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MGM Plus
88
8.0
/255234/
78
/6231/
78
/4233/
4.2
/522119/
97
/88/
87
/4057/
96
/16/
cc age 16+

Rosemary's Baby (1968)
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
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83
8.0
/747166/
77
/29542/
78
/17741/
4.1
/4132111/
91
/469/
82
/5129/
94
/54/
cc age 13+

La La Land (2016)
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.
poster
79
7.9
/258359/
78
/5963/
75
/2945/
4.0
/257075/
93
/60/
93
/9525/
59
/19/
cc age 17+

True Romance (1993)
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.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
77
6.9
/36369/
68
/1804/
69
/387/
3.8
/278892/
93
/191/
89
/20/
78
/44/
cc age 16+

A Different Man (2024)
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.
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Kanopy
76
7.3
/4035/
77
/293/
74
/518/
3.7
/11150/
80
/30/
95
/9/
61
/7/

Cyrano, My Love (2018)
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.
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MGM Plus
75
7.2
/91776/
71
/1979/
68
/782/
3.7
/78005/
87
/55/
88
/4133/
71
/25/
cc age 16+

Swingers (1996)
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.
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Hoopla
74
7.4
/17447/
74
/263/
69
/178/
3.7
/11297/
77
/26/
85
/419/
64
/11/
cc age 13+

The Goodbye Girl (1977)
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.
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Kanopy
79
73
7.5
/8680/
77
/190/
73
/137/
3.8
/10188/
92
/12/
84
/97/

Sudden Fear (1952)
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?
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Kanopy
73
7.3
/234006/
70
/3627/
69
/4021/
3.6
/173694/
67
/213/
71
/10004/
69
/38/
cc age 17+

Revolutionary Road (2008)
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.
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Criterion Channel
62
6.2
/44369/
60
/1195/
61
/1122/
3.3
/57447/
63
/163/
44
/432/
68
/39/
cc age 18+

Maps to the Stars (2014)
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.
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Netflix
78
61
8.0
/11675/
75
/244/
76
/53/
4.0
/23081/
83
/7/

Jigarthanda DoubleX (2023)
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.
poster
81
61
8.2
/14626/
77
/180/
75
/69/
4.0
/12217/
93
/11/

Jigarthanda (2014)
A budding director endeavors to research a merciless gangster for making a film on gangsterism. But his secret attempts to conduct the research fail when he gets caught for snooping.
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73
61
7.2
/9482/
76
/436/
76
/1704/
3.9
/16897/
65
/4/

Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000)
Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing their dream production of Cyrano de Bergerac, until love for the same woman tears their friendship apart. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite after learning that Aldo is dying.
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Netflix
56
5.9
/115321/
64
/3812/
63
/2887/
3.1
/218475/
25
/118/
56
/13997/
46
/30/
cc age 10+

Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Kate, 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.
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Kanopy
54
6.2
/30484/
61
/1249/
59
/701/
3.1
/23237/
46
/98/
35
/169/
45
/25/
cc age 16+

She's Funny That Way (2015)
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.
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fuboTV
53
5.3
/3159/
58
/358/
57
/44/
2.2
/6015/
40
/67/
70
/392/
41
/18/
cc age 13+

Easter Sunday (2022)
Comedian and actor Joe Valencia returns home for an Easter celebration with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family, in this love letter to the Filipino-American community.
poster
51
6.5
/85317/
66
/3882/
62
/1078/
2.8
/36503/
32
/210/
57
/1293/
38
/40/
cc age 18+

Entourage (2015)
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.
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50
5.4
/6922/
60
/99/
49
/119/
3.5
/9774/
39
/36/
36
/135/
44
/23/

Girl 6 (1996)
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
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Kanopy
54
50
5.8
/4665/
60
/186/
57
/76/
2.7
/2819/
59
/22/
42
/192/
54
/9/

Dare (2009)
When a pompous actor tells good girl Alexa that she hasn't lived, she embarks on a bold journey that takes her to mysterious bad boy Johnny. Envious, her shy best friend Ben also dares to pursue Johnny.
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48
6.3
/203566/
66
/6022/
61
/2895/
2.6
/100079/
26
/155/
47
/3275/
39
/35/
cc age 17+

The Change-Up (2011)
Lifelong friends Dave and Mitch are envious of the other's life. Mitch thinks Dave has it all: a beautiful, loving family and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. But Dave thinks Mitch’s stress-free playboy life without obligation or consequence is the real dream come true. One fateful drunken night, they both admit that they wish they had the other’s life while peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes. The next morning, they wake up, hungover, in each other’s bodies! With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other’s lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.
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70
45
7.1
/1617/
70
/37/
65
/51/
3.7
/3191/

The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra (1928)
This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead.
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53
44
6.2
/4618/
61
/49/
56
/54/
3.0
/2523/
31
/16/
50
/59/

Inside Daisy Clover (1966)
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
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Fandango at Home Free
58
43
6.2
/2710/
65
/143/
57
/51/
3.0
/444/
67
/9/
50
/30/
50
/4/

Going Down in La-La Land (2011)
A fresh face comes to Hollywood to act in movies but only the gay porn studios are eager to provide him with work.
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62
36
6.7
/2297/
66
/21/
60
/36/
3.2
/649/
54
/138/

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
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55
34
5.1
/1483/
54
/132/
55
/141/
2.8
/1630/
50
/10/
68
/4/

You Shall Not Sleep (2018)
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.
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57
32
5.9
/2297/
63
/52/
58
/69/
3.0
/1060/
45
/13/

Happy Together (1989)
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
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76
24
7.3
/1152/
77
/26/
69
/11/
3.7
/847/
91
/11/

Nairobi Half Life (2012)
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.
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The Roku Channel
53
12
6.3
/492/
51
/17/
50
/14/
49
/10/

Hollywood, je t'aime (2009)
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.
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?
100
/1/

I Hate AI (2024)
An actor discovers his identity and look has been stolen and replicated by AI.
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?
5.2
/11/
10
/1/

Die Skrupellosen - Hörigkeit des Herzens (1993)
Eva loves Fabian, a young and ambitious actor, but his tendency to be self-centered and his lack of responsibility puts them both to the test. Despite Eva's warnings, he gets behind the wheel of his car after a lively premiere party and causes an accident in her presence in which Titus, a young man, is seriously injured. Fabian doesn't care, but Eva is worried about the injured man. A relationship develops between the two...
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?
90
/2/

Re-search the Route (2023)
Su-hyun, a courier who stopped acting, had a contact accident with Ji-young, an acting student, while delivering at a university. Ji-young, who had rejected Su-hyun's offer to take her to the hospital, asks for another request. In that way, the two go to Ji-young's audition in Su-hyun's truck.
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?
8.3
/15/
73
/3/

Aaron with 2 A's (2022)
Aaron With 2 A's is a film about, Aaron, an older man who wants to attain his lifelong dream. The only thing stopping him from succeeding, is getting out of his own way...before destroying everything. It is about how changing our attitude and looking at the world in a different way can move mountains and attain dreams.
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78
?
7.5
/587/
90
/3/
3.5
/300/

Camp Hollywood (2004)
A porn star, a bank robber and a Shakespearean actor are some of the subjects of Camp Hollywood, a feature documentary about the residents of a legendary Hollywood hotel. Seen through the eyes of a Canadian comic who's come out to L.A. for the first time, Camp Hollywood is an intimate portrait of the actors, musicians and other transients he meets during his two-month stay.
poster
60
?
2.7
/129/
70
/5/
85
/6/

Horror House (2008)
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.
poster
42
?
5.1
/157/
56
/3/
20
/2/

Shakespeare In... And Out (1999)
In the 1980s, a filmmaker begins a project to record the life of an average kid. In Perry, Ohio, he picks Rich Longfellow, a shy lad, and begins filming. Soon after, he dies in Mozambique. Sixteen years later, his son continues the project, finding Rich, now 23, in L.A., with dreams of being a Shakespearean actor, getting experience in porn films. We meet Betsy, Rich's sensible girlfriend, Lee, the impatient producer, and Carmichael, a director with artistic pretensions who inspires Rich. Problems with Besty and tension on the set bring Rich to a crisis; when his boyhood friend starts a Shakespeare company that tours nursing homes in the San Fernando Valley, Rich sees a way out.
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?
5.7
/55/
40
/2/
32
/4/

Gatecrasher (2012)
How far would you go to achieve your dreams? That's the question that Mark Jenkins is constantly asking himself. A young, gay actor fresh out of LAMDA, Mark's got the looks, the ability, and the charisma to go all the way. His agent can get him the auditions, but the parts are just never quite right. That's because in Mark's mind, there's only one man who can help him: James Francis -an older established writer as well as a renowned gay icon. However, what begins as an ambitious idea soon turns into obsession, with Mark slowly gatecrashing the life of his idol.
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49
?
2.7
/170/
37
/7/
85
/2/

The Ritual (2021)
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.
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?
20
/1/

Hollywood Dreamers (1997)
Aspiring actors and actresses talk about making it in Hollywood and how they perceive this world. Casting directors and filmmakers also share their perspectives.
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64
?
6.6
/398/
60
/2/
67
/10/

The Life I Want (2004)
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.
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?
6.2
/84/
47
/4/
53
/6/

The Mystery of Puerta del Sol (1930)
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…
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58
?
6.2
/493/
50
/2/
62
/4/

Dramatic School (1938)
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.
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60
?
6.4
/251/
62
/8/
54
/9/

A Star Is Hatched (1938)
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.
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47
?
7.1
/123/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Headin' for Broadway (1980)
In this musical, four young hopefuls from different parts of the country head to New York for a shot at Broadway stardom.
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70
?
6.2
/191/
100
/1/
50
/2/

The Dare-Devil (1923)
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.
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Hoopla
50
?
5.8
/573/
50
/31/
44
/19/

Mr. Right (2009)
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.
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Back in Baby's Arms
When aspiring actor Jonathan is kicked out by his girlfriend, Emma, he has no money and nowhere to go. Out of options, he finds himself the unlikely housemate of Colleen, an older woman suffering memory loss who constantly mistakes Jonathan for her dead husband. Tired of contradicting her, he decides to give in and play the part...could it be the role of a lifetime?
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?

Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke (2026)
Twenty-year-old Joachim is unexpectedly accepted at drama school in Munich and moves into his grandparents' upper-class villa. From then on, he tries to find his identity as a young man between the world of theater and the everyday life of his eccentric grandparents.
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Asian Male Lead
In this biting satire of the film industry, an undiscovered actor will do anything to become the next 'Asian leading man' - other than go to therapy.


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