In an attempt to win back the public's interest, has-been Hong Kong film star Lau Wai-chi makes a comeback film with a major director. To prepare for his role as a peasant farmer in the 1960s, he travels to the mainland China countryside to experience rural life there, but his arrogance triggers a series of farces.
Filmlegende Woody Allen gibt noch nie dagewesene Einblicke in sein Leben und kreative Schaffensprozesse. Erstmalig hat der öffentlichkeitsscheue Drehbuchautor und Regisseur einem Kamerateam erlaubt, seine künstlerische Arbeit und seinen Alltag zu begleiten. Mit exklusiven Interviews, privatem Fotomaterial und Filmausschnitten!
Marvin wächst in einem französischen Dorf auf und wird wegen seiner Art gemobbt. Als er sich seiner Homosexualität bewusst wird, zieht er nach Paris und wird Schauspieler. Dort kommt er mit seiner Vergangenheit ins Reine.
Young is a nameless actor who dreams of becoming a big movie star. Then one day, he makes a breakthrough with a film and becomes a star overnight. He discovers a new hidden world of fame, power, and pleasure, but inevitably along with all the dark sides to them which puts everyone around him in danger. Rough Play displays the life of Oh Young (Lee Joon), an young cocky actor who plays a lead part on a small play. He constantly goes off script and improvises in which results in destroying the play because the lead actress can't handle it. Oh Young knows he is a good actor and is noticed by manager Kim Jang-Ho (Seo Bum-Suk), who has hit rock bottom and is looking for a comeback. Jang-Ho knows the young actor's potential and puts all he has on the line to make Oh Young the next big thing.
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.
When her birthday wish magically summons wacky Hollywood actor Drake to her small Midwestern town, Sophie has to figure out how to help him fit in until she can get him back home. But Drake is more interested in helping Sophie stand out.
A horror actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
When Matthew has to survive against the one and only 80s Massacre! Will he? Find out!
By 1820, Edmund Kean is the most admired Shakespearan actor. But if his art is peerless, his free lifestyle is ill thought of, particularly by the high society. Kean has fallen passionately in love with Countess Elena de Koefeld, the wife of the ambassador of Denmark. Elena loves him too but hesitates to give up her rank in society and follow Kean. On the other hand, Anna, a rich heiress who refuses to marry Lord Mewill, the husband chosen by her parents, confesses her love for Kean and decides to become an actress like him... The aristocrats, outraged by Edmund's profligate ways, decide to boycott his performances and his career is broken. Kean does not recover from such a blow and, on a stormy night, dies in Elena's arms.
The DVD for this film bears the title "The Lure of Hollywood". Marian Nixon plays a girl who doesn't want to settle for second best. She is offered chance to be a model and jumps at it. Her boyfriend is upset--he just wants to marry her and settle down to a life of domestic bliss. But she has stars in her eyes--and soon learns to use publicity to create a new movie star persona. Throughout all this, the sappy boyfriend is always waiting nearby--hoping that she'll come to her senses and give up this new life.
Tony, a desperate actor who becomes a vampire and uses his new powers to land a movie role and the girl, but soon he must choose between life and the undead.
From the very beginning, actor Paul Newman captivated the cinema audience with his exceptional azure eyes. The reserved Newman himself finds it trivial and even disturbing that everyone is so taken with his appearance. The actor and director - who has played in more than sixty films and directed twelve of them - prefers to focus on his work and family. And, at least as important, on his philanthropic ventures and political activism.
A struggling Padhubidri actor's life is upended by the arrival of a Bangalore superstar.
José Luis López Vázquez, an essential artist in the history of Spanish cinema, manages to find a late love that changes his life, after having a successful professional life for years, but a rather neglected personal life.
TV drama set in the modern settings of an artistic couple from well-off background, between their working and sleeping room, as well as Croatian national theater.
After a death in the family, a fragile young man struggles to cling to his fractured reality, which is not at all as it seems.
A short documentary about William Powell.
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Theater and film actor, Mykola Veresen' dies on the set while performing the role of Ivan the Terrible. In the moment of death, his karma transforms into the bloody murderer he embodied, and he falls into Sheol, a common grave for all the dead. The time has a different flow here, the only feelings left are fear and pain. In hell Mykola learns about the confrontation that last for centuries between the white and black vampires, he becomes a puppet in the cruel guerrilla of these two supernatural groups.
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