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    Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

    The teen scene includes a party-animal surfer (Sean Penn), a pregnant girl (Jennifer Jason Leigh)...

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    The Kite Runner (2007)

    After many years living in the U.S., an Afghan novelist (Khalid Abdalla) returns to his...

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    The Legend of Zorro (2005)

    The masked swordsman (Antonio Banderas) and his wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) fight a European count...

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    There Will Be Blood (2007)

    Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) becomes a self-made oil tycoon, but he deviates into moral...

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    The Birds (1963)

    A San Francisco playgirl (Tippi Hedren) follows a bachelor (Rod Taylor) to Bodega Bay where, for no...

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    The Lost Boys (1987)

    A woman (Dianne Wiest) and her sons (Jason Patric, Corey Haim) move to a coastal California town...

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    Lions for Lambs (2007)

    The experiences of two soldiers in Afghanistan ties together separate stories unfolding in...

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    Sideways (2004)

    A divorced teacher (Paul Giamatti) and his soon-to-be-married friend (Thomas Haden Church) ponder...

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    Legally Blondes (2009)

    British twin sisters (Milly Rosso, Becky Rosso) experience culture shock when they attend school in...

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    Alpha Dog (2007)

    A teenage dealer (Justin Timberlake) and his friends kidnap the impressionable younger brother of a...

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    California Dreaming (1979)

    A Chicago teen (Dennis Christopher) tries to fit in with beach girls and surfers in Southern...

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    Blow (2001)

    In the 1970s a man (Johnny Depp) works with Colombian smugglers to establish the cocaine business in...

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    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

    Filmmaker Alex Gibney analyzes the corporation's rise, the scandal, and the devastation of its...

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    10 Items Or Less (2006)

    Researching a role at a grocery store, an actor (Morgan Freeman) bonds with a feisty cashier (Paz...

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    One-Eyed Jacks (1960)

    An ex-convict bandit (Marlon Brando) finds the partner (Karl Malden) who betrayed him is now a town...

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    White Oleander (2002)

    A teenager (Alison Lohman) endures a string of foster homes after her mother (Michelle Pfeiffer), a...

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    The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

    Poor sharecroppers the Joads (Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell) leave dust bowl Oklahoma in hope of better...

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    Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)

    Filmmaker Chris Paine examines the development and eventual destruction of General Motors' EV-1, an...

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    The Bad News Bears (1976)

    The beer-drinking manager (Walter Matthau) of a peewee team bribes a girl pitcher (Tatum O'Neal) to...

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    The Brown Bunny (2004)

    A motorcycle racer (Vincent Gallo) journeys cross country in search of women to take the place of...

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    Point of No Return (1993)

    A drug-addicted punk (Bridget Fonda) escapes from death row when a government agent (Gabriel Byrne)...

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    Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

    Members (Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette) of a dysfunctional family set out on a road trip...

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    Blood Red (1989)

    A Sicilian winegrower's (Giancarlo Giannini) son (Eric Roberts) falls in love during a war against a...

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    Psycho (1960)

    A woman (Janet Leigh) on the run stops at a 12-cabin motel with showers, run by mother-fixated...

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    Resurrection (1980)

    After a bad car accident, a woman (Ellen Burstyn) awakes from the edge of death with amazing powers...

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    All Night Long (1981)

    The manager (Gene Hackman) of an all-night Los Angeles drugstore has a midlife fling with his son's...

  • Margaret Cho: The Assassin Tour picture
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    Margaret Cho: The Assassin Tour (2005)

    Comedian Margaret Cho roars back onto the screen with her latest concert, featuring fresh doses of...

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    The Wild Angels (1966)

    An outlaw biker (Peter Fonda) in black leather invades a Southern California beach town with his...

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    The Mask of Zorro (1998)

    The fabled avenger (Anthony Hopkins) trains an uncouth protege (Antonio Banderas) to drive a Spanish...

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    The Singing Fool

    A singing waiter (Al Jolson) loves two women (Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn), takes Broadway and...

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    Baghead (2008)

    A man with a paper bag over his head stalks a group of actors (Ross Partridge, Steve Zissis, Greta...

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    California Cool Quartet

    Jack Sheldon california Cool Q performed for the movie King of California.

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    Randolph Dobbs

    Randolph Dobbs appeared in the movie The World's Greatest Lover.

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    Herman Boxer

    Herman Boxer was a Writer for the movies California Straight Ahead and California Straight Ahead.

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    Stoked (2003)

    Skateboarder Mark Rogowski enjoys success in the 1980s, then goes to prison for rape and murder.

  • I Never Sang For My Father picture
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    I Never Sang For My Father (1970)

    A middle-aged New York professor (Gene Hackman) loses his mother (Dorothy Stickney) and reaches out...

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    Twentynine Palms (2004)

    A photographer (David Wissak) and his lover (Katia Golubeva) drive to the California desert in a red...

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    They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)

    A California police chief (James Garner) investigates a baffling death blamed on a Doberman...

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    Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)

    Filmmaker Stacy Peralta profiles the skateboarding craze in Southern California in the 1970s....

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    Candy (1968)

    Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel, a sendup of Voltaire's -Candide-. Young Candy is a high...

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    Mighty Joe Young (1998)

    A rampage ensues when a zoologist (Bill Paxton) brings a noble 15-foot gorilla from Africa to...

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    1941 (1979)

    Southern Californians and military personnel panic under rumors of a Japanese attack in their own...

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    Celebration at Big Sur

    This documentary chronicles the 1969 Big Sur Festival and features the folk-rock tunes of many of...

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    Vigilante Force (1976)

    A veteran (Kris Kristofferson) takes over a California boomtown he has been hired to protect, but...

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    I'm Losing You (1999)

    On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, Perry Krohn learns he has one year to live. He must deal with...

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    Seven Men From Now (1956)

    A rancher (Randolph Scott) hunts down those responsible for killing his wife during a Wells Fargo...

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    2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

    A former policeman (Paul Walker) and his friend (Tyrese) work with a U.S. Customs agent (Eva Mendes)...

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    The Sure Thing (1985)

    College students (John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga) go cross-country together for different reasons and...

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    Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)

    Gene Roddenberry wrote and produced this black comedy about a guidance counselor well-versed in...

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    Nightwish (1988)

    A professor and four graduate students journey to a crumbling mansion to investigate paranormal...