A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Casts William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Franklyn Farnum, Larry J. Blake, Charles Dayton
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Poetic Justice
Summer
An Affair to Remember
Bugsy
Volcano
Two Lovers
My Cousin Vinny
Hanging Up
The Player
Set It Off
Margot at the Wedding
3:10 to Yuma
Ploy
Autumn Weddings
Death Wish II
The Fifth Groom
Nosferatu: The First Vampire
Cut Bank
Maytime
A Generation
SIMILAR MOVIES
Poetic Justice
IMDB 6.8 | Jul , 1993
Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to attend a convention because of her broken-down car, Justice gets a lift with her friend, Iesha, and Iesha's postal worker boyfriend, Chicago. Along for the ride is Chicago's co-worker, Lucky, to whom Justice grows close after some initial problems. But is she ready to open her heart again?Summer
IMDB 4.9 | Apr , 2008
Because he can't accompany his father, a German army officer, on his next deployment in Somalia, 15-year-old Tim has to move in with his grandmother on the North Sea island of Amrum. There, the cool skater from Berlin, who seems to magically attract problems, immediately loses his reputation as a freak and difficult outsider. Only chubby Eric, who suffers teasing and attacks from the surfer clique around rich Lars, stands by him. When Tim also falls in love with pretty Vic, Lars' girlfriend, a fight is inevitable.An Affair to Remember
IMDB 7.4 | Jul , 1957
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?Bugsy
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1991
New 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 anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.Volcano
IMDB 5.9 | Apr , 1997
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.Two Lovers
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 2008
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.My Cousin Vinny
IMDB 7.5 | Mar , 1992
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!Hanging Up
IMDB 5.3 | Feb , 2000
Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.The Player
IMDB 7.2 | May , 1992
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?Set It Off
IMDB 7.2 | Nov , 1996
Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.Margot at the Wedding
IMDB 5.8 | Nov , 2007
Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Malcolm at the family seaside home, Margot shows up unexpectedly to rekindle the sisterly bond and offer her own brand of support. What ensues is a nakedly honest and subversively funny look at family dynamics.3:10 to Yuma
IMDB 7.2 | Aug , 1957
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.Ploy
IMDB 6.1 | May , 2007
A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young woman triggers devastating consequences for the couple.Autumn Weddings
IMDB 6 | Aug , 1968
A poetic story about the first love of the village girl Natasha, loyal to the memory of the deceased fiancé. In peacetime, the heroine's fiancé blew up on a land mine that remained on the collective farm field since the war, and her life turned into a nightmare. But sooner or later, dreams end and the world opens again. Pregnant Natasha goes to the institutions, seeking to be signed with the father of the unborn child who died tragically. At the end, after long ordeals, she comes to the conclusion that writing in the marriage book will not change anything in her life.Death Wish II
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 1982
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.The Fifth Groom
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1942
Four greedy men are trying to win over Bahira Hanem. So she pretends to be poor to test the fifth man's feelings.Nosferatu: The First Vampire
IMDB 5 | Mar , 1998
The horror classic, Nosferatu, remastered with a soundtrack by Type-O Negative and hosted by David Carradine.Cut Bank
IMDB 5.7 | Oct , 2014
25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever...Maytime
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1937
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.A Generation
IMDB 6.9 | Jan , 1955
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.