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1) The take
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Felix De La Pena is an armored car driver struggling to make ends meet for his wife Marina and two kids in East L.A.'s Boyle Heights neighborhood. But their lives are thrown into chaos after Felix miraculously survives a violent on-the-job hijacking led by Adell Baldwin, a merciless criminal driven by power and greed. Now facing a difficult recovery and struggling with a nasty new temper, Felix becomes obsessed with tracking down his attackers before...
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Description
Once the center of Hollywood, an aging actor finds that his fear of failure has made his career dry up, and he is now forced to consider a role in an independent film. While researching the role, he meets Scarlett, a check-out clerk at a Latino community market. The two begin a trek through Los Angeles finding unexpected situations, chance encounters, and personal revelation that neither could ever have anticipated.
3) Rampart
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[ 2012]
Description
A riveting parable about what happens to a man who refuses to change, even when change is the only thing that can save him. Dave Brown, a man who has taken the 'no guts, no glory' American mythos to heart, without questioning what it is doing to him and those he holds dear, is a cop whose personal life is propelled into a dizzying downward spiral when he comes under suspicion for roughing up a suspect.
4) Heat
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's.
6) Street kings
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him. He teams up with a young detective to track down Washington's killers.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Description
Join Modern Family for a third season. Winner of eleven Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series two years in a row. As the extended Pritchett/Dunphy clan faces an uproariously unpredictable array of family vacations, holiday hassles, troublesome in-laws, and surprising secrets, they still somehow manage to thrive together as one big, loving family even as they drive each other absolutely insane.
8) Fracture
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Ted Crawford is a wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous structural engineer who lives in Los Angeles. He shoots his wife and entraps her lover. After the police arrive, he signs a confession. At his arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot D.A. who is getting ready to leave for a civil-law firm. He is told by everyone the case is open and shut....
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A tough, CIA-trained detective with Southern charm has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. With her offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a force to reckon with.
11) Bobby
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Revisits the night presidential-hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in June 1968. Tells the stories of a variety of people present on tgat fateful night, ranging from Kennedy's campaign staff and volunteers to the hotel owner, employees such as kitchen staff, and various guests.
12) Rush hour
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A wise-cracking cop from L.A. and a high-flying cop from Hong Kong join forces to track down a kidnapper.
13) Next
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him. He can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low in Vegas under an assumed name. There, he performs cheap tricks and lives off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The biggest cases demand the best cops, so when a little girl goes missing or a Homeland Security official takes a long drive off a short cliff or a '90s serial killer revives his career in the 21st century, the LAPD knows to call Brenda Johnson and her crack team from the Priority Homicide Division.
16) Nancy Drew
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
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...
Publisher
Paramount / Showtime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
When a murder shocks 1938 Los Angeles, Detective Tiago Vega and his partner Lewis Michener pursue the case during his toric period of great change: from the construction of the city₂s freeways to the infiltration of Third Reich spies and the rise of radio evangelism. Set against the city's deep traditions of Mexican-American folklore, these powerful forces soon threaten Tiago and everyone he holds dear.
Series
Lethal Weapon volume Second season
Pub. Date
2018
Description
"Season Two opens with LAPD detective Martin Riggs (Clayne Crawford) south of the California border, where he’s willing to risk it all in order to take down the drug cartel kingpin he believes is responsible for the death of his wife. But three little words from Riggs’ partner, Roger Murtaugh (Damon Wayans), change everything. Soon the good cop/crazy good cop duo is back on the street, solving homicides, fighting crime, wrecking cars and blowing...
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
While Ray makes progress in therapy, there are dangers from the past that require the Ray Donovan of old. Between NYC mayor Ed Feratti, an unrelenting NYPD officer hunting for the truth and clients old and new, Ray struggles to find the balance between fixing for clients and fixing himself. And when Feratti's corruption brings a piece of Mickey's past back to New York, Ray is forced to seek answers to long-buried questions.
20) Some girl
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Hipsters, poets, actors, musicians ... Falling in love in LA is a real art. Somewhere between the casting sessions and the performance cafés, the day jobs and the after hours clubs, a group of friends search for true love.
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