Films like The Day of the Locust
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
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Sunset Boulevard
Film · 1950 · also dramaA hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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The Player
Film · 1992 · also dramaA Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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Bugsy
Film · 1991 · also dramaNew York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim an...
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Save the Tiger
Film · 1973 · also dramaA businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.
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Gangster Squad
Film · 2013 · also dramaLos Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and —...
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The Last Movie Star
Film · 2018 · also dramaAn aging screen icon gets lured into accepting an award at a rinky-dink film festival in Nashville, Tenn., sending him on a hilarious fish-out-of-water adventure and an u...
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Film · 1995 · also dramaIn late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man l...
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Marty Supreme
Film · 2025 · also dramaMarty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
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Lawless
Film · 2012 · also dramaIn 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forr...
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Man of a Thousand Faces
Film · 1957 · also dramaThe turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal...
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