The Users (1978)
Hollywood is a game and the only thrill is winning.
Gênero : Drama, Cinema TV
Runtime : 2H 30M
Director : Joseph Hardy
Sinopse
A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose career is fading, then schemes to get him back into the big time - and her with him.
Bucky empacota compras de supermercado numa pequena cidade. Sem rumo na vida, um dia ele descobre que seus pais conservadores já atuaram em filmes para adultos. Agora, crente que encontrou seu destino, Bucky arruma a mala e vai para Los Angeles, esperando seguir os passos dos pais. Também estrelando Christina Ricci, Don Johnson e Stephen Dorff.
The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in the U.S. where she succeeds in making it big as a movie actress, in such movies as Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for movies from the early 1920s onwards.
A look at the professional, political and personal life of legendary movie producer Jerry Weintraub featuring interviews with friends, family and colleagues.
A carreira de um garçonete decola quando ela conhece um amável bêbado produtor de Hollywood.
"A pressão aqui em Hollywood é tão grande, vinda de todas aquelas pessoas mortas," opina a superestrela de Warhol Viva neste longa-metragem experimental de Varda, filmado em Los Angeles no ano de 1968.
A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
A documentary crew from the BBC arrives in L.A. intent on interviewing Heidi Fleiss, a year after her arrest for running a brothel but before her trial. Several months elapse before the interview, so the crew searches for anyone who'll talk about the young woman. Two people have a lot to say to the camera: a retired madam named Alex for whom Fleiss once worked and Fleiss's one-time boyfriend, Ivan Nagy, who introduced her to Alex. Alex and Nagy don't like each other, so the crew shuttles between them with "she said" and "he said." When they finally interview Fleiss, they spend their time reciting what Alex and Nagy have had to say and asking her reaction.
Nos anos 80, em Hollywood, Drew é um garoto tímido da cidade e Sherrie uma menina do interior. Os dois buscam realizar seus sonhos de fama rodeados de rock, sexo e descontrole.
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.
Um gângster (John Travolta) se vê em situação delicada quando seu chefe morre de um ataque cardíaco. Ele se vê obrigado a trabalhar para pessoas que não gosta e seu primeiro trabalho é cobrar em Los Angeles uma dívida de um produtor de filmes classe "B" (Gene Hackman). Mas ao chegar em Los Angeles sua paixão pelo cinema e a oportunidade de ter outro tipo de vida o fazem apostar todas as fichas em seu sonho.
Hollywood's War on God is a mind-blowing, eye-popping documentary that reveals how satanic forces are using Hollywood's most memorable movies and most popular actors to propagate an ancient lie in fulfillment of biblical prophecy. Learn how these movies are initiating the masses into a Gnostic worldview that will culminate in a "strong delusion" as the world joins Satan & the final Antichrist in their war on God.
Para Sarah Wilder(Alanna Ubach), fazer um filme em Hollywood parecia fácil. Com a ajuda de seu tio e roteirista(Michael Lerner), essa sexy aspirante a diretora de filmes embarca em uma jornada selvagem pelo mundo do cinema, encontrando pela frente: executivos malucos, produtores insanos, além de gângsters quem concordarão em financiar seu filme... Mas tudo tem um preço. Em um esforço para encontrar a verdade sobre filmes, sexo e vida, Sarah se depara com um grande elenco de trapalhões(Mike Myers, Janeane Garofalo,Richard Kind, Kristen Johnston, Fred Willard, Ben Stiller, Robert Englund, Virginia Madsen e Wayne Rogers) e para sua surpresa descobre que...NINGUÉM SABE TUDO
The story of the 1950s platinum-blonde sex symbol whose search for stardom and meteoric (if brief) career ended in an automobile accident when she was 36.
Girl leaves Gary, Indiana, to become a star in Hollywood.
Al Mackey and Marty are homicide cops in Hollywood and hot on the trail of the murderer of a movie mogul that was moonlighting by making child porno pictures. Willie is one of several suspects with motive, opportunity and the evil means to carry out this act. A medal should be in order instead of being arrested
On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was subsequently captured in a series of films, including The V.I.P.s and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again - only to divorce again - but remain in each other's hearts. This Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.
The life and legacy of Marlon Brando and how he changed acting.
In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.