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Best California Trilogy Movies Ranked

Explore the best california trilogy movies ranked by Movie Rankings users. Our current #1 pick is El Valley Centro. Browse 3 franchise titles in ranked order, with direct links to movie pages and matchup data.

Produced at the junction of two millennia, the California Trilogy is James Benning's three-part topographical study of America's "Golden State". Looking to the past while investigating the present, the mathematician-turned-filmmaker condenses three distinct Californian landscapes into a total of 105 shots, each exactly 2½ minutes long. Formal restraint and compositional precision combine with ambient sound and an unheard social commentary to create a hypnotic journey across the 31st US State; from the Great Central Valley (El Valley Centro) through greater Los Angeles (Los) to the Californian wilderness (Sogobi).