| Hint | Year | Answer | % Correct |
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| A sex worker meets a wealthy client who needs lessons in business and of the heart. | 1990 | Pretty Woman | 82%
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| A bus fitted with a bomb cannot go below 50mph or it will detonate. | 1994 | Speed | 82%
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| Three policemen uncover a web of corruption in 1950s Los Angeles. | 1997 | LA Confidential | 64%
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| An aspiring actress and a jazz pianist fall for each other. | 2016 | La La Land | 55%
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| Follows the life of actor Rick Dalton, his stuntman Cliff Booth, and actress Sharon Tate in 1960s LA. | 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | 55%
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| A down-on-his-luck screenwriter hides out in a mansion owned by a former silent film star. | 1950 | Sunset Boulevard | 55%
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| Covers the adult film industry during its golden era in the 1970s to its rapid changes in the 80s. | 1997 | Boogie Nights | 45%
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| A private investigator must solve the murder of a city commissioner. | 1974 | Chinatown | 45%
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| The lives of a group of Angelenos intersect. (Also a Best Picture Oscar winner that has been much maligned) | 2004 | Crash | 45%
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| An aspiring starlet takes in an amnesiac woman who was involved in a car accident. | 2001 | Mulholland Drive | 45%
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| The lives of a group of Angelenos intersect (also an iconic Quentin Tarantino film) | 1994 | Pulp Fiction | 45%
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| A young man moves with his family to LA, where he encounters teenage delinquency and alienation. | 1955 | Rebel Without a Cause | 45%
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| A young Angeleno recalls what led him and his girlfriend Summer to break up. | 2009 | 500 Days of Summer | 36%
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| Focuses on the coming-of-age of young Black men in South Central LA. | 1991 | Boyz n the Hood | 36%
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| A stylish, wealthy Beverly Hills girl seeks to do good deeds for the people around her. | 1995 | Clueless | 36%
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| A mobster travels to Hollywood and inadvertently gets caught up in the making of a feature film. | 1995 | Get Shorty | 36%
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| A police detective and a criminal career’s paths cross. | 1995 | Heat | 36%
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| A New York playwright discovers the seedy underbelly of Hollywood. | 1991 | Barton Fink | 18%
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| A cab driver is forced to drive a hit man around LA during his assignments. | 2004 | Collateral | 18%
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| The lives of a group of Angelenos intersect, Paul Thomas Anderson style. | 1999 | Magnolia | 18%
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| The lives of a group of Angelenos intersect. | 1993 | Short Cuts | 18%
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| A group of teenagers rob the homes of celebrities. | 2013 | The Bling Ring | 18%
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| A studio executive becomes embroiled in a murder plot. | 1992 | The Player | 18%
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| A Secret Service agent goes after the counterfeiter who killed his partner. | 1985 | To Live and Die in L.A. | 18%
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| A male escort is framed for murder. | 1980 | American Gigolo | 9%
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| A struggling actor gets caught up in a murder plot after witnessing the death of a mysterious woman. | 1984 | Body Double | 9%
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| A policeman goes undercover in a sting operation to bring down a West Coast drug lord. | 1992 | Deep Cover | 9%
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| The lives of a group of Angelenos intersect. | 1991 | Grand Canyon | 9%
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| A pothead private detective investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend. | 2014 | Inherent Vice | 9%
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| A weatherman uses a billboard to win the heart of a news reporter. | 1991 | L.A. Story | 9%
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| An actor re-examines his life when his young daughter comes to stay with him at the Chateau Marmont. | 2010 | Somewhere | 9%
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| A sex worker spends her Christmas Eve searching Hollywood for the pimp who wronged her. | 2015 | Tangerine | 9%
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| An elderly woman seeks to get back the money stolen from her by a scammer. | 2024 | Thelma | 9%
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| In 1970s LA, two cops must solve the murder of an adult film actress. | 2016 | The Nice Guys | 9%
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| Neo-noir film about a young man investigating the disappearance of his neighbor. | 2018 | Under the Silver Lake | 9%
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| A teen actor pines for an aimless young woman in 1973. | 2021 | Licorice Pizza | 0%
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| A girl comes of age with her lower middle-class Jewish family in ritzy Beverly Hills during the 1970s. | 1998 | Slums of Beverly Hills | 0%
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