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1) In a world
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An unsuccessful vocal coach competes against her arrogant father in the movie trailer voice-over business.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
A young black woman falls in love with a cute white woman.
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...
5) The congress
Series
Drafthouse Films volume 24
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
6) Always shine
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two friends, both actresses, leave Los Angeles for Big Sur embarking on a weekend getaway to reconnect. Once alone, however, the two women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated resentments bubble to the surface, causing them to lose grasp not just of the true nature of their relationship, but also of their own identities.
7) Nina wu
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
After toiling for years in bit parts, aspiring actress Nina Wu finally gets her big break with a leading role in a spy thriller set in the 1960s. The part, which calls for nudity and explicit sex scenes, is made all the more challenging thanks to the director's unending belittlements. While seemingly on the brink of professional triumph, Nina's psychological resolve begins to crack under the pressure. As she rushes to her childhood home following...
8) Rangoon
Publisher
Ultra Media Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Hindi
Description
Rangoon is an epic love story of a film star Julia, from the film sets of 1944 Bollywood to the jungles of India-Burma border where she must entertain the English and Indian troops. In the midst of the battles, Julia falls in love with a soldier, Nawab and learns some bitter truths about the dream of Indian independence.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
In a Parisian theatre after a day of auditioning actresses for the play he is preparing to direct, Thomas is distraught that none has what it takes to play the lead female character. He is getting ready to leave when Vanda appears: an unbridled and brazen whirlwind of energy. Vanda embodies everything Thomas hates. She is crude, idiotic, and will stop at nothing to get the part. But when Thomas finds himself backed into a corner and lets her try her...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jamie Wellerstein is an up and coming Jewish novelist who falls in love with Cathy Hiatt, a Shiksa Goddess and struggling actress. Their story is told almost entirely through songs using an intercutting time line device; all of Cathy's songs begin at the end of their marriage and move backwards in time to the beginning of their love affair while Jamie's songs start at the beginning of their affair and move forward to the end of their marriage. They...
11) Starlet
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Explores the unlikely friendship between 21 year-old aspiring actress Jane and elderly widow Sadie after their worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her time getting high with her dysfunctional roommates and taking care of her Chihuahua Starlet, while Sadie passes her days alone, tending to her garden.
13) Mulholland Dr
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman2s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
14) Spite marriage
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
None
Description
An unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
15) She will
Publisher
IFC Midnight
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
An aging film star retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse to recover from surgery. While there, mysterious forces of revenge emerge from the land where witches were burned.
16) Gemini
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth, and celebrity.
17) Irma Vep
Series
Criterion collection volume 1074
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
A Hong Kong action-movie star arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade's classic silent crime serial Les vampires. What she finds is a behind-thescenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos clash, romantic attractions simmer, and an obsessive director drives himself to the brink to realize his vision.
18) Voodoo Macbeth
Publisher
Lightyear Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Before Citizen Kane and The War of the Worlds, leading Broadway actress Rose McClendon and producer John Houseman convince a gifted but untested 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare's Macbeth with an all-Black cast in Harlem. Reimagined in a Haitian setting, this revolutionary 1936 production, which came to be known as "Voodoo Macbeth," would change the world forever, but the road to opening night proves to be a difficult one. Orson and...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
日本語
Description
When Ginei Studios shuts down, filmmaker Genya Tachibana and his assistant are tasked with interviewing its reclusive star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who had retired from the spotlight 30 years prior. As she recounts her career, Genya and his crew are literally pulled into her memories where they witness her chance encounter with a mysterious man on the run from the police. Despite never knowing his name or his face, Chiyoko relentlessly pursues that man...
20) All I desire
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An actress comes home to the husband and children she abandoned years before.
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