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Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Set in a future world where America has lost the war on drugs, and L.A. undercover agents change their faces along with their identities. One officer's liberal ingestion of the drug "Substance D" causes him to develop a split personality, a notorious drug dealer. Along with his superior officers, the police set up an elaborate scheme to catch his drug dealer alter-ego and tear down his operation. Filmed using an animation technique called interpolated...
2) Changeling
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Two police officers, Bucky Bleichert and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short - also known as The Black Dahlia, a young woman who is found brutally murdered. With a corpse so mutilated, the photos are kept from the public. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police department. The case becomes an obsession for...
Language
English
Description
Brian O'Conner has left LA due to his illegal activities as an outlaw racer. Now he works the streets of Miami, making money here and there by street racing. Watched by Customs Agent Monica Fuentes, Brian is caught by the police. He is given a deal by Agents Markham and Bilkins to go undercover and try to bring down drug lord Carter Verone. In exchange for his work, his criminal record will be erased. Brian agrees, but only if he is given permission...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition. He does so well he goes to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and ends up geting caught up in twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies.
11) Blade runner
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Rick Deckard is a retired blade runner, a term for a replicant hunter. A group of human replicants, whose 4-year life span is nearly up, hijack a space ship and make it to Earth's sprawling Los Angeles to seek out their "designer" and ask for an extension. Unwilling to give up life and its wonders, they lead Decker on a dark and dangerous chase while teaching him what it really means to be human.
12) The big sleep
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In this hard boiled detective story, private eye Philip Marlowe gets caught up in a twisted tale of blackmail and murder.
13) The glimmer man
Pub. Date
[1996, 1997]
Language
English
Description
The desperate hunt for a serial killer has just gotten rougher for LAPD homicide detectives Jack Cole and Jim Campbell. They've become partners. Wearing Buddhist prayer beads, relying on ancient potions and living by Eastern philosophies, ex-New Yorker Cole is unlike any partner the street savvy Campbell has ever seen. The way Campbell sees it, secretive Cole is also something else: suspect #1 in their murder investigation.
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