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1) Nope
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.
2) Ambulance
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive.
3) Lady buds
Language
English
Description
From a Latinx LGBTQ activist to a Black Catholic school principal, six small businesswomen hit California's newly legal cannabis trade. But as aggressive regulations bogart the market, can they each keep their green American dream alight?
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson and Michelle Rodriguez lead a cast of returning all-stars as the global blockbuster franchise built on speed delivers the biggest adrenaline rush yet. Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled drivers, whose mastermind (Luke Evans) is aided by the love Dom (Diesel) thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal mercenaries from stealing a top secret weapon...
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1970s Los Angeles, down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March and hired enforcer Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the turbo-charged streets of Los Angeles, every night is a championship race. With nitro-boosted fury, Dominic Toretto rules the road. He turns all of his challengers into dust. He and his rival, Johnny Tran are the boldest, the baddest and the best. But now, there is a new rage out on the road. They know he's tough, they know he's fast, but what they don't know is that he's a detective with enough drive and determination to come out a winner.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Betty Broderick (Amanda Peet) was the perfect Southern California blonde wife and mother. Married to her handsome college boyfriend Dan (Christian Slater), Betty charms everyone she meets. After years of sacrifice and suffering while supporting Dan through both medical and law school until he exploded into the San Diego legal community as a superstar, Betty is finally enjoying the fruits of their labors. That is, until Dan hires Linda, a bright, beautiful...
10) Raise your voice
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A girl with an extraordinary voice is accepted to a music school in Los Angeles. There is one scholarship offered for the coming year - a seemingly impossible dream. With the help of an inspirational teacher, she finds the will to meet the challenge.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Discover the over 700 miles of extremely diverse geography and climate with high and low desert, beautiful beaches, puntuated by redwood and giant sequoia timber stands. Along with the natural beauty are the cities of San Francisco, Monterey, Los Angeles, Hollywood, and San Diego.
12) Speed
Language
English
Description
Jack Traven is a L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist. He and his partner diffuse a bomb planted in an office elevator, saving the passengers inside. Later, he is sent to diffuse a bomb that the same revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and the passengers must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour-- or the bomb will explode.
15) Helter skelter
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Celine Archive is a creative documentary that brings together animation, portraiture, interviews, site visits, and archival materials to uncover the real story of Celine Navarro, a Filipino immigrant woman buried alive by her community in Northern California in 1932, revealing Navarro's feminism and resistance in a time when neither was embraced. Filmmaker and scholar Celine Parren~as Shimizu, a grieving mother with a long-term commitment to exploring...
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the new 2021 high-definition program, learn all about the California missions. How many missions are there? What was the purpose of these missions? Who was Saint Junipero Serra? What did he do to help the indigenous peoples of California, and why is it today considered controversial? The answers to these questions and more are answered in-depth with detailed graphics, diagrams, and exciting video. On-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of...
20) Foul play
Series
Language
English
Description
A shy San Francisco librarian and a clumsy detective fall in love as they attempt to solve a crime that involves dwarfs, albinos, and the church.
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