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1) The Muppets
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On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary and Mary from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds. To stage the Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary, and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone...
2) Nancy Drew
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Nancy is an iconic girl detective with a passion for mystery and all things old, but she is about to experience a serious case of culture shock as she heads to Hollywood on an extended business trip with her father, Carson Drew. Having promised him that she has given up sleuthing in favor of becoming a "normal" teenager, Nancy tries her best to resist the lure of the age-old mystery of famous actress Dehlia Draycott's death, and living in Dehlia's...
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Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from...
4) 1941
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"Set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, fear of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state of pandemonium. Screwball characters run wild on Hollywood Boulevard as manic servicemen, zealous store owners, teary-eyed girls and bickering Nazis are thrown together"--Container.
5) Big fat liar
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A high school student has to prove that a sleazy Hollywood producer stole his English class paper and turned it into a smash hit movie. With the help of his best friend, he travels to Los Angeles to squeeze the truth out of this big fat liar through a series of hilarious pranks and outrageous stunts.
7) Marlowe
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"Five hundred bucks doesn't come easily for private eye Philip Marlowe. But when it comes by way of a bribe, it might as well be five cents. He rejects Winslow Wong and his offer of cash... and Wong promptly karates the detective's office into a junk pile. A colorful whodunit with the grim task of sleuthing a case of missing persons, blackmail and ice pick murders in a sprawling 60's L.A. so hard-boiled somebody's got to crack. And when that happens,...
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This is the true story of Eddy Patterson, a likeable 18-year-old autistic sports-jabbering kid, that runs away to Los Angeles to fulfill his lifelong dream of trying out for the L.A. Clippers professional basketball team. Hungry and alone in a strange and unforgiving city, Eddy ends up in a homeless shelter. The director of the shelter introduces him to his new big brother, Mike Jeffreys, a young pro basketball player who has jeopardized his shot...
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Thanks to biological warfare, human life on Earth has just about been decimated. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville drives his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies. He makes certain that he gets undercover before sundown, when other "inhabitants" emerge. Robert has to fend off attacks by The Family, sinister neopeople spawned by the plague. He becomes a man with a mission after meeting Lisa, another uninfected...
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Criterion collection volume 963
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Harry, a devilish charmer from the Deep South, turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry's presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, it is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous...
12) Car wash
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It's just a typical day in the lives of the employees, customers and passersby of a Los Angeles car wash - but what a day! There's a would-be robbery-an assembly line of the weirdest, baddest, shadiest characters you've ever met-and lots of booty-bumping music to pass the hours till quitting time.
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A popular California high school girl is selected by a mysterious old man to kill the vampires that are terrorizing Los Angeles. Although it could put a serious crimp in her shopping, Buffy takes on the ghouls with the help of a handsome drifter, and incurs the wrath of the chief vampire!
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The Valachi papers: Former mob "button man" Joe Valachi turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese has put a contract out on his life. From thievery add extortion to vengeance and murder, Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra, culminating in his riveting testimony before a Senate subcommittee.
The stone killer: Crime drama about a tough New York cop who discovers that a prohibition gangster is planning a massacre...
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"The biggest kid stars of the 90s are gathered here for a nostalgic movie marathon starring Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Wood, Devon Sawa, Anna Chlumsky, Kellie Martin, Jenny Lewis and more!"--
My girl: A coming-of-age comedy, My Girl is an irresistible story of first love and loss. Anna Chlumsky makes an extraordinary acting debut as Vada Suttenfuss, a precocious 1-year-old tomboy and Macaulay Culkin is Thomas J., the boy next door. Their summer adventures...
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