3,188 Films & TV Shows Set In California
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
California Louisiana England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇳 China Africa - General The 1960s The 1920s The 2020s The 2030s The 2060s The 18th CenturyThe future awaits — Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends—to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
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The Last Thing He Wanted
California Florida Missouri The 1980sAt the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.
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Greyhound
California The 1940sThe only thing more dangerous than the front lines was the fight to get there. — A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.
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Followed
CaliforniaWho's following you? — Social media influencer, 'DropTheMike', seeks thrills and stardom in the most horrific places. When he’s offered the possibility of a lucrative sponsorship, he takes his online channel to one of the most haunted hotels in America. What begins as a fun challenge accompanied by friends descends into a personal hell, begging the timely question: how far would you go to pursue internet fame?
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Friendsgiving
CaliforniaAnd you thought family was complicated — Newly-divorced actress Molly, her recently-dumped lesbian best friend Abby and Molly’s mother Helen host a dysfunctional, comical and chaotic Thanksgiving dinner for their motley crew of close friends and strange acquaintances.
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Poor Greg Drowning
CaliforniaGreg is a love addict whose girlfriend left him for their couples therapist. Depressed, heartbroken, and unemployed, Greg must find a roommate to help pay rent. But Greg scares all potential roommates away, except for a girl named Peyton who moves in and whom Greg falls madly in love with.
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The Way Back
CaliforniaEvery loss is another fight. — A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater.
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All Day and a Night
CaliforniaBorn. Gangster. Repeat. — While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
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I Am Woman
New York Nevada District of Columbia California The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sThe Helen Reddy story and the song that inspired a revolution — The story of Helen Reddy, who, in 1966, landed in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase, and $230 in her pocket. Within weeks, she was broke. Within months, she was in love. Within five years, she was one of the biggest superstars of her time and an icon of the 1970s feminist movement who wrote a song which galvanized a generation of women to fight for change.
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The Tax Collector
CaliforniaPayback comes with interest. — David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to Los Angeles that puts everything David loves in harm’s way.
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Run Sweetheart Run
CaliforniaA woman runs for her life though the streets of Los Angeles after her blind date suddenly turns violent.
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Kajillionaire
California The 2020sKnow your worth. — Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
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Fatale
Nevada CaliforniaOne mistake can change your life. — After a one-night stand, a successful married man finds himself entangled and tricked in a female detective's latest investigation murder scheme.
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Endings, Beginnings
CaliforniaAn artist dumps her longtime boyfriend, but her attempt to take a break from dating ends when she quickly finds herself in two passionate romances.
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Jungleland
Nevada California MassachusettsStanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
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The Invisible Man
California The 2020sWhat You Can't See Can Hurt You — When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
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Psych 2: Lassie Come Home
CaliforniaAfter Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter is ambushed and left for dead, Shawn and Gus return to help him and find themselves embroiled in a case involving the personal, the professional—and even the supernatural.
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The Kissing Booth 2
California The 2020sRules can be broken...but so can hearts. — With college decisions looming, Elle juggles her long-distance romance with Noah, changing relationship with bestie Lee and feelings for a new classmate.
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Palm Springs
California Texas The 2020sLive like there's no tomorrow — When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.
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Love and Monsters
CaliforniaAn apocalyptic love story. — Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite with her, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.
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The Craft: Legacy
CaliforniaLet the ritual begin — An eclectic foursome of aspiring teenage witches get more than they bargained for as they lean into their newfound powers.
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The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee
California 🇦🇺 Australia The 2020sHe's back, whether he likes it or not. — Paul tries to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.
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Mank
California The 1940s The 1930s1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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Stage Mother
California TexasSex, drag and rock & roll — A conservative church-choir director moves to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.
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The Banker
District of Columbia California Texas The 1960s The 1950s The 1930sDon’t pay the man. Be the man. — In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.
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