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Series
The fast and the furious volume 1
Formats
Description
On the turbocharged streets of Los Angeles, every night is a championship race. With nitro-boosted fury, Dominic Toretto rules the road, turning all his challengers into dust. He and his rival, Johnny Tran, are the best. But now there's a new rage on the road. They know he's tough, but what they don't know is that he's a speed demon detective with enough drive and determination to come out the winner.
22) Home again
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Recently separated from her husband, Alice decides to start over by moving back to her hometown of Los Angeles with her two young daughters. During a night out on her 40th birthday, Alice meets three aspiring filmmakers who happen to be in need of a place to live. Alice agrees to let the guys stay in her guest house temporarily, but the arrangement ends up unfolding in unexpected ways. Alice's unlikely new family and new romance comes to a crashing...
23) Knock out
Pub. Date
p2003
Description
A young Hispanic woman, who grew up in East L.A., works to fulfill the dream her father had of becoming a boxing champion.
Series
Pub. Date
©2009
Description
From his no-frills mobile home in Malibu, wisecracking ex-con-turned-private investigator Jim Rockford solves the biggest crimes in Los Angeles. From identity theft to death threats, Rockford uses his experience behind bars to get an inside edge on crooks even the police can't find.
25) Die hard
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
It's Christmas time in L.A. and on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building there's an employee party in progress. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber, who plans to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi's high-tech safe. Gruber and his henchmen pretend to be politically motivated in order to throw the authorities off track. Gruber has no intention...
26) Grand Canyon
Pub. Date
2000
Description
"When a lawyer's car breaks down in a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood, a tow-truck driver arrives just in time to save his life. The two men begin a deep friendship that sets off a chain of unsettling and surprising events involviing their families and friends for years to come."--Container.
27) Heat
Pub. Date
1995.
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.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
This television show was ground-breaking for its combination of police procedural and courtroom drama. In the first half of each show Sgt. Nick Anderson of the LAPD tracked down criminals. In the second half, John Egan, defense attorney, represented the accused while attorney Jerry Miller led the prosecution.
31) 24: Season 1
Series
24 volume the complete third season
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Jack Bauer, an agent of the Los Angeles branch of the Counter Terrorist Unit, has 24 hours to prevent the release of a deadly virus in Los Angeles.
32) Drive
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Driver is a Hollywood stunt driver by day, and moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver for hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene. When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best, Drive!
33) 24: Season 2
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
It's been over a year since his wife's death, but Jack Bauer and his daughter are still reeling from the tragedy. The two are estranged and Jack no longer works for CTU. But an urgent phone call from the President plunges Jack back into another 24-hour nightmare as he races against time to prevent the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
"Behind the facade of glitz and glamour, another Hollywood exists - a world in which aspiring starlets, hardened gangsters, teenage runaways, and straitlaced innocents share the stage. In this sprawling tale, the lives of eight people intersect as they search for love, redemption, and meaning on the streets of Hollywood."
Series
Karate Kid volume 2
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Daniel accompanies Miyagi to Okinawa, where he soon finds himself entangled in a decades-old feud with his friend and mentor's lifelong enemy.
36) The Muppet movie
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Kermit and friends are on their way to Hollywood where Kermit is to star in a new movie, but on their way they run into a man who pursues Kermit for his deep-fried frogs legs commercials.
37) Kindergarten Cop
Pub. Date
1998, c1990
Description
A veteran detective is forced to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher in order to trap an elusive criminal.
38) Blood work
Pub. Date
c2002
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.
Series
Entourage volume Season 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Eric, Turtle, and Johnny Drama are dedicated to helping their film-star buddy, Vincent Chase, navigate the absurdities and pitfalls of modern-day Hollywood.
40) Grand Canyon
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
"When a lawyer's car breaks down in a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood, a tow-truck driver arrives just in time to save his life. The two men begin a deep friendship that sets off a chain of unsettling and surprising events involviing their families and friends for years to come."--Container.