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Do you have a movie that you can watch repeatedly? I believe everyone has that one movie or type of movie that they can watch repeatedly. I myself have not one but four movies I can watch repeatedly. The movies I love are "The Godfather", "Mi Familia (my family)", "Blood In Blood Out", and "The Zodiac Killer".

"The Godfather" is a 1972 American gangster mob movie based on an actual real life mobster, Michael Corleone. The movie is about how the Corleone family mafia worked. It is a very intense on your edge type of movie. It has a lot to do with money, revenge and building an Italian empire. The whole mafia theme it has to it is what keeps my interest. It gives you all aspects of life, money, love, gangs and war. That is why I give this movie five stars.

"Mi Familia" was directed by Gregory Nava in 1995. It is about three generations of Mexican- Americans who had migrated from Mexico and settled in the East Side of Los Angeles. The entire movie is based on Jimmy Sanchez, who is the youngest sibling. The film begins to gain momentum after his older sister's wedding, when a series of events seal Chucho's, the older brother, fate. One night at a dance hall, Chucho is dancing with his girlfriend, when his rival, Butch, starts to bother him. This results in a bloody knife fight between the two, and Chucho accidentally kills him. After this event, Chucho becomes a fugitive by the police. One

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night when Jimmy is playing ball with his friends, Chucho is shot dead by the L.A.P.D before Jimmy's eyes. That was the hardest thing that Jimmy ever faced and his life was forever changed since that day.

"Blood In Blood Out" (also known as Bound By Honor) is a 1993 movie directed by Taylor Hackford. The movie takes place mostly in the inside of California's San Quentin State Prison. The movie follows the intertwining lives of the three Chicano relatives Miklo, Cruz and Paco. Starting out as members of the street gang Vatos Locos, originating in East Los Angeles, little did they know their lives and friendships would be changed forever after a dramatic incident that occurs. I love this movie because it shows you all consequences of living the gang life. It is a very powerful movie.

Lastly "The Zodiac Killer" this was a documentary based on a serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Zodiac Killer had thirty-seven victims in total but only two had survived. He had murdered people in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969. He originally gave himself the name "Zodiac" in his cryptogram letters he used to taunt the bay area police and press. Until this day the case still remains open and he has not been able to be identified. This movie had inspired me to be a crime scene investigator.