Southwestern Louisiana, Zydeco combines cinema verite style footage, interviews and musical performance to present a colorful, joyful portrait of the zydeco musicians in their culture. Featuring Dolon Carriere, Armand Ardoin, and Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin. A film by Nicholas R. Spitzer. Color, 57 minutes.

In this RKO Sportscope short, a naturalist and his wife go to Louisiana bayou country to hunt a particular species of goose.

The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duke and his cohort, Dauphin.