UCLA School of Film and Television Popular Movie

Francesco takes an unsparing look at the most pressing challenges of the 21st-century, asking deep questions about the human condition. The film is...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pope Francis

Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harvey Milk

A chronicle of lives lost in a school shooting. In the wake of another tragedy, we get a glimpse of each victim and see who they were, who they...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Franco

A short drama directed by Joseph Neulight.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Weissman

When Cassandra witnesses a drunken encounter between her friend and her roommate, she is compelled to investigate if it was consensual.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mathia Vargas

When an aged man feels the need to confess to the new catholic priest, his gay lover of many years is hurt and upset.

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Cast: Bert Kramer

Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited...

Genre: Documentary

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An improvised late '60s short-subject student film, and debut movie of Charles Burnett, done in the neo-realist, documentary film style. A...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andy Burnett

A maan is trying to decide if he should go to Vietnam with the US army.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Ginn

An early student film directed By Francis Ford Coppola during his time at UCLA School of Film and Television. This short would later be expanded on...

Genre: Drama

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A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.

Genre: Animation

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In the course of a botched purse-snatching, a boy comes to question the path of his life. Billy Woodberry’s second film, and first completed in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ray Cherry

In 1963 a boy and his mother are left in Saigon while his father and brother flee to seek shelter from religious persecution in North Vietnam. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Duong Don

Lana Wilson has trouble in school because of racist discrimination, but at first, her parents don't believe her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Smith

Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gay Abel-Bey

Cultural traditions blend as a Japanese American family celebrates Christmas and a young girl tries to find her place within the family structure.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kimi Nakaba

Animation of a poem from Edith Sitwell's "Façade".

Genre: Animation

Cast: Bill Scott

As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification. She cleans house and body, and calls on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephanie Ingram

Amanda has been dreaming of having her own real-life book romance. When one day, she stumbles upon a penny, her wish starts to become reality as it...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jurnee Woo

A woman remembers an unwanted teenage pregnancy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Porterfield