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1) The Artist
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
George Valentin is a silent movie superstar who is losing his job and Peppy Miller is a young extra who has many prospects in her career.
Pub. Date
c2008
Formats
Description
Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder,' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark and refuses to break from character. When a scene goes...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
4) The hero
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
After he receives a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, a former Western film star re-evaluates his life.
Description
From 1958 to 1963, American actor Rick Dalton knew the height of fame and fortune as the lead in the television series Bounty Law. Yet, Rick wasn't satisfied with the work and used his popularity to try to become a movie star. By 1969, Rick's career has stalled so much that he takes jobs as a guest star on various shows. He even starts wondering if the only way he can make a comeback is by acting in Italian productions. Cliff Booth, Rick's long-time...
7) Get Shorty
Pub. Date
2005, c1995
Description
Loan shark Chili Palmer journeys to Hollywood to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm. While there, he begins to consider a career in the movie industry for himself.
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
10) Finding you
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Talented aspiring violinist Finley meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small village in Ireland. An unexpected romance develops as the heartthrob Beckett leads the uptight Finley on an adventurous revival, and she inspires him to take charge of his future until the pressures of his stardom get in the way.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
With his lightining-quick hands and feet, steely body, and vast knowledge of martial arts, Bruce Lee was a one-of-a-kind powerhouse. He took on and out the bad guys with gusto. His astonishing skills brought him fame and movie roles. Learn the whole story from his birth in San Francisco to his mysterious death - some say the result of a curse - at the age of 32, just three weeks before the opening of his only U.S. film, "Enter the dragon." Along the...
12) The spy
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Based on a true story, it centers around Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed and popular female movie star, who lives in Stockholm when World War II breaks out. Top Nazi officials want Sonja to help power their propaganda machine through the movies she stars in. When her father is imprisoned by the Nazis, Sonja enlists as a spy for the Swedish secret service before meeting the Nazis in Oslo to flirt her father out of prison. In the process...
14) The Muppet movie
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Kermit and friends are on their way to Hollywood where Kermit is to star in a new movie, but on their way they run into a man who pursues Kermit for his deep-fried frogs legs commercials.
15) I'm Still Here
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Follows Joaquin Phoenix as he transitions from a career in acting to attempting a career as a rapper.
Pub. Date
2020
Appears on list
Description
Death proof: (2007, Unrated, 113 min) A stuntman takes to the roads, stalking victims from his car.
Inglourious basterds: (2009; rated R; 153 min) During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by Lt. Aldo Raine, known as "The Basterds," are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
Once upon a time in... Hollywood (2019, rated R, 161 min) In 1969 Los Angeles, where...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
When an aging Hollywood starlet invites her not-so-normal family home for the holidays, it is bound to be a Christmas no one will ever forget, no matter how hard they try. Her oddball family loses all self-control when a promising new director decides to join them for Christmas.
18) Redbelt
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
A jujitsu master becomes corrupted by the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. When a respected jujitsu master eschews a lucrative prizefighting career in favor of opening a self-defense dojo, it appears that he has chosen a peaceful path in life. The dedicated master's fate takes an unanticipated turn, however, when he is manipulated into participating in ultimate fighting championships by a group of unscrupulous actors and fight promoters. Later, as...
19) The Hero
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A former Western icon re-evaluates his life, his image and more importantly his heart after a surprise diagnosis.
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