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1. Babylon (I) (2022)
R | 189 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde
Votes: 167,406
2. Inherent Vice (2014)
R | 148 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston
Votes: 110,702 | Gross: $8.11M
3. The Artist (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell
Votes: 248,584 | Gross: $44.67M
4. Hail, Caesar! (2016)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes
Votes: 143,141 | Gross: $30.50M
5. The Black Dahlia (2006)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short murder investigation.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank
Votes: 77,024 | Gross: $22.52M
6. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)
PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Australian Outback adventurer Mick "Crocodile" Dundee travels to Los Angeles with his young son while his longtime companion suspects foul play at a movie studio.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Jere Burns, Jonathan Banks
Votes: 26,227 | Gross: $25.64M
7. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Romance
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell
Votes: 16,452
8. Boy Meets Girl (1938)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
Two screenwriters in a rut come up with a story idea starring a bankable cowboy and the baby of the studio's waitress.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson, Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 805
9. The Day of the Locust (1975)
R | 144 min | Drama, Thriller
An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton
Votes: 6,364 | Gross: $17.79M
10. Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Passed | 140 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
Directors: George Sidney, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi
Votes: 9,433
11. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Votes: 28,514
12. The Meddler (2015)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.
Director: Lorene Scafaria | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, J.K. Simmons, Jerrod Carmichael
Votes: 14,023 | Gross: $4.27M
13. Relentless (1989)
R | 92 min | Crime, Thriller
Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Leo Rossi, Meg Foster
Votes: 1,855 | Gross: $6.99M
14. Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 2,961
15. The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda
Votes: 1,652
16. Dogtown (1997)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Romance
Philip Van Horn, who left his small town a long time ago to become a Hollywood actor and hasn't had any success at that, returns to the town for a visit. There he is uniformally met like ... See full summary »
Director: George Hickenlooper | Stars: Rory Cochrane, David Shackelford, Trevor St. John, Price Carson
Votes: 488
17. Mia madre (2015)
R | 106 min | Drama
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini, Nanni Moretti
Votes: 7,756 | Gross: $0.30M
18. Big Shot's Funeral (2001)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Kwan, Paul Mazursky, You Ge
Votes: 2,407 | Gross: $0.00M
19. Reel Injun (2009)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Western
The history of the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.
Directors: Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, Jeremiah Hayes | Stars: Adam Beach, Chris Eyre, Russell Means, John Trudell
Votes: 1,646
20. Just a Dream (2002 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
Director: Danny Glover | Stars: Carl Lumbly, Robby Benson, Ally Sheedy, Rodney A. Grant
Votes: 375
21. Fade to Black (2006)
R | 99 min | Mystery, Thriller
Attempting to recover from his failed marriage to Rita Hayworth and restart his career, Orson Welles travels to Italy only to be drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue, murder and politics when an actor is murdered on his set.
Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Danny Huston, Diego Luna, Paz Vega, Christopher Walken
Votes: 913
22. El extra (1962)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A jack-of-all-trades works in a film studio, where he meets a young woman who wants to become an actress.
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Cantinflas, Alma Delia Fuentes, Carmen Molina, Guillermina Téllez Girón
Votes: 374
23. Inside the Labyrinth (1986 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary, Music
A behind-the-scenes look at the David Bowie film Labyrinth (1986), also featuring director Jim Henson and co-star Jennifer Connelly.
Director: Desmond Saunders | Stars: Jim Henson, David Bowie, Charles Augins, Brian Henson
Votes: 558
24. Bisbee '17 (2018)
PG | 112 min | Documentary, History, Western
An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.
Director: Robert Greene | Stars: Mike Anderson, Charles Bethea, Chris Dietz, Mary Ellen Dunlap
Votes: 715 | Gross: $0.12M
25. 28 Hours Later: The Zombie Movie (2010)
Not Rated | 56 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A film crew is in the midst of making a zombie movie, when suddenly everything becomes very, very real.
Director: Daniel M. Seibert | Stars: Kate Archer, Pat Bulger, Clancy Bundy, Rob Culp
Votes: 137
26. 18 Fingers of Death! (2006 Video)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Comedy
A Martial Arts Movie Star "Mock-umentary" in the loose tradition of Spinal Tap.
Director: James Lew | Stars: Shane Aaron, Koji Abe, Michael Andersen, John Arrington
Votes: 702
27. The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number.
Directors: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich | Stars: Jules Raucourt, Voya George, Robert Florey, Adriane Marsh
Votes: 1,426
28. Lazare (2020)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.
Director: Philippe Chalem | Stars: Emine Meyrem, Milena Straube, Lionel Rousselot, Stanislas Siwiorek
Votes: 11
29. Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1996)
Not Rated | 145 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary focusing on the life of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, the author of the bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and originator of the Objectivist philosophy.
Director: Michael Paxton | Stars: Sharon Gless, Michael S. Berliner, Harry Binswanger, Sylvia Bokor
Votes: 649 | Gross: $0.21M
30. Merton of the Movies (1947)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
A Kansas bumpkin goes to Hollywood to become a movie star and gets a job burlesquing his favorite actor - only he thinks the role is serious.
Director: Robert Alton | Stars: Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, Gloria Grahame, Leon Ames
Votes: 501
31. Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes (2005 Video)
36 min | Short, Fantasy
More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnès Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us through the film, from opening ... See full summary »
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Éric Berlouin, Dorothée Blanck, Antoine Bourseiller, Marin Karmitz
Votes: 264
32. Enteng and the Shaolin Kid (1996)
Action, Comedy
Director: Danilo Cabreira | Stars: Vic Sotto, Jacky Shix, Alou Gonzales, Charito Solis
Votes: 15
33. Audience of One (2007)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
A documentary following a Pentecostal minister who receives a vision from God to create an epic science fiction movie based on the biblical story of Joseph, sending him and his followers on a journey of extreme faith.
Director: Mike Jacobs | Stars: Richard Gazowsky, Pietro Manigrasso
Votes: 305
34. Pociag do Hollywood (1987)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
A young woman is bitten by the acting bug after seeing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot". She patterns herself after MM and after finishing high school goes for screen tests to the Film ... See full summary »
Director: Radoslaw Piwowarski | Stars: Katarzyna Figura, Piotr Siwkiewicz, Rafal Wegrzyniak, Grazyna Krukówna
Votes: 200
35. The Movie Extra (2015)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy
A movie about movies. A movie extra goes tired of the lead character taking all the attention
Director: F.C. Rabbath | Stars: Michael Varde, Jonathan Bazile, Katie Gayle Marvel, Christian Giannoble
Votes: 22
36. The King of Paris (1995)
97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director: Dominique Maillet | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Veronika Varga, Jacques Roman, Manuel Blanc
Votes: 65
37. Strictly Background (2007)
84 min | Documentary
A documentary spotlighting movie extras - the indispensable background actors in films.
Director: Jason Connell | Stars: Terry Bolo, Geoffrey Gould, Cecilia Hartfeld, Louis McCarten
Votes: 264
38. My Name Is Fame (2006)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Fai, a talented actor who has won the Best New Artist of the Hong Kong Film Awards and always plays leading roles in television, is an arrogant guy who does not cherish the opportunities ... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Ah-Mon | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Siyan Huo, On-On Yu, Cheuk-Kei Chan
Votes: 473
39. The Actor (1993)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
It is about a burly film actor who wants to act only in art films but is forced by his family's economic demands to do a string of trashy commercial movies. His tormented wife, infertile ... See full summary »
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Azita Hajian, Hamideh Kheirabadi, Fatemah Motamed-Aria
Votes: 710
40. Guy in Row Five (2005)
97 min | Comedy
A comedy about a dreamer named Thess who moves to Hollywood to become a star. After pestering his way in to an audition, he is so convinced that he booked the role that he decides to document his last day of being a struggling actor.
Directors: Jonathon E. Stewart, Phil Thurman | Stars: Bobby Field, Clare Kramer, Colin Ferguson, Jennifer Aspen
Votes: 113
41. How to Top My Wife (1994)
101 min | Comedy
Film focuses on a man deciding to hire a hitman to kill his wife rather than file for divorce.
Director: Kang Woo-suk | Stars: Park Joong-hoon, Jin-shil Choi, Uhm Junghwa, Choi Jong-won
Votes: 89 | Gross: $0.07M
42. Flyerman (2003)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary
What begins as a character study of an eccentric man who passes out flyers for a living, becomes an intense five year journey of self-discovery and the search for fame.
Directors: Jeff Stephenson, Jason Tan | Star: Mark Vistorino
Votes: 40
43. Extra Room (2015)
5 min | Short, Comedy
After a long day on set, straight-laced Carol gives three eccentric extras a ride home.
Director: Jennifer van Heeckeren | Stars: Jeremy Vincent Coman, Leigh Joel Scott, Tanayi Seabrook, Isaak Emery
44. Memoirs of the Last Samurai's Geisha (2008)
11 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Chad Band | Stars: Mark Belcher, Charlie Cho, Charlie Cho, Michele Dodick
45. Hotel of the Stars (1981)
58 min | Documentary
About a dilapidated hotel in Hollywood. Once Montecito was the hotel of the stars, but today the guests are extras, drug-dealers and prostitutes.
Director: Jon Bang Carlsen | Stars: Dan Pattarson, David Pack, George W. Scott, Joe André
Votes: 17
46. Call the Usual Suspects: The Craft of the Character Actor (2006 Video)
23 min | Short, History, Biography
Stars: Judith Anderson, Lauren Bacall, Rudy Behlmer, Humphrey Bogart
47. Hollywood Extra! (1936)
Approved | 11 min | Documentary, Short
The life of female Hollywood extras, typified by Jane Barnes, who's 21, a three-year veteran living in an apartment house with roommates who constantly borrow and return money and stockings... See full summary »
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Carey Wilson, Jane Barnes, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Edna Callahan
Votes: 34
48. Northward, Ho! (1940)
10 min | Documentary, Short, History
Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure filmed on location in Idaho.
Director: Harry Loud | Stars: Clem Bevans, Truman Bradley, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy
Votes: 74
49. Casting! (2006)
18 min | Short, Comedy
A slice-of-life comedy set in an extras-casting office about Natasha, a young assistant with higher aspirations who must endure her overbearing boss and her unpleasant surroundings.
Director: James Lineback | Stars: Lauren Capaldo, Karen Bendak, Paul Burch, Sam Holdren
50. This Is the Life (1915)
Passed | 30 min | Western, Comedy, Short
The third of eight films based on the activities behind the cameras at a movie studio. "Addie" Gribble, the wife of a successful business man, Elmer Gribble, tires of her life of leisure ... See full summary »
Director: William Bertram | Stars: Art Acord, Adele Farrington, Lawrence Peyton, John Gough