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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When ad copywriter Rockwell Hunter hears the Stay-Put lipstick account is leaving for another agency, he gets the bright idea of asking movie star Rita Marlowe to endorse the product. Known as the "girl with the kissable lips", Rita agrees on one condition, that Rockwell pretend to be her lover so she can make her boyfriend jealous, and so begins the first of many obstacles Rock faces on his meteoric climb up the ladder of success.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sam is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah, frolicking in his apartment's swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy in the City of Angels.
43) The running man
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles in the year 2017 has become a police state in the wake of the global economy's total collapse. In 2019 The Running Man is the top-rated TV show, where condemned criminals are given a chance for freedom by running through a gauntlet of heavily armed killers known as Stalkers. Ben Richards, an ex-cop wrongly convicted of the massacre of unarmed civilians, must try and survive the Stalkers.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The hardboiled Marlowe's latest cases, the search for an ex-convict's lost love, and the murder of a client, take on an even more sinister turn when they begin to connect, leading the private eye deeper and deeper into the seamy underbelly of 1940s Los Angeles. As the stakes are raised and the body count swells, it looks like Marlowe might be next on the list to take the big sleep.
45) Chinatown
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A landmark movie in the film-noir tradition, CHINATOWN stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together....
46) The player
Series
Criterion collection volume 812
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here."--Griffin Mill. Griffin is a slick, successful film studio vice president whose primary duty is to listen to story pitches from a constant stream of writers. Like all Hollywood producers, he's always looking over his shoulder, and he thinks up-and-comer Larry...
47) Falling down
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After he's downsized from his job, an emotionally unstable man slowly loses his mind, unleashing a spree of violence on those that he sees as detriments to society.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The black camel: When beautiful starlet Shelah Fane is murdered in Hawaii, suspicion points to a psychic advisor with a spirited nature. But when Chan uncovers a link to the unsolved murder of screen heartthrob Denny Mayo, the Chinese supersleuth soon discovers that, in Hollywood, fame can be murder.
Charlie Chan on Broadway: A New York nightclub gal is turning from singer to canary-- with a tell-all diary about her mobster ex-boyfriend. But when...
49) Drive
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Driver is a Hollywood stunt driver by day, and moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver for hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene. When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best, Drive!
50) The aviator
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Howard Hughes was a rich young man from Texas, heir to his father's fortune, when he decided he wanted to make movies. Age 21, he made the most expensive Hollywood film ever (at the time); and went on to break air-speed records, make another fortune in aircraft design, smash Charles Lindbergh's round-the-world flight record, and be romantically linked with almost all of Hollywood's famous beauties. Nevertheless, he died alone, sealed into a room he...
51) La la land
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.
52) Starry eyes
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Determined to make it as an actress in Hollywood, Sarah Walker spends her days working a dead-end job, enduring petty friendships and going on countless casting calls. After a series of strange auditions, Sarah lands the leading role in a new film from a mysterious production company. But, bizarre ramifications come that will transform her both mentally and physically into something beautiful, and altogether terrifying.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1135
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Denzel Washington has charisma to burn as the jobless ex-GI Easy Rawlins, who sees a chance to make some quick cash when he's recruited to find the missing lover of a wealthy mayoral candidate in late 1940s Los Angeles only to find himself embroiled in murder, political intrigue, and a scandal that crosses the treacherous color lines of a segregated society.
"Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins, a decorated African American war hero, returns home to the segregation...
54) The long goodbye
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the...
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