The Sinners city and all the filming locations where the 2025 movie was filmed
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Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta town of Clarksdale, Sinners was filmed at several locations in Louisiana.
Starring Michael B. Jordan, the film blends supernatural elements with rich Black cultural history, centered around a blues juke joint and a haunted past.
Here’s our spoiler-free guide to all the filming locations featured in Sinners, listed in the order they appear in the movie.
Starring Michael B. Jordan, the film blends supernatural elements with rich Black cultural history, centered around a blues juke joint and a haunted past.
Here’s our spoiler-free guide to all the filming locations featured in Sinners, listed in the order they appear in the movie.
The Sinners city
In the first scene, young Sammie Moore walks into his father’s church, filmed at Laurel Valley Plantation in Thibodaux.
This is the largest intact 19th–20th-century sugar plantation complex in the U.S., where up to 135 enslaved people lived and worked before the Civil War.
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Image courtesy of Warner Bros. - Map
Image courtesy of Warner Bros. - Map
However, the church was a set built for the film on the same plantation, created by production designer Hannah Beachler.
Inspired by real Delta-era structures, the roof’s crossed wooden beams subtly echo the “Wakanda Forever” gesture, a quiet tribute to the late Black Panther actor, Chadwick Boseman.
The sawmill and the juke joint serve as the film’s central locations, both built at the former Hidden Oaks Golf Course in Braithwaite.
Director Ryan Coogler was looking for a site with a water feature nearby, and location manager Elston Howard knew about the overgrown course, which had been closed in 2006, shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck the region.
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As the local press reported, Donaldsonville’s historic Railroad Avenue was transformed into 1930s Clarksdale, where twins Smoke and Stack Moore go to buy supplies.
The Black Bird Café was set in a former diner, while the store was a vacant antiques shop with a brick façade.
Image courtesy of Warner Bros. - Map
With a bit of CGI help, the Clarksdale train station was recreated at the old Bogalusa Train Depot.
Built in 1907, this depot, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, served the lumber-driven New Orleans Great Northern Railroad.
Image courtesy of Warner Bros. - Map
The Sinners house
As NOLA.com revealed, Annie’s house was built on the grounds of Creedmoor Plantation in St. Bernard Parish, a sugar-growing estate established in the 1810s.
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