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Movies: Best "hurricane katrina" Movies


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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans(2009)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 2min | Drama, Crime
3.1/5 (with 478 votes)

Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.

Hours(2013)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 37min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 337 votes)

A father struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Directed by Eric Heisserer - With Paul Walker, James Thompson, Elliot Page, Nick Gomez, Genesis Rodriguez

Cut Throat City(2020)

2h 3min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 61 votes)

Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.

Directed by RZA

Hurricane Season(2009)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins, gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually worthy enough to go to the state playoffs.

Category 5(2014)

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

After a family survives Hurricane Katrina, there is another storm but this one is much worse.

Closed for Storm(2020)

1h 24min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Bright Sun Films' Jake Williams makes his feature debut with this documentary about the infamous Six Flags New Orleans, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and has become a holy grail of sorts for urban exploration.

Hurricane on the Bayou(2006)

42min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

The film "Hurricane on the Bayou" is about the wetlands of Louisiana before and after Hurricane Katrina.

Katrina Babies(2022)

1h 19min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A first-person account of the short-term and long-term devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, as told by young people who were between the ages of 3 and 19 when the levees broke.

Big Charity: The Death of America's Oldest Hospital(2014)

1h 4min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This documentary film includes never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews to tell the story of Charity Hospital, from its roots to its controversial closing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. From the firsthand accounts of healthcare providers and hospital employees who withstood the storm inside the hospital, to interviews with key players involved in the closing of Charity and the opening of New Orleans’ newest hospital, “Big Charity” shares the untold, true story around its closure and sheds new light on the sacrifices made for the sake of progress.

No Place Like Home(2007)

52min | Documentary

Filmed in roughly one month between the end of October and the beginning of December 2005, the film is an honest portrayal of Jac Currie’s life after Katrina and one of his first trips back to the Gulf Coast after being stranded in New York. It shows Defend New Orleans’ transition to a valid social aid project and documents some of the destruction in New Orleans and on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Waters Rising(2007)

1h 28min | Drama
0.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Two Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Desire Projects in New Orleans who both end up in Houston after the storm. The storm twists the fates of these two men. The first, Jay Dee, was a feared and powerful crime boss who is humbled when he loses everything and winds up as a lowly clerk at a retail chain store. The second, Shawn, an underachieving poor kid from the neighborhood gets a fresh start and becomes a writer/novelist.

Refuge of Last Resort(2006)

1h 12min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This no holds documentary chronicles the days before, during and after Hurricane Katrina. Told from the viewpoint of several families stuck in New Orleans, this moving and unflinching story says so much by saying so little. Most of this footage has never been seen by the public, and there is absolutely no stock footage used in this film.

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South of Ten(2006)

10min | Documentary

A girl flees a makeshift tent city. A man finds a trombone. A worker watches the ocean from under a moving house, while its owner gazes at the view from her shifting living room. In ten very short stories, residents of the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast act out atmospheric scenes of everyday life and the relentlessness of labor in their extreme landscape.

Welcome to New Orleans(2023)

58min | Documentary

A touching documentary about a city that has lost hope, and about one man's fight to bring it back.

No Ward(2009)

11min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

No Ward is a short documentary about the forced migration of New Orleans residents to cities in Texas. The film juxtaposes the migrations that occurred as a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Gustav in 2008.

Quiet as Kept(2007)

6min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A teenage boy leaves a moment of boredom while his father works on his old car, and the mother wishes to go out for a stroll around the block. One more relocated family post Hurricane Katrina.