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Ghost Warrior
1984 ★ 5.2When skiers in Japan come across the frozen body of centuries-old samurai warrior Yoshimita, scientists secretly whisk the corpse to a high-tech laboratory in C
The Decline of Western Civilization
1981 ★ 7.2The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X. T
Snowfall
2017 ★ 8.4Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022 ★ 7.7A fast-break series chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports' most revered and dominant dynasties — a team
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
1988 ★ 6.8An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of legendary heavy me
Tales of the American
2017 ★ 4.0Seemayer Studios presents a new documentary about the American Hotel in downtown Los Angeles and the Arts District that surrounds it. Since 1979, the American H
The Girl Who Survived: The Alina Thompson Story
2025 ★ 8.315-year-old Alina Thompson, an aspiring model in 1980s Los Angeles, pulls a fast one on her parents and sneaks away to an amateur photo casting call, where she
Quincy, M.E.
1976 ★ 7.5Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations. Quincy, M.E., also known as Quincy, is an American mystery medical drama
The George McKenna Story
1988 ★ 6.3Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore educational
Tales of Ordinary Madness
1981 ★ 6.0Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity. Tale
Devil's Disciple: The Night Stalker
2026 ★ 0.0A relentless, killer-POV descent into the mind of Richard Ramirez as he stalks 1980s Los Angeles, leaving terror, bloodshed, and belief-driven brutality in his
Electric Slide
2014 ★ 5.0A heightened homage to the City of Angels, Electric Slide riffs on the real-life story of Eddie Dodson, the notorious "Gentleman Bank Robber." With a debonair s
MaXXXine
2024 ★ 6.3In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a
GLOW
2017 ★ 7.3In 1980s LA, a crew of misfits reinvent themselves as the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. The television series GLOW, released in 2017, explores the lives of a gr
Die Hard
1988 ★ 7.8High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hidin
The Shards
2026 ★ 0.0Set in Los Angeles in 1981, the story follows a 17-year-old version of Bret Easton Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending his wo
Wonderland
2003 ★ 6.1On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police in
South Central
1992 ★ 6.8During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby Johnson finds religion and rehabilitation with the help of M
Less Than Zero
1987 ★ 6.4A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug hab
Safe
1995 ★ 6.9Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis. Drama introspective slow-burn atmospheri
L.A. Law
1986 ★ 7.1L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and T
The Informers
2008 ★ 4.8A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off c
8 Million Ways to Die
1986 ★ 5.5Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of th
James H. Coburn IV
James H. Coburn IV is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and sound professional who has worked in the film industry for over two decades. Born in Los Angeles, Califo