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