El Halcón en San Francisco (1945)

Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away

Iconic imageries and moments of strange magic in California.

Taylor, a successful professional, is suffocating under the loneliness of being around millions of people. But a ray of light comes from encountering a stranger.

Wayne Adams is murdered in a Barbary Coast saloon and gambling hall in San Francisco in 1880, and his sister, Julie, enlists the aid of the district attorney, Michael Lodge, in gathering evidence in which to convict the owner of the gambling house of the crime. In order to do so, Julie poses as a dance-hall-girl, and soon finds herself in a dangerous situation.

Drugs in the Tenderloin is a documentary shot guerilla style by Robert Zagone in 1966; It captures the Tenderloin as it transformed into a center for young queers and drug users.

Powerfully and heartbreakingly detailing the challenging process that LGBTQ refugees must go through to find safety and security while starting over in the US, Tom Shepard’s inspiring new documentary profiles four people who have come to San Francisco to save their own lives. Over the course of this unforgettable group portrait, Subhi (from Syria), Junior (from Congo), and Mari and Cheyenne (from Angola) experience roadblocks and triumphs as they reflect on their respective histories and try to create a home for themselves in an environment that is not always welcoming. Once in San Francisco, they are met with setbacks but each maintains hope for a better future – Mari and Cheyenne record an album, Subhi starts a tour speaking on behalf of Syrian refugees and finds love, while Junior faces challenges of homelessness and gender non-conformance.

A repeating journey across the San Francisco Bay Bridge becomes a journey into disintegrating visuals, video transformation, with an accompanying sound track taken from "40 years of Radio". As a film, it anticipated the end of the film medium, and the emergence of the video medium.

Fifty years after the Stonewall uprising, Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman travel to three diverse communities – Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama – for an unflinching look at LGBTQ Pride, from the perspective of a younger generation for whom it still has personal urgency.

A bored newspaper editor tries to make life more interesting through the brief human connection he finds at speed dating.

This program tells the story of a hustler and self-promoter, a man who had never designed or overseen the building of a suspension bridge. Joseph Strauss spent thirteen years wrangling with politicians, arguing over designs and fighting lawsuits from opponents before he was able to break ground. By completion, Strauss, his designers and his construction crews had built what has since been called one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World."

Finnish award-winning barista Kalle Freese travels to San Francisco with his girlfriend to start an instant coffee start-up with big goals. At stake are Kalle's health, relationship and the newly formed start-up.

Jimmie Fails (Jimmie Fails) sueña con volver a tener la casa victoriana que su abuelo construyó en el corazón de San Francisco. Cada semana, él y Montgomery (Jonathan Majors), su único amigo, realizan un peregrinaje hacia la casa e imaginan qué habría sucedido si el barrio no hubiese cambiado. Cuando un día Jimmie ve la oportunidad de tratar de volver a conectar con sus raíces familiares y de pertenecer a la comunidad que tanto echa de menos, el joven muchacho vive totalmente ajeno a la realidad del mundo que le rodea.

Sasha y Marcus fueron grandes amigos durante su infancia, y hasta sintieron algo el uno por el otro. Pero, tras una disputa, llevan 15 años sin hablarse. Cuando se reencuentran, ya de adultos, los dos están en situaciones socioeconómicas completamente distintas. Mientras que ella es una chef de gran éxito, él es un músico que aún sigue dependiendo de su padre. A pesar de las notables diferencias y de todo el tiempo que ha pasado, nada podrá evitar que pronto los dos vuelvan a sentir las chispas de hace años y se enamoren de nuevo.

Unable or unwilling to conform to the rigid atmosphere of Washington and Lee College as a freshman, Ed bailed out after a brief stint there to attend—and graduate from—Miami of Ohio. After graduate work at UK, he left for the Left Coast, and it suited him just fine. The first stop was a writing instructorship at Oregon State, then enrollment into the Stanford Writing Program, a move shared by Jim, Wendell, and Gurney. There he cultivated, among other things, relationships with Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and—most importantly—Ken Kesey. Ed didn’t just experience the 1960s; he wallowed in them. Also, a bonus interview from 1996 program, Signature Live.

Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, a cat burglar armed with pistol and flashlight breaks into his hotel room and demands that Halahan cough up his dough. Halahan sees her threat and raises her a one-dollar bet that he can return a brooch she stole earlier the same evening before its loss is discovered. Pulling off his boots to slip on his own “soft shoes,” Halahan sets off to do a little second-story work, not realizing the trouble he’s in for.

Phil tiene un grave problema de dependencia... con su teléfono móvil. No tiene amigos, se dedica a trabajar creando listas con los temas musicales pop del momento y su vida amorosa brilla por su ausencia. Sin embargo, su estado de Facebook está a punto de cambiar. Tras comprar un nuevo terminal móvil, descubre la existencia de Jexi, una interfaz artificial que hace las veces de consejera y de asistente virtual. Con su ayuda, Phil comienza a vivir por primera vez. A medida que se vuelve menos dependiente de su móvil, Jexi empieza a desarrollar una actitud un tanto extraña con la que pretende acaparar por completo a Phil, incluso pese a que ello implique perjudicar seriamente sus opciones de tener éxito en la vida.

Una directora conservadora del coro de la iglesia se muda a San Francisco para dirigir el club de drag de su hijo gay fallecido.

Cuando Gabriela, una ejecutiva de San Francisco, gana un hotel en Nueva Zelanda, dejará atrás la vida en la ciudad para restaurar la propiedad con ayuda de Jake Taylor, un apuesto contratista.

Several days in the lives, and profiles of, the owners and players of the open air street chess tables in downtown San Francisco. An informative and insightful portrait of a freely public, yet effectively anonymous, subculture: a unique and colorful patch of eccentric americana in the urban quilt of an international city. —Anonymous

When a young dancer moves to San Francisco in the early 1980s, signs of a sickness test his relationships, as well as his lifelong dream in this strikingly photographed and stirring portrait.