Movies and TV shows set in california – page 2

List of movies set in california

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 7.4
 51K
Virgin River (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: After seeing an ad for a midwife, a recently divorced big-city nurse moves to the redwood forests of California, where she meets an intriguing man.
Style: captivating, sincere, entertaining, exciting, erotic ...
Plot: small town, flirting, friendship, new life, small town life, comeback, escape attempt, medical, hopes, new job, destiny, love story ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california
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Santa Clarita Diet (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.
Style: absurd, dark comedy, funny, horror comedy, entertaining ...
Plot: cannibalism, zombie, cannibal, murder, flesh eating zombie, real estate, real estate agent, family relations, women, teenager, couples, occult ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california
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 6.8
 57K
Odd Thomas (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
Style: twist ending, suspense, stylized, serious, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: afterlife, supernatural ability, psychic, able to see the dead, supernatural, seeing dead people, husband wife relationship, a vision, good versus evil, transformation, plot twist, evil force ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, las vegas
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Point of Origin (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fact-based drama about an arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.
Style: surprise ending, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: firefighter, arson, arsonist, delusion, investigation, law enforcement, fire, tragic hero, rescue, escapades, race against time, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa
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 7.4
 42K
Love & Mercy (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The life of reclusive and eccentric Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson.
Style: factual, emotional, intense, melancholic, talky ...
Plot: mental illness, musician, music, pop music, biopic, psychotherapist, rock music, songwriter, drug abuse, addiction, showbiz, medical malpractice ...
Time: 60s, 80s, year 2014, year 2016, 2010s ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa, malibu california, southern california
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 6.9
 57K
The Majestic (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Style: feel good, sentimental, inspirational, touching, period piece ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, mistaken identity, writers, writer's life, amnesia, happy ending, justice, life philosophy, hollywood, memory loss, memory, parents and children ...
Time: 1950s, year 2001, 20th century, 50s, year 1951
Place: california, usa
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American Graffiti (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Style: humorous, teen, melancholic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, small town, rock and roll, friendship, car, drag racing, teenager, street racing, first love, love at first sight, rebellious youth ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1950s, near future, year 1973 ...
Place: california, arizona, usa
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 7.1
 138K
Wild (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Style: meditative, road movie, uplifting, inspirational, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: wilderness, self discovery, survival, nature, hiking, grief, female protagonist, starting over, human spirit, death of mother, cheating on husband, traveler ...
Time: year 1995, year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 90s
Place: california, portland oregon, usa, mojave desert, oregon ...
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The Chumscrubber (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, bleak, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, kidnapping, youth, suburbs, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, friendship, mistaken identity, high school, teenager, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion ...
Style: humorous, touching, melancholic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mother daughter relationship, addiction, hollywood, drug addiction, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, rehabilitation, women, depression, female protagonist, drug, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 6.3
 36K
Nurse Betty (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, light, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: happy ending, murder, medical, psychology, hospital, memory loss, delusion, losing-it hero, obsessive quest, road trip, mental illness, killer ...
Time: y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, kansas, usa, kansas city ...
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 6.2
 14K
Twilight (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.
Style: neo noir, suspense, clever, talky, detective ...
Plot: private detective, murder, bare breasts, female nudity, missing person, corruption, betrayal, police investigation, murder mystery, femme fatale, uncover truth, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 6.2
 4K
Falcon Crest (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the ...
Style: soap opera, realistic, captivating, serious, touching ...
Plot: wealthy family, family relations, rivalry, intrigue, betrayal, family business, family problems, family feud, parents and children, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: california, usa
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 8.1
 347K
Chinatown (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double ...
Style: neo noir, detective, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak ...
Audience: date night
Plot: private detective, corruption, investigation, femme fatale, rape, police, murder, conspiracy, domestic violence, father daughter incest, incest, investigator ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1974, year 1937
Place: los angeles, california, usa, eastern europe, america ...
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 7.3
 200K
Point Break (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send ...
Style: exciting, suspense, cult classic, intense, neo noir ...
Audience: kids, manly, boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, extreme sport, extreme sports, surfer, surfing, gang, robbery, gangster, undercover, bank robber, buddy, fbi ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, australia, north america
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Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Style: road movie, realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: road trip, character study, dysfunctional family, on the road, drifter, alienation, hitchhiker, working class, piano, self discovery, pianist, bowling ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place: california, usa, oregon, washington state, northern california ...
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 6.7
 58K
Kalifornia (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Style: neo noir, bleak, road movie, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, road trip, lovers on the run, journalist, redneck, on the road, mental illness, insanity, journalism, ex convict, motel ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, pittsburgh, texas
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 7.4
 42K
McFarland, USA (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.
Style: inspirational, touching, uplifting, feel good, exciting ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, kids
Plot: teacher, underdog, coach, track and field, high school, athlete and trainer, human spirit, mentor, teenager, school, competition, dedicated educator ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, palo alto california
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Repo Man (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, alien, surrealism, car trunk, punk rocker, absurdism, mad scientist, car chase, conspiracy theory, punk rock, ufo, business ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984, future
Place: california, los angeles, arizona, usa
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 6.8
 82K
The Fog (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses ...
Style: slasher, creepy, atmospheric, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: ghost, lighthouse, small town, revenge, ship, blood, radio station, sword, monster, ghost ship, supernatural horror, murder ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: california, northern california, usa, pacific ocean
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 5.9
 21K
Nancy Drew (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Intrepid teenage private eye Nancy Drew heads to Tinseltown with her father to investigate the unsolved murder of a movie star in this old-fashioned whodunit based on Carolyn Keene's popular series of books for young adults. But can the ...
Style: teen, detective, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: teenager, young heroes, amateur detective, private detective, family relations, danger, investigation, father daughter relationship, who done it, single parent, riddles and clues, hollywood ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 7.0
 10K
The Wood (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the ...
Style: realistic, feel good, touching, hood, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, wedding, high school, african american, black, hip hop, storytelling, homecoming, writers, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 80s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Melrose Place (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In an elegant Spanish-style apartment building in the trendy Melrose neighborhood of Los Angeles, a diverse group of 20-somethings have formed a close-knit surrogate family. However, when a bloody body is found floating in the courtyard pool, the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized, captivating, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lifestyle, murder, neighbor, dishonesty, betrayal, medical school, manipulation, young adult, secret, deception, prostitution, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s
Place: california, beverly hills, los angeles, usa
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 5.6
 1K
Back Roads (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
Style: road movie, realistic, humorous, semi serious, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hitchhiking, on the road, police, love and romance, hopes, couples, male female relationship, prostitute, fight, survival, lost girl, outlaw ...
Time: 20th century, year 1981, 80s
Place: california, alabama
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 6.5
 74K
Bowfinger (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, movie business, satire, dog, actor, cameraman, audition, desire for fame, african american, deception, actress ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Saved by the Bell: The College Years (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Saved by the Bell: The College Years is a sequel to the Saved by the Bell series which ran from September 14, 1993 to February 8, 1994, lasting one season. It was the third incarnation of the franchise. It is also the only series of the franchise to ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, student life, looking for love, love and romance, lifestyle, teachers and students, youth, coming of age, best friend, university ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, usa
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 5.2
 646
Red Letters (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: college, prison, law enforcement, dishonesty, obsession, destructive relationship, amateur detective, murder, escaped prisoner, nudity, life is a bitch, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, mojave desert
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 7.7
 593K
Zodiac (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, murder mystery, maniac, journalism, mind game, journalist, paranoia, killings, killer, true crime ...
Time: 70s, year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1970 ...
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
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 8.9
 2.2M
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, exciting, witty, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: gangster, dark humor, organized crime, gunfight, violence, hitman, overdose, multiple storylines, violent, killings, drug, redemption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, persia, america, peru ...
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 6.8
 27K
Bulworth (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Style: political, humorous, witty, funny, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: politics, political satire, hip hop, political corruption, election, interracial romance, fighting the system, senator, insurance, satire, campaign, media satire ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, america, washington d.c. ...
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