I didn't see much of it, but it's about a guy (who looks a lot like a very young Val Kilmer) who is a film student at a west coast school. The small part that I saw showed him seeing a woman on the beach, and following her around. Then is showed him making a documentary type movie on Nazis or something, and dropping out of film school.

I know this is very little to go on, but I'm hoping someone else out there has seen it and knows what I'm talking about.

You might be talking about The Doors
The Doors (1991) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101761/)