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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- 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 - 1977
Annie Hall
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 2012
Argo
Urbandir. Ben Affleck - 2022
Babylon
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 2023
Barbie
Urbandir. Greta Gerwig - 1991
Barton Fink
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 1982
Blade Runner
Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 2017
Blade Runner 2049
Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 1997
Boogie Nights
Urban · Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1991
Boyz n the Hood
Urbandir. John Singleton - 2008
Changeling
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 2014
Chef
Urbandir. Jon Favreau - 1974
Chinatown
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1980
Coal Miner's Daughter
Ruraldir. Michael Apted - 2004
Collateral
Urbandir. Michael Mann - 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 - 1993
Falling Down
Urbandir. Joel Schumacher - 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
Heat
Urbandir. Michael Mann - 2013
Her
Urbandir. Spike Jonze - 2010
Inception
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 1996
Independence Day
Urban · Desertdir. Roland Emmerich - 1997
L.A. Confidential
Urbandir. Curtis Hanson - 2016
La La Land
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 2021
Licorice Pizza
Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1997
Lost Highway
Urban · Desertdir. David Lynch - 1999
Magnolia
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 2019
Marriage Story
Urbandir. Noah Baumbach - 2000
Memento
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 1993
Menace II Society
Urbandir. Albert Hughes - 2004
Million Dollar Baby
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 2023
Missing
Urban · Suburbandir. Will Merrick - 2001
Mulholland Drive
Urbandir. David Lynch - 2014
Nightcrawler
Urbandir. Dan Gilroy - 2019
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino - 1984
Paris, Texas
Desert · Urbandir. Wim Wenders - 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 - 1993
Short Cuts
Urban · Suburbandir. Robert Altman - 1952
Singin' in the Rain
Urbandir. Gene Kelly - 1994
Speed
Urbandir. Jan de Bont - 2015
Straight Outta Compton
Urbandir. F. Gary Gray - 1950
Sunset Boulevard
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 1991
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Urbandir. James Cameron - 2011
The Artist
Urbandir. Michel Hazanavicius - 1998
The Big Lebowski
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 2023
The Creator
Urban · Rural · Off Worlddir. Gareth Edwards - 2022
The Fabelmans
Suburban · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1967
The Graduate
Suburbandir. Mike Nichols - 1984
The Karate Kid
Suburbandir. John G. Avildsen - 1973
The Long Goodbye
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Altman - 1992
The Player
Urbandir. Robert Altman - 2024
The Substance
Urbandir. Coralie Fargeat - 1984
The Terminator
Urbandir. James Cameron - 1995
The Usual Suspects
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Bryan Singer - 2005
The World's Fastest Indian
Rural · Desert · Urbandir. Roger Donaldson - 1988
They Live
Urbandir. John Carpenter - 1981
Thief
Urbandir. Michael Mann - 2001
Training Day
Urbandir. Antoine Fuqua - 1993
True Romance
Urbandir. Tony Scott - 1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Urbandir. Robert Zemeckis - 2009
Zombieland
Rural · Urbandir. Ruben Fleischer
Frequently asked
How many movies are set in Los Angeles?
Kinora's catalogue lists 77 films set in Los Angeles, spanning 1944–2024.
What are some movies set in Los Angeles?
Films set in Los Angeles in our catalogue include Adaptation. (2002), Airplane! (1980), American Fiction (2023), American History X (1998), and Annie Hall (1977).
What is the oldest movie set in Los Angeles?
Double Indemnity (1944) is the earliest film set in Los Angeles in our catalogue; the most recent is The Substance (2024).