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.

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...

Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Bo...

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...

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...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires...

In 1962 Hong Kong, neighbors Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan) and Chow Mo-wan (Mr. Chow) discover their spouse...

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is throw...

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen par...

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re...

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...