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1) Just a sigh
Publisher
Distrib Films
Language
English
Description
In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix, played by the stunning Emmanuelle Devos (Desplechin's Christmas Tale), makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train, she meets a mysterious English stranger. Drawn toward him, she follows him and, at least for a few hours, falls in love with him before facing what could be a new life.
2) The victim
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Thai
Description
Ting is an aspiring actress who dreams of becoming famous. One day the police ask her to help solve a murder case by portraying the victim in the reenactment of the crime. Ting relishes the opportunity and is quickly asked to recreate fatal experiences of other victims. Now a local celebrity, Ting is invited to reenact a very high-profile murder case. The victim is a former Miss Thailand and the murder especially gruesome and peculiar. However,...
3) Always Shine
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Language
English
Description
Best friends Anna & Beth take a weekend trip to Big Sur, hopeful to re-establish a bond broken by years of competition & jealousy. Tensions mount, leading to an unexpected yet inevitable confrontation, changing both of their lives forever.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
The new gentlemen, directed by Jacques Feyder, is one of the wittiest, most sophisticated comedies ever to come out of France, describes a tug-of-war over a pretty young actress between an aging aristocrat and a young left-wing union organizer.
5) The stronger
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Based on the play written by August Strindberg on 1912, and filmed in New York's Central Park. Two actresses, one a wife and mother, the other living alone, meet in a cafe. While the wife talks, the other is silent. But the wife must finally face the truth: the silent woman is her husband's mistress. Still, their agonizing confrontation, as well as the relief that follows, binds them together: the battle is over and it becomes irrelevant which one...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
From maverick filmmaker William A. Wellman (The public enemy, Nothing sacred) comes the original, timeless tale of Hollywood fantasy and heartbreak: A star is born. Esther Blodgett (Janet Gaynor) comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom only to have them shattered by a ruthless, cold-hearted town without pity, where the chances of finding fame are one in a hundred thousand. Enter falling (and falling down drunk) movie star Norman Maine (Fredric March),...
Publisher
IFC Films
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...
Language
English
Formats
Description
There is a tenuous balance between reality and fiction, particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune, and suicide. A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based upon a true crime, casts an unknown and mysterious young woman who bears a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story.. He finds himself unsuspectingly drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue and a growing obsession...
9) Starlet
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the grotesque world of Los Angeles, Jane strives for filmic success--but all roads lead inevitably to degradation and the only stardom available is the world of pornography. But Jane has a friend besides her beloved Chihuahua Starlet: an 84-year-old widow named Sadie, whose lack of judgement and sharp kindness may just be Jane's way out.
10) The Hero
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lee Hayden (Sam Elliot) is a Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories with his former co-star-turned-drug dealer, Jeremy (Nick Offerman), until a surprise cancer diagnosis brings his priorities into sharp focus. He soon strikes up an exciting, contentious relationship with stand-up comic Charlotte (Laura Prepon), and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a visiting actress becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise police department go on high alert. And when Jesse witnesses a horrifying collision caused by a distracted teenage driver, the political repercussions of her arrest bring him into conflict with the local selectmen, the DA, and some people with very deep pockets.
13) La La Land
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.
14) Galaxy Quest
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector set off on thrilling and often dangerous missions in space ... and then their series was cancelled. Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beamed up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.
15) Judy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after rising to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. While preparing for the shows, Garland battles with management, reminisces with friends and adoring fans, and embarks on a whirlwind romance with soon-to-be fifth husband Mickey Deans, all while bravely struggling to overcome intensifying anxiety and physical decline.
16) Paradise Texas
Publisher
Distributed by] Monarch Home Video
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A boy from a small town meets a Hollywood actor when they're cast in the same movie, and teach each other life lessons, when one tries to shake his father's plans for him, as the other tries to salvage the family his career has torn apart.
17) La la land
Publisher
Lionsgate
Edition
[Blu-ray version only].
Language
English
Description
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.
18) Garden State
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young man returns home to New Jersey after nine long years, where he has to finally deal with his feelings and his future.
19) Viola
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Español
Formats
Description
A dazzling and delightful mystery about love and its follies from filmmaker Matías Piñeiro. VIOLA follows a young woman who joins a small Shakespeare theater company in Buenos Aires and becomes entangled in a seductive roundelay of romantic dalliances, intrigue and revelation. Official Selection at **Toronto International Film Festival** and the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"Piñeiro's bold but graceful camera movements, exploring space...
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
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Description
In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
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