New Orleans is featured in a number of works of fiction. This article in an ongoing effort to list the books, movies, television shows, and comics that are set or filmed, in whole or part, in New Orleans.

Books and plays

• The Coffee Shop Chronicles of New Orleans - Part 1 by David Lummis (2010)
• The Anti-Vampire Tale by Lewis Aleman (2010)
• The Awakening
  The Awakening (novel)
  The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899 . Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers around Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the...
  
   by Kate Chopin
  Kate Chopin
  Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty , was an American author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century....
  
   (1899)
• Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories by Tom Piazza (first short story "Brownsville" is set in New Orleans)
• Chasing the Devil's Tail and sequels by David Fulmer
  David Fulmer
  David Fulmer is an American writer, journalist and filmmaker.-Biography:Born Thurston David Fulmer, to Thurston and Flora Fulmer in Pennsylvania. He worked as a reporter and photographer at local newspapers during and after high school. He was drafted into the U.S...
  
   (Jazz mysteries featuring Valentin St. Cyr)
• City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
• Clarimonde by Napier Bartlett (features a Creole tale and a description of New Orleans during the American Civil War)
• The Client
  The Client
  The Client is a legal thriller written by American author John Grisham, set mostly in Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana...
  
   (1993) and The Pelican Brief
  The Pelican Brief
  The Pelican Brief is a legal-suspense thriller written by John Grisham in 1992. The hardcover edition was published by Doubleday in that same year. Two paperback editions were published, both by Dell Publishing in 1993...
  
   (1992) by John Grisham
  John Grisham
  John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American lawyer and author, best known for his popular legal thrillers.John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981 and practiced criminal law for about a decade...
  
  
• Cold Streak by Lewis Aleman (2008)
• A Confederacy of Dunces
  A Confederacy of Dunces
  A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published by LSU Press in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. The book was published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy and Toole's mother Thelma Toole, quickly becoming a cult classic, and later a...
  
   by John Kennedy Toole
  John Kennedy Toole
  John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best-known for his posthumously published novel A Confederacy of Dunces. He also wrote The Neon Bible. Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were praiseworthy, Toole's novels were rejected...
  
  
• Crescent City by Belva Plain
  Belva Plain
  Belva Plain , née Offenberg, was a best-selling American author of mainstream fiction. She was born in New York City.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Crystal City
  The Crystal City
  The Crystal City is an alternate history/fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card. It is the sixth book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series and is about Alvin Miller, the Seventh son of a seventh son.-Plot summary:...
  
   by Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
  
   (features an alternate-history version of New Orleans in which it is controlled by the Spanish and called 'Nueva Barcelona' or 'Barcy')
• A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
  Christopher Rice
  Christopher Travis Rice is an American author. Rice has written five best-selling novels: A Density of Souls, The Snow Garden, Light Before Day, Blind Fall, and his latest book, The Moonlit Earth, which was published in April 2010 by Scribner.-Biography:Christopher Rice comes from a family of...
  
  
• Dinner at Antoine's, Crescent Carnival, and others by Frances Parkinson Keyes
  Frances Parkinson Keyes
  Frances Parkinson Keyes was an American author, and a convert to Roman Catholicism, whose works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs. Her last name rhymes with "skies," not "keys."-Life and career:...
  
  
• Faces in Time by Lewis Aleman (2009)
• Fantasy Lover and sequels, comprising The Dark-Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon
  Sherrilyn Kenyon
  Sherrilyn Kenyon is a bestselling US writer. Under her own name she writes Urban Fantasy, but is best known for her Dark-Hunter vampire series. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she wrote historicals also with paranormal elements...
  
  
• Fat White Vampire Blues and sequel by Andrew Fox
  Andrew Fox
  Andrew Fox is an American author from New Orleans. He has written two comic novels, Fat White Vampire Blues and Bride of the Fat White Vampire. Both novels feature Jules Duchon, a morbidly obese vampire who resides in New Orleans and works as a taxi driver...
  
  
• The Feast of All Saints
  The Feast of All Saints
  The Feast of All Saints is a novel by Anne Rice.-Plot summary:This novel is about the gens de couleur libres, or free people of color, who lived in New Orleans before the Civil War. The gens de couleur libres were the descendants of European settlers of Louisiana, particularly the French and...
  
   by Anne Rice
  Anne Rice
  Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...
  
   (1979)
• A Free Man of Color and sequels (The Benjamin January Mysteries
  The Benjamin January Mysteries
  The Benjamin January mysteries are a series of historical mysteries by Barbara Hambly, set in and around New Orleans during the 1830s. The title character is a mixed-race former slave, who was trained as a surgeon but works primarily as a musician....
  
  ) by Barbara Hambly
  Barbara Hambly
  Barbara Hambly is an award-winning and prolific American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction...
  
  
• Gone with the Wind
  Gone with the Wind
  The slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free...
  
   (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
  Margaret Mitchell
  Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author and journalist. Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 for her epic American Civil War era novel, Gone with the Wind, which was the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.-Family:Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta,...
  
   (location of Rhett and Scarlett's honeymoon)
• The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable
  George Washington Cable
  George Washington Cable was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native Louisiana. His fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner.- Biography:...
  
  
• A Hall of Mirrors by Robert Stone
• Hoodoo Money by Sharon Cupp Pennington
• Interview with the Vampire
  Interview with the Vampire
  Interview with the Vampire is a vampire novel by Anne Rice written in 1973 and published in 1976. It was the first novel to feature the enigmatic vampire Lestat, and was followed by several sequels, collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles...
  
   and sequels, collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles
  The Vampire Chronicles
  The Vampire Chronicles is a series of novels by Anne Rice that revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman turned into a vampire in the 18th century....
  
  , by Anne Rice
  Anne Rice
  Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...
  
  
• Junkie
  Junkie (novel)
  Junkie is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs. It was his first published novel and has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s. Burroughs' working title was Junk.-Inspiration:The novel was considered unpublishable more than...
  
   by William S. Burroughs
  William S. Burroughs
  William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th...
  
  
• Lafitte the Pirate by Lyle Saxon
  Lyle Saxon
  Lyle Saxon was a respected New Orleans writer, and journalist who reported for The Times-Picayune.-Life:He was born in Bellingham, Washington. He lived in the French Quarter; Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Roark Bradford, and Edmund Wilson visited.He was an ardent student of the history of...
  
  , the basis for the 1938 film The Buccaneer
  The Buccaneer (1938 film)
  The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb, Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie...
  
   and the 1958 remake of the same name
  The Buccaneer (1958 film)
  The Buccaneer is a 1958 War film, made by Paramount Pictures like the 1938 version and shot in Technicolor and VistaVision. It takes place during the War of 1812, and tells a heavily fictionalized version of how the pirate Jean Lafitte helped in the Battle of New Orleans and how he had to choose...
  
  
• Life on the Mississippi
  Life on the Mississippi
  Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain, of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi many years after the War....
  
   by Mark Twain
  Mark Twain
  Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
  
   (Chapter XLI: "The Metropolis of the South")
• Liquor
  Liquor (novel)
  Liquor is Poppy Z. Brite's first novel in the liquor novels, which revolves around the two young chefs Rickey and G-man, their restaurant and their life in New Orleans. It's been released in the United States on March 16, 2004.-External links:* * *...
  
   and sequels by Poppy Z. Brite
  Poppy Z. Brite
  Poppy Z. Brite is an American author. Brite initially achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s after publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections...
  
  
• Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice
  Anne Rice
  Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...
  
  
• Manon Lescaut
  Manon Lescaut
  Manon Lescaut is a short novel by French author Abbé Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité . It was controversial in its time and was banned in France upon publication...
  
   by Antoine François Prévost
  Antoine François Prévost
  Antoine François Prévost , usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist.- Life and works :...
  
   (features the early French colony at New Orleans at one point in the book)
• A Map of Moments by Christopher Golden
  Christopher Golden
  Christopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He is a graduate of Tufts University...
  
   and Tim Lebbon
  Tim Lebbon
  Tim Lebbon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention.-Life and career:Lebbon was born in London. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the...
  
   (forthcoming)
• Midnight Bayou and Honest Illusions by Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonym Jill March...
  
  
• Monsieur Motte by Grace King
  Grace King
  Grace Elizabeth King was an American author of Louisiana stories, history, and biography, and a leader in historical and literary activities.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mosquitoes (Novel)
  Mosquitoes (Novel)
  Mosquitoes is a comic novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1927. It is the author's second novel. The story tells of the misadventures of passengers on a cruise ship, summarized hour by hour and day by day....
  
   and Pylon (novel)
  Pylon (novel)
  Pylon is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. Published in 1935, Pylon is set in New Valois, a fictionalized version of New Orleans. It is one of Faulkner's few novels set outside Yoknapatawpha County, his favorite fictional setting, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi. Pylon is the...
  
   by William Faulkner
  William Faulkner
  William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...
  
   (the latter novel takes place in "New Valois," a thinly disguised New Orleans)
• Moth and sequels (Lew Griffin mysteries) by James Sallis
  James Sallis
  James Sallis is an American crime writer, poet and musician, best known for his series of novels featuring the character Lew Griffin and set in New Orleans, and for his 2005 novel Drive, which was adapted into a 2011 film of the same name.He is the brother of philosopher John Sallis...
  
  
• The Moviegoer
  The Moviegoer
  The Moviegoer is the debut novel by Walker Percy published in 1961. It won a National Book Award in 1962. Time magazine included the novel in its "Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005"....
  
   by Walker Percy
  Walker Percy
  Walker Percy was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962...
  
   (winner of the 1962 National Book Award)
• Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
  Zora Neale Hurston
  Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance...
  
  
• To My Senses, Recovery, Sacrifice by Alexandrea Weis
• Neon Rain and sequels (Dave Robicheaux mysteries) by James Lee Burke
  James Lee Burke
  James Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose . The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones...
  
  
• New Orleans, Mon Amour by Andrei Codrescu
  Andrei Codrescu
  Andrei Codrescu is a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. He was Mac Curdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until his retirement in 2009....
  
   (collection of essays and short stories)
• New Orleans Mourning and sequels (Skip Langdon mysteries) by Julie Smith
• New Orleans Noir edited by Julie Smith (short stories by various authors)
• Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps, the basis for the 2004 film A Love Song for Bobby Long
  A Love Song for Bobby Long
  A Love Song for Bobby Long is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Shainee Gabel. The screenplay is based on the novel Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps.-Plot:...
  
  
• Paul Marchand, F.M.C. by Charles Chesnutt
• A Quiet Vendetta by R. J. Ellory
• Side Effects: A New Orleans Love Story by Patty Friedmann
• A Streetcar Named Desire
  A Streetcar Named Desire (play)
  A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was...
  
   by Tennessee Williams
  Tennessee Williams
  Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...
  
   (1947 play, winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for drama)
• Tranquility Denied by novelist A. C. Frieden
  A. C. Frieden
  A.C. Frieden, born André Frieden is a Swiss-Brazilian author and attorney living in Chicago, Illinois.- Biography :Frieden, the son of a Swissair executive, spent most of his youth abroad...
  
  
• Unmasked by Jody Gerbig
• Twelfth Night by Michael Llewellyn
• Vieux Carre
  Vieux Carré (play)
  Vieux Carré is a play by Tennessee Williams. It is an autobiographical play set in New Orleans. Although he began writing it shortly after moving to New Orleans in 1938, it wasn't completed until nearly forty years later.- Plot synopsis :...
  
   by Tennessee Williams
  Tennessee Williams
  Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...
  
   (play)
• Violets and Other Tales and The Goodness of Saint Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• Voodoo Dreams and Voodoo Season by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  Jewell Parker Rhodes is an American novelist.Rhodes is professor of Creative Writing and American Literature and former Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Rhodes is the Artistic Director for Global Engagement and the Piper Endowed Chair of...
  
  
• A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren
  Nelson Algren
  Nelson Algren was an American writer.-Early life:Algren was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Goldie and Gerson Abraham. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois where they lived in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side...
  
  , the basis for the 1962 film Walk on the Wild Side
  Walk on the Wild Side (film)
  Walk on the Wild Side is a 1962 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, adapted from the 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren. The film had a star-studded cast, including Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda , Anne Baxter, and Barbara Stanwyck, and was scripted by John Fante. Nonetheless,...
  
  
• The three Frankenstein books by Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson, and Ed Gorman ("Prodigal Son" 2005, "City of Night" 2005, "Lost Souls" 2010).
• The epic fiction Jitterbug Perfume (1984) by Tom Robbins
  Tom Robbins
  Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins (born July 22, 1936 is an American author. His best-selling novels are serio-comic, often wildly poetic stories with a strong social and philosophical undercurrent, an irreverent bent, and scenes extrapolated from...
  
   uses modern day New Orleans as one of 4 major settings along with 8th century Bohemia, modern day Seattle, and modern day Paris

Authors who have repeatedly or frequently used New Orleans as a setting for their fiction include James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose . The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones...

, Poppy Z. Brite

Poppy Z. Brite

Poppy Z. Brite is an American author. Brite initially achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s after publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections...

, Truman Capote

Truman Capote

Truman Streckfus Persons , known as Truman Capote , was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood , which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." At...

, Nancy A. Collins

Nancy A. Collins

Nancy A. Collins is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has alsowritten for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series, Jason Vs...

, Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly is an award-winning and prolific American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction...

, Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn , known also by the Japanese name , was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things...

, Frances Parkinson Keyes

Frances Parkinson Keyes

Frances Parkinson Keyes was an American author, and a convert to Roman Catholicism, whose works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs. Her last name rhymes with "skies," not "keys."-Life and career:...

, Caitlín R. Kiernan

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan is the author of many science fiction and dark fantasy works, including seven novels, many comic books, more than one hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes, and numerous scientific papers.- Overview :Born in Dublin, Ireland, she moved to the United States...

, Anne Rice

Anne Rice

Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...

, James Sallis

James Sallis

James Sallis is an American crime writer, poet and musician, best known for his series of novels featuring the character Lew Griffin and set in New Orleans, and for his 2005 novel Drive, which was adapted into a 2011 film of the same name.He is the brother of philosopher John Sallis...

, Julie Smith, Alexandrea Weis

Alexandrea Weis

Alexandrea Weis is an American novelist.She was educated as a nurse. She has written a number of novels about New Orleans....

 and Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...

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Comic books and graphic novels

• In the Marvel Comics
  Marvel Comics
  Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
  
   fictional universe, New Orleans is the home city for the X-Man Gambit
  Gambit (comics)
  Gambit is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero that has been a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Jim Lee, the character first appeared briefly in Uncanny X-Men Annual #14 , weeks before a more comprehensive appearance in Uncanny X-Men #266...
  
  , as well as the guilds of Thieves and Assassins; as well as the leader of the latter guild, Bella Donna Boudreaux
  Bella Donna
  'Bella Donna or Belladonna is a name or alias used by two fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe....
  
  .
• The nonfiction webcomic A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
  A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
  A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a non-fiction graphic novel by cartoonist Josh Neufeld. It tells the stories of a handful of real-life New Orleans residents and their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina. A.D. was a New York Times best-seller and was nominated for a 2010 Eisner...
  
   is about six real-life residents of New Orleans and their experiences before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina.
• In the DC Comics
  DC Comics
  DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
  
   fictional universe, New Orleans has been given a neighboring city, St. Roch, Louisiana, serving as an occasional home to the original Hawkman
  Hawkman
  Hawkman is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Dennis Neville, the original Hawkman first appeared in Flash Comics #1, published by All-American Publications in 1940....
  
   and Hawkgirl
  Hawkgirl
  Hawkgirl is the name of several female fictional superhero characters, all owned by DC Comics and existing in that company's universe. The character is one of the first costumed female superheroes...
  
  .
• The Marvel Comics heroine Monica Rambeau
  Monica Rambeau
  Monica Rambeau is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe. Initially known as Captain Marvel, the character became a leader of the Avengers...
  
  , known as Captain Marvel II and Photon, is from New Orleans.
• In the Marvel Max comic Hellstorm—Son of Satan, post-Katrina New Orleans is the setting.

Film

• 12 Rounds
  12 Rounds (film)
  12 Rounds is a 2009 American action film directed by Renny Harlin and produced by WWE Studios. The cast is led by professional wrestler John Cena, alongside Steve Harris, Gonzalo Menendez, Aidan Gillen, Brian J. White, Ashley Scott, and Taylor Cole...
  
  
• Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
  Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
  Abbott and Costello Go To Mars is a 1953 American science fiction comedy film directed by Charles Lamont and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The film follows the misadventures of Lester and Orville who accidentally find themselves on a rocketship bound for Mars, which accidentally...
  
  
• Albino Alligator
  Albino Alligator
  Albino Alligator is a 1997 film directed by Kevin Spacey in his directorial debut. It stars Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise and William Fichtner as three small-time criminals who take hostages when they are cornered by the police...
  
  
• All Dogs Go to Heaven
  All Dogs Go to Heaven
  All Dogs Go to Heaven is a 1989 Irish-English animated film directed and produced by Don Bluth and released by United Artists. The film tells the story of two dogs, Charlie B. Barkin and his loyal best friend Itchy Itchiford...
  
  
• A Love Song for Bobby Long
  A Love Song for Bobby Long
  A Love Song for Bobby Long is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Shainee Gabel. The screenplay is based on the novel Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps.-Plot:...
  
  
• Angel Heart
  Angel Heart
  Angel Heart is a 1987 North American/British mystery-thriller film written and directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet...
  
  
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a 2009 American crime drama film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage.-Overview:...
  
  
• Belle of the Nineties
  Belle of the Nineties
  Belle of the Nineties is Mae West's fourth motion picture, directed by Leo McCarey and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was based on West's original story It Ain't No Sin which was also to be the film's title until censors objected...
  
  
• The Big Easy
  The Big Easy (1987 film)
  The Big Easy is a 1987 American neo-noir crime film directed by Jim McBride and written by Daniel Petrie Jr. The executive producer of the motion picture was Mort Engelberg and the cinematographer was Affonso Beato...
  
  
• Blaze
  Blaze (film)
  Blaze is a 1989 film written and directed by Ron Shelton. Based on the 1974 memoir Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry by Blaze Starr and Huey Perry, the film stars Paul Newman as Earl Long and Lolita Davidovich as Blaze Starr, with Starr herself appearing in a cameo.-Plot:The movie tells...
  
  
• The Buccaneer
  The Buccaneer (1938 film)
  The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb, Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie...
  
   (1938) and The Buccaneer
  The Buccaneer (1958 film)
  The Buccaneer is a 1958 War film, made by Paramount Pictures like the 1938 version and shot in Technicolor and VistaVision. It takes place during the War of 1812, and tells a heavily fictionalized version of how the pirate Jean Lafitte helped in the Battle of New Orleans and how he had to choose...
  
   (1958)
• Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh
• Cat People
  Cat People (1982 film)
  Cat People is a 1982 American erotic horror film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell and John Heard. The film co-stars Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee, Ed Begley, Jr. and John Larroquette. Jerry Bruckheimer served as executive producer...
  
  
• The Cincinnati Kid
  The Cincinnati Kid
  The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 American drama film. It tells the story of Eric "The Kid" Stoner, a young Depression-era poker player, as he seeks to establish his reputation as the best...
  
  
• Città violenta
  Città violenta
  Città violenta is a 1970 Italian film directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Telly Savalas...
  
  
• The Client
  The Client
  The Client is a legal thriller written by American author John Grisham, set mostly in Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana...
  
  
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy-drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
  
  
• Déjà Vu
• Double Jeopardy
  Double Jeopardy (film)
  Double Jeopardy is a 1999 thriller film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd. The film is about a woman who is framed for the murder of her husband.-Plot:...
  
  
• Down by Law
  Down by Law (film)
  Down by Law is a 1986 black-and-white independent film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni....
  
  
• Dracula 2000
  Dracula 2000
  Dracula 2000, also known internationally as Dracula 2001, is a 2000 horror film written and directed by Patrick Lussier. The film stars Gerard Butler, Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Omar Epps, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Jeri Ryan, and Jennifer Esposito.Dracula 2000, the...
  
  
• The Drowning Pool
  The Drowning Pool
  The Drowning Pool is a 1950 mystery novel written by Ross Macdonald, his second book in the series revolving around the cases of private detective Lew Archer.-Plot summary:Archer is hired by a woman to investigate a slanderous letter she received...
  
  
• Easy Rider
  Easy Rider
  Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South with the aim of achieving freedom...
  
  
• Father Hood
  Father Hood
  Father Hood is a 1993 comedy-drama film starring Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry and directed by Darrell Roodt.- Plot :The kids of small-time crook Jack Charles are put in a corrupt state-run home when their mother dies of cancer...
  
  
• The Flame of New Orleans
  The Flame of New Orleans
  The Flame of New Orleans is a 1941 comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Bruce Cabot in his first comedy role and Marlene Dietrich. It was nominated an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Martin Obzina, Jack Otterson and Russell A...
  
  
• Hard Target
  Hard Target
  Hard Target is a 1993 American action film directed by Chinese director John Woo. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, an out-of-work Cajun merchant seaman who saves a young woman, Natasha Binder , from a gang of thugs in New Orleans...
  
  
• Hard Times
  Hard Times (1975 film)
  Hard Times is a 1975 film starring Charles Bronson as Chaney, a drifter who travels to Louisiana during the Great Depression and begins competing in illegal bare-knuckled boxing matches...
  
  
• The Haunted Mansion
  The Haunted Mansion (film)
  The Haunted Mansion is a 2003 American comedy horror family film which is based on The Haunted Mansion attraction at Disney theme parks. The film is directed by Rob Minkoff, and stars Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Jennifer Tilly, Marsha Thomason, and Nathaniel Parker...
  
  
• Hurricane Season
  Hurricane Season (film)
  Hurricane Season is a sports drama film directed by Tim Story and starring Forest Whitaker, Taraji P. Henson, Lil Wayne, and Bow Wow. The screenplay was written by Robert Eisele and the film was produced by Raymond Brothers and Scott Glassgold...
  
  
• Interview with the Vampire
  Interview with the Vampire
  Interview with the Vampire is a vampire novel by Anne Rice written in 1973 and published in 1976. It was the first novel to feature the enigmatic vampire Lestat, and was followed by several sequels, collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles...
  
  
• Jezebel
• JFK
  JFK (film)
  JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison .Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay...
  
  
• Johnny Handsome
  Johnny Handsome
  Johnny Handsome is an 1989 American crime-drama film directed by Walter Hill and starring Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin and Morgan Freeman. The film was written by Ken Friedman, from the novel by John Godey. The music for the film was written, produced and performed by Ry Cooder, and Jim Keltner...
  
  
• King Creole
  King Creole
  King Creole is a 1958 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The story was adapted from the Harold Robbins novel A Stone for Danny Fisher and featured Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau. The film tells the story of a nineteen-year-old who gets mixed...
  
  
• Lady from Louisiana
  Lady from Louisiana
  Lady from Louisiana is a 1941 disaster film starring John Wayne. It was produced and directed by Bernard Vorhaus for Republic Pictures.-Plot:...
  
  
• Last Holiday
• Let's Do It Again
  Let's Do It Again (1975 film)
  Let's Do It Again is a 1975 film starring Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby and Jimmie Walker. Poitier also directed. The film is about blue-collar workers who decide to rig a boxing match to raise money for their fraternal lodge...
  
  
• Live and Let Die
  Live and Let Die (film)
  Live and Let Die is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman...
  
  
• A Murder of Crows
  A Murder of Crows (film)
  A Murder of Crows is a 1999 thriller film directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Tom Berenger.-Plot synopsis:Lawson Russell is a Louisiana-based criminal lawyer who gets disbarred for committing a mistrial. After that, he retires to Key West and decides to write a book...
  
  
• New Orleans
• No Mercy
  No Mercy (film)
  No Mercy is a 1986 film starring Richard Gere and Kim Basinger about a cop who accepts an offer to kill a Cajun gangster.-Plot:Eddie Jilette is a Chicago cop on the vengeance trail as he follows his partner's killers to New Orleans to settle his own personal score...
  
  
• Number One
  Number One (1969 film)
  Number One is a 1969 American film released by United Artists and directed by Tom Gries.The film stars Charlton Heston as Ron "Cat" Catlan, aging quarterback for the New Orleans Saints and Jessica Walter as his wife. Musician Al Hirt plays himself, as do several real-life members of the 1968 Saints...
  
  
• Obsession
• Panic in the Streets
• The Pelican Brief
  The Pelican Brief (film)
  The Pelican Brief is a 1993 legal crime thriller based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Julia Roberts in the role of young law student Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham...
  
  
• Point Of No Return
  Point of No Return (film)
  Point of No Return is a 1993 American action film directed by John Badham and starring Bridget Fonda. It is a remake of Luc Besson's 1990 film Nikita.-Plot:...
  
  
• Pretty Baby
• The Princess and the Frog
• Ruby Bridges
• Runaway Jury
  Runaway Jury
  Runaway Jury is a 2003 American drama/thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, and Rachel Weisz...
  
  
• The Skeleton Key
  The Skeleton Key
  The Skeleton Key is a 2005 American supernatural horror film starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joy Bryant. The film focuses on a young hospice nurse who acquires a job at a Terrebonne Parish plantation home, and becomes entangled in a mystery involving the house,...
  
  
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, 1984
  A Streetcar Named Desire (1984 film)
  A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1984 television drama film directed by John Erman. Based on the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams, it stars Ann-Margret and Treat Williams.-Cast:*Ann-Margret as Blanche DuBois*Treat Williams as Stanley Kowalski...
  
  , 1995
  A Streetcar Named Desire (1995 film)
  A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1995 television drama film directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Alec Baldwin, Jessica Lange, John Goodman and Diane Lane that first aired on CBS Television. Based on the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams, it follows a 1951 adaptation starring Marlon Brando and a 1984...
  
  )
• Streets of Blood
  Streets of Blood
  Streets of Blood is a 2009 action-drama film starring Val Kilmer, 50 Cent, Michael Biehn and Sharon Stone. It is directed by Charles Winkler with a screenplay written by Eugene Hess based on a story by Hess and Dennis Fanning...
  
  
• Tightrope
  Tightrope (film)
  Tightrope is a 1984 American suspense thriller produced by and starring Clint Eastwood and written and directed by Richard Tuggle.-Plot:A young woman walks home from her birthday party. She is stalked by a man in distinctive sneakers. After dropping one of her presents, a police officer offers to...
  
  
• The Toast of New Orleans
  The Toast of New Orleans
  The Toast of New Orleans is a 1950 musical film directed by Norman Taurog and choreographed by Eugene Loring. It starred Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson, David Niven, J. Carroll Naish, James Mitchell and a teenaged Rita Moreno...
  
  
• Toys in the Attic
  Toys in the Attic (film)
  Toys in the Attic is a 1963 American drama film starring Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux, Gene Tierney and Wendy Hiller. The film was directed by George Roy Hill and is based on a Tony Award-winning play by Lillian Hellman...
  
  
• Tune In Tomorrow
  Tune in Tomorrow
  Tune In Tomorrow is a 1990 film comedy directed by John Amiel.It is based on the Mario Vargas Llosa novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, and was released under that name in many countries...
  
  
• Undercover Blues
  Undercover Blues
  Undercover Blues is a 1993 movie about a family of secret agents, starring Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid. The film was written by Ian Abrams and directed by Herbert Ross.- Plot :...
  
  
• Walk on the Wild Side
  Walk on the Wild Side (film)
  Walk on the Wild Side is a 1962 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, adapted from the 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren. The film had a star-studded cast, including Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda , Anne Baxter, and Barbara Stanwyck, and was scripted by John Fante. Nonetheless,...
  
  
• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
• Wild at Heart
  Wild at Heart (film)
  Wild at Heart is a 1990 American film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford's 1989 novel Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula. Both the book and the film revolve around Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune , a young couple from Cape Fear, North Carolina who go on...
  
  
• WUSA
  WUSA (film)
  WUSA is a 1970 drama film, directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It was written by Robert Stone, based on his novel A Hall of Mirrors. The story involves a radio station in New Orleans with the eponymous call sign which is apparently involved in a so-called "right-wing conspiracy". It culminates with a...
  
  
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine
  X-Men Origins: Wolverine
  X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a 2009 American action film based on the Marvel Comics' fictional character Wolverine. The fourth installment in the X-Men film series, it was released worldwide on May 1, 2009...
  
  
• Zandalee
  Zandalee
  Zandalee is an American erotic thriller, and romantic tragedy which was shot entirely in New Orleans, released in 1991, starring Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold, Erika Anderson, Joe Pantoliano, Marisa Tomei, Viveca Lindfors, Aaron Neville and Steve Buscemi...
  
  

Longstreet

A crime drama series about a blind insurance investigator that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. The series was set in New Orleans, but was actually filmed in Los Angeles.

Frank's Place

A CBS comedy-drama series that chronicled the life of Frank Parrish (Tim Reid), a well-to-do professor at Brown University, who inherits a New Orleans restaurant, Chez Louisiane. The series received the Television Critics Association award for outstanding comedy series in 1987, as well as an Emmy for best writing in a comedy series. However, it only lasted for one season (1987–88). Although set in New Orleans, the series was actually filmed in Los Angeles.

K-Ville

A short lived crime series that debuted in 2007, which focused on the New Orleans police department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The series also centers around two New Orleans police detectives, Anthony Anderson

Anthony Anderson

Anthony Anderson is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He has starred in his own sitcom All About the Andersons, as well as the Fox sitcom The Bernie Mac Show during the fifth and final season of the show. He is also known for his leading roles in television dramas such as K-Ville, The...

 as Marlin Boulet and Cole Hauser

Cole Hauser

Cole Kenneth Hauser is an American film and television actor.-Family background:Hauser was born in Santa Barbara, California, son of Cass Warner, who founded the film production company Warner Sisters, and actor Wings Hauser. His paternal grandfather was Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dwight...

 as Trevor Cobb, who were partners that "have conflicting ideas about how to handle the city's problems."

Treme

An American drama that premiered in April 2010, centers around residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians

Mardi Gras Indians

Mardi Gras Indians are African-American Carnival revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, who dress up for Mardi Gras in suits influenced by Native American ceremonial apparel.Collectively, their organizations are called "tribes"...

, and ordinary New Orleanians trying to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...

. The series also explores New Orleans culture including and beyond the music scene to encompass political corruption, the public housing controversy, the criminal-justice system, clashes between police and Mardi Gras Indians, and the struggle to regain the tourism industry after the storm.

Orleans

This short-lived 1997 CBS series starring Larry Hagman was set in and partially filmed in New Orleans.

Star Trek

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe...
  
   character Benjamin Sisko
  Benjamin Sisko
  Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, played by Avery Brooks, is the main character of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.-Early life and career:...
  
   is a native of New Orleans. His father Joseph Sisko is also a native of New Orleans, and has a restaurant near Jackson Square in the 2370s. The family restaurant is seen in the episodes "Homefront
  Homefront (DS9 episode)
  "Homefront" is an episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the eleventh episode of the fourth season. It is rated 4.3/5 on the official Star Trek Website.- Plot :...
  
  ", "Paradise Lost
  Paradise Lost (DS9 episode)
  "Paradise Lost" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the twelfth episode of the fourth season. It is rated 4.1/5 on the official Star Trek Website.-Plot:...
  
  ", "Tears of the Prophets
  Tears of the Prophets (DS9 episode)
  "Tears of the Prophets" is the last episode of the sixth-season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first broadcast on June 17, 1998.In this episode, Starfleet Command plans to go on the offensive and it is decided that Captain Sisko will be responsible for planning the first steps in the assault on the...
  
  ", "Image in the Sand
  Image in the Sand (DS9 episode)
  "Image in the Sand" is the title of a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, the opener for the series' seventh and final season. Its episode number is 151, and it first aired on September 30, 1998...
  
  " and Shadows and Symbols". Other episodes to be set in New Orleans include "The Visitor
  The Visitor (DS9 episode)
  "The Visitor" is an episode from the fourth season of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The episode is rated 4.8/5 on the official Star Trek Website.-Plot :...
  
  ".

• New Orleans is also mentioned in the episodes "Equilibrium
  Equilibrium (DS9 episode)
  "Equilibrium" is an episode Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the fourth episode of the third season.-Plot:Jadzia Dax begins experiencing unsettling mental problems. She suddenly remembers a melody and can even play it on a keyboard despite never having done so before. She snaps at her friends and is...
  
  ", "Explorers
  Explorers (DS9 episode)
  "Explorers" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 22nd episode of the third season. It is rated 4.3/5 on the official Star Trek Website.-Plot:...
  
  ", "Family Business" and "What You Leave Behind".

• The New Orleans class starship is named for the city.

The Simpsons

• New Orleans is the setting of the Simpsons
  The Simpsons
  The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
  
   spin-off
  Spin-off (media)
  In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...
  
  , "Chief Wiggum P.I.," starring Chief Wiggum.
• New Orleans is also the setting for "Oh! Streetcar!
  A Streetcar Named Marge
  "A Streetcar Named Marge" is the second episode of The Simpsons fourth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 1, 1992. In the episode, Marge wins the role of Blanche DuBois in a musical version of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire...
  
  ," a musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire
  A Streetcar Named Desire (play)
  A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was...
  
  .

The X-Files

The X-Files

The X-Files

The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...

 character Monica Reyes

Monica Reyes

Special Agent Monica Reyes is a fictional character in the American FOX television series The X-Files, a science fiction show about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of Alien existence...

 worked for the FBI in New Orleans before becoming John Doggett

John Doggett

FBI Special agent John Jay Doggett is a fictional character in the American Fox television series The X-Files, a science fiction show about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of alien existence...

's partner.

Other television references

Several episodes of television series have referenced the city:

• An episode of Jem and the Holograms was set in New Orleans.
• Season 9 (2000) of The Real World
  The Real World
  The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the...
  
   was set in New Orleans. Season 24 (2010) of The Real World was also set in New Orleans.
• In a 2001 episode of Seven Days, Parker goes to New Orleans to prove that his friend, who is scheduled to be executed, is innocent.
• In a 2003 episode of The Drew Carey Show
  The Drew Carey Show
  The Drew Carey Show is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004. The show was set in Cleveland, Ohio, and revolved around the retail office and home life of "everyman" Drew Carey, a fictionalized version of the actor....
  
  , Drew and his buddies set off on a road trip to New Orleans to find a girl he met after placing an ad on a beer bottle.
• In a 2004 episode of Las Vegas
  Las Vegas (TV series)
  Las Vegas was an American television series broadcast by NBC from September 22, 2003 to February 15, 2008. The show focuses on a team of people working at the ficticional Montecito Resort & Casino dealing with issues that arise within the working environment, ranging from valet parking and...
  
   called "New Orleans", Danny, Ed and Sam head to New Orleans in search of a big gambler who owes the casino money.
• In a 2005 episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, the detectives pursue a child molester who kidnapped three young sisters from New Orleans after their parents were killed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
• In a 2005 episode of Bones, Dr. Temperance Brennen and Agent Seely Booth head to New Orleans to help identify bodies found after Hurricane Katrina. The plot revolves heavily around the underground voodoo practices in the city.
• In a 2007 episode of Boston Legal, Denny Crane and Alan Shore visit New Orleans to defend a doctor accused of euthenizing patients.http://abc.go.com/primetime/bostonlegal/recap/season3/11.html
• Monica Dawson
  Monica Dawson
  Monica Dawson, portrayed by Dana Davis, is a fictional character on the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes. She is a young woman in her early 20s from New Orleans, and she has the power to mimic any physical motion she witnesses.- Character concept :...
  
   a character on the NBC
  NBC
  The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
  
   television series Heroes
  Heroes (TV series)
  Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
  
   lives in New Orleans. Her parents were killed in Hurricane Katrina.

Theater and opera

• A Streetcar Named Desire
  A Streetcar Named Desire (play)
  A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was...
  
  , 1951 play that is famously set in the city of New Orleans and the city itself plays a major role in the play.
• A Streetcar Named Desire
  A Streetcar Named Desire (opera)
  A Streetcar Named Desire is an opera composed by André Previn with a libretto by Philip Littell in 1995. It is based on the play by Tennessee Williams and received its premiere at the San Francisco Opera during the 1998-99 season.-Cast:...
  
  , 1995 opera
• Manon Lescaut
  Manon Lescaut (Puccini)
  Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost....
  
  , opera by Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
  
   based on the Antoine François Prévost
  Antoine François Prévost
  Antoine François Prévost , usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist.- Life and works :...
  
   (Abbé Prévost) novel. The last scene (Act IV) is set in New Orleans, then a French colony, where Manon dies in Des Grieux's arms.

Videogames

• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
  Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
  Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line, Inc....
  
  , a 1993 adventure game for PC, is set in the city of New Orleans.
• Skateboarding game Tony Hawk's Underground 2
  Tony Hawk's Underground 2
  Tony Hawk's Underground 2, also known as THUG 2, is the sixth installment in Neversoft's Tony Hawk's Series and sequel to Tony Hawk's Underground. Tony Hawk's Underground 2 was released on October 4, 2004 for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, PC, and Game Boy Advance platforms...
  
   features New Orleans as one of its stages.
• James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
  James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
  007: Everything or Nothing is a third-person shooter video game, where the player controls James Bond. Bond is modeled after and voiced by the former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, making it his final performance for the character in game and film...
  
  , a James Bond video game, is partly set in New Orleans.
• Hitman: Blood Money
  Hitman: Blood Money
  Hitman: Blood Money is a stealth game developed by IO Interactive and published by Eidos Interactive. It is the fourth entry in the Hitman game series....
  
  , the level "Murder of Crows" is set in New Orleans.
• Voodoo Vince
  Voodoo Vince
  Voodoo Vince is a video game for the Xbox, created by Clayton Kauzlaric, developed by Beep Industries and published by Microsoft Game Studios...
  
   takes place In New Orleans.
• Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
  Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
  Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is an adventure game developed by Frogwares and published in 2006 for Microsoft Windows. The game follows an original plotline as Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. John H...
  
   contains investigations in New Orleans.
• Left 4 Dead 2
  Left 4 Dead 2
  Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It is the sequel to Valve Corporation's award-winning Left 4 Dead. The game launched on November 17, 2009, for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in the United States and November 20 in Europe; in 2010, Left 4 Dead 2 was made available to...
  
   takes place in the deep South, with the last campaign (The Parish) taking place in New Orleans. Many areas of New Orleans takes part in each level.
• Infamous 2
  Infamous 2
  Infamous 2, stylized as inFAMOUS 2, is a 2011 open world video game for the PlayStation 3 video game console developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment...
  
   takes place in New Marais, a fictional city taking inspirations from New Orleans.

See also

• New Orleans Square
  New Orleans Square
  New Orleans Square is a themed land found exclusively at Disneyland, though a similarly themed area can be found within Tokyo Disneyland's Adventureland. Based on 19th-century New Orleans, it was the first new land to be added to Disneyland after the park's opening. The land was opened to the...
  
  
• The category Fictional characters from New Orleans

External links

• New Orleans at Disney Wikia