Movies: Los angeles california

Wylie carries a telescope through the streets of Los Angeles to offer passersby a new and closer look at a familiar object: the moon. Because everyone needs to keep looking up. Because it is a beautiful and wondrous sight to behold the body of the mo...

An aspiring British actress moves to LA to become a star, only to cross paths with a serial killer using her acting class to find victims....

The Racket Boys is a modern comedy about two men and a woman driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco for individual reasons, but the same goal -- finding happiness and a reason for it all. A simple story of friends on the road, searching for meanin...

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A German documentary that explores the darker side of the Beach Boys, primarily focusing on Brian Wilson and the Pet Sounds album, with detours to the Manson Family....

“Set against the rattle of shopping carts and the white noise of L.A. traffic... “Disco’d” is an unvarnished, moving look at the lives affected by the rising crisis of homelessness.” —Los Angeles Times...

In this 1972 BBC Films production, architectural historian Reyner Banham takes the viewer on a tour of what he describes as the “four ecologies” of the city of Los Angeles: Surfurbia, Foothills, The Plains of Id, and Autopia (beach, basin, foothills,...

A film by Lee Rhoads uses unique archival photographs and footage of Los Angeles's love affair with automobiles. In the opening scene, a classic glimpse of Los Angeles and its car owners circa the 1970s is offered, and it deftly relates the transit h...

On a cold autumn night, a self-proclaimed playboy and his shifty friend take a ride-share they'll never forget. The two encounter a gregarious ride-share driver, an unusually long red light, and a sexual partner with a trick up her sleeve....

2024, Los Angeles, CA, the city of angels. Plunging us into the moment, this is a visceral cinematic snapshot of the era. What remains is an inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera....

Sunny Day is a dark comedy that explores a day in the life of Trevor Reynolds, a successful real estate agent who has everything a young man could want - looks, money prestige, women - everything but happiness, that is. In an effort to find this so c...

The year is 1969. When her psychotic ex shows up for dinner in her new home, a pregnant housewife struggles to hide her true identity from her fiancee whilst battling to keep her own sanity....

A member of a gang of bank robbers is also cutting the throats of girls he has picked up in a club, so two female cops go on his trail....

As the pressures of daily life mount in a rapidly changing city, some residents turn to dance roller skating as an activity for release, creating a style unique to Los Angeles....

A broke Brit tries to pick-up girls, earn some money and navigate Los Angeles....

Max, a failed writer, goes in search of her estranged girlfriend while simultaneously, trying to unload a large quantity of drugs she stole off her bosses to pay for a trip back East to care for her dying mother. She also might have her dead sister i...

A documentary about Dr. Barbara Myerhoff and Los Angeles's Fairfax district....

Straight off the streets of South Central L.A., CJ Mac brings you a documentary about a gang ritual that has become a popular dance craze. Hear the opinions from the artists who made the C-Walk mainstream through music videos and live performances, a...

A colorful day in the secret life of a graffiti artist looking to make a mark....

A cynical and burnt-out Los Angeles bounty hunter (Angel Sommers) spends her days surrounded by liars, gamblers, misogynists and other social deviants. And those are just her co-workers. When a contract comes in that's big enough to fund her dreams o...