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1. Vertigo (1958)

PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore

Votes: 426,988 | Gross: $3.20M

2. Time After Time (1979)

PG | 112 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.

Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner, Charles Cioffi

Votes: 20,644

3. Shattered (1991)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a horrific car wreck leaves him an amnesiac, a man slowly begins to unravel his shocking past.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley

Votes: 11,407 | Gross: $11.51M

4. Homegrown (1998)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Three marijuana farmhands see their boss killed, ending their peaceful existence in NW California. They decide to harvest, process and sell the crop themselves. Crime bosses, corrupt cops, killer pilot, greed etc. ensue.

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Hank Azaria, Kelly Lynch, John Lithgow

Votes: 5,045 | Gross: $0.22M

5. The Gnome-Mobile (1967)

Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In the Redwood Forests of California, a multi-millionaire lumberman and his two young grandchildren encounter two gnomes who are supposedly the last of their kind.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Walter Brennan, Matthew Garber, Karen Dotrice, Richard Deacon

Votes: 2,434

6. Big Sur (2013)

R | 81 min | Drama, Romance

A recounting of Jack Kerouac's three sojourns to the cabin in Big Sur owned by his friend, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Jean-Marc Barr, Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas, Radha Mitchell

Votes: 2,104 | Gross: $0.03M

7. The Big Trees (1952)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Western

A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron.

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan

Votes: 1,857

8. Humboldt County (2008)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

A disillusioned medical student is stranded for a summer in a remote community of counterculture pot farmers, the last place in the world he imagined he would discover himself.

Directors: Darren Grodsky, Danny Jacobs | Stars: Jeremy Strong, Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich, Vicky Monroe

Votes: 2,809 | Gross: $0.08M

9. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)

PG | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The story of three wildly neurotic characters: A facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the hospital, set up housekeeping together in a cottage where they support each other.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, James Coco

Votes: 1,027 | Gross: $0.39M

10. Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees (2016)

82 min | Documentary

Visionary scientist Diana Beresford-Kroeger takes us on a journey to the ancient forests of the northern hemisphere, revealing the profound connection that exists between trees and human ... See full summary »

Director: Jeffrey McKay | Stars: Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Gordon Pinsent

Votes: 94

11. Cross Country Detours (1940)

Not Rated | 10 min | Family, Animation, Short

A wacky travelogue takes us to the forests of Yosemite, the rocks of Brice Canyon, the frozen wastes of Alaska, the desert wastes of New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River and the giant redwoods of California.

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Lou Marcelle, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc

Votes: 288

12. 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

13. Butterfly (2000 TV Movie)

79 min | Documentary

This documentary, which first aired on public television in 2000, chronicles environmental activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill's 738 day tree-sit in the ancient redwood tree she named Luna.

Director: Doug Wolens | Stars: Christine Casarsa, Julia Butterfly Hill

Votes: 85 | Gross: $0.00M

14. A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)

Not Rated | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Mary Pickford, Elliott Dexter, Tully Marshall, Raymond Hatton

Votes: 861 | Gross: $0.42M

15. Raspberry Magic (2010)

Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A little girl attempts an innovative experiment on raspberry plants for her school science fair, alongside the troubles of her dysfunctional home life and her depressed mother.

Director: Leena Pendharkar | Stars: Lily Javaherpour, Meera Simhan, Ravi Kapoor, Keya Shah

Votes: 200

16. God's Country (1946)

Approved | 64 min | Western

Lee Preston, aka Leland Bruce (Robert Lowery), kills a man in self defense but flees to the redwood country when the law makes it a murder charge. There he meets Lynn O'Malley (Helen Gilbert... See full summary »

Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Robert Lowery, Helen Gilbert, William Farnum, Buster Keaton

Votes: 50

17. Redwood Forest Trail (1950)

Passed | 67 min | Western

Arthur Cameron has spent many years establishing the mountain forest community of New Horizon for underprivileged boys. His chief assistant is Hattie Hickory who cooks and acts as a foster ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Rex Allen, Jeff Donnell, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, Jane Darwell

Votes: 25

18. Detouring America (1939)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

This travelogue across America is filled with sight gags such as the 'Old Reliable' geyser spitting into a spittoon, cliff-dwelling Indians who walk horizontally up and down the faces of ... See full summary »

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce

Votes: 355

19. Poetry of Nature (1939)

Approved | 8 min | Short

Pete Smith takes a humorous look at the wildlife that lives among the California redwoods.

Director: Mervyn Freeman | Star: Pete Smith

Votes: 77

20. Valley of the Redwoods (1960)

Approved | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Wayne Randall, a safe-cracker,and his two accomplices, Jan Spencer and Dino Michaelis, are hiding in the mountains of northern California, following a heist of a $81,000 payroll at a ... See full summary »

Director: William Witney | Stars: John Hudson, Lynette Bernay, Ed Nelson, Michael Forest

Votes: 20

21. Trial by Trigger (1944)

Approved | 20 min | Short, Western

California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Robert Shayne, Cheryl Walker, Warner Anderson, Ralph Dunn

Votes: 151

22. Petunia Natural Park (1939)

Passed | 9 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

As a narrator describes the scene, we watch the whole Katzenjammer clan camping in the park of the title, a composite of several national parks in the western USA. There are several spot ... See full summary »

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Melvin J. Gibby, Alan Ladd

Votes: 124

23. Pot Country (2011)

Not Rated | 27 min | Documentary, Short, History

'Pot Country' is a short documentary about two people's complex relationships with marijuana - the semi-legal crop that powers the local economy in much of rural northern California. Seen ... See full summary »

Directors: Mario Furloni, Kate McLean | Stars: Tom Allman, Ernie Branscomb, Joey Burger, Charley Custer

Votes: 8

24. Tongues of Flame (1918)

50 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A jealous dance-hall girl kills her lover. She escapes from the sheriff who is taking her to jail and hides out in the forest with a recluse who lives in a hollowed-out redwood. As the ... See full summary »

Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Marie Walcamp, Gayne Whitman, Alfred Allen, Hugh Sutherland

25. Planet Earth (2006)
Episode: Seasonal Forests (2006)

TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary, Family

Trees are earth's largest organisms and are also one of the planet's oldest inhabitants. Seasonal forests (unlike tropical rain-forest) the largest land habitats. A third of all trees grow ... See full summary »

Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield | Stars: David Attenborough, Sigourney Weaver, Dany Cleyet-Marrel, Nikolay Drozdov

Votes: 2,685

26. First Ladies (2020)
Episode: Lady Bird Johnson (2020)

Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Biography

The Johnson administration enacted the Civil Rights Act, one of the most prolific legislative programs in U.S. history--but it likely wouldn't have succeeded without Lady Bird Johnson's ... See full summary »

Director: Kim Duke | Stars: Robin Wright, Kati Marton, Mark K. Updegrove, Luci Baines Johnson

Votes: 39

27. Atlas Pro (2018– )
Episode: Why We Find Rainforests in Unexpected Places (2021)

24 min | Documentary

Normally when we think of rainforests we think of the tropics. But there are a plethora of smaller rainforests in temperate climes. When winds blow across a large body of water toward a ... See full summary »

Star: Caelan Kelley

28. Atlas Pro (2018– )
Episode: The Biogeography of the Ice Age (2020)

14 min | Documentary

During the last ice the Earth was cooler, of course, but also dryer and virtually every region of the world had a different environment than it does today. While this lead to deserts near ... See full summary »

Star: Caelan Kelley

29. Outside Beyond the Lens (2019– )
Episode: California North Coast Redwoods (2021)

Take a road trip to northern California's verdant coast where we will find the exquisite beauty of old-growth redwood groves, rugged shorelines, and a family of flourishing state and national parks. Places that transcend space and time.

Director: Jeff Aiello | Stars: Jeff Aiello, Zack Allen, Zack Allen, David Boomer

30. Thoughty2 (2012– )
Episode: Welcome to the Most Powerful Secret Society in the World (2021)

18 min | Documentary

The bohemian club was founded as a club for journalists and artists in 1872. It was gradually co-opted by rich and powerful American men who now enjoy the club's carefree fortnight in the ... See full summary »

Star: Arran Lomas

31. Planet California (2022– )
Episode: Rivers of Gold (2022)

Documentary

California's wildlife adjusts to a world where drought, dams, and fire pose dire threats to an ecosystem connected by rivers on land, in the air, and in the sea.

Director: Rick Rosenthal | Stars: Amy Cordalis, Jeff Davis, Tom Stephenson, Valerie Zavala

Votes: 8

32. National Geographic Explorer (1985– )
Episode: Big Sur-Wild California (2010)

50 min | Documentary, History

National Geographic presents a comprehensive view of the spectacular California coastal area known as Big Surthrough the eyes of three intrinsically connected native creatures: condors, sea otters and mountain lions.

Director: Sue Houghton | Star: Hector Elizondo

Votes: 94

33. Terra X - Rätsel alter Weltkulturen (1982– )
Episode: Faszination Erde - Der Wilde Westen (2012)

Documentary, History

Traditionally, American Indians are believed to have arrived by frozen land bridge from Siberia, but recent finds show people arrived millennia earlier, apparently by sea from Asia. Old ... See full summary »

Star: Dirk Steffens

34. Born to Kill? (2005– )
Episode: John Linley Frazier: The Killer Prophet (2013)

45 min | Documentary, Crime

On 19 October 1970, ophthalmologist Victor Ohta, his wife, his two sons and his secretary are executed in his home by a man under orders from God.

Director: Neil Edwards | Stars: Christopher Slade, Lark Ohta, Robbie Cadwallader, Harold Cartwright

Votes: 18

35. Aerial America (2010– )
Episode: Northern California (2016)

TV-G | 51 min | Documentary

The Smithsonian Channel's AERIAL AMERICA soars over Northern California to discover a world of unparalleled wildness and beauty. In that landscape, humanity has produced an unmatched scale ... See full summary »

Director: Toby Beach | Star: Jim Conrad

Votes: 28

36. Burgerimies (2018– )
Episode: San Francisco ja Muir Woods (2018)

60 min | Documentary

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Director: Ilari Suhonen | Stars: Akseli Herlevi, Ossi Lahtinen