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In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in Los Angeles respectively in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of some of the more memorable films set in Los Angeles, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to ...
The Entertainment Capital of the World is a nickname that has been applied to several American cities, including: . Las Vegas, [1] [2] because of its "broad scope of entertainment options including nightlife, shows, exhibits, museums, theme parks, pool parties, and so on."
In June 1959, Louis Simo, a sleazy Los Angeles private investigator, is spying on the wife of a man named Chester Sinclair to learn if she is having an affair. On a visit to his own ex-wife Laurie, Simo learns that his son is upset over the recent death of actor George Reeves, having been found dead inside his Beverly Hills home with a gunshot wound to the head, which the police ruled as a ...
At the Tiki, the ringmaster of porn is Juan Martinez, the theater's longtime manager. Most days, the 59-year-old immigrant from El Salvador works 12-hour shifts in a tiny box office with a mini ...
A critical and commercial hit, the film helped propel Favreau, Vaughn, Graham, and Livingston to stardom, while also launching Liman's directing career as he won the award for Best New Filmmaker at the 1997 MTV Movie Awards. This film was rated #58 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". The film was honored on the 2007 Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards.
In this film adaptation of the Broadway play, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Anna Deavere Smith performs her one-woman show portraying various real life people involved in the aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial verdict riots in Los Angeles. The film is interspersed with additional footage shot in 1999 of Smith following up with some of her ...
Hungarian-Jewish architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) shows off his plans for a grand new building in the historical drama "The Brutalist."
L.A. Takedown, also called L.A. Crimewave and Made in L.A., [1] is a 1989 American crime action film written and directed by Michael Mann.Originally filmed as a pilot for an NBC television series, the project was reworked and aired as a stand-alone TV film after the series was not picked up.