Films in this library shot in Malibu, a stretch of coast used for anything requiring ocean and money. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
CaliforniaBennett Miller's 2005 Truman Capote biopic. Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor.
CaliforniaMickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. Foundation for Pulp Fiction's briefcase.
CaliforniaRobert Altman's 1973 Chandler revisionism. The Long Goodbye is Robert Altman's 1973 American neo-noir adapting Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel.
CaliforniaRobert Altman's 1970 Korean War satire. Sutherland and Gould as wartime surgeons.
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California1995 Barry Sonnenfeld crime comedy adapting Elmore Leonard. Travolta as Miami loan shark who becomes a Hollywood producer.
CaliforniaCoens' 1991 Hollywood-hotel drama. Won Palme d'Or, Best Director, Best Actor at Cannes simultaneously.
CaliforniaThe film film school built itself around. Deep focus, ceiling shots, fractured timeline.
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California50 First Dates is one of the more substantive Adam Sandler romantic comedies and the second major collaboration between Sandler and Drew Barrymore. The Wedding Singer had established the romantic comedy partnership that 50 First Dates extended.
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CaliforniaClint Eastwood's Japanese-language masterpiece. Ken Watanabe as General Kuribayashi.
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