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The story takes place in present-day Hollywood, a place where glamorous stars, commanding moguls, starving artists, and vaulting pretenders all vie to get ahead. Hollywood is sometimes called 'The Dream Factory, ' and like the world of Shakespeare's Dream, it's a place where fantasy and reality collide.
4) The party
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A Hollywood bigwig is giving a party to which every climber in town wants to be invited. By mistake, an accident-prone Indian actor is invited, and the result is hilarious slapstick and a wicked and shrewd insider's view of Tinseltown.
5) Sharp stick
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Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood, longing to be seen. After starting an affair with her older boss, she's thrust into education on sex and power.
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A satire on the ups and downs of being a black actor in Hollywood. Bobby Taylor, a young black actor whose attempts to find work are dashed when told that he's not "black enough" for the roles being offered. With jobs limited to stereotypes (gang-bangers, pimps and Uncle Toms), Bobby's struggles are told through a series of comic fantasies and dreams.
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Catherine Terris is back, thinking a Great White Way smasheroo will spark her declining movie career. The musical she'll headline is a razzle-dazzler of warbling and wooing called Breakfast in Bed. An eager, talented cast is rehearsed and ready for some snappy showmanship. But the director, Catherine's old flame, is in a snit. He still loves her. And he's sure that once the rave reviews and box-office receipts roll in, she'll depart for Hollywood....
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During the early 1960s, three friends - Roy, Ned, and Scott - decide to follow their dream and go to Hollywood to find Marilyn Monroe. This leads the boys on a wild goose chase that leaves them running all around town and avoiding two loan sharks trying to get the money Roy stole from them. Will they get away from the loan sharks and meet the woman they fantasized about most of their lives?
10) Taurus
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A rising but troubled musician spends his days and nights searching endlessly for the inspiration to record his next song. His assistant wants to save him, his collaborators want him in the studio, and his dealer and his ex push him deeper into the void.
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The true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau and a celebration of friendship and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true. Based on the best-selling tell-all about the making of Tommy's cult-classic disasterpiece The Room....
15) Hollywood party
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Jimmy Durante wants to wow the visiting Baron Munchausen by throwing him a big, bustling Tinseltown bash. Hollywood Party is the wild, wildly inconsistent but ever fun musical-novelty result, packed with kicky dance montages offering pre-Code chorines and Berkeley-like kaleidoscopic shots, spiked with a color cartoon insert from Walt Disney, muscled up with Schnarzan's lion-wrasslin', and thronged with notables, including Mickey Mouse, Ted Healy and...
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Alex (Donald Sutherland) is the hottest commodity in Hollywood, a first-time director who's completed an unreleased but buzzed-about movie. Opportunity doesn't knock, it hammers. Alex and his wife (Ellen Burstyn) can buy a big home (which one?). He can lunch with a big producer (the producer pitches him). He can dream big (and in outlandish reveries, he does). The only thing Alex can't do is decide what he'll film next.
17) Big fat liar
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A high school student has to prove that a sleazy Hollywood producer stole his English class paper and turned it into a smash hit movie. With the help of his best friend, he travels to Los Angeles to squeeze the truth out of this big fat liar through a series of hilarious pranks and outrageous stunts.
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A single, working actor with no filter raising her three daughters, Max, Frankie and Duke in Los Angeles. She's mom, dad, referee and the cops. Sam also watches out for her mother, Phil, an English expatriate, who lives across the street. Sam is flawed and fierce with her love for her daughters, and her own mother as well, sometimes heaping the love on when she feels guilty.
19) The bling ring
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At the center of one of Hollywood's most notorious burglary rings in 2009 was a group of average, middle-class teens from a quiet suburb. This is the behind-the-scenes story of how Nick, a shy, awkward boy, lured by the promise of popularity and acceptance, found himself following his glamorous, charismatic best friend Rachel into breaking into celebrities' houses and robbing them of millions of dollars in clothes and jewelry.
20) Starry eyes
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Determined to make it as an actress in Hollywood, Sarah Walker spends her days working a dead-end job, enduring petty friendships and going on countless casting calls. After a series of strange auditions, Sarah lands the leading role in a new film from a mysterious production company. But, bizarre ramifications come that will transform her both mentally and physically into something beautiful, and altogether terrifying.
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