San Francisco California Movies

  • 2016
    Last Men Standing

    Last Men Standing

    Last Men Standing

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    “Last Men Standing,” the first feature-length documentary from The San Francisco Chronicle, Northern California’s largest newspaper...

    Last Men Standing
  • 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
  • 2023
    Something is missing

    Something is missing

    Something is missing

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    What is the worst thing for a photographer? When the light is perfect, the subject interesting and the composition meaningful... what could be...

    Something is missing
  • 2005
    Market Street

    Market Street

    Market Street

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    "All images were shot on Market Street, one of the main streets in San Francisco. I used Sketch Film #1 and Sketch Film #2 as reference to make a...

    Market Street
  • 2013
    Good Shepherd Gracenter

    Good Shepherd Gracenter

    Good Shepherd Gracenter

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    Gracenter is a recovery residence that offers a supportive and gently challenging program for women who wish to strengthen their early sobriety....

    Good Shepherd Gracenter
  • 2025
    Being Adolph Gasser

    Being Adolph Gasser

    Being Adolph Gasser

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    Nearing the end of his life, Adolph Gasser looks back on a seventy-year career as a world-class camera repairman, WWII veteran, inventor, and best...

    Being Adolph Gasser
  • 1970
    The Long Distance Soft Shoe

    The Long Distance Soft Shoe

    The Long Distance Soft Shoe

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    Super-light lyrical entertaining quickie film of a Golden Gate soft shoe crossing.

    The Long Distance Soft Shoe
  • 1979
    In the Red

    In the Red

    In the Red

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    A collage of live performance, intimate interviews, and cityscapes featuring San Francisco punk club Mabuhay Gardens. With Flipper's Will Shatter,...

    In the Red
  • 2026
    Exit Through the Sky

    Exit Through the Sky

    Exit Through the Sky

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    A painter with artist's block is sent on a disorienting journey after a mysterious painting appears in his home.

    Exit Through the Sky
  • 1995
    The Beach - San Francisco’s North Beach in the 50s

    The Beach - San Francisco’s North Beach in the 50s

    The Beach - San Francisco’s North Beach in the 50s

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    San Francisco's North Beach in the 50's - A mix of jazz, poetry and art - The Beach recreates the atmosphere that prevailed through first-hand...

    The Beach - San Francisco’s North Beach in the 50s
  • 1970
    Through Immigrants' Eyes

    Through Immigrants' Eyes

    Through Immigrants' Eyes

    01970HD

    This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

    Through Immigrants' Eyes
  • 1970
    The Magic Project

    The Magic Project

    The Magic Project

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    At Ella Hill Hutch Community Center in the Fillmore, magic is happening. Throughout the 2024 school year, Magic Zone students in Citizen Film's...

    The Magic Project
  • 2003
    Straight Outta Hunter's Point

    Straight Outta Hunter's Point

    Straight Outta Hunter's Point

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    "Straight Outta Hunters Point", the award-winning Hip Hop documentary by Hunters Point filmmaker Kevin Epps is a stark cinematic portrait of a...

    Straight Outta Hunter's Point
  • 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...

    Working Class
  • 1995
    Premonition

    Premonition

    Premonition

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    The San Francisco Embarcadero Freeway comes to life in this elegy for modernity. The Freeway was deemed a triumph of engineering, a monument for...

    Premonition
  • 1906
    San Francisco Disaster

    San Francisco Disaster

    San Francisco Disaster

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    This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco...

    San Francisco Disaster
  • 1970
    Klaira's Story - Berezka

    Klaira's Story - Berezka

    Klaira's Story - Berezka

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    Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

    Klaira's Story - Berezka
  • 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...

    The Rejected
  • 1970
    Alexander Barantschik - San Francisco Symphony

    Alexander Barantschik - San Francisco Symphony

    Alexander Barantschik - San Francisco Symphony

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    A Studio B Production – Co-produced by Citizen Film for the San Francisco Symphony

    Alexander Barantschik - San Francisco Symphony
  • 1979
    Active Partners

    Active Partners

    Active Partners

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    A film on SFSU Master’s student Bob Lenz, who would go on to serve as director of Disabled Student Services at Merced College, and his...

    Active Partners