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1. Big Little Lies (2017–2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The apparently-perfect lives of upper-class mothers of students at a prestigious elementary school unravel to the point of murder when a single mother moves to their quaint California beach town.
Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz
Votes: 224,446
2. The Sandpiper (1965)
TV-14 | 117 min | Drama, Romance
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the married headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson
Votes: 3,809 | Gross: $15.26M
3. Play Misty for Me (1971)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
The life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch
Votes: 31,930 | Gross: $11.80M
4. East of Eden (1955)
PG | 118 min | Drama
Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Burl Ives
Votes: 48,835
5. All the Old Knives (2022)
R | 101 min | Mystery, Thriller
Veteran CIA agent Henry is reunited in Vienna with his former colleague and lover Celia.
Director: Janus Metz | Stars: Goksin Erdemli, Kasia Madera, Chris Pine, Thandiwe Newton
Votes: 28,638
6. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
PG | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Mia Bendixsen, Alfred Lutter III
Votes: 27,486 | Gross: $18.60M
7. One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama, Western
After robbing a bank in Mexico, Dad Longworth absconds with the loot leaving his partner Rio to be captured by the Rurales. Rio escapes prison but struggles with his conflicting desires to love Dad's stepdaughter Louise and to get revenge.
Director: Marlon Brando | Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado
Votes: 13,283 | Gross: $9.37M
8. Zorro (1957–1959)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Family, Western
Don Diego de la Vega opposes the corrupt tyrants of Spanish California as the masked swordsman, Zorro.
Stars: Guy Williams, Gene Sheldon, Henry Calvin, Don Diamond
Votes: 4,158
9. Chasing Mavericks (2012)
PG | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.
Directors: Michael Apted, Curtis Hanson | Stars: Jonny Weston, Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer
Votes: 34,542 | Gross: $6.00M
10. Move Over, Darling (1963)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
After being lost at sea for several years, a missing wife thought long dead returns just after her husband has remarried.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 6,491
11. Cannery Row (1982)
PG | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Monterey, California in the 1940's. Cannery Row - the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would not ... See full summary »
Director: David S. Ward | Stars: Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley, Frank McRae
Votes: 4,113 | Gross: $5.30M
12. Susan Slade (1961)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a 10-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, ... See full summary »
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Connie Stevens, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 944
13. Monterey Pop (1968)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, History, Music
A film about the greatest pre-Woodstock rock music festival.
Director: D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, Country Joe McDonald
Votes: 4,930 | Gross: $0.00M
14. The Long Way Home (1998 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A depressed widower meets a 21-year-old free spirit and the unlikely pair hitchhike cross country. Learning to respect their differences, they become friends and encourage each other to embrace new beginnings and face their fears.
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Sarah Paulson, Kristin Griffith, Garwin Sanford
Votes: 660
15. Gonzo (2008)
R | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Joe Cairo, David Carlo
Votes: 8,505 | Gross: $1.25M
16. Kit Carson (1940)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Western
Indian fighter, trapper and frontier scout Kit Carson leads a wagon train of settlers from Fort Bridger, along the Oregon Trail through Shoshone territory, to California which plans to secede from Mexico.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Harold Huber
Votes: 624
17. Julie (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A terrified wife tries to escape from her insanely jealous husband who is bent on killing her.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan, Frank Lovejoy
Votes: 2,226
18. Tortilla Flat (1942)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan
Votes: 2,047
19. The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
Passed | 121 min | Musical, Romance, Western
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo
Votes: 463
20. Chandler (1971)
GP | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. The witness is a beautiful French woman and even the cops can't be trusted. The case is tough, but so is Chandler.
Director: Paul Magwood | Stars: Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 630
21. Seven Cities of Gold (1955)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Biography, History
In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Richard Egan, Anthony Quinn, Michael Rennie, Jeffrey Hunter
Votes: 585
22. Thumb Tripping (1972)
R | 94 min | Drama
An adventurous couple of hitchhikers decides to accept every ride that is offered to them. no matter how odd the driver might be. They'll get more than they bargained for.
Director: Quentin Masters | Stars: Michael Burns, Meg Foster, Bruce Dern, Michael Conrad
Votes: 158
23. California Conquest (1952)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, History, Romance
In the 1840s, most Californians want their state to break away from Mexico and possibly join the USA but Russia, Britain and France aim to grab California for themselves.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Teresa Wright, Alfonso Bedoya, Lisa Ferraday
Votes: 287
24. The Lady Says No (1951)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman writes a best-selling book for women warning them about the "dangers" of men. A handsome photographer for a national magazine arrives in her town to do a feature story on her. Complications ensue.
Director: Frank Ross | Stars: Joan Caulfield, David Niven, James Robertson Justice, Lenore Lonergan
Votes: 454
25. Ever Since Eve (1937)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
Lecherous bosses make it difficult for an attractive secretary to keep jobs, so she decides to appear considerably more homely in hopes of holding onto work.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh, Patsy Kelly
Votes: 1,577
26. Gun Battle at Monterey (1957)
Approved | 67 min | Western
A double-crossed partner left for dead seeks revenge against the wishes of a woman who nursed him back to health and fell in love with him.
Directors: Sidney Franklin Jr., Carl K. Hittleman | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Pamela Duncan, Ted de Corsia, Mary Beth Hughes
Votes: 213
27. Frontier Uprising (1961)
Approved | 68 min | Western
A trail guide leading a wagon train to the West in the 1840s discovers that the U.S. and Mexico are at war.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Jim Davis, Nancy Hadley, Ken Mayer, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 190
28. The Spy Ring (1938)
Passed | 61 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: William Hall, Jane Wyman, Esther Ralston, Robert Warwick
Votes: 89
29. Bells of San Fernando (1947)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, History, Western
Mendoza ruthlessly controls the valley of San Fernando and his men guard the only entrance. When Mendoza announces he will marry Michael's girl friend Maria, Michael plans an escape. He ... See full summary »
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Donald Woods, Gloria Warren, Byron Foulger, Shirley O'Hara
Votes: 100
30. Jimi Plays Monterey (1986)
Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary, Music
Jimi Hendrix's landmark concert in Monterey County Fairgrounds in California in which he plays signature songs like "Purple Haze," "Foxy Lady," and "Wild Thing."
Directors: Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, John Phillips
Votes: 1,434
31. Robin Hood of Monterey (1947)
Passed | 55 min | Drama, Family, Western
Eduardo Belmonte overhears his new step-mother, Maria, and her lover, Don Ricardo Gonzales plotting to take over the Belmonte rancho on the night of the fiesta given by her husband, Don ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Gilbert Roland, Chris-Pin Martin, Evelyn Brent, Jack La Rue
Votes: 119
32. Shake! Otis at Monterey (1987)
19 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Documentary on Otis Redding's performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
Directors: David Dawkins, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: Otis Redding, Booker T. & the M.G.s, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn
Votes: 884
33. Shadow of a Woman (1946)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A young bride's marital bliss is replaced by shades of suspicion when she suspects that her husband is trying to starve his young son to death in order to claim an inheritance the boy is entitled to.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince, John Alvin
Votes: 460
34. Pirates of Monterey (1947)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part of a movement to overthrow the Spanish in California.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Maria Montez, Rod Cameron, Mikhail Rasumny, Phillip Reed
Votes: 145
35. Rose of the Rancho (1914)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Esra Kincaid takes land by force, and having taken the Espinoza land, he sets his sight on the Castro rancho U.S. Government Agent Kearney holds him off until the cavalry shows up and he ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Bessie Barriscale, Jane Darwell, Dick La Reno, Jack W. Johnston
Votes: 45 | Gross: $0.09M
36. Rose of the Golden West (1927)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Mary Astor, Gilbert Roland, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Montagu Love
Votes: 15
37. The Canyon of Adventure (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Set in the days before California became a state, Steven Bancroft, a young officer in the U. S. Calvary, is given the assignment of ensuring that dirty-work by agents of Spain, Mexico or ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Ken Maynard, Virginia Brown Faire, Eric Mayne, Theodore Lorch
Votes: 20
38. Don Ricardo Returns (1946)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Western
After being shanghaied in a plot to have him declared dead and take over his ranchero and other properties, Don Ricardo, disguised as a peon, returns to Old California, and begins the fight... See full summary »
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Fred Coby, Lita Baron, Paul Newlan, Anthony Warde
Votes: 65
39. Enduring Democracy: The Monterey Petition (2022)
67 min | Documentary, History, News
Led by John Steinbeck's editor, a group of women activists protest Japanese American incarceration and resist racism in WWII California. Recently in a dusty filing cabinet in Monterey, ... See full summary »
Director: David Schendel | Stars: Allan B. Cruse, Michael Gomes, Boden Kauffman, Emilie Kauffman
Votes: 7
40. Otis Redding: 'Live at Monterey' (1989 Video)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Short, History
Director: D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: Otis Redding, Booker T. & the M.G.s, The Mar-Keys
Votes: 24
41. Window to the Sea (2006 TV Movie)
TV-G | 56 min | Documentary
A behind-the-scenes look at the work of four major U.S. aquariums: the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, the New England Aquarium in Boston, Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, and the Waikiki Aquarium in Hawaii.
Director: John Grant | Star: Phil Knoerzer
Votes: 14
42. Monterey Shore Diving (2000 Video)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
Monterey Shore Diving is video all about SCUBA diving along the beautiful coat of Monterey California. This program features: fourteen of Monterey's most popular shore diving sites, four ... See full summary »
Director: Carl Miller
43. Mojo Bones (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 56 min | Music
Mojo Bones is a unique and definitive collection of live performance films focusing on music's most influential and seminal artists. Twelve 5 minute legendary concert performances that ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Neal | Stars: Chuck Berry, James Brown, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix
44. The Purloined Millstone by E. A. Sprechmann
Comedy, Crime, Romance | Announced
Elliott Sprechmann, a mediocre author with a lust for fame, plagiarizes his dying friends phenomenal new manuscript. Elliott's plans turn deadly when his friend miraculously recovers.
Director: Brian Boswell | Stars: Anne Whitfield, Tommy Cook, Chris Abel
46.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
Matter of Honor
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
Lieutenant Benson's fiance likes the finer things in life but an army pay isn't enough to provide them. She tries to persuade Benson to sell military secrets in a scheme to get more money. The officer must decide what is more important.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Vic Morrow, Shirley Ballard, Howard Petrie, Tom Baird
Votes: 25
47.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
Gold Rush in Reverse
(1957)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
After gold is discovered in California, Lt. Beale endeavors to be the first to make it back east with a sample of the precious mineral. His travels involve escaping Mexican bandits.
Director: Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Stanley Lachman, Laurie Mitchell, I. Stanford Jolley, Roy Gordon
Votes: 25
48.
State Trooper (1956–1959)
Episode:
Coate of Many Colors
(1957)
30 min | Drama
Blake's murder investigation reveals that the victim lived a double-life - that of a ordinary cowhand and a famous artist.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Rod Cameron, Amanda Blake, Cliff Ferre, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 14
49.
Surface (2005–2006)
Episode:
There's Something Strange Going On In The World's Oceans
(2005)
TV-14 | 42 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Random underwater encounters raise questions and concerns among scientists, naval officials and civilians.
Directors: Jonas Pate, Josh Pate | Stars: Lake Bell, Jay R. Ferguson, Carter Jenkins, Leighton Meester
Votes: 206
50.
Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011)
Episode:
Three Parties
(2007)
TV-PG | 43 min | Drama
Nora is so happy about her writing class that she decides to ask her teacher out. Kitty must go to Senator McCallister's home town on campaign work, and Sarah joins her for the weekend. Chad tells Kevin he finally wants to come out.
Director: Sandy Smolan | Stars: Dave Annable, Kerris Dorsey, Sally Field, Calista Flockhart
Votes: 146