A young man travels from his hometown to Hengdian, the place where the country's biggest movies are filmed. Like many others, his dream is to become a movie star. However, the life of an actor proves to be very harsh, and only a select few will ever be anything more than extras.

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel ...

A film crew wants to make a serious drama, but the investors agree to fund the movie only if they ma...

A group of young men suggest to the local tinsmith to make a movie, but he agrees only if its direct...

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two ...

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...

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

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

Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, conc...

The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life t...

Twenty-year-old Henri Rebecque wants to make his dream come true: to bring Benjamin Constant's Adolp...

It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "...

Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each wo...

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, pers...

In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie...

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself...

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

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the l...

The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an ...