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California Los Angeles California Los Angeles Hollywood Detective and mystery plays Feature films Gangs California Los Angeles Drama Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Drama Los Angeles (Calif.) Drama Motion picture industry California Los Angeles Drama Police Police California Los Angeles DramaSummary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUGSummary: Sean Archer is a tough and rugged FBI Agent. He is still grieving for his dead son, Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is now his sworn enemy and happens to be the very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. Archer corners Castor. Their fight knocks Troy out cold. Archer finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FACSummary: Errol Flynn is one of Hollywood's greatest leading men: a lusty and vivacious actor who lived a swashbuckling life of glamour and scandal on and off the screen. Btu few remember the icon's last May-December romance that shocked a nation. It's a sensational, unforgettable look at Hollywood's golden age and the desire for fame and acceptance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LASSummary: His picture is on magazine covers, his name in lights. Ex-con artist and gangster Dan Quigley is "doing all right in this movie racket," a big man in Hollywood. But if his criminal past resurfaces, he could end up in the big house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: O2 is an ex-con who is trying to go straight. His life takes a deadly turn when his son gets kidnapped in a carjacking and held for ransom by a ruthless druglord. With a street-smart hustler as his partner and his shady cousin along for the ride, O2 races through the violent streets of Los Angeles in a desperate attempt to outsmart rival gangs and save his son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAISummary: More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Set in a future world where America has lost the war on drugs, an L.A. undercover agents change their faces along with their identities. One officer's liberal ingestion of the drug "Substance D" causes him to develop a split personality, a notorious drug dealer. Along with his superior officers, the police set up an elaborate scheme to catch his drug dealer alter-ego and tear down his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD SCI-FI SCASummary: For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary-- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Documentary about a gang of kids who virtually revolutionized skateboarding with an aggressive style, awe-inspiring moves and street smarts, and in the process, transformed youth culture forever. Captures the rise of the Zephyr skateboarding team from Venice's Dogtown, a tough "locals only" beach with a legacy of outlaw surfing, who used abandoned swimming pools to sharpen their skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: New York detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his family. As he waits for his estranged wife's office Christmas party to break up, German terrorists occupy the building, and McClane wages a one-man war to stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DIESummary: Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Russell). His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEYSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DeCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DENSummary: No matter who travels off into the sunset (or ties the knot ) this fierce group of friends and lovers are keeping it all in the family. Maybe this is their time to find 'the one' or just the one for right now. Either way, they're living their best life the only way they know how honestly and confidently proving time and time again queer life is real life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LSummary: After two ruthless drug dealers commit a brutal mass murder in Los Angeles and are forced to flee the state, their beautiful accomplice unwittingly leads them into a trap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ONESummary: Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmaker Harry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1997
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Get 1995Summary: Die hard: New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly. While McClane waits for Holly's office party to end, terrorists take control of the building. As their sinister leader, Hans Gruber, and his savage henchman round up hostages, McClane gets ready to blast a few rounds of his own and launch a one-man war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DieSummary: In this sequel to Chinatown, it is 1948 Los Angeles and private investigator Jake Gittes must solve a case of suspected adultery-turned-murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TWOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWO RATED RSummary: Daniel, a fatherless teenager, arrives in Los Angeles from the East and faces the difficult task of making friends. He becomes the object of bullying by a gang of karate students when he strikes up a relationship with Ali, the gang leader's ex-girlfriend. Daniel asks Miyagi, a master of martial arts, to help him learn karate. Daniel then prepares himself both mentally and physically for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family KarateCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KaSummary: Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, a nurse operates a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Global Road Entertainment 2018