Los Angeles, 2008. Şehir, sosyal, ekonomik ve çevresel bir felaketin eşiğinde duruyor. 4 Temmuz kutlamaları için hazırlıklar son 3 gününe girmiştir. Hafıza kaybı sorunu yaşayan Boxer Santaros'un yolu, kendi TV programını hazırlamaya çalışan yetişkin filmlerinin ünlü oyuncusu Krysta Now'la ve polis Hermosa Beach'le çakışır.
Ben (Aaron Johnson) kendini dine adamış bir Budist ve yardımseverdir. En iyi arkadaşı Chun (Taylor Kitsch) ise eski bir paralı askerdir. Uyuşturucu satıcıları gibi görünmemelerine rağmen, birlikte en iyi kalite esrar satarak rahat rahat geçinebiliyorlardır. Böylesine karlı bir iş dışında paylaştıkları başka bir şey daha vardır: Ophelia (Blake Lively). Ortak sevgilileri Ophelia iki genç ve hırslı girişimciyi idare edebilecek bir kadındır. Ancak Ben ve Chun kendilerini dünyanın üzerinde hissederken, onlara mutluluk veren kanunsuz, zevke düşkün hayatlarının korkunç yan etkileri ortaya çıkmaya başlar. Meksikalı Baja karteli ikiliden pay ister. Kartel Ophelia’yı kaçırır ve Ben ve Chun'ı şartlara uymazlarsa sevgililerini öldürmekle tehdit eder. Çaresiz uyuşturucu satıcıları sahtekâr bir narkotik ajanından (John Travolta) yardım istemek zorunda kalırlar.
Annesi Charlene tarafından büyütülen Greg Laurie ve bir grup genç, herhangi bir kurtuluş yolu ile gerçeği yeniden tanımlamak için güneşli Güney Kaliforniya'ya gider. Burada tesadüfen karizmatik bir hippi sokak vaizi olan Lonnie Frisbee ve kilisesinin kapılarını dolaşan bir gençliğe açan Papaz Chuck Smith ile tanışır. Ortaya çıkan şey, Amerikan tarihindeki en büyük ruhsal uyanış olur.
Münzevi müzisyen Brian Wilson'ın hayatını anlatan film, sanatçının 1960'lı yıllardaki başarılarından The Beach Boys günlerine uzanan bir çizgide ilerliyor. Wilson'ın hem şarkı sözü yazarı hem solist olarak sürdürdüğü sanatçı kişiliğinin yanı sıra yaşadığı psikolojik sorunlar da filmde odaklanılan noktalardan biri. Babasının yol açtığı travmaları yıllarca taşıyan Wilson'ın gördüğü tedaviler ve Melinda Ledbetter ile yaşadığı aşkın da ele alındığı filmde Wildson'ın gençliğini Paul Dano, ileri yaş dönemini John Cusack canlandırıyor.
Straight-arrow Barry has moved 3000 miles away from lackluster Ohio to attend college in sunny SoCal, and his friend Douglas has come along for the ride. Barry has his education on his mind; Douglas, the consummate mover-and-shaker, plans to make Barry a "Bar Star." Everyone knows the "Bar Star," the nightclub denizen that: like James Bond, he knows that every woman wants him, and every random guy wants to be just like him.
Bu duygu yüklü belgesel, 1960'lı yılların ortalarında genç ve yaratıcı müzisyenler için bir kaynaşma noktası olan Hollywood'daki Laurel Kanyonu'na odaklanıyor.
When Pete Carroll took over the football program at USC after the 2000 season, the once-great Trojans were under siege. But thanks to his football knowledge, upbeat personality and recruiting skills, Southern Cal was soon back atop the college football world as home attendance skyrocketed, Carson Palmer, Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush won Heismans and the Trojans put together a 34-game winning streak. As it would be later discovered, though, the program was committing sins that would result in lost scholarships, victories and one of those Heismans. But those revelations didn’t come until after the national championship game in the 2006 Rose Bowl between USC and the University of Texas. Featuring interviews with Carroll, Leinart and others inside the USC program at the time, “Trojan War” looks at Carroll’s nine-year USC reign through the prism of that game, considered one of the greatest in college football history. It was also the beginning of the end.
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee.
The never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group of surfers and hippies in Southern California that became the largest suppliers of psychedelic drugs in the world during the 1960s and early 1970s. Bonded by their dreams to fight social injustice and spread peace, this unlikely band of free-spirited idealists quickly transformed into a drug-smuggling empire and at the same time inadvertently invented the modern illegal drug trade. At the head of the Brotherhood, and the heart of this story, is the anti-capitalistic husband and wife team, who made it their mission to change the world through LSD.
Set in early-2000s SoCal, Smoking Tigers follows a Korean American girl as she navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality of her low-income family and wealthy, elite high school environment.
This Pete Smith Sports Champion short visits Southern California where it quickly moves from orange orchards to the mountain snow playground at Big Pines L.A. County Camp for some winter sports including sledding, skating, and ski jumping.
A carefree teen must defend his family's bubble tea shop from a real estate developer with a mysterious link to his past.
A raw and unparalleled DIY documentary about the West Coast Punk scene made by a group of young fans/filmmakers about the bands they loved.
Beneath the Surface introduces readers to the story of the wealthy Kingsley family of Southern California. At the center of the action are the power-hungry children of an aging billionaire, who prove unprepared for a storm of deceptions and ruthless family ambition, while out on a weekend voyage.
A tour of the arid, inhospitable region of the southern California desert known as Death Valley, originally named because of the many travelers in the 1840s who died of thirst, starvation and/or exposure trying to cross it.