Highest-Rated Movies about 'Southern California'

Straight Outta Compton (2015), Bukowski: Born Into This (2003), Short Cuts (1993), Blow (2001), Five Easy Pieces (1970), Behind the Candelabra (2013), Up in Smoke (1978), Inland Empire (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Southern California movies.

#16. Savages (2012)

Storyline: In California, the former Navy SEAL Chon and his best friend, the peaceful botanist Ben, are successful entrepreneurs producing and dealing high-quality weed. Chon brought seeds from Afghanistan and Ben used his knowledge to develop the best marijuana in the country. Chon and Ben share the pothead lover Ophelia and she loves both of them since they complete each other - Chon is a powerful and strong lover and Ben is a sensible and loving lover. Their comfortable life changes when the Mexican Baja Cartel demands a partnership in their business. Chon and Ben refuse the deal and the leader of the cartel Elena sends her right-arm in America, Lado, to abduct Ophelia to press the American drug dealers. Chon and Ben ask the support of the dirty DEA Agent Dennis and get inside information to begin a secret war against the Baja Cartel to release Ophelia.

Plot Keywords: marijuana, beach, marijuana joint, ambush, gun in mouth, torture, held captive ...

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#20. Orange County (2002)

Storyline: Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his disfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends the wrong application. So, Shaun goes to great lengths with a little help from his girlfriend Ashley and his drugged-out loser brother Lance to get into Stanford any way they see fit.

Plot Keywords: high school senior, southern california, divorced parents, lesbian, menage a trois, dysfunctional family, sex with a minor ...

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#21. Rubber (2010)

Storyline: As film spectators watch, a killer car tire comes to life in a desert dump site. Flexing its... rubber... and ready to roll, it soon discovers its telekinetic ability to make small animals and people's heads explode. Lt. Chad hopes to end this movie by fatally poisoning every last spectators, but failing that, the show must go on, and the tire goes on a three-day rampage. With few left alive, a lure is constructed to draw the tire from its motel room, where hopes are to end it and this movie once and for all.

Plot Keywords: horror spoof, inanimate object comes to life, breaking the fourth wall, absurdism, murder, black humor, tire ...

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#22. Troop Beverly Hills (1989)

Storyline: As Phyllis, a Beverly Hills housewife, is in the middle of a divorce, she tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter Hannah's Wilderness Girl troop. Among the girls are Tiffany, (who her father has to bribe to attend meetings, Emily (the daughter of an out of work actor, whose financial difficulties hinders her wanting to participate in certain activities), the neurotic Tessa (whose parents divorce has forced her into therapy twice a week), the hostile Chica (whose parents are too busy with their own lives to even remember her birthday), and Claire (the child star who see the wilderness girls as her chance to lead a "normal" life). Phyllis then begins to take the girls camping at a Beverly Hills hotel and earn patches relating to material things. The district leader, Velda, feels the troop should be disbanded. However, the head of the Wilderness girls organization believes that as long as Phyllis has taken an active interest in the girls, that is the only thing that's important. Then Velda begins to sabotage the girls endlessly.—Theresa

Plot Keywords: dancing, cookie, shopping, secret compartment, hidden camera, camera, book ...

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#23. Kaboom (2010)

Storyline: Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.

Plot Keywords: nudity, fantasy becomes reality, college campus, pubic hair, female nudity, group sex, menage a trois ...

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#24. Valentine's Day (2010)

Storyline: More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine's Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter; are any worth saving? A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love; two high school seniors plan first-time sex at noon; a TV sports reporter gets the assignment to find romance in LA; a star quarterback contemplates his future; two strangers meet on a plane; grandparents, together for years, face a crisis; and, an "I Hate Valentine's Day" dinner beckons the lonely and the lied to. Can Cupid finish his work by midnight?

Plot Keywords: van, bare chested male, news report, bloopers during credits, young love, virgin, text messaging ...

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#25. Southland Tales (2006)

Storyline: Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Plot Keywords: anarchy, doppelganger, surveillance, corpse, severed finger, blood, leg wound ...

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#27. Reach Me (2014)

Storyline: A motivational book written by a mysterious man quickly gains popularity, inspiring a group of people that includes a journalist, his editor, a former inmate, a hip-hop mogul, an actor and an undercover cop to re-evaluate their choices and decisions by confronting their fears in hopes of creating more positive lives.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: ensemble film, recluse, journalist, fear, bound and gagged, sexual assault, film set ...

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