10 Best Movie Dramas about Los Angeles

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    • 10 Best Movie Dramas about Los Angeles

      Los Angeles, California is certainly one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the United States, if not the world, so it certainly makes sense that numerous movies have been made about the city and its people. Moreover, the presence of Hollywood, the film capital of America, which lies smack in the middle of L.A., enhances the city’s convenience, importance and popularity as a movie location.

      This list only includes dramas, because such movies are generally the most realistic depictions of people’s lives. Also, if your favorite L.A. drama is not on it, then I offer a thousand apologies.

      10. Mulholland Falls (1996)

      Mulholland Falls is a neo film noir set in Los Angeles in the early 1950s. A squad of four detectives known as the “Hat Squad” - because they’re always nattily dressed in silk suits and fedoras and smoke cigarettes furiously - patrols L.A. in search of organized criminals from cities Back East who are bent on taking over poor L.A. But the Hat Squad’s aggressive tactics are not exactly legal, as they aren’t beneath flinging bad guys from a residential cliff nicknamed Mulholland Falls.

      Nick Nolte plays Detective Maxwell Hoover, the leader of the Hat Squad, who investigates the death of a prostitute named Allison Pond (Jennifer Connelly), with whom he’d once had an affair. It soon becomes apparent that whoever killed the hooker wasn’t a bad guy [url=
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      This stylish movie lost money at the box office, but most critics liked it.