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Ghost Warrior

1984 ★ 5.2

When 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

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The Decline of Western Civilization

1981 ★ 7.2

The 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

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Snowfall

2017 ★ 8.4

Los 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

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Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

2022 ★ 7.7

A 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

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The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

1988 ★ 6.8

An 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

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Tales of the American

2017 ★ 4.0

Seemayer 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

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The Girl Who Survived: The Alina Thompson Story

2025 ★ 8.3

15-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

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Quincy, M.E.

1976 ★ 7.5

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations. Quincy, M.E., also known as Quincy, is an American mystery medical drama

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The George McKenna Story

1988 ★ 6.3

Washington 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

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Tales of Ordinary Madness

1981 ★ 6.0

Poet/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

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Devil's Disciple: The Night Stalker

2026 ★ 0.0

A 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

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Electric Slide

2014 ★ 5.0

A 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

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MaXXXine

2024 ★ 6.3

In 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

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GLOW

2017 ★ 7.3

In 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

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Die Hard

1988 ★ 7.8

High 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

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The Shards

2026 ★ 0.0

Set 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

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Wonderland

2003 ★ 6.1

On 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

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South Central

1992 ★ 6.8

During 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

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Less Than Zero

1987 ★ 6.4

A 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

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Safe

1995 ★ 6.9

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis. Drama introspective slow-burn atmospheri

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L.A. Law

1986 ★ 7.1

L.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

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The Informers

2008 ★ 4.8

A 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

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8 Million Ways to Die

1986 ★ 5.5

Scudder 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

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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

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