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1) Persona
Language
Swedish
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Description
A famous actress is stricken with psychosomatic dumbness and is placed under a nurse's care in an isolated house, where the two gradually assume each other's personalities.
Language
English
Description
The first Broadway revival in nearly 50 years of the musical comedy masterpiece by composer Cole Porter and book writers Sam and Bella Spewack. Recounts the backstage and on-stage antics of two feuding romances during an out-of-town tryout for a musical adaptation of The taming of the shrew.
3) The star
Language
English
Description
A fading movie star is convinced that she needs only one good picture to reestablish her popularity and fortune.
4) La La Land
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.
Language
English
Description
After Madelyn and Lucy meet by chance, they make a pact to fix their unhappy lives: they will only do what the other one says and ignore their own instincts. But Madelyn has a secret. She knows her husband is sleeping with Lucy, a much younger and beautiful woman. Madelyn's plan backfires when Lucy, an aspiring actress, orders her to play King Lear in a very amateur production with Lucy playing the fool.
7) Sunset Blvd
Language
English
Description
The story of an aging film queen who prepares for her grand comeback to stardom.
8) Bad actress
Language
English
Description
Alyssa Rampart-Pillage is a washed up TV queen whose career has been reduced to starring in commercials for her husband Bernie's appliance empire. When their tree-hugging daughter Topanga dies in tragic golf ball incident, Bernie goes off the spiritual deep end and tries to give away their fortune, with disastrous results. But what starts off as tragedy quickly turns into career re-invention for Alyssa. And as the body count rises, so does her star....
10) Judy
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.
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times best-seller, reveals the dark personal life the blonde bombshell hid from her adoring public. The riveting miniseries sheds new light on Marilyn's career, her three husbands, including Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, and her obsession with President John F. Kennedy in a screen portrait as unforgettable as its iconic subject.
13) Show boat
Language
English
Description
Edna Ferber's classic tale of life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat.
Language
English
Description
Jamie Wellerstein is an up and coming Jewish novelist who falls in love with Cathy Hiatt, a Shiksa Goddess and struggling actress. Their story is told almost entirely through songs using an intercutting time line device; all of Cathy's songs begin at the end of their marriage and move backwards in time to the beginning of their love affair while Jamie's songs start at the beginning of their affair and move forward to the end of their marriage. They...
Language
English
Description
Finley Tremaine, a small town farm girl, longs to spread her wings and soar as an aspiring performer. When a Hollywood film crew arrives in her sleepy town, she is determined to land a role in the production and captures the attention of handsome lead actor Jackson Stone. Unfortunately, a botched audition forces her to change course. Now, disguised as cowboy "Huck," Finley finally gets her big break. But can she keep the charade a secret from everyone,...
Language
English
Description
Chance Wayne, an ambitious man craving fame, returns to his southern home with an alcoholic movie star in tow, Alexandra Del Lago. Hoping to capitalize on Del Lago's fame and checkbook, Chance seeks to reunite with his former girlfriend. He finds he is still regarded by others as an unsavory and unwelcome hustler, especially by the father of his ex-girlfriend, a local political boss.
17) Catch hell
Language
English
Description
A former child star is forced to confront his own demons after a criminal connected to his past kidnaps him. Trapped and tortured, he must take actions in to his own hands, if he hopes to right the wrongs of his past and survive.
18) These old broads
Language
English
Description
Three aging divas and their agent all hate each other, but since they are all desperate for money they agree to reunite for a television special.
Language
Español
Description
A comedic thriller that stars a bumper crop of well-known older Argentine actors. The film is the story of a group of four long-time friends, including a used-to-be-famous actress, her now disabled husband and actor as well, who she eclipsed, and the sharp-tongued screenwriter and director of her greatest hits. Their coexistence is menaced by a young couple, who, feigning to be lost, slowly insinuate themselves into their lives.
20) Indiscreet
Language
English
Description
Romance is in the air when a dashing diplomat is introduced to a beautiful and famous actress. The fact that he's married doesn't stop the love-struck pair from falling into a passionate affair.