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 her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, thi...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a la...

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je...

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his di...

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the he...

In the style of a documentary this tragic comedy tells the story of a relationship crisis between tw...

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, wh...

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jil...

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...

An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood ...

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The...

Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a frien...

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To dis...

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns b...

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage ru...

A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan subm...

Four friends discover and accidentally kill a burglar -- who may not be alone -- in the kitchen duri...