Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, Alex seemingly has his choice of what his next project will be. As he makes the rounds both in the Hollywood community and European movie centers for ideas, he fantasizes about movie scenarios of those everyday situations he is in.
Alex Morrison
Beth Morrison
Amy
Nancy
Mother
Andre
Leo
Jane
Norman
Lewis
Marlene
Tox
Sophia
Gene
Bernie Leavitt
Rosemary
Border Guard
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07 Sep 1984
All hilarity breaks loose in this rousing and raucous tale of Hollywood hi-jinks and chicanery as a teenage delinquent turns plumber... and turns up in Hollywood Hot Tubs. After changing the famous "Hollywood" sign to "Hollyweed," Shawn Wright is given a choice of jail or getting a job. He takes a job as a hot tub plumber, and thus begins his arduous adventure into the wild world of sensuous starlets and star-studded parties in bubbling Hollywood tubs.
26 Jul 1976
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
23 Dec 1979
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo quit their Saturday morning TV series in pursuit of Hollywood stardom.
04 Oct 2014
Three stand-up comedians seek fame and fortune in the hottest comedy scene in the world: San Francisco in the 1980s.
28 Feb 2025
A young actor, trapped in an abusive film set, starts spiraling in an anxiety induced attack and reflection as he ponders on his work and role in society. His attack and thoughts get heavier and more sporadic as he sifts through interviews he's done throughout the years - all showing the pain that lies within.
02 Feb 1955
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.
02 Mar 1979
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
14 Sep 2002
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.
21 May 2013
"Blood Effects" a mockumentary by film maker Kris Black, is a cross between "Paranormal Activity" and Christopher Guest's "Best in Show". Presented as a "movie-within-a-movie", veteran Bruce Reisman produced Black's scathing satire of Hollywood horror movies, where reality ties itself up with fantasy, and the results are both humorous and horrifying.
15 Jun 1938
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
31 Dec 2025
Three years after graduating, George, a broke young filmmaker, struggles to fund his first feature film: an ambitious survival story set during the Vietnam War, to be shot in the jungle.
Aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel in this music-driven space adventure presented entirely through the use of close-up photography.
20 Dec 2018
A veteran theatre artist who lives for his art 'enters' the world of films. Can the film industry hold on to his inimitable artistry?
15 Dec 1944
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
01 Oct 1970
Student filmmaker lets nothing stand in the way of his getting a studio contract.
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14 May 1965
Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom. One of two "Harlow" film biographies that appeared in 1965, this one stars Carol Lynley in the title role that begins as Jean Harlow, a bit player in Laurel and Hardy comedies, is invited to test for director Jonathan Martin for the lead in Howard Hughes's "Hell's Angels." She is an instantaneous sensation, and in a series of films devoted more to her body than her talent, she becomes Hollywood's "Platinum Blonde."
20 Aug 1949
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
15 Dec 2017
An aspiring filmmaker, who is also down on luck, goes to Singapore to meet a producer, but what follows is misadventure after misadventure, with a dash of romance thrown in.
27 Mar 1998
Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.