The City of Angels is ready for its close-up.

“I am big!”

“It’s the pictures that got small.”

The Many Faces of L.A.

Everett Collection (4); Melissa Moseley; Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

If that’s true, Billy Wilder’s iconic film noir must be the exception.

Hollywood icons Hedda Hopper,Cecil B. DeMille, andBuster Keatonall appear as themselves.

All these years later,Swingersis still so money.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

Andrew Cooper/Columbia

Clueless(1995)

Asifwe could leaveCluelessoff the list!

And now, decades later, we’re still dying to know: What’s in the briefcase?

Movies this wonderful are even rarer than thunderstorms in Los Angeles.

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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L.A. Story(1991)

Mick Jackson’sL.A.

how to survive in the wilds of Beverly Hills what a thrill!

As she ascends to Tinseltown glory, his career falls apart.

Swingers (1996)

Butch Belair

That’s not to mention that under Refn’s precise direction driving has never looked so good.

It sounds grim, but don’t worry!

If there’s anything a studio executive knows about, it’s how to get a Hollywood ending.

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Dale Robinette

Chinatown (1974)

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Clueless (1995)

Elliott Marks

Pulp Fiction (1994)

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Singin' in the Rain (1952)

MGM

L.A. Story (1991)

TriStar Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

The Graduate (1967)

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Melissa Moseley

Troop Beverly Hills (1989)

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L.A. Confidential (1997)

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Barton Fink (1991)

20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection

A Star Is Born (1954)

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Drive (2011)

Richard Foreman

Training Day (2001)

Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection

The Player (1992)

Fine Line Features/Courtesy Everett Collection

Double Indemnity (1944)

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Real Women Have Curves (2002)

Newmarket Releasing/Courtesy Everett Collection

A Single Man (2009)

Eduard Grau

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

(500) Days of Summer

Chuck Zlotnick/Fox Searchlight

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Everett Collection

Bowfinger (1999)

Zade Rosenthal

The Bling Ring (2013)

Merrick Morton