At the top of the credits
If your weekend viewing includes a marathon of Nicolas Cage flicks, chances are you’ll be seeing this dramatic home in Malibu. Designed by architect Ed Niles, the glass-and-steel showplace has served as a shooting location for such movies as “Face Off” and “Gone in 60 Seconds” plus countless TV shows and music videos.

X-factor estate? You be the judge
Completed in 2015, the modern tour de force boasts a voluminous floor plan set off by black granite walls, brilliant chrome accents and white oak floors. Pocketing walls of glass blur the lines between indoor-outdoor space while taking in city and ocean views.

Taking a shot at a $52-million deal
The Italianate-inspired main house, built in 2001, was designed for intimate- and large-scale entertaining and features refined formal areas, a wood-paneled office/ den and bi-folding doors that bring the outdoors inside. A lowerlevel lounge is replete with a game room, a home theater, a wine cellar and an old-fashioned bar.

Ground zero of L.A.’s car culture
In 1921,developer A.W. Ross hatched abold plan that would set the course for the wayAngelenos would shop and liveinthe 20th century: He would buy up land on WilshireBoulevardbetween La Brea and Fairfaxavenues and build the retail hubofthe future, one centered around the automobile.

A real charmer ditches Dullsville
To help expand the smallish 1,038-square-foot interior, Perera connected the cramped kitchen, dining and laundry areas, opening them to the living room. Original American oak flooring is found throughout the home..

Landry lives for the one-off
This is a room that is really, truly an indoor-outdoor space. It opens up to the ocean, and you hear the sound of it. The bar is indoors, but the dining room table is outdoors and open to the sky. The big sliding doors retract into the wall. Beyond that is an outdoor living room with a barbecue and a fire pit.

Forged amid a racial divide
When 17-year-old Irving Tabor packed his bags and left his home state of Louisiana in 1910, he — like many other young African American men during the Great Migration — headed west, eventually finding his way to Los Angeles.