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24 results for “1940s los angeles”

Devil in a Blue Dress

1995 ★ 6.5

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious w

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Mob City

2013 ★ 6.8

Based on the real-life accounts of the cops and gangsters of 1940's Los Angeles, this is the seductive story of the violent crime underbelly of America's most g

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Fallen Angels

1993 ★ 6.6

A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The ep

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Gangster Squad

2013 ★ 6.4

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitu

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The Black Dahlia

2006 ★ 5.6

In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer of an aspi

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Trouble Is My Business

2018 ★ 4.7

Private eye Roland Drake cracks cases and romances femme fatales in 1940's Los Angeles while corrupt cop Det Barry Tate rules the city. A tale told in the class

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Peggy Rea

Peggy Rea was a female American actress born in Los Angeles, California, USA on March 31, 1921. She is known for her work in the entertainment industry, primari

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Zoot Suit

1981 ★ 6.4

Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot

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True Confessions

1981 ★ 6.1

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute. True Confessions is a 1981 crime and drama film released in t

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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982 ★ 6.7

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working o

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Bugsy

1991 ★ 6.4

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill

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Barton Fink

1991 ★ 7.5

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood. Comedy Drama Thriller surreal dark

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It's Called 'Murder', Baby

1983 ★ 7.0

In 1940s Los Angeles, private investigator Nick Popodopolis, is hired by actress Dixie Ray, to find her blackmailer. Edited R version of adult film, Dixie Ray H

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1941

1979 ★ 5.8

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub. Comedy War comedic chaotic wa

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1988 ★ 7.5

Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the st

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Hedda Hopper

Hedda Hopper was born on May 2, 1885, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, and died on February 1, 1966, at the age of eighty. She was an American act

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Mary Murphy

Mary Murphy was an American film and television actress who worked in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. She was born in Washington, District of Columbia, on January

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Terry Moore

Born Helen Luella Koford on January 7, 1929, in Los Angeles, California, Terry Moore worked as a model before making her film debut at age 11 in 20th Century Fo

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Helmut Dantine

Helmut Dantine was an Austrian-American actor. He often played Nazis in thriller films of the 1940s. His best-known performances include a German pilot in Mrs.

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Lina Romay

Maria Elena "Lina" Romay (January 16, 1919 - December 17, 2010) was a Mexican-American actress and singer. She was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, the daugh

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Eilene Janssen

Eilene Janssen was born in Los Angeles, California on May 25, 1938, to Henry Janssen and Mary Ellen Thompson. She began her film career as a child actress in t

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Jean Spangler

Jean Elizabeth Spangler (September 2, 1923 – disappeared October 7, 1949) was an American actress who appeared in bit parts in several Hollywood films in the la

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Charles Walters

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles Walters (November 11, 1911 – August 13, 1982) was a Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work

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María Félix

María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican film actress. She is considered one of the most important female figures of the G

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