 | To Live and Die in L.A. (Special Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.97 A totally rad 80s throwback, with a young William Peterson to boot, and some seriously evocative cinematography of the stark industrial terrain of LA.
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 | Repo Man (Special Edition)
Buy used from: $13.86 Lots of wacky stuff going on in the LA societal sub-strata.
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 | City of Industry
Buy used from: $2.93 From dusty trailer parks to a run-down house at the port of Long Beach to a downtown Chinese sweatshop, this overlooked film has got it all.
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 | 2 Days in the Valley
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.05 Not quite LA, right, but the Valley; there's more than enough going on here.
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 | L.A. Confidential (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.93 Greed, graft and fornication, and that fantastic final shootout.
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 | Pulp Fiction
Buy used from: $5.19 LA in all of its seedy interconnected glory.
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 | Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.68 Not so much gritty as damp and spongy, but still LA.
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 | The Black Dahlia (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $0.01 The unpleasant side of the LA dream factory.
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 | Barton Fink
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.08 It's hot and dusty and strange things happen on the Left Coast on the road to screenplay epiphany.
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 | Less Than Zero
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.10 White punks on dope.
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 | The Terminator (Special Edition)
Buy used from: $4.41 The original, and the best, with cars, freeways, a downtown club, etc.
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 | Boogie Nights
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $8.69 Not so much gritty as squishy.
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 | Permanent Midnight
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.70 The LA entertainment industry meets willful self-destruction.
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 | Boyz 'N the Hood
Buy new: $14.94 / Used from: $1.87 Very, very gritty.
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 | The Player (Special Edition) (New Line Platinum Series)
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $2.50 How shiny and polished can get to gritty very quickly.
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 | The Big Lebowski - 10th Anniversary Edition
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.98 Gritty, especially when it comes time to scatter Donny's ashes.
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 | Training Day
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $0.01 Gritty, and dangerous.
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 | Mulholland Drive
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.52 Broken dreams, horrible realities, and the mystery of the unseen.
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 | Crash
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $9.04 More LA sub-strata, hot and painful.
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 | Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $7.89 Gritty, with noodles.
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 | Heat
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $2.48 An overblown and overhyped profit vehicle, and somewhat gritty.
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 | Colors
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $2.20 Gritty, and a bit dated.
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 | Jackie Brown (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $3.34 Grit, coming from down south.
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![The Fast and the Furious [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tD9rU3hIL._SL75_.jpg) | The Fast and the Furious [HD DVD]
Buy used from: $2.82 Cars and young people and looking good n' stuff.
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 | Gone in 60 Seconds
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $1.92 LA and cars, and the chop shop underworld.
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 | Falling Down
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $1.75 An afternoon stroll through all that is ugly about LA (and America).
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 | Reservoir Dogs (15th Anniversary)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $2.00 The (almost) perfect crime, and what comes after.
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 | Surf Nazis Must Die
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.00 LA goes gritty in a wacky direction.
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 | Barfly
Buy used from: $67.79 Exceedingly gritty, the way it always is when you're face-down in the gutter.
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 | The Salton Sea
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $4.00 Not quite LA, but close enough.
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