Python & Pandas: How to query if a list-type column contains something?

Question

I have a dataframe, which contains info about movies. It has a column called genre, which contains a list of genres it belongs to. For example:

Answer 1

A complete example:

import pandas as pd

data = pd.DataFrame([[['foo', 'bar']],
                    [['bar', 'baz']]], columns=['list_column'])
print(data)
  list_column
0  [foo, bar]
1  [bar, baz]

filtered_data = data.loc[
    lambda df: df.list_column.apply(
        lambda l: 'foo' in l
    )
]
print(filtered_data)
  list_column
0  [foo, bar]