Top California Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Alan Cumming

Garret Dillahunt

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Isaac Leyva

Frances Fisher

Any Day Now (2012)

6.9 106 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.

Plot: homophobia, drag queen, drug addiction, adoption, down syndrome, teenage boy, district attorney, gay parent, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: california

Cast

Guy Pearce

6.9 23.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

Plot: war on terror, superhero, malibu, based on comic, sequel, tennessee, billionaire, aftercreditsstinger, ...

Place: california, america

Cast

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Renate Reinsve

Finn Bennett

Lukita Maxwell

Backrooms (2026)

6.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Style: psychological

Plot: monster, therapist, surrealism, childhood trauma, alcoholism, found footage, other dimension, based on web series, ...

Time: 1990s

Place: california

Cast

Tom Hanks

Halle Berry

Jim Broadbent

Hugo Weaving

Cloud Atlas (2012)

6.9 7.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 172 min.

Audience: R

Story: A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), based on novel or book, san francisco, california, clone, dystopia, lgbt, multiple storylines, ...

Time: future, 1930s

Cast

Taron Egerton

Jason Bateman

Sofia Carson

Danielle Deadwyler

Carry-On (2024)

6.9 2.8K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An airport security officer races to outsmart a mysterious traveler forcing him to let a dangerous item slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.

Plot: underdog, race against time, flight, los angeles, california, airport security, christmas eve, exciting, ...

Barfly (1987)

6.9 389 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.

Plot: career, prostitute, fight, bartender, poet, alcoholism, money, los angeles, ...

Cast

Gerard Butler

Pablo Schreiber

O'Shea Jackson Jr.

50 Cent

Den of Thieves (2018)

6.9 3.4K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

Style: intense

Plot: police brutality, detective, fbi, assault rifle, deputy sheriff, investigation, strip club, donut, ...

Bookie (2023) TV Show

6.9 59 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A veteran bookie struggles to survive the impending legalization of sports gambling, increasingly unstable clients, family, co-workers, and a lifestyle that bounces him around every corner of Los Angeles, high and low.

Plot: comedian, drug use, los angeles, california, bookie, sports gambling, best friends, muscle

Cast

Kitana Kiki Rodriguez

Mya Taylor

Karren Karagulian

Mickey O'Hagan

Tangerine (2015)

6.9 808 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: R

Story: It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.

Style: melancholy, absurd, whimsical

Plot: taxi, prostitute, transsexuality, taxi driver, laundromat, singer, hollywood, los angeles, ...

Cast

Bruce Willis

Damon Wayans

Chelsea Field

Noble Willingham

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

6.8 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other first. But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.

Plot: sniper, assassin, corruption, bomb, anti hero, cocaine, senator, puppet, ...

Cast

Guy Pearce

Robert Carlyle

David Arquette

Jeremy Davies

Ravenous (1999)

6.8 699 votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: Czech Republic, Mexico

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

Plot: army, chase, fort, winter, cliff, cave, dark comedy, gore, ...

Time: 1840s

Place: california

Cast

Laura Linney

Elliot Page

Paul Gross

Murray Bartlett

Tales of the City (2019) TV Show

6.8 93 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Mary Ann returns to present-day San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter and ex-husband, twenty years after leaving them behind to pursue her career. Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal, her chosen family and a new generation of queer young residents living at 28 Barbary Lane.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: san francisco, california, based on novel or book, apartment building, lgbt, eclectic, thoughtful, reflective, ...

10 Things I Hate About You (2009) TV Show

6.8 83 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: Outspoken Kat Stratford couldn't be less like her sister, super sweet, yet kinda conformist Bianca. The only things they seem to have in common are being new at school and their overprotective dad.

Style: witty

Plot: sibling relationship, high school, based on movie, overprotective parent, teen drama

Place: california

Cast

John C. Reilly

Joaquin Phoenix

Jake Gyllenhaal

Riz Ahmed

The Sisters Brothers (2018)

6.8 2.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western

Country: France, Spain

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

Plot: gold, based on novel or book, hitman, san francisco, california, male friendship, gold rush, oregon, ...

Time: 19th century

Thelma (2024)

6.8 437 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: United States of America, Switzerland

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.

Style: absurd

Plot: widow, scam, female protagonist, los angeles, california, scooter, duringcreditsstinger, old-age home, ...

Cast

Tom Hardy

Michelle Williams

Riz Ahmed

Scott Haze

Venom (2018)

6.8 17.3K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: China, United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of Venom, a violent, super powerful alien symbiote. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own.

Plot: spacecraft, san francisco, california, superhero, anti hero, alien life-form, based on comic, aftercreditsstinger, ...

Cast

Rachel Bloom

Donna Lynne Champlin

Vincent Rodriguez III

Pete Gardner

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015) TV Show

6.8 194 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 62

Audience: TV-14

Story: Rebecca Bunch is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything - her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan - in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance and adventure: suburban West Covina, California.

Plot: ex-lover, musical, relationship, searching for love

Place: california

Cast

Colin Farrell

Sam Rockwell

Woody Harrelson

Christopher Walken

Seven Psychopaths (2012)

6.8 4.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

Plot: suicide, alcohol, fight, kidnapping, gangster, screenwriter, black humor, murder, ...

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Meg Ryan

Dennis Franz

Andre Braugher

City of Angels (1998)

6.8 2.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.

Plot: suicide, operation, life and death, afterlife, angel, faith, heaven, remake, ...

Suits LA (2025) TV Show

6.8 60 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York, has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. But his firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career.

Plot: los angeles, california, spin off, legal drama

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