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1) The hero
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A former Western icon re-evaluates his life, his image and more importantly his heart after a surprise diagnosis.
2) Barrymore
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
At the height of his remarkable career, John Barrymore was the most celebrated entertainer of his generation. The reigning king of both Broadway and Hollywood, his decline and fall from grace was the tragic result of a self-destructive spiral into vice and excess. And now, with his career in tatters, he makes one final attempt to reclaim his former glory on the stage in this powerful, heartbreaking, humorous and compassionate portrait of a tortured...
3) Fan
Publisher
Yash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Hindi
Description
Superstar Aryan inspires Gaurav, his fan who attacks anyone attacking his idol. But what happens when Aryan himself rejects Gaurav - does Gaurav remain Aryan's adoring fan?
4) Lovelace
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
In 1972, before the Internet, Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes, and Linda Lovelace. Escaping a strict family, she discovered freedom and married Chuck Traynor. As Linda Lovelace she became an international sensation, fully inhabiting her new identity and a enthusiastic spokesperson for sexual freedom. Later she presented another, utterly contradictory narrative to...
5) Shamitabh
Publisher
Eros International Media
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
Hindi
Description
Mute Daanish becomes a superstar when Amitabh Sinha provides him his voice - what happens when ego pulls body and speech apart?
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
A proud movie theater honors action star turned recluse "Claude Luc Hallyday" with a retrospective of his illustrious career but when real estate developers show up to ruin the party, the two new friends must fight off corporate greed in the name of art.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
℗2012
Language
Français
Description
Gauthier is a handsome and famous soap opera star; Serge is a serious stage actor who has renounced his profession. When Gauthier visits Serge to convince him to join him in a production of Moliere's The Misanthrope, a battle of wits ensues over who will play the lead role of Alceste. Between rehearsals, the two bike along the windswept beaches and rival for the affections of a beautiful Italian divorcee. As tensions mount, Gauthier begins to wonder...
10) Fool's paradise
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
A satirical comedy about a down-on-his-luck publicist who discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him into a film, creating a new star. But fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to be.
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
James Dean is remembered as the embodiment of the rebellious American youth. Rising to megastardom overnight, he became an idol of teens in the 1950s. Casper Van Dien stars as James Dean in the retelling of this enigmatic bad boy that infatuated America and captured their hearts.
James Dean was a remarkable talent and rebel who took Hollywood by storm. As his star rose, his passionate affair with Pier Angeli angers her mother and studio chief Jack...
12) In & out
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Greenleaf, a picture-postcard Indiana town where the high school is the proud focus of attention and 'alternative lifestyle' means you bowl on alternate Tuesdays. But on the night of the Oscars telecast, the town's, and the world's, center of attention is Greenleaf teacher Howard Brackett. A former student who's now a superstar actor tells an audience of millions that Howard is gay. Poor Howard. He's outted when he didn't know he was in!...
13) Sunset Boulevard
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Struggling Hollywood writer Joe Gillis becomes entangled with reclusive silent film star Norma Desmond, whose madness destroys them both.
14) Game of death
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
"Billy Lo (Lee), is a young kung fu movie star with a flourishing career and a promising future. As the leader of a syndicate known for its exploitation of enteratiners, Dr. Land (Dean Jagger) jumps at the chance to capitalize on Billy's celebrated status and that of his singer-girlfriend. Refusing to sign with Land, Billy's martial arts mastery is put to...
15) Inland empire
Series
Criterion collection volume 1175
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Strange, what love does." The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble...David Lynch's first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditation on the enigmas of time, identity, and cinema itself. Featuring a tour de force performance from Laura Dern as an actor on the edge, this labyrinthine Dream Factory nightmare tumbles down an endless series of unfathomably interconnected rabbit holes as it...
16) A Star is born
Language
English
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Description
Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
17) The final girls
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young woman suffering the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself drawn into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
18) My happy ending
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
If we knew how much longer we had to live, what would we choose to do with the time we have left? Set in a British hospital, it follows poised and put-together Hollywood star Julia Roth, who seems to be in the sunset of her career, as she begins her journey with a critical medical issue. Preferring to be incognito, Julia is instead thrust into a room with three remarkable women who, with humor and camaraderie, help Julia take on the most important...
Series
Criterion collection volume 360
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A fiction/documentary hybrid that blurs the line between reality and fiction, yet remains a tightly focused movie about making movies. Bonus disc includes 2005 sequel, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2; a video interview with Steve Buscemi; and more!
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm take one: There have been many films about their own making, but few that examine the creative process from so many perspectives as this one. Greaves uses the shooting of one scene...
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