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21) A star is born
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
�2004
Language
English
Description
Norman Main, a drunk and failing Hollywood star, unexpectedly meets Ester Boldgett, a farm girl looking to become a showgirl. They fall in love and marry. Her career skyrockets, while his continues to fade with tragic results.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Based on the Academy Award-winning film by the same name, Dennis Hopper stars as a rough around the edges music producer. The series discusses the racial tensions in Los Angeles and brings to light the struggles of life from a variety of viewpoints.
23) 24 First Season
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Jack Bauer, head of the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit, is thrust into a 24-hour marathon of death, deception, and terror as he struggles to prevent the assasination of a presidential candidate, find the traitor within his own organization, and save his kidnapped wife and daughter.
24) Bobby
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen. We see Kennedy's acceptance speech after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, his death at the hands of gunman Sirhan Sirhan, and the chaos and despair that ensued. The people at the hotel don't know what is coming. Our grief at hearing RFK's own words, so eloquent, so hopeful and inspiring. Watch the horrible events unfold and wonder what might have been....
25) 24: Season one
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010, c2007
Language
English
Description
Jack Bauer, head of the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit, is thrust into a 24-hour marathon of death, deception, and terror as he struggles to prevent the assassination of a presidential candidate, find the traitor within his own organization, and save his kidnapped wife and daughter.
26) Fast & furious 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following their successful Rio heist, Dom and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam has left their lives incomplete. Hobbs asks Dom and Brian to help him take down an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers. In return, their crew will receive full pardons and be allowed to return home.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Rick Hunter and his partner, Sergeant Dee Dee McCall, are homicide investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department. Often they must go undercover to catch a variety of L.A.-style villains. "Sporty" James, a helpful police-informant, occasionally provides a bit of humor in this action-drama T.V. series.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After a rocky start, Detective Vic Mackey and Captain David Aceveda have formed an uneasy alliance that Detective Claudette Wyms is determined to destroy. Vic's personal life is in shambles and a new nemesis on the street forces the Strike Team to risk everything in the pursuit of one last big score for their "retirement fund."
32) The Italian job
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Charlie, the mastermind of a Venice heist, is overseen by John, a lifelong criminal. But the thieves are ruthlessly double-crossed by one of their own, Steve. In order to get their stolen gold bars back, Charlie enlists John's reluctant safecracking-prodigy daughter, Stella. But Steve proves himself to be one step ahead of them, and Charlie finds that he'll have to make some daring last-minute changes to their plan by creating the largest traffic...
34) Some girl
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Hipsters, poets, actors, musicians ... Falling in love in LA is a real art. Somewhere between the casting sessions and the performance caf�es, the day jobs and the after hours clubs, a group of friends search for true love.
35) 13 moons
Publisher
Monarch Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Nine different characters' lives intersect at a variety of odd places, including a bail bondsman's office, a prison, and a hospital.
36) Blood work
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Thanks to a heart transplant, a former FBI agent is enjoying a quiet retirement. But when he discovers that his donated heart is not from an accident victim, but from a murder victim, he sets out to find the killer.
37) The ladies' man
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1961
Language
English
Description
"Move over, Don Juan and Casanova--you've got competition from none other than Herbert H. Heebert. After being jilted by his gal, a depressed Herbert swears off romantic entanglements and is determined to live his life as a confirmed bachelor. However, he then finds employment at a Hollywood boardinghouse for women, and the female residents go wild over the newly hired help! And that's when the hapless Herbert graduates from being a simple handyman...
38) 1941
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This comedy is set in Los Angeles days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when the fear of a Japanese invasion hung over the city.
39) Den of thieves
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
40) Blade runner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. This new version omits Deckard's voiceover narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachel, and removes the "uplifting" finale.