Lucha Villa plays "La Madre" in this emotional scene set in a Los Angeles hospital. Beto (played by Juan Gabriel) discovers the truth about his familial past.

Dance number "Jan Pehechaan Ho" from Gumnaam

Walking past the Broadway Trade Center near 7th Street, Tom dismisses the street level as not very exciting. The couple focuses upward, on the historic buildings as the film's camera follows suit.

Thom Andersen's 2003 video essay about the representation of Los Angeles through film.

The opening of <México de mi corazón> profiles the Mexicans living in Los Angeles. It provides a very sympathetic rendering, however with a common feeling with Mexico predicated on nationalism and sorrow.

After his partner’s failed attempt to convince a murder witness to testify against the film’s villain Cullen Crisp, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s John Kimble uses a more aggressive method of persuasion. Kimble inexplicably finds Cindy (the witness) in a seedy club on South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles.

This scene from John Hughes's 1985 teen film Weird Science shows how the pseudo-scientific construction of an idealized body comes from popular culture imagery.

Mark Rappaport's fictionalized account of Jean Seberg's journals. The film discusses the actress's place in film history through witty feminist analysis.