List of movies set in Los Angeles - Definition and Overview

This is a list of movies set in Los Angeles, California:

Movies about Hollywood and the movie industry

• The Anniversary Party
• Barton Fink
• Irreconcilable Differences
• The Player
• Singin' in the Rain
• A Star Is Born repeatedly
• Stuck on You
• Sunset Boulevard
• Swimming with Sharks
• What Price Hollywood?
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Movies set in Beverly Hills

• The Beverly Hillbillies
• Beverly Hills Cop and sequels
• Clueless
• Down And Out In Beverly Hills
• Slums Of Beverly Hills
• Troop Beverly Hills
• Less Than Zero

Movies set in The Valley

• Boogie Nights
• Encino Man
• Valley Girl

Movies relating to the Los Angeles porn industry

• Boogie Nights
• Wonderland

Movies about LA gangs and the South-Central area

• Baby Boy
• Boyz N the Hood
• Colors
• Friday and sequels
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Movies about the LA Latino community

• Born In East L.A.
• Echo Park
• La Vida Loca
• Stand and Deliver
• Real Women Have Curves
• My Family, Mi Familia

Post-apocalyptic movies set in LA

• Blade Runner (future dystopia)
• Blast from the Past (apocalypse that never came)
• Earthquake (earthquake)
• Escape from L.A. (post-apocalyptic)
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes
• Falling Down (present-day dystopia)
• Magnolia (rain of frogs)
• The Omega Man (post-apocalyptic)
• Volcano (volcano)
• The War of the Worlds (alien invasion)
• The Terminator and sequels (sentient robot takeover)
• Them! (giant ants?)

Noir and neo-noir

• The Big Lebowski
• The Big Sleep
• Chinatown
• Collateral
• Double Indemnity
• Heat
• Devil In A Blue Dress
• L.A. Confidential
• Mildred Pierce
• The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Pulp Fiction
• The Salton Sea
• Twilight (movie)
• The Two Jakes
• To Live and Die in L.A.

Movies named for L.A. streets

• Laurel Canyon
• Magnolia
• Mulholland Dr.
• Sunset Boulevard

Movies about drag racing in L.A.

• American Graffiti
• Rebel Without A Cause
• The Fast and the Furious

Others

• 1941
• The Bad and the Beautiful
• Bowfinger
• Bread And Roses
• Brother
• Bulworth
• City of Angels
• Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
• Die Hard
• Dragnet
• Earth Girls Are Easy
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Grand Canyon
• The Hidden
• Independence Day
• L.A. Story
• Lethal Weapon and sequels
• Matchstick Men
• Miracle Mile
• Murder My Sweet
• The Net
• Nothing So Strange
• Rising Sun
• Rush Hour
• Ruthless People
• Short Cuts
• Southlander
• Speed
• Sunset
• Swing Shift
• Swordfish
• The Thirteenth Floor
• Training Day
• To Sleep With Anger
• Traffic
• What's Cooking?
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

See also

• List of television shows set in Los Angeles