Top California Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Kurt Russell

Teri Hatcher

Jack Palance

Tango & Cash (1989)

6.5 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income they have caused him, plots an elaborate revenge against them.

Plot: prisoner, war on drugs, los angeles, california, buddy cop, playful

Cast

Neve Campbell

David Arquette

Courteney Cox

Emma Roberts

Scream 4 (2011)

6.5 4.2K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.

Style: satirical, absurd

Plot: rescue, mask, sheriff, jealousy, dark comedy, victim, knife, self-inflicted injury, ...

Place: california

Cast

Steve Martin

Diane Keaton

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Kieran Culkin

Father of the Bride (1991)

6.5 1.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG

Story: George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 22 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. His wife tries to make him happy for Annie, but when the wedding takes place at their home and a foreign wedding planner takes over the ceremony, he becomes slightly insane.

Plot: daughter, wedding planner, bride, son-in-law, father-in-law, fool, remake, los angeles, ...

Cast

Billy Campbell

Jennifer Connelly

Alan Arkin

Timothy Dalton

The Rocketeer (1991)

6.5 1.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.

Plot: nazi, superhero, airplane wreck, based on comic, airship, steampunk, los angeles, california, ...

Time: 1930s

Cast

Jake Johnson

Damon Wayans Jr.

Rob Riggle

Nina Dobrev

Let's Be Cops (2014)

6.5 3.0K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed as police in the mistaken belief that they were to attend a costume party, Ryan and Justin find that the uniforms earn them much respect and attention. Although Justin is uncomfortable with the idea, Ryan decides to continue with the charade, putting them both in increasingly dangerous situations. When these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

Style: absurd

Plot: robbery, corruption, police, kidnapping, nightclub, investigation, affectation, male friendship, ...

Cast

Christian Bale

Freddy Rodru00edguez

Eva Longoria

Chaka Forman

Harsh Times (2005)

6.4 787 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.

Plot: prostitute, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), drug use, friends, los angeles, california, theft, drinking, ...

Cast

Jesse Eisenberg

Kristen Stewart

Steve Carell

Blake Lively

Café Society (2016)

6.4 2.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

Plot: new year's eve, baby, love triangle, gangster, marriage, letter, love, murder, ...

Time: 1930s

Cast

Kiefer Sutherland

Reese Witherspoon

Wolfgang Bodison

Dan Hedaya

Freeway (1996)

6.4 438 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

Style: philosophical, intense

Plot: prison, prostitute, sexual abuse, detective, runaway, attempt to escape, little red riding hood, stepfather, ...

Place: california

Cellular (2004)

6.4 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.

Plot: police, psychopath, bank, telephone, los angeles, california, home invasion, cell phone, ...

Cast

Robert De Niro

Morgan Freeman

Michael Douglas

Kevin Kline

Last Vegas (2013)

6.4 2.3K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, all four friends go to Las Vegas to celebrate the end of Billy's longtime bachelorhood and relive their glory days. However, the four quickly realize that the intervening decades have changed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they had not imagined.

Plot: new york city, new jersey, casino, drag queen, married couple, sarcasm, male friendship, grandfather, ...

Place: florida, california, las vegas

Cast

Danny Glover

Kevin Kline

Steve Martin

Mary McDonnell

Grand Canyon (1991)

6.4 214 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.

Plot: adultery, friendship, hope, earthquake, grand canyon, arrest, los angeles, california, ...

Cast

Howard Duff

Brian Donlevy

Peggy Dow

Lawrence Tierney

Shakedown (1950)

6.4 24 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 80 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.

Plot: infidelity, robbery, san francisco, california, photographer, gangster, despair, blackmail, ...

WHAT / IF (2019) TV Show

6.4 181 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A pair of cash-strapped newlyweds accept a lucrative but morally dubious offer from a mysterious female benefactor.

Plot: san francisco, california, capitalist, marriage, anthology, money, miniseries, neo-noir, ...

Time: 2010s

Cast

Anna Kendrick

Daniel Zovatto

Nicolette Robinson

Jedidiah Goodacre

Woman of the Hour (2024)

6.4 1.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: An aspiring actress crosses paths with a prolific serial killer in '70s LA when they're cast on an episode of "The Dating Game."

Style: chilling

Plot: new york city, wyoming, usa, rape, photographer, based on true story, serial killer, female protagonist, ...

Time: 1970s, 20th century

Place: california

Dharma & Greg (1997) TV Show

6.4 284 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 119

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Dharma & Greg is an American television sitcom that aired from September 24, 1997, to April 30, 2002.It stars Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as Dharma and Greg Montgomery, a couple who got married on their first date despite being complete opposites. The series is co-produced by Chuck Lorre Productions, More-Medavoy Productions and 4 to 6 Foot Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The show's theme song was written and performed by composer Dennis C. Brown.Created by executive producers Dottie Dartland and Chuck Lorre, the comedy took much of its inspiration from so-called culture-clash "fish out of water" situations. The show earned eight Golden Globe nominations, six Emmy Award nominations, and six Satellite Awards nominations. Elfman earned a Golden Globe in 1999 for Best Actress.

Style: whimsical

Plot: san francisco, california, love at first sight, marriage, family relationships, relationship, unlikely lovers, sitcom, ...

Cast

Josh Brolin

Ryan Gosling

Sean Penn

Nick Nolte

Gangster Squad (2013)

6.4 4.3K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.

Style: tense, witty

Plot: gangster, los angeles, california, griffith observatory, dramatic

Time: 1940s

No Good Deed (2024) TV Show

6.4 95 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The sale of Paul and Lydia's picture-perfect LA home forces them to face painful family secrets — and hide them from prying eyes and cutthroat buyers.

Style: witty

Plot: anthology, rivalry, dark comedy, los angeles, california, mysterious, offbeat

Cast

Mila Kunis

Kate McKinnon

Justin Theroux

Sam Heughan

The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)

6.4 2.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: A couple of thirtysomething best friends unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail.

Plot: berlin, germany, paris, france, spy, prague, czech republic, female friendship, ...

Cast

Gaby Hoffmann

Amy Landecker

Judith Light

Jay Duplass

Transparent (2014) TV Show

6.4 171 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 41

Audience: TV-MA

Story: An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.

Plot: family drama, los angeles, california, lgbt, trans woman

Cast

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Elizabeth Olsen

Juliette Binoche

Bryan Cranston

Godzilla (2014)

6.4 9.9K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

Plot: monster, san francisco, california, giant monster, tsunami, remake, prehistoric creature, golden gate bridge, ...

Place: japan, hawaii

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