San Francisco California Movies

  • 2006
    Shock Waves: One Hundred Years After the 1906 Earthquake

    Shock Waves: One Hundred Years After the 1906 Earthquake

    Shock Waves: One Hundred Years After the 1906 Earthquake

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    This 46-minute film includes dramatic historical footage, colorful animations, and interviews with earthquake experts. The catastrophe of the great 19...

    Shock Waves: One Hundred Years After the 1906 Earthquake
  • 2013
    The Racket Boys

    The Racket Boys

    The Racket Boys

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    The Racket Boys is a modern comedy about two men and a woman driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco for individual reasons, but the same goal -- fi...

    The Racket Boys
  • 1915
    A Glimpse of the San Diego Exposition

    A Glimpse of the San Diego Exposition

    A Glimpse of the San Diego Exposition

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    In 1915-16, San Diego's Balboa Park was the scene of an exposition to mark completion of the Panama Canal. This film takes us through the exposition:...

    A Glimpse of the San Diego Exposition
  • 1967
    Drugs in the Tenderloin

    Drugs in the Tenderloin

    Drugs in the Tenderloin

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    Drugs in the Tenderloin is a documentary shot guerilla style by Robert Zagone in 1966; It captures the Tenderloin as it transformed into a center for...

    Drugs in the Tenderloin
  • 2015
    Death Angel - A Thrashumentary

    Death Angel - A Thrashumentary

    Death Angel - A Thrashumentary

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    Documentary on legendary San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal band Death Angel.

    Death Angel - A Thrashumentary
  • 2014
    Beautiful by Night

    Beautiful by Night

    Beautiful by Night

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    A documentary following three older drag entertainers at Aunt Charlie's Lounge in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. The film explores the rituals...

    Beautiful by Night
  • 2001
    I'd Rather Be… Gone

    I'd Rather Be… Gone

    I'd Rather Be… Gone

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    Michelle needs a break. A computer programmer who's fed up by what she sees as the greed and idiocy of the Internet, Michelle requests and is granted...

    I'd Rather Be… Gone
  • 2011
    Working Class

    Working Class

    Working Class

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    Loosely based on Charles Dicken’s book “A Tale of Two Cities”, Working Class tells the tale of underground street artists Mike Giant and Mike Maxwell...

    Working Class
  • 2011
    Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess

    Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess

    Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess

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    Henry Rollins narrates Lilly Scourtis Ayers' no-holds-barred profile of volatile Bay Area punk legend Marian Anderson, whose hypnotic beauty, devil-ma...

    Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess
  • 1983
    The Fall of the I-Hotel

    The Fall of the I-Hotel

    The Fall of the I-Hotel

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    The Fall of the I-Hotel brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal eviction of the International Hotel's tenants culminated a...

    The Fall of the I-Hotel
  • 2019
    Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America

    Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America

    Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America

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    Powerfully and heartbreakingly detailing the challenging process that LGBTQ refugees must go through to find safety and security while starting over i...

    Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America
  • 2020
    Silicon Valley, Baby.

    Silicon Valley, Baby.

    Silicon Valley, Baby.

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    Finnish award-winning barista Kalle Freese travels to San Francisco with his girlfriend to start an instant coffee start-up with big goals. At stake a...

    Silicon Valley, Baby.
  • 1949
    Law of the Barbary Coast

    Law of the Barbary Coast

    Law of the Barbary Coast

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    Wayne Adams is murdered in a Barbary Coast saloon and gambling hall in San Francisco in 1880, and his sister, Julie, enlists the aid of the district a...

    Law of the Barbary Coast
  • 2005
    Market Street

    Market Street

    Market Street

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    All images were filmed on Market Street, one of the main streets in San Francisco. The visual was carefully composed frame by frame, while shooting on...

    Market Street
  • 2013
    American Vagabond

    American Vagabond

    American Vagabond

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    ​​American Vagabond is a documentary film about runaway queer youth living in the shadows of the promised city.

    American Vagabond
  • 1961
    The Rejected

    The Rejected

    The Rejected

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    The Rejected is a made-for-television documentary film about homosexuality, the first of its kind to be broadcast on American television. It was first...

    The Rejected
  • 1947
    White Powder and Neon Lights

    White Powder and Neon Lights

    White Powder and Neon Lights

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    This is the first 16mm Cantonese film in full colour, shot on 1940s state-of-the-art Technicolor film stock. Opera star Man-ha (Leung Bik-yuk) enjoys...

    White Powder and Neon Lights
  • 1988
    Dim Sum Take-Out

    Dim Sum Take-Out

    Dim Sum Take-Out

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    Dim Sum Take-Out shows how the heterogeneity and complexity of Asian American experiences can be erased. It was literally cut together from film that...

    Dim Sum Take-Out
  • 2016
    Forever, Chinatown

    Forever, Chinatown

    Forever, Chinatown

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    Forever, Chinatown is a story of unknown, self-taught 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent the past four decades recreating his fading memories...

    Forever, Chinatown
  • 1940
    Cavalcade of San Francisco

    Cavalcade of San Francisco

    Cavalcade of San Francisco

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    This Traveltalk series short celebrates San Francisco, past and present.

    Cavalcade of San Francisco