UCLA School of Film and Television Popular Movie

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...

genus: Documentary

cast: Harvey Milk

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

genus: Animation

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

genus: Documentary

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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

As the sun rises, we witness two male bodies emerge from the darkness. The younger of the two attempts to sneak out on the older man he just slept...

genus: Drama

cast: Steve Connell

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Pope Francis

Serena starts reflecting on the commitment in her own relationship with Donielle when she is asked to be the maid of honor for her former lover...

genus: Drama

cast: Kehaunani Hunt

An eight-year-old boy experiences his first heartbreak when he falls in love with his male third-grade teacher.

genus: Drama

cast: Zackary Arthur

Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust”...

genus: Fantasy

cast: Jamaa Fanaka

While no wrestling is actually depicted, Atilogivu: The Story of a Wrestling Match documents gymnastic dancing to drum and flute music of the Ibu...

genus: 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...

genus: Drama

cast: Andy Burnett

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...

genus: Documentary

cast: James Franco

A lucid view on an extraordinary character, recognized and loved or reviled by the crowd of wrestling fans. Cassandro, the exotic gay lucha libre...

genus: Documentary

cast: Saúl Armendáriz

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...

genus: Romance

cast: Jurnee Woo

An Alien is sent to earth to investigate the "incubators." She discovers that she is replacing a rogue agent. She questions her mission.

genus: Drama

cast: Alem Brhan Sapp

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...

genus: Drama

cast: Ray Cherry

Writer-director Robert Wheaton’s story of a shy guy, Mark (Parros), trying all the wrong moves to meet the right girl rides high on a romantic...

genus: Comedy

cast: Peter Parros

A woman who works in a night club starts having obsessive thoughts, beginning to lose her hold on reality.

genus: Drama

cast: Sylvia Morales

Filmmaker Don Amis was one of the very few Black student filmmakers at UCLA (including Carroll Parrott Blue and Denise Bean) working in a documentary...

genus: Documentary

cast: Carmen Stetson

Mike Jittlov's 1969 short film Good Grief, made for Dan McLaughlin’s animation class at UCLA and a finalist for shortlisting at the Academy...

genus: Animation

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