Falling Down (1993), Lords of Dogtown (2005), White Men Can't Jump (1992), Point of No Return (1993), Don't Make Waves (1967), The Net (1995), The Wild Angels (1966), Mixed Nuts (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Venice, Calif. movies.
Storyline: On the day of his daughter's (Joey Singer) birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster (Michael Douglas) is trying to get to his estranged ex-wife's (Barbara Hershey) house to see his daughter. He has a breakdown and leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. Along the way he stops at a convenience store and tries to get some change for a phone call but the owner, Mister Lee (Michael Paul Chan), does not give him change. This destabilizes William who then breaks apart the shop with a baseball bat and goes to an isolated place to drink a coke. Two gangsters (Agustin Rodriguez & Eddie Frias) threaten him and he reacts by hitting them with the bat. D-FENS continues walking and stops at a phone booth. The gangsters hunt him down with their gang and shoot at him but crash their car. William goes nuts and takes their gym bag with weapons proceeding in his journey of rage against injustice. Meanwhile Sergeant Martin Prendergast (Robert Duvall), who is working on his last day ...
Plot Keywords: ex-husband, ex-wife, daughter, police officer, gang member, storekeeper, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.
Plot Keywords: skateboarder, surfer, slacker, manager, mother, friend, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Billy and Sydney think they're the best basketball hustlers in town, so when they join forces, nothing can stop them, except each other. To add to their problems, Billy owes money and is being chased by a pair of gangster types.
Plot Keywords: wife, basketball player, hustler, gangster, friend, amusing, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Drug addict Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top secret U.S. government Agent "Bob" arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a killer. She gets a new cover identity as saleswoman Claudia Anne Doran. She also finds a housemate, building super J.P., a broad-minded, gentle photographer. The two fall in love, and that complicates her government assignments. His influence extends to breeding in her a conscience that supplants her violent tendencies, and desire to continue work for the agency.
Plot Keywords: assassin, secret agent, junkie, mentor, photographer, love interest, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New York tourist Tony Curtis falls asleep on a Southern California beach on his first night in the West and wakes up to The New Phantasmagoria--catamarans, surfers (including a dog), bodybuilders, acrobats, motorcycle chicken races, a nut fishing in the shallows . . . and Sharon Tate as a skydiver named Malibu who gives Curtis the rapture of artificial respiration when he is conked on the head by a flying surfboard. This is the '60s American Dream: youth and beauty and money and sex in Southern California. Go west, all men.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: new yorker, beautiful woman, free spirit, surfer, boyfriend, relaxing, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.
Plot Keywords: computer programmer, stranger, colleague, mother, woman, wrongly accused, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Peter Fonda plays 'Heavenly Blues', the leader of the Angels, a motorcycle gang from San Pedro, California; Bruce Dern plays 'Loser', his best pal. When they both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser's stolen bike, Loser ends up in the hospital. When the Angels bust him out, he dies, and they bury him. Nancy Sinatra plays Mike, Blues' "old lady" and Diane Ladd plays Loser's wife (Dern's real-life wife at the time). The plot is basically a buildup to the last half-hour of the film in which Loser's funeral becomes another wild party.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: biker, gang leader, tough woman, thief, police officer, nurse, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Philip runs a crisis hotline with Catherine and Mrs Munchnik. That's the easy part, now it gets tricky... Stanley loves evicting people and he evicts Philip. Philip loves helping people and he is loved by Catherine. Catherine is loved by Louie who loves writing songs. Chris loves dancing to songs and loves to wear large dresses. Gracie also loves to wear large dresses because she's pregnant. She loves the baby's father, Felix, who loves to paint. That just leaves Mrs. Munchnik who hasn't been loved by anybody in a very long time.—Tim McSmythurs <Tim.McSmythurs@swindon.ericsson.se>
Plot Keywords: landlord, transvestite, pregnant woman, co-worker, boyfriend, serial killer, amusing ...
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