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La La Land(2016)

PG-13
| 2h 9min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, Music
4.0/5 (with 7,870 votes)

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Directed by Damien Chazelle - With Emma Stone, J. K. Simmons, Finn Wittrock, Rosemarie DeWitt, Meagen Fay, John Legend, ...
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True Romance(1993)

R
| 2h | Action, Crime, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 1,153 votes)

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Directed by Tony Scott - With Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, ...
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Entourage(2015)

R
| 1h 44min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 443 votes)

Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle and Johnny, are back…and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold. Some of their ambitions have changed, but the bond between them remains strong as they navigate the capricious and often cutthroat world of Hollywood.

Directed by Doug Ellin - With Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven, Emmanuelle Chriqui, ...
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Revolutionary Road(2008)

R
| 1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1,707 votes)

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

Directed by Sam Mendes - With Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Richard Easton, Jay O. Sanders, Kathryn Hahn, ...
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Cheaper by the Dozen(2003)

PG
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 1,240 votes)

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.

Directed by Shawn Levy - With Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, Piper Perabo, Tom Welling, Alyson Stoner, ...
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Swingers(1996)

R
| 1h 36min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 305 votes)

After 6 years together, Mike's girlfriend leaves him, so he travels to LA to be a star. Six months on, he's still not doing very well— so a few of his friends try to reconnect him to the social scene and hopefully help him forget his failed relationship.

Directed by Doug Liman - With Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston, Alex Désert, Heather Graham, Patrick Van Horn, ...
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She's Funny That Way(2014)

R
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 291 votes)

On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich - With Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Aniston, Ahna O'Reilly, Austin Pendleton, Cybill Shepherd, ...
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Maps to the Stars(2014)

1h 52min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 485 votes)

Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.

Directed by David Cronenberg - With Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, ...
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Starlet(2012)

NR
| 1h 43min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 64 votes)

An unlikely friendship forms between 21 year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale.

Directed by Sean Baker - With Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve, James Ransone, Asa Akira, Manuel Ferrara, ...

Cyrano, My Love(2018)

R
| 1h 53min | Comedy, History
3.8/5 (with 215 votes)

Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.

Directed by Alexis Michalik - With Thomas Solivérès, Olivier Gourmet, Mathilde Seigner, Tom Leeb, Lucie Boujenah

Jigarthanda DoubleX(2023)

2h 52min | Action, Drama, Western
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A notorious gangster is incited to transform into a film hero and opts for a filmmaker and their project descends into a scenario they had never anticipated.

Directed by Karthik Subbaraj - With Raghava Lawrence, S. J. Surya, Naveen Chandra, Nimisha Sajayan, Shine Tom Chacko, Ilavarasu, ...

Ask Me If I Am Happy(2000)

1h 40min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 768 votes)

Aspiring actors Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while focusing on their passion project: staging an adaptation of 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. However, love for the same woman will end their friendship. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite to travel from Milan to Sicily after hearing that Aldo is dying.

Directed by Massimo Venier, Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti - With Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti, Marina Massironi, Silvana Fallisi, Paola Cortellesi, ...
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The Goodbye Girl(1977)

PG
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 66 votes)

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

Directed by Herbert Ross - With Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Paul Benedict, Powers Boothe, Raymond J. Barry, ...
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Girl 6(1996)

R
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama
2.5/5 (with 46 votes)

A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

Directed by Spike Lee - With Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington, Peter Berg, Madonna, Quentin Tarantino, Ron Silver, ...

You Shall Not Sleep(2018)

1h 46min | Horror, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 63 votes)

In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre group experiments with insomnia for the preparation of a stage play. With the passage of days without sleep, they reach new thresholds of perception that expose them to the secrets of the place and the energies that inhabit it. When Bianca, a young, promising actress, joins the cast, competing for the lead role, she must survive not only the intensity of the work and her cast mates, but the unknown force that is pulling them towards a tragic outcome.

Directed by Gustavo Hernández - With Belén Rueda, Germán Palacios, Juan Manuel Guilera, Natalia de Molina, Eugenia Tobal

Going Down in LA-LA Land(2011)

NR
| 1h 44min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 20 votes)

A fresh face comes to Hollywood to act in movies but only the gay porn studios are eager to provide him with work.

Directed by Casper Andreas - With Casper Andreas, Bruce Vilanch, Brent Bailey, Perez Hilton, Alec Mapa, Matthew Ludwinski, ...
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Dare(2009)

R
| 1h 31min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 28 votes)

An aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner become engaged in an intimate and complicated relationship.

Directed by Adam Salky, Adam Salky - With Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Ashley Springer, Sandra Bernhard, Alan Cumming, Ana Gasteyer, ...
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Happy Together(1989)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 28 votes)

Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party freak and... a girl! He's annoyed and tries to get a different room as soon as possible, but when he learns to know her, he also starts to like her. She not only improves his sexual life, but also his writing skills.

Directed by Mel Damski - With Patrick Dempsey, Helen Slater, Barbara Babcock, Brad Pitt, Dan Schneider, Marius Weyers, ...

Nairobi Half Life(2012)

1h 36min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Mwas, a young aspiring actor from upcountry Kenya dreams of becoming an accomplished actor one day, and in pursuit of this, he makes his way to Nairobi, the city of opportunity. He quickly understands why Nairobi is nicknamed Nairrobery as he is bereaved of all his money and belongings and left alone in a city where he doesn’t know a soul. Luck or the lack of it brings Mwas face to face with the city’s criminals and forms a friendship with a small time crook who takes him in. He is quickly drawn into a world of crime as he struggles to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. Keeping the two worlds separate proves to be a challenge for Mwas as he steps into this unknown world called Nairobi.

Directed by David Gitonga
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Hollywood, je t'aime(2009)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Recently broken up and barely enduring a dreary winter, gay Parisian Jérôme Beaunez impulsively books a solo Christmas vacation to Los Angeles. While there he meets some colorful locals and pursues a dormant desire to become a movie star - but never can quite put the past behind him. In this meditation on love and narcissism across continents, Jérôme goes far in the sun-drenched City of Angels but ultimately arrives at an old Hollywood maxim: there's no place like home.

Directed by Jason Bushman - With Chad Allen, Diarra Kilpatrick

The Mystery of Puerta del Sol(1930)

1h 14min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Pompeyo and Rodolfo work in a newspaper, but they dream of becoming film actors, so they go to a casting for an American film that will be shot in Madrid for a few days; but things will not turn out as they expect….

Directed by Francisco Elías Riquelme - With Carlos Rufart, Juan de Orduña, Teresita Silva

Dramatic School(1938)

NR
| 1h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.

Directed by Robert B. Sinclair - With Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard, Alan Marshal, Lana Turner, John Hubbard, Henry Stephenson, ...

A Star Is Hatched(1938)

8min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Emily the chicken lives in Hickville but dreams of Hollywood. Her chance comes when director J. Megga-Phone happens to drive past and gives her his card.

Directed by Friz Freleng

The Life I Want(2004)

2h 5min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano must deal with his growing jealousy when Laura's career begins to take off.

Directed by Giuseppe Piccioni - With Luigi Lo Cascio, Sandra Ceccarelli, Galatea Ranzi, Fabio Camilli, Gea Lionello, Roberto Citran, ...

The Dare-Devil(1923)

NR
| 20min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.

Mr. Right(2009)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Harry hates being a TV producer and dreams of leaving his job to travel the world. He loves Alex, an aspiring actor who is struggling to create an identity for himself as a performer. Rugby player William's nine-year-old daughter is intent on sabotaging his relationships with new boyfriends, and he's finding it difficult to let Lawrence, the soap star, into his life. Lars is a handsome sometime-model kept by Tom, a successful artist, who will excuse his every betrayal so long as Lars doesn't leave him.

Directed by Jacqui Morris - With James Lance, Luke de Woolfson, Rick Warden

Horror House(2008)

1h 25min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
4.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Best pals and struggling actresses Chloe and Jazz accept roles in a unscripted horror flick set in a creepy, abandoned house but soon realize that the deranged director's plans include shooting some bona fide murders. As their fellow cast members begin to disappear, Chloe and Jazz know they must escape from the house before cameras roll on the snuff film's final scenes.

Headin' for Broadway(1980)

PG
| 1h 29min | Drama, Music
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In this musical, four young hopefuls from different parts of the country head to New York for a shot at Broadway stardom.

Directed by Joseph Brooks - With Rex Smith

The Ritual(2021)

1h 28min | Comedy

Jack, a young actor facing a tough luck in his acting career decides to sell his soul to the devil in exchange for fame and success.

The Opposite of Life(2017)

30min | Comedy

The story of a boy who dreams to be an actor but fate has other plans for him. He will see his life flowing and changing in unexpected ways.

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