Top California Movies & TV Shows

HEROMAN (2010) TV Show

7.6 65 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-PG

Story: An American kid named Joey lives in Center City, USA & has always wanted to become a hero. Unfortunately, he's just an orphan working part-time to support his grandma and himself. After he watched a commercial of a new robot action figure, Joey believe he'll gain strength if he obtains one. The only robot toy he can get his hands on is a broken one that was abandoned by a rich school bully. Feeling pity for the trashed action figure, Joey took it home to repair it. Little did he know, that once he repairs the toy, it'll make his hero dream become a reality.

Plot: superhero, mecha, giant robot, based on manga, alien invasion, shounen, anime

Place: california

Cast

Steve Carell

Timothu00e9e Chalamet

Maura Tierney

Amy Ryan

Beautiful Boy (2018)

7.6 2.9K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

Plot: based on novel or book, san francisco, california, drug addiction, biography, based on true story, drug rehabilitation, based on memoir or autobiography, ...

Cast

David Duchovny

Natascha McElhone

Evan Handler

Pamela Adlon

Californication (2007) TV Show

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 84

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.

Plot: self-destruction, change, addiction, writer, willpower

Place: california

Cast

Jason Statham

Holt McCallany

Rocci Williams

Josh Hartnett

Wrath of Man (2021)

7.6 6.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: A cold and mysterious new security guard for a Los Angeles cash truck company surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman's ultimate motive becomes clear as he takes dramatic and irrevocable steps to settle a score.

Plot: crime boss, armored car, remake, revenge, shootout, shooter, los angeles, california, ...

Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Anne Bancroft

Katharine Ross

Murray Hamilton

The Graduate (1967)

7.6 3.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Plot: love triangle, seduction, college, older woman seduces younger guy, romance, coming of age, los angeles, california, ...

Cast

Ryan Gosling

Harrison Ford

Ana de Armas

Dave Bautista

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

7.6 15.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, United Kingdom

Duration: 164 min.

Audience: R

Story: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Style: slow burn

Plot: android, bounty hunter, artificial intelligence (a.i.), dystopia, sequel, cyberpunk, transhumanism, los angeles, ...

Time: future, 2040s

Place: las vegas

Cast

Humphrey Bogart

Lauren Bacall

John Ridgely

Martha Vickers

The Big Sleep (1946)

7.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

Plot: based on novel or book, gambling, poison, blackmail, detective, drug addiction, sister, film noir, ...

Cast

Olivia Wilde

Seth Rogen

Penu00e9lope Cruz

Edward Norton

The Invite (2026)

7.6 53 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places.

Plot: husband wife relationship, remake, firefighter, sexologist, neighbors

Place: san francisco, california

Cast

Ryan Gosling

Carey Mulligan

Bryan Cranston

Albert Brooks

Drive (2011)

7.6 13.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

Plot: robbery, car mechanic, stuntman, beaten to death, revenge, organized crime, neighbor, police chase, ...

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

7.6 917 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

Plot: marriage proposal, san francisco, california, vacation, ruling class, interracial relationship, dinner, doctor, ...

Cast

Angelina Jolie

John Malkovich

Jeffrey Donovan

Michael Kelly

Changeling (2008)

7.6 4.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: R

Story: Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

Plot: biography, based on true story, clergyman, child in peril, police corruption, los angeles, california, single mother, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Jane Fonda

Michael Sarrazin

Susannah York

Gig Young

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

7.6 371 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.

Style: bleak

Plot: dancing, based on novel or book, dance competition, boardwalk, marathon, pregnant woman, endurance, depression era, ...

Cast

Cedric the Entertainer

Max Greenfield

Tichina Arnold

Beth Behrs

The Neighborhood (2018) TV Show

7.6 175 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 155

Audience: TV-PG

Story: The nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness. That includes their new next-door neighbor Calvin.

Plot: neighbor, fish out of water, los angeles, california, next door neighbor, neighborhood

Cast

Michael Douglas

Sean Penn

Deborah Kara Unger

James Rebhorn

The Game (1997)

7.6 7.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

Plot: san francisco, california, manipulation, danger of life, puzzle, birthday present, conspiracy thriller, bewildered

Cast

John Cho

Michelle La

Debra Messing

Joseph Lee

Searching (2018)

7.6 4.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

Plot: stalker, disappearance, internet, east asian lead, police detective, missing person, missing child, computer screen, ...

Place: california

Cast

Deborah Ayorinde

Pam Grier

Luke James

Joshua J. Williams

Them (2021) TV Show

7.6 470 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A limited anthology series that explores terror in America.

Plot: anthology, los angeles, california, compton, california, horror

Time: 1950s, 1990s

Cast

Christian Slater

Patricia Arquette

Dennis Hopper

Val Kilmer

True Romance (1993)

7.5 3.1K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Romance

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Style: intimate, suspenseful, intense

Plot: hotel, parent child relationship, movie business, detective, mexican standoff, pimp, cocaine, ex-cop, ...

Cast

Chris O'Donnell

Daniela Ruah

Eric Christian Olsen

Barrett Foa

NCIS: Los Angeles (2009) TV Show

7.5 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 14

Episodes: 323

Audience: TV-14

Story: The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.

Plot: undercover, navy, los angeles, california, spin off, u.s. marine, military, crime investigation

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal

Mark Ruffalo

Anthony Edwards

Robert Downey Jr.

Zodiac (2007)

7.5 11.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 157 min.

Audience: R

Story: Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.

Plot: newspaper, journalist, based on novel or book, police, san francisco, california, killing, detective, ...

Time: 1970s, 1960s

Place: california

Cast

Robert Crumb

Aline Kominsky

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Crumb (1995)

7.5 282 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, ex-wife and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind.

Plot: underground, san francisco, california, obsession, fetish, artist, cartoon, nerd, ...

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