An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.

King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto ...

Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling betw...

A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the liv...

At the Blue Iguana, L.A.'s most notorious strip club, the lives of five exotic dancers converge, cla...

Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love...

A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for m...

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at...

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in w...
Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie H...

An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psycho...

On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, hus...

Kenneth Bianchi, one of the two serial rapists and killers who terrorized the Los Angeles area in th...

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

A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking ...

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old frie...

A destitute Frank Sinatra pursues sultry starlet Ava Gardner while campaigning for the lead in 'From...

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

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

Mark, a cameraman who aspires to work on serious Hollywood films but can only find work making porno...

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a g...