Movies Set in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is cinema’s hometown and its favourite subject — a city films keep returning to, from sun-bleached noir to freeway dread to the dream factory turning the camera on itself. Every title here is set in Los Angeles, not just shot there, tagged by the era and the version of the city it inhabits.
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- 1974
A Woman Under the Influence
Urbandir. John Cassavetes - 2002
Adaptation.
Urban · Wildernessdir. Spike Jonze - 1980
Airplane!
dir. Jim Abrahams - 2023
American Fiction
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Cord Jefferson - 1998
American History X
Urbandir. Tony Kaye - 1992
American Me
Urbandir. Edward James Olmos - 1977
Annie Hall
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 2012
Argo
Urbandir. Ben Affleck - 1976
Assault on Precinct 13
Urbandir. John Carpenter - 2022
Babylon
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 2023
Barbie
Urbandir. Greta Gerwig - 1991
Barton Fink
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 1984
Beverly Hills Cop
Urbandir. Martin Brest - 1988
Bird
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 1982
Blade Runner
Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 2017
Blade Runner 2049
Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 1997
Boogie Nights
Urban · Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1993
Bound by Honor
Urbandir. Taylor Hackford - 1991
Boyz n the Hood
Urbandir. John Singleton - 2008
Changeling
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 2014
Chef
Urbandir. Jon Favreau - 1974
Chinatown
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1995
Clueless
Urbandir. Amy Heckerling - 1980
Coal Miner's Daughter
Ruraldir. Michael Apted - 2004
Collateral
Urbandir. Michael Mann - 1949
Criss Cross
Urbandir. Robert Siodmak - 1949
D.O.A.
Urbandir. Rudolph Maté - 1992
Death Becomes Her
Urbandir. Robert Zemeckis - 1945
Detour
Urban · Desertdir. Edgar G. Ulmer - 1995
Devil in a Blue Dress
Urbandir. Carl Franklin - 1988
Die Hard
Urbandir. John McTiernan - 1944
Double Indemnity
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 2011
Drive
Urbandir. Nicolas Winding Refn - 1994
Ed Wood
Urbandir. Tim Burton - 2013
Elysium
Urban · Off Worlddir. Neill Blomkamp - 2012
End of Watch
Urbandir. David Ayer - 2000
Erin Brockovich
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 1971
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Urbandir. Don Taylor - 1997
Face/Off
Urbandir. John Woo - 1993
Falling Down
Urbandir. Joel Schumacher - 1982
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Suburbandir. Amy Heckerling - 1970
Five Easy Pieces
Rural · Island · Coastal Seadir. Bob Rafelson - 2019
Ford v Ferrari
Urbandir. James Mangold - 2008
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Islanddir. Nicholas Stoller - 1995
Four Rooms
Urbandir. Allison Anders - 1995
Get Shorty
Urbandir. Barry Sonnenfeld - 1979
Hardcore
Urbandir. Paul Schrader - 1995
Heat
Urbandir. Michael Mann - 2013
Her
Urbandir. Spike Jonze - 1941
High Sierra
Mountain · Urbandir. Raoul Walsh - 1950
In a Lonely Place
Urbandir. Nicholas Ray - 1993
In the Line of Fire
Urbandir. Wolfgang Petersen - 2010
Inception
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 1996
Independence Day
Urban · Desertdir. Roland Emmerich - 1997
Jackie Brown
Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino - 1955
Kiss Me Deadly
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Aldrich - 1997
L.A. Confidential
Urbandir. Curtis Hanson - 1987
La Bamba
Urbandir. Luis Valdez - 2016
La La Land
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 1987
Lethal Weapon
Urbandir. Richard Donner - 1989
Lethal Weapon 2
Urbandir. Richard Donner - 1997
Liar Liar
Urbandir. Tom Shadyac - 2021
Licorice Pizza
Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1997
Lost Highway
Urban · Desertdir. David Lynch - 2000
Love & Basketball
Urbandir. Gina Prince-Bythewood - 1999
Magnolia
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 2019
Marriage Story
Urbandir. Noah Baumbach - 2000
Memento
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 1993
Menace II Society
Urbandir. Albert Hughes - 1988
Midnight Run
Urban · Desertdir. Martin Brest - 2004
Million Dollar Baby
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 1989
Miracle Mile
Urbandir. Steve De Jarnatt - 2023
Missing
Urban · Suburbandir. Will Merrick - 2001
Mulholland Drive
Urbandir. David Lynch - 1975
Night Moves
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Arthur Penn - 1991
Night on Earth
Urbandir. Jim Jarmusch - 2014
Nightcrawler
Urbandir. Dan Gilroy - 2019
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino - 1984
Paris, Texas
Desert · Urbandir. Wim Wenders - 1967
Point Blank
Urbandir. John Boorman - 1991
Point Break
Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Kathryn Bigelow - 1990
Pretty Woman
Urbandir. Garry Marshall - 1994
Pulp Fiction
Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino - 2002
Punch-Drunk Love
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1988
Rain Man
Urban · Ruraldir. Barry Levinson - 1955
Rebel Without a Cause
Suburban · Urbandir. Nicholas Ray - 1982
Rocky III
Urbandir. Sylvester Stallone - 1998
Rush Hour
Urbandir. Brett Ratner - 1995
Safe
Suburban · Desertdir. Todd Haynes - 1996
Set It Off
Urbandir. F. Gary Gray - 1993
Short Cuts
Urban · Suburbandir. Robert Altman - 1952
Singin' in the Rain
Urbandir. Gene Kelly - 1994
Speed
Urbandir. Jan de Bont - 1988
Stand and Deliver
Urbandir. Ramón Menéndez - 2015
Straight Outta Compton
Urbandir. F. Gary Gray - 1941
Sullivan's Travels
Urban · Ruraldir. Preston Sturges - 1950
Sunset Boulevard
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 1991
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Urbandir. James Cameron - 1996
That Thing You Do!
Urbandir. Tom Hanks - 2011
The Artist
Urbandir. Michel Hazanavicius - 1952
The Bad and the Beautiful
Urbandir. Vincente Minnelli - 1998
The Big Lebowski
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 1946
The Big Sleep
Urbandir. Howard Hawks - 1979
The China Syndrome
Urbandir. James Bridges - 2023
The Creator
Urban · Rural · Off Worlddir. Gareth Edwards - 1978
The Driver
Urbandir. Walter Hill - 2022
The Fabelmans
Suburban · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1967
The Graduate
Suburbandir. Mike Nichols - 1990
The Grifters
Urbandir. Stephen Frears - 2006
The Holiday
Rural · Urbandir. Nancy Meyers - 1979
The Jerk
Rural · Urbandir. Carl Reiner - 1984
The Karate Kid
Suburbandir. John G. Avildsen - 1976
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Urbandir. John Cassavetes - 1973
The Long Goodbye
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Altman - 1979
The Muppet Movie
Rural · Desertdir. James Frawley - 1988
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Urbandir. David Zucker - 1974
The Parallax View
Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula - 1968
The Party
Suburbandir. Blake Edwards - 1996
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Urbandir. Miloš Forman - 1992
The Player
Urbandir. Robert Altman - 1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Ruraldir. Tay Garnett - 1993
The Sandlot
Suburbandir. David Mickey Evans - 2024
The Substance
Urbandir. Coralie Fargeat - 1984
The Terminator
Urbandir. James Cameron - 1995
The Usual Suspects
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Bryan Singer - 1953
The War of the Worlds
Rural · Urbandir. Byron Haskin - 1973
The Way We Were
dir. Sydney Pollack - 2005
The World's Fastest Indian
Rural · Desert · Urbandir. Roger Donaldson - 1954
Them!
Desert · Urban · Undergrounddir. Gordon Douglas - 1988
They Live
Urbandir. John Carpenter - 1981
Thief
Urbandir. Michael Mann - 1985
To Live and Die in L.A.
Urban · Desertdir. William Friedkin - 2001
Training Day
Urbandir. Antoine Fuqua - 1993
True Romance
Urbandir. Tony Scott - 1962
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Aldrich - 1993
What's Love Got to Do with It
Urbandir. Brian Gibson - 1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Urbandir. Robert Zemeckis - 1970
Zabriskie Point
Desert · Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni - 2009
Zombieland
Rural · Urbandir. Ruben Fleischer
Frequently asked
How many movies are set in Los Angeles?
Kinora's catalogue lists 139 films set in Los Angeles, spanning 1941–2024.
What are some movies set in Los Angeles?
Films set in Los Angeles in our catalogue include A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Adaptation. (2002), Airplane! (1980), American Fiction (2023), and American History X (1998).
What is the oldest movie set in Los Angeles?
High Sierra (1941) is the earliest film set in Los Angeles in our catalogue; the most recent is The Substance (2024).