Films set in Los Angeles

1987 film by Jack Sholder

1991 film directed by Lawrence Kasdan

2021 film directed by Hernán Jiménez

1994 film directed by James Yukich

1991 film by Simon Wincer

2015 film by Jon M. Chu

Orgazmo is a 1997 American superhero sex comedy film written, directed and edited by Trey Parker and produced by Matt Stone, Jason McHugh, and Fran Rubel Kuzui. It stars Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar, Robyn Lynne, and Michael Dean Jacobs. The plot follows Joe Young (Trey Parker), a devout Mormon missionary who, to pay for his and his fiancée's dream wedding and home, acts in a pornographic film as the superhero Orgazmo with his side-kick Choda Boy (Dian Bachar).

Mid90s (stylized as mid90s) is a 2018 American coming-of-age comedy-drama skate film written and directed by Jonah Hill, in his feature directorial debut. The plot follows Stevie, a 13-year-old boy in 1990s Los Angeles. To escape a troubled home life, he begins spending time with an older group of skateboarders. The cast includes Sunny Suljic, Lucas Hedges, Na-Kel Smith, Alexa Demie, and Katherine Waterston.

1982 film by Wim Wenders

2018 film by Drew Pearce

1989 film directed by Julien Temple

1986 film directed by Sidney Lumet

1985 film by Howard Storm

1985 film by Michael Ritchie

2009 film by Wayne Kramer

2024 film directed by Michael Showalter

2011 film directed by Michael Dowse

1975 film by Arthur Penn

1999 film directed by Turi Meyer

2005 film by Atom Egoyan

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is a 2025 American biographical musical drama film starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen. Written and directed by Scott Cooper, and based on the 2023 book Deliver Me from Nowhere by Warren Zanes, as well as some elements from Springsteen's 2016 autobiography Born to Run, it chronicles Springsteen's personal and professional struggles during the conception of his 1982 album Nebraska. The film also stars Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, and Odessa Young.

1976 film directed by Lamont Johnson

1986 film by Paul Mazursky

1950 film by Robert Siodmak

'''''Breakin' (also known as Breakdance in the United Kingdom and Break Street '84''''' in other regions) is a 1984 American breakdancing-themed musical film directed by Joel Silberg and written by Charles Parker and Allen DeBevoise based on a story by Parker, DeBevoise and Gerald Scaife about dancer Alysha Williams.

2018 film directed by Karyn Kusama

2019 film directed by Michael Dowse

1965 film by Robert Mulligan

2007 film directed by Jonah Markowitz

2017 film directed by Denise Di Novi

Targets is a 1968 American crime thriller film directed by Peter Bogdanovich in his theatrical directorial debut, and starring Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh, Bogdanovich, James Brown, Arthur Peterson and Sandy Baron. The film depicts two parallel narratives which converge during the climax: one follows Bobby Thompson, a seemingly ordinary and wholesome young man who embarks on an unprovoked killing spree; the other depicts Byron Orlok, an iconic horror film actor who, disillusioned by real-life violence, is contemplating retirement.

2019 film directed by James Franco

2017 film directed by Benny Boom

1981 film by Frank Perry

Blacula is a 1972 American blaxploitation horror film directed by William Crain. It stars William Marshall in the title role about an 18th-century African prince named Mamuwalde, who is turned into a vampire (and later locked in a coffin) by Count Dracula in the Count's castle in Transylvania in the year 1780 after Dracula refuses to help Mamuwalde suppress the slave trade. The film co-stars Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Gordon Pinsent and Thalmus Rasulala.

1979 film directed by Paul Schrader

1990 film by John Schlesinger

1996 film by Harold Ramis

1996 film directed by Lee Tamahori

2018 film directed by James Cox

1989 film by Gary David Goldberg

1987 film directed by Marek Kanievska

D-War (, released in North America as Dragon Wars: D-War) is a 2007 fantasy monster action film written and directed by South Korean filmmaker Shim Hyung-rae and starring Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Craig Robinson, Elizabeth Peña and Robert Forster. The plot involves ancient Korean dragons (Imugi) appearing in modern-day Los Angeles.

1944 American film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk

1996 film directed by Ernest Dickerson

2024 film directed by Brad Peyton

1988 film by Dennis Hopper

2020 film directed by Dean Parisot

1982 film by Samuel Fuller

1989 film by Wes Craven

1988 film directed by Ramón Menéndez

2008 film by Neil LaBute

1990 film by Curtis Hanson

2015 film directed by Jeremy Garelick

2011 film directed by Oren Moverman

2016 film by Liza Johnson

1977 spy film

2022 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

2006 film by Robert Towne

1993 film directed by Taylor Hackford