Top California Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Denzel Washington

Rami Malek

Jared Leto

Chris Bauer

The Little Things (2021)

6.4 2.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.

Plot: detective, deputy sheriff, cop, serial killer, crime scene, los angeles, california, series of murders, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Will Smith

Charlize Theron

Jason Bateman

Jae Head

Hancock (2008)

6.4 10.3K votes

Genre: Action, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?

Plot: love of one's life, flying, alcohol, advertising expert, superhero, pokies, forbidden love, lovers, ...

Cast

Taylor Kitsch

Blake Lively

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

John Travolta

Savages (2012)

6.4 2.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel that kidnapped their shared girlfriend.

Plot: explosive, widow, american abroad, eye gouging, dea agent, shot, southern california, surrogate daughter, ...

Cast

James Woods

Lesley Ann Warren

Charles Durning

Charles Haid

Cop (1988)

6.3 144 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

Plot: daughter, high school, prostitute, rape, based on novel or book, police, sports car, homophobia, ...

Alcatraz (2012) TV Show

6.3 307 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: A unique team, consisting of a federal agent, a police officer and a conspiracy theory novelist, investigate the shocking reappearance of Alcatraz's most notorious prisoners, fifty years after they supposedly vanished.

Plot: san francisco, california, alcatraz prison, time travel, disappearance, police detective, escaped prisoner

Shut Eye (2016) TV Show

6.3 62 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A darkly comedic look at the world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them. Former magician Charlie Haverford oversees a number of fortune telling parlors on behalf of his violent and domineering Romani kingpin boss, until a blow to the head jars him into a new mindset, making him question everything he has ever believed.

Plot: con man, dark comedy, organized crime, los angeles, california, psychic

Cast

Danny Glover

Gary Busey

Rubu00e9n Blades

Maru00eda Conchita Alonso

Predator 2 (1990)

6.3 3.9K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.

Plot: predator, war on drugs, extraterrestrial technology, sequel, alien, los angeles, california, creature, ...

Cast

Wang Baoqiang

Liu Haoran

Chow Yun-Fat

White-K

Detective Chinatown 1900 (2025)

6.3 97 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: 15

Story: In 1900, the mysterious murder of a white woman and a Native American man in San Francisco's Chinatown triggers a race against time as the Chinese suspect and the Native American's adopted Chinese son work to uncover the truth while a politician seeks to leverage the Chinese Exclusion Bill as well as the prevailing xenophobia and racism to close down Chinatown and elect himself as the mayor.

Plot: san francisco, california, chinatown, prequel, murder, buddy comedy, action comedy

Time: 1900s, 20th century

Cast

Melanie Griffith

Matthew Modine

Michael Keaton

Mako

Pacific Heights (1990)

6.3 423 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

Plot: cheating, san francisco, california, psychopath, staircase, attempted murder, con man, ladder, ...

Cast

Mia Goth

Elizabeth Debicki

Moses Sumney

Michelle Monaghan

MaXXXine (2024)

6.3 1.5K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.

Plot: pornography, gore, sequel, murder, fame, slasher, hollywood, whodunit, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Jay Ellis

Pedro Pascal

Ben Mendelsohn

Normani

Freaky Tales (2025)

6.3 247 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1987 Oakland, a mysterious force guides The Town's underdogs in four interconnected tales: teen punks defend their turf against Nazi skinheads, a rap duo battles for hip-hop immortality, a weary henchman gets a shot at redemption, and an NBA All-Star settles the score.

Plot: martial arts, skinhead, nazi, assault, diner, punk rock, surrealism, female friendship, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Steve Martin

Diane Keaton

Martin Short

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Father of the Bride Part II (1995)

6.3 816 votes

Genre: Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that—like George—will have to change with the arrival of both a grandchild and a kid of his own.

Plot: daughter, baby, parent child relationship, midlife crisis, pregnancy, confidence, aging, sequel, ...

The Cell (2000)

6.3 1.7K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.

Plot: schizophrenia, drowning, virtual reality, therapist, psychopath, fbi, investigation, horse, ...

Place: california

Cast

Sofia Kappel

Zelda Morrison

Tee Reel

Evelyn Claire

Pleasure (2021)

6.3 802 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Sweden, France

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: NR

Story: 19 year old Linnéa leaves her small town in Sweden and heads for Los Angeles with the aim of becoming the world's next big porn star, but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.

Style: intimate, absurd

Plot: pornography, female friendship, porn star, female protagonist, los angeles, california, porn industry, porn actress, ...

Cast

Liam Neeson

Forest Whitaker

Maggie Grace

Dougray Scott

Taken 3 (2014)

6.3 6.2K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.

Plot: escape, funeral, gas station, detective, bodyguard, suspicion of murder, golf, penthouse apartment, ...

Place: california

Cast

Ethan Hawke

Lena Headey

Max Burkholder

Adelaide Kane

The Purge (2013)

6.3 8.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: R

Story: Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.

Plot: dystopia, barricade, bloody fight, home invasion, survival horror, blood lust, rich vs poor, constitutional convention, ...

Place: california

Cast

Dwayne Johnson

Alexandra Daddario

Carla Gugino

Ioan Gruffudd

San Andreas (2015)

6.2 9.1K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.

Plot: san francisco, california, looting, earthquake, tsunami, disaster, los angeles, california, ...

Place: california

The Internship (2013)

6.2 4.5K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

Style: irreverent

Plot: friendship, competition, job interview, mattress shop, silicon valley, rivalry, fish out of water, dating, ...

Place: california

Cast

Steve Carell

Anne Hathaway

Dwayne Johnson

Alan Arkin

Get Smart (2008)

6.2 3.9K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When members of the nefarious crime syndicate KAOS attack the U.S. spy agency Control and the identities of secret agents are compromised, the Chief has to promote hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart to field agent. He is partnered with veteran and capable Agent 99, the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the evil world-domination plans of KAOS and its crafty operative?

Plot: dancing, mission, usa president, washington dc, usa, airplane, undercover agent, spy, ...

Cast

Thomas Jane

Luke Kleintank

Josh Hopkins

David Krumholtz

Crown Vic (2019)

6.2 224 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Taiwan, United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone.

Plot: police brutality, drug addiction, los angeles, california, rookie cop, one night, night patrol, ride along, ...

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