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With fame, fortune and fans galore, silent screen idol Don Lockwood thought he had it all. But one look at aspiring actress Kathy Seldon, and he knew exactly what he was missing. Now he's swinging from lampposts, singing in the raindrops and ready for love. With talking pictures on the rise, Don sets out to make a musical with the woman of his dreams, but one thing stands in his way, his jealous co-star who wants Don--and the leading role--all to...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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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.
3) The hero
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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A former Western icon re-evaluates his life, his image and more importantly his heart after a surprise diagnosis.
4) 3 faces
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Persian
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Actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught when she comes across a young girl's video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl's troubles. They travel by car to the rural Northwest, where they have encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl's mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover...
6) Bombshell
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
7) Fall guy
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
Ginshiro is a vain and selfish actor whose stardom is threatened by rising star Tachibana. In a desperate bid to bolster his image, Ginshiro compels a devoted member of his entourage, Yasu to marry Ginshiro's pregnant mistress, Konatsu. To support his new wife, the devoted Yasu becomes a stunt man, performing increasingly dangerous stunts. Konatsu is torn between Yasu and Ginshiro, who has compled his loyal follower to perform a death-defying stunt...
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English
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Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a shot at stardom, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamour machine . She and her idol Norman marry; but as her star rises, his comes crashing down.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On September 29, 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He took her into his chaotic and eccentric home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour of need. Takes place over the course of three weeks in...
11) The goddess
Publisher
Euro International DVD Ltd
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life story of a Hollywood sex symbol and the price she pays for fame.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Howard Spence, a washed-up Western movie star, uses alcohol, drugs, and young women to escape from the pain of his life. One day he suddenly flees the set of his latest Western on horseback and goes to visit his mother in Nevada. She tells him that he might have a grown son in Montana, where he once had a fling with a local waitress. Howard sets out to meet his son with an insurance agent from his abandoned film in pursuit.
13) Shadow of doubt
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
After 22 years as a recluse in her New York home wealthy dowager Melissa Pilson is stepping out, to find the murderer of caddish movie producer Len Haworth. Is it the movie starlet who accepted Haworth's marriage proposal and who owns a Luger pistol matching the murder weapon? The debutante also affianced to Haworth? The songbird subjected to Haworth's advances? Pilson's beloved nephew who wants to marry the starlet? A sneaky press agent? A butler...
14) Sunset Boulevard
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English
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Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in SUNSET BOULEVARD. Winner of three **Academy Awards**, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of this bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence - a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The story revolves around Alice Palmer (Greta Scacchi) a well known actress who has decided to direct her first film of her own script. She is approached by a fan, Kaz Naiman (Zach Norman). She finds out after talking to him that he produces movies and before she knows it, he's out collecting money for her film, 3 million dollars to be exact. But, here's the hitch, the only way they can get the 3 million dollars is if they can get Millie Marquand...
Language
中文
Description
It recounts Ruan Lingyu's life both public and private in the years immediately leading up to her premature death. She had quite a number of famous performances for Shanghai's Lianhua studios, including New Woman (1934) and Goddess (1934). Unable to bear the gossip any longer, Ruan committed suicide at the age of twenty five.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
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...
20) Tropic thunder
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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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...
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