University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts Popular Movie

An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morgan Ashley

A young man in Oakland, California, wakes with a heavy heart and decides to take a walk through the neighborhood to the local barbershop.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Turen Robinson

A delicious sense of dark humor in which a nerdy, young feet-fetishist, a department store management trainee, is assigned to women’s shoes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steven Memel

After a man-made disaster decimates an evergreen island, a stranded 11-year-old girl must find the tenacity to leave behind her home with the help of...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Maia Ann Puuwai

A rookie Air Force drone pilot finds himself increasingly attached to a target he watches from halfway around the world.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Sharman

A passport photographer named Steven Forrest is petrified of death following the sudden demise of his fearless buddy in a martini accident.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sam Clay

Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for...

Genre: History

Cast: Kiersey Clemons

After tragedy strikes, a meek Ruby Oliver enters a broken VR game for a last chance to see the dead. Little does she know that this game treats all...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Jimmy Jean-Louis

"Ladies Knight" is Joe Rothenberg's undergrad senior thesis project from USC's Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Matt Tyler

When a high school senior, Chris, gets in trouble with the West L.A. police for joy riding in stolen cars, his wealthy but neglectful dad hires...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barry Wyatt

In 1936 Harlem, the first all-Black cast to perform Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', directed by a young and arrogant Orson Welles, battles to make it to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Inger Tudor

On a desolate farm, a couple's prayers are answered after a visitor offers them a sinister deal. Blinded by their joy, they struggle to realize that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shola Fagbamila

For Los Angeles natives living in the early 1900s, bicycles and streetcars shared the road as our primary modes of transportation. But the arrival of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeremy Sisto

In 1976, punk rocker Danny Brooklyn was kicked out of his own band. 45 years later, he's crashing the reunion.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nic D'Avirro

After a tumultuous rise to power, the first Muslim Sultana of Delhi fights to guide her kingdom while the people closest to her plot against her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arya Desai

This is James Gray's student film from the University of Southern California. A private investigator who is hired to bring a man's 16-year-old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jace Kent

A lonely Singaporean death row guard tries to help a young Australian convicted of drug trafficking accept her fate despite a bizarre contradiction -...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reza Sixo Safai

A son brings his girlfriend to meet his father for the first time, but a cordial afternoon soon takes a violent turn when intentions on both sides...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Byron Thomas

In the fall of 2009, Lindsay Ellis, a 26-year old graduate student, went through the painful process of having an abortion. “The A-Word”...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lindsay Ellis

Katie is a dog loving foodie who is very content with her single life. Soon, she finds herself being pressured to find love. Meanwhile, Chris, the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mina Son