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1) Heat
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Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's...
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Blending fact with fiction, the television series about "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David.
Larry David has it all: money, security, famous friends, a nurturing wife, a devoted agent, a new oceanfront home. So why is he still so intent on making a mess out of his life? Just because you've made it doesn't mean you've got it made.
3) Babylon
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A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, Babylon traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. Portuguese subtitles are available on the bonus features disc only.
4) Shopgirl
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Ray Porter is a button-down 50-something executive who reaches out to a much younger woman as his Los Angeles playmate. Mirabelle a 20-something with a pile of promises, debt, and depression, fades away into a slow corner of Saks, while trying to sell unneeded formal gloves. She's a wisp of a person, with a cat who doesn't love her, and when she finds a suitor, it's Jeremy, a scruffy artist who babbles on about speakers. When the gentlemanly Porter...
5) Dragon wars
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Based on the Korean legend, unknown creatures will return and devastate the planet. Reporter Ethan Kendrick is called in to investigate the matter, and he arrives at the conclusion that a young woman, named Sarah who is stricken with a mysterious illness, is supposed to help him. The Imoogi makes its way to Los Angeles, wreaking havoc and destruction. The entire city is under arms and Ethan and Sarah need make it to Los Angeles in time to save the...
6) Heat
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Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's.
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In 1994, California voters approved Proposition 187, a ballot initiative denying public education and health care to all undocumented immigrants. Laura Angelica Simon, a Mexican immigrant and fourth grade teacher at Hoover Street Elementary School in Los Angeles was, in her own words, "devastated," and felt motivated to a make film about the impact on her school.
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Criterion collection volume 835
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Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give them, but there are prices for fame and fortune-- addictions...
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To keep Leo out of prison, his brother Milo and Milo's reluctantly-involved girlfriend Bella, have 15 hours to raise $5,000 to pay for his rehab. As the clock ticks, the unlikely trio races through Beverly Hills' mansions, East L.A. chop shops and Watts' housing projects, all in the hope to find the money they need by any means necessary.
12) The low life
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A recent college graduate pursues a writing career in Los Angeles, where he finds that things aren't as easy as he hoped, and he turns to alcohol to cope. Then, an unexpected tragedy forces him to change his life and how he lives it.
13) Short cuts
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Criterion collection volume 265
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While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.
14) Sueño
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Anthony comes to Los Angeles from Mexico to pursue his dream of becoming a singer. While chasing his dream he finds himself in relationships with two different women, his neighbor and a young veterinary student.
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George's life hasn't become any less complicated in the years since he became the first assembly line worker to be promoted to plant manager at a Los Angeles airplane parts factory. Yet his true battle is managing his tough and acerbic but loving mother, Benny while raising two kids alongside his wife, Angie. Other unexpected surprises including a long lost sister, and a trip to 'the happiest place on Earth'.
18) Cali comedies
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Sideways: Jack and Miles were college roommates, and despite their differences, they have been friends ever since. Jack is an actor, whose career high point is a stint as a soap opera regular. English teacher and oenophile Miles would much rather be a published novelist. Jack is about to get married, so depressed, divorced Miles suggests they hit the road for a week-long bachelor party amidst the rolling hillsides and gorgeous sunsets of wine country...
19) In California
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Enjoy Agnès Varda's essential classics, shorts, documentaries, and multimedia works, all together for the first time. A founder of the French New Wave who became an international art-house icon, Agnès Varda was a fiercely independent, restlessly curious visionary whose work was at once personal and passionately committed to the world around her.
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Vampire in Brooklyn : The vampire Maximillian is the most diabolical, dashing and definitely undead dude in the 'hood.
Trading places :Two old business partners bet that they can turn a street hustler into a successful businessman.
The golden child : Murphy goes to the rescue of a child with mystical powers who has been abducted by an evil cult.
Norbit : Norbit is a mild-mannered man who in 1967 was abandoned by his parents and left at an orphanage...
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