List of films set around Mardi Gras

A Mardi Gras film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on the celebration of the Cajun holiday of Mardi Gras also known as Carnival that precedes Lent. Films in this genre are typically similar to animated, crime, documentary, drama, science fiction, and thriller films among other genres. Mardi Gras films are more commonly produced in the United States and often set in the city of New Orleans.

Notable examples of Mardi Gras films

Some notable examples of films in this genre are listed as follows.

Flesh and Fantasy

Main article: Flesh and Fantasy

Flesh and Fantasy is a 1943 American anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Robert Cummings, and Barbara Stanwyck. The making of this film was inspired by the success of Duvivier's previous anthology film, the 1942 Tales of Manhattan. Flesh and Fantasy tells three stories, unrelated but with a supernatural theme, by Ellis St. Joseph, Oscar Wilde, and László Vadnay. Tying together the three segments is a conversation about the occult between two clubmen, one played by humorist Robert Benchley. Act One features a homely girl who secretly loves a law student who pays her no attention. On Mardi Gras night, a girl meets a mysterious stranger who gives her a mask that transforms her into a beautiful woman but only until midnight.

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

Main article: Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars is a 1953 American science fiction comedy film starring the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and directed by Charles Lamont. It was produced by Howard Christie and made by Universal-International. Despite the film's title, no character in the film actually travels to the planet Mars (although Abbott and Costello's characters believe they are on Mars at one point.) In typical bumbling fashion, Abbott and Costello accidentally launch themselves in an experimental rocket bound for Mars but wind up in the Louisiana Bayou just in time for Mardi Gras.

Easy Rider

Main article: Easy Rider

Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood era of filmmaking during the early 1970s. A landmark counterculture film, and a "touchstone for a generation" that "captured the national imagination," Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions towards adolescents in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle. Real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana and other substances. The film climaxes with a dark, dreamlike scene amidst the madness of Mardi Gras in full flow. Released by Columbia Pictures on July 14, 1969, Easy Rider earned $60 million worldwide from a filming budget of no more than $400,000. Critics have praised the performances, directing, writing, soundtrack, and visuals. It received two Academy Awards nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson). In 1998, the film was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Tightrope

Main article: Tightrope

Tightrope is a 1984 American neo-noir slasher crime film produced by and starring Clint Eastwood and written and directed by Richard Tuggle. New Orleans detective Wes Block (Eastwood) is stalked at Mardi Gras by the serial rapist-murderer, dressed for the festivities.

All Dogs Go To Heaven

Main article: All Dogs Go To Heaven

All Dogs Go to Heaven is a 1989 animated musical fantasy adventure comedy-drama film directed by Don Bluth and co-directed by Gary Goldman (his directorial debut) and Dan Kuenster. It tells the story of Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds), a German Shepherd that is murdered by his former friend, Carface Carruthers (voiced by Vic Tayback, in his penultimate film role), but withdraws from his place in Heaven to return to Earth, where his best friend, Itchy Itchiford (voiced by Dom DeLuise), still lives, in order to take revenge on Carface, but ends up befriending a young orphan girl named Anne-Marie (voiced by Judith Barsi in her final film role; posthumously). In the process, Charlie learns an important lesson about kindness, friendship and love. The film is set in 1939 Louisiana during Mardi Gras. The gang hideout is even in a Mardi Gras float shaped like a creepy skeleton demon.

Night Trap, also known as Mardi Gras for the Devil

Main article: Night Trap, also known as Mardi Gras for the Devil

Night Trap, also known as Mardi Gras for the Devil, is a 1993 supernatural thriller film directed by David A. Prior and starring Robert Davi, Michael Ironside, John Amos, Mike Starr, Lesley-Anne Down and Mickey Jones. The plot of the film centers around baffling satanic homicides carried out on a killing spree during New Orleans' Mardi Gras.

Double Jeopardy

Main article: Double Jeopardy

Double Jeopardy is a 1999 American crime thriller film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood, and Gillian Barber. The film is about a woman wrongfully imprisoned for murder who, while eluding her parole officer, tracks down her husband who had framed her. The film is set in Washington and New Orleans and parts were filmed in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1.

Mardi Gras: Made in China

Main article: Mardi Gras: Made in China

Mardi Gras: Made in China is a 2005 documentary film by David Redmon that explores globalization and disparity in the manufacture of the plastic beads for the Mardi Gras festival by women who work in substandard conditions in Fuzhou China.

Déjà Vu (2006 film)

Main article: Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu is a 2006 American science fiction action film directed by Tony Scott, written by Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The film stars Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel, Val Kilmer, Adam Goldberg and Bruce Greenwood. It involves an ATF agent who travels back in time in an attempt to prevent a domestic terrorist attack that takes place during Mardi Gras season in New Orleans and to save a woman with whom he falls in love. Filming took place in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The film premiered in New York City on November 20, 2006, and was released in the United States and Canada on November 22, 2006. It received mixed reviews from critics and earned $180 million worldwide against its $75 million production budget. It was the 23rd most successful film worldwide for 2006. The film was nominated for five awards, and also won the International Gold Reel Award.

By Invitation Only

Main article: By Invitation Only

By Invitation Only is a 2006 short documentary film directed by Rebecca Snedeker and written by Julie Gustafson and Isaac Webb about race and class in New Orleans Mardi Gras Societies. Unless you are part of the U.S. southern white culture of Carnival societies and debutante balls that still thrives on elitist notions in New Orleans, LA, you will probably never know what goes on within these circles. This documentary gives voice to one of these white women of privilege who tries to navigate the hidden mores of how to belong while having a Black boyfriend. An insider who's really an outsider who just lost her membership card.

The Order of Myths

Main article: The Order of Myths

The Order of Myths is a 2008 documentary film directed by Margaret Brown. It focuses on the Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Alabama, the oldest in the United States. It reveals the separate mystic societies established and maintained by black and white groups, and acknowledges the complex racial history of a city with a slaveholding past. While showing the mystic societies' ties to economic, class and racial stratification, the film also showed the beginnings of interaction between the black and white courts. It also tells some of the history of Africatown, a community formed north of Mobile in 1860 by Africans from Ghana, transported illegally as slaves to Mobile decades after the end of the slave trade. The film competed in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. It had a limited release in New York on July 25, 2008, and ran on Independent Lens, a PBS series featuring independent films, in 2009. It was distributed by The Cinema Guild.

All On a Mardi Gras Day (2008 film)

Main article: All On a Mardi Gras Day (2008 film)

All On a Mardi Gras Day is a 2008 documentary film directed by and written by that describes the Mardi Gras traditions of the black community in New Orleans, Mardi Gras Indians, “Skull and Bone”, and “Baby Doll” groups.

Princess and the Frog

Main article: The Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated musical fantasy romantic comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 49th Disney animated feature film, the film is loosely based on the novel The Frog Princess by E. D. Baker, which is in turn based on the German folk tale "The Frog Prince" as collected by the Brothers Grimm. Written and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the film stars Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jim Cummings, Jennifer Cody, John Goodman, Keith David, Peter Bartlett, Jenifer Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, and Terrence Howard. Set in the 1920s New Orleans, the film tells the story of a hardworking waitress named Tiana who dreams of opening her own restaurant. After kissing a prince from a foreign country who comes to visit America during Mardi Gras and seeks a rich American girl to marry who has been turned into a frog by an evil witch doctor, Tiana becomes a frog herself and must find a way to turn back into a human before it is too late.

Mardi Gras: Spring Break

Main article: Mardi Gras: Spring Break

Mardi Gras: Spring Break is a 2011 comedy/road trip film. It stars Nicholas D'Agosto, Josh Gad, Bret Harrison, Arielle Kebbel, Danneel Harris, Regina Hall, and Carmen Electra. It is directed by Phil Dornfield. The film follows a trio of senior college students who visit New Orleans during the Mardi Gras season. Originally shot in 2008 as Max's Mardi Gras, it was scheduled for release by Sony Pictures' Screen Gems division. It was shelved until September 2011, when Samuel Goldwyn Films released it in select cities.

Stolen (2012 film)

Main article: Stolen (2012 film)

Stolen is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Simon West and starring Nicolas Cage, Danny Huston, Malin Åkerman, M. C. Gainey, Sami Gayle, Mark Valley and Josh Lucas. The film follows a former thief who has 12 hours to find $10 million and save his daughter from his former partner. The film contains chase scenes during the height of Mardi Gras. It was released in the United States on September 14, 2012.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Main article: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is a 2016 American action-thriller film directed by Edward Zwick, written by Zwick, Richard Wenk, and Marshall Herskovitz, and based on the 2013 novel Never Go Back by Lee Child. A sequel to the 2012 film Jack Reacher, the film stars Tom Cruise and Cobie Smulders, with supporting roles by Patrick Heusinger, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Holt McCallany, and Robert Knepper. The plot follows Reacher going on the run with an Army major who has been framed for espionage, as the two reveal a dark conspiracy. The film includes chases through streets teeming with revelers and over high rooftops with New Orleans Mardi Gras parties happening below. Principal photography began on October 20, 2015, in New Orleans, and the film was released on October 21, 2016, in IMAX and conventional formats. It grossed $162 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Cruise's performance and the film's action sequences, but criticized the plot.

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