THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO (2019) Stream on Amazon; rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. Awkwafina has Queens; Jimmie Fails has San Francisco. Fails, an actor and San Francisco native, plays a fictionalized version of himself in this indie drama directed by Joe Talbot. The story centers on Fails’s character’s efforts to hold onto a home (in more senses than one) in a rapidly changing Bay Area. “It’s a plaintive American narrative that here becomes an expressionistic odyssey, both rapturous and melancholic,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times. “In moments it feels as if Jimmie and his faithful artistic friend, Montgomery (Jonathan Majors, a mournful heartbreaker), are dreaming the movie into existence, pouring its surrealistic jolts and hallucinatory beauty out of their heads and straight into yours.”

THE BLING RING (2013) Stream on Netflix; rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. Down the coast from “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” the Southern California teenagers at the heart of this drama are committing crimes and hoarding designer clothes. The movie concerns a group of young thieves who break into celebrity homes. (They’re played by Emma Watson, Katie Chang and Israel Broussard, among others.) The film was directed by Sofia Coppola, who adapted it from a Vanity Fair article. Her version of the story, A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times, has “a whiff of tabloid incredulity.”