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1. Mulholland Drive (2001)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates
Votes: 383,971 | Gross: $7.22M
2. The Neon Demon (2016)
R | 117 min | Horror, Thriller
An aspiring model, Jesse, is new to Los Angeles. However, her beauty and youth, which generate intense fascination and jealousy within the fashion industry, may prove themselves sinister.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Karl Glusman
Votes: 103,958 | Gross: $1.33M
3. Burlesque (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.
Director: Steve Antin | Stars: Cher, Christina Aguilera, Alan Cumming, Eric Dane
Votes: 93,194 | Gross: $39.44M
4. Rock of Ages (2012)
PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A small-town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
Director: Adam Shankman | Stars: Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin
Votes: 81,679 | Gross: $38.52M
5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Director: Eliza Hittman | Stars: Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin, Eliazar Jimenez
Votes: 31,166
6. A Star Is Born (1937)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson
Votes: 10,892 | Gross: $4.36M
7. Chantal (2007 Video)
R | 96 min | Drama
Chantal is a hot, naive and dangerously delusional young woman, wandering the boulevards of L.A. looking for her first big break. There she meets Tracy who warns of the harsh realities lurking beyond the glamorous facade of Hollywood.
Director: Tony Marsiglia | Stars: Erin Brown, Julian Wells, Andrea Davis, Darian Caine
Votes: 467
8. The Awakening of Gabriella (1999)
R | 93 min | Drama
After leaving her small-town lover, an innocent beauty named Gabriella hits Hollywood with plans to enter a daring and exciting new chapter in her life.
Director: Carlton McRae | Stars: Susan Featherly, Mark Ritter, Jeannie Millar, Taimie Hannum
Votes: 526
9. The Truth (1960)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
A liberated small-town girl and the family's black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Sami Frey
Votes: 4,458
10. Nothing Sacred (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly
Votes: 7,264
11. Life in a Metro (2007)
132 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Six different stories, about nine people, each with different issues and problems, all occurring within one place: the METRO.
Director: Anurag Basu | Stars: Dharmendra, Gautam Kapur, Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma
Votes: 12,900 | Gross: $0.15M
12. Walk All Over Me (2007)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A small town girl runs into big time trouble as she takes on her roommates identity as a dominatrix to pay the bills.
Director: Robert Cuffley | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Tricia Helfer, Lothaire Bluteau, Jacob Tierney
Votes: 2,506
13. It's a Great Feeling (1949)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Music
A waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when two actors agree to help her.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Doris Day, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Bill Goodwin
Votes: 1,977
14. Summer in the City (2016 TV Movie)
TV-G | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
The star manager of a small-town clothing store is suddenly promoted to run a company's flagship store--in Manhattan. To make it in the big city, she must combine her newly-acquired New ... See full summary »
Director: Vic Sarin | Stars: Julianna Guill, Marc Bendavid, Natasha Henstridge, Marla Sokoloff
Votes: 1,539
15. When Strangers Marry (1944)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Kim Hunter, Dean Jagger, Neil Hamilton
Votes: 1,375
16. Blonde Ambition (2007)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
A young professional woman (Simpson) unwittingly becomes the pawn of two business executives in their bid to oust the head of a mega-conglomerate.
Director: Scott Marshall | Stars: Jessica Simpson, Luke Wilson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Penelope Ann Miller
Votes: 6,185 | Gross: $0.01M
17. I Knew Her Well (1965)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy, Joachim Fuchsberger
Votes: 3,147 | Gross: $0.01M
18. Girl in Gold Boots (1968)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A young woman leaves her job as a waitress and travels to Los Angeles, where she strives to become the top star in the glamorous world of go-go dancing.
Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Jody Daniels, Leslie McRay, Tom Pace, Mark Herron
Votes: 3,951
19. Turkey Drop (2019 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lucy Jacobs is a small-town girl who has started her freshman year at a big-city university. When Lucy returns home for Thanksgiving break, she suspects she is about to get turkey dropped: dumped by her high school sweetheart.
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Cheryl Hines, Olivia Holt, David Hewlett, Karen Cliche
Votes: 624
20. Laaga Chunari Mein Daag: Journey of a Woman (2007)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A small town girl lands in big bad Mumbai to earn an honest living but faces a confrontation she would've never dreamt of in her wildest dreams.
Director: Pradeep Sarkar | Stars: Rani Mukerji, Jaya Bachchan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kunal Kapoor
Votes: 2,714 | Gross: $0.68M
21. Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Small-town Indiana girl Lily Mars dreams to be a stage actress. She begs visiting Broadway producer John Thornway for a role but he dismisses her as an amateur. She follows him to New York and worms her way into his show, and his heart.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter, Richard Carlson
Votes: 1,270
22. A Merry Christmas Match (2019 TV Movie)
TV-G | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Corey who works in her mom's antique shop, puts on a Christmas pageant in honor of her late father. When a man named Ryder visits her store, she wonders if she should have left town to follow her dream of becoming a theater director.
Director: Jake Helgren | Stars: Ashley Newbrough, Kyle Dean Massey, Lindsey Gort, John DeLuca
Votes: 1,418
23. Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
Approved | 106 min | Musical, Romance
Nancy Peterson and her friends want to get a spot on Bob Crosby's TV show, but their agent has linked them.
Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Tony Martin, Janet Leigh, Gloria DeHaven, Eddie Bracken
Votes: 614
24. T.R. Baskin (1971)
GP | 90 min | Drama
An enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city, and has to search for her place in the scheme of things.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Candice Bergen, Peter Boyle, James Caan, Marcia Rodd
Votes: 366 | Gross: $0.28M
25. 2 Guys and a Girl (2012)
PG-13 | 9 min | Short, Comedy
What happens when you take a small town girl, move her to Los Angeles and have her room with two young men who are pretending to be gay? Welcome to the world of 2 Guys and a Girl. Leah, new... See full summary »
Director: Delora A. O'Brien | Stars: Zac Badasci, Richardson Chery, Fatmata Kamara, Lissa Lauria
Votes: 8
26. Unwed Mother (1958)
Approved | 74 min | Drama
Betty (Norma Moore) moves from a farming community to Los Angeles. She falls into the clutches of a super-cad (Robert Vaughn) and ends up abandoned and pregnant. After visiting a drunken ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Norma Moore, Robert Vaughn, Diana Darrin, Billie Bird
Votes: 106
27. Celeste in the City (2004 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
A small-town girl new to Manhattan gets the make-over treatment from her gay cousin, leading to a whirlwind of romantic adventures.
Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: Majandra Delfino, Nicholas Brendon, Ethan Embry, Sadie LeBlanc
Votes: 827
28. Sappho '68 (1968)
65 min | Drama
Small-town girl Jennifer Bradley moves to San Francisco to eke out a successful career as a photographer, and soon she gets caught up in the sexual revolution that's going on around her and... See full summary »
Director: Nick Millard | Stars: Gary Boyd, Janice Kelly, Myrna Lorni
Votes: 102
29. Unfinished Business (1941)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Small town girl meets and falls for a playboy type on a train to New York. For him, the fling is over when they arrive, but she continues to carry a torch. She meets and marries his brother... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 321
30. Seduction of Innocence (1995)
R | 101 min | Drama
A sheltered, innocent, small-town girl, Tammy, journeys to Dallas to visit her older sister whom she adores and thinks is working as a teller in a bank. Tammy gets a big shock when she finds out her sister is tied up with a drug syndicate.
Director: Alin Bijan | Stars: TJ Myers, John McCalmont, Erica Palmer, Danielle Petty
Votes: 81
31. Hot Nights on the Campus (1966)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
Naïve small town Indiana gal Sally arrives in New York City to attend college. While in New York Sally lives with four more worldly and uninhibited female roommates, goes to wild swinging ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Orlando | Stars: Gigi Darlene, Alpha Centuri, Marlene Eck, Judy Adler
Votes: 87
32. My Roommate's an Escort (2017– )
Comedy
As small-town girl Heather gets to know her new street-wise roommate Kesha, she starts to suspect Kesha may be an escort because of her dubious and sketchy behaviour. However, Heather is ... See full summary »
Stars: Katie Uhlmann, Trish Rainone, Bobby Del Rio, PJ Lazic
Votes: 160
33. Abnormal Rape (1968)
73 min
Director: Toshio Okuwaki | Stars: Masayoshi Nogami, Kaori Aihara, Setsu Shimizu, Miki Hayashi
34. Girl in Trouble (1963)
82 min | Crime, Drama
Girl leaves the farm for the big city of New Orleans to become famous, instead becomes a stripper & gets abused and exploited by everyone she meets.
Director: Brandon Chase | Stars: Tammy Clarke, Ray Menard, Neiomi Salitech, Larry Johnson
Votes: 122
35. The Marathon of Desires (2020)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hoping to change her life, Marina, a small town girl, embarks on a journey to a life coaching event. But an unexpected delay at a St. Petersburg airport sends her on a 24 hour comedic spree... See full summary »
Director: Darya Charusha | Stars: Yuliya Aug, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Gudkov, Andrew Ilitchev
Votes: 987
36. Nina of the Woods (2020)
91 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A meditative new take on the thriller genre that follows Nina, an aspiring actress, after she agrees to lend her "local authenticity" to a supernatural reality TV show filming in the tiny ... See full summary »
Director: Charlie Griak | Stars: Daniel Bielinski, Emily Fradenburgh, Andrew Stecker, Megan Hensley
Votes: 192
37. Love for Rent (1979 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Small town girl visits her actress sister in Los Angeles only to find out she's a Hollywood call girl.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Annette O'Toole, Lisa Eilbacher, Rhonda Fleming, Eugene Roche
Votes: 58
38. Upstage (1926)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Dolly, ... See full summary »
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Norma Shearer, Oscar Shaw, Tenen Holtz, Gwen Lee
Votes: 104
39. Confessions of a Bad Girl (1965)
63 min | Drama
Judith, a pretty young girl from a small town, comes to New York City determined to become a famous actress. She auditions for a variety of modeling and acting jobs, and finds out that the ... See full summary »
Director: Barry Mahon | Stars: Judy Adler, Dawn Bennett, Anna Karol, Byron Mabe
Votes: 23
40. The Red Kimono (1926)
Unrated | 77 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A small-town girl finds escape from her cruel home life in the arms of a handsome stranger. Soon she finds herself working as a prostitute in New Orleans, desperately clinging to the belief that he really loves her.
Directors: Walter Lang, Dorothy Davenport | Stars: Priscilla Bonner, Nellie Bly Baker, Carl Miller, Mary Carr
Votes: 376
41. Disarm (2022)
Short, Drama, Romance
A small town girl who moves to the city in an attempt to get away from the tragic loss of her parents. With no family or friends around her, the city breaks her spirit and leaves her ... See full summary »
Director: Cristiane Ehrlich | Stars: Sophia Myles, Shri Patel, Lauren Victoria Ellingham, Peter Polycarpou
42. Hollywood (2007 Video)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama
Hollywood. A place of dreams. A place of refuge for dreamers from all over the world. Enter a small town girl from Kansas who comes to LA to hit it big....and a jaded Detective who's ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher L. Golon | Stars: Kevin Michael Turner, Alexis Ostrander, Julia Melim, Samuel Morris
Votes: 37
43. Naughty Dallas (1964)
Unrated | 72 min | Drama
A small-town girl comes to Dallas to make it as a stripper.
Director: Larry Buchanan | Stars: Jada, Breck Wall, Bill Fanning, Bill Demar
Votes: 39
44. La graduada (1971)
86 min | Comedy
Naive small town girl, Benita, moves to the capital to start a new life, but things don't go as planned - until she meets Don Carlos, a handsome doctor.
Director: Mariano Ozores | Stars: Lina Morgan, Florinda Chico, Antonio Ozores, José Sacristán
Votes: 69
45. Husband Hunters (1927)
Passed | 50 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two gold-diggers befriend a country girl who comes near being deceived by rich playboy but is saved by a girl whose life he ruined. Lettie finds happiness with poor but honest working man.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Mae Busch, Charles Delaney, Jean Arthur, Walter Hiers
Votes: 21
46. Karnaval (1982)
151 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A coming-of-age story about a small town girl's struggle to become an actress in Soviet Moscow.
Director: Tatyana Lioznova | Stars: Irina Muravyova, Yuriy Yakovlev, Klara Luchko, Alevtina Rumyantseva
Votes: 1,124
47. A Star for Rose (2013)
98 min | Drama
Small town girl Marcy (Tara Walker) comes to LA with stars in her eyes, thinking she can make it big on "Search For A Star." Instead, with little money and no friends, she finds herself ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Yost | Stars: Debbie Allen, John Savage, Tara Walker, Melinda Skilondz
Votes: 15
48. Chantal (1968)
Not Rated | 59 min | Drama
A young woman moves to Hollywood to find fame and fails badly.
Director: Nick Millard | Star: Lily Damon
Votes: 24
49. A Little Girl in a Big City (1925)
60 min | Drama
Small-town girl Mary Barry wins a beauty contest and goes to New York to meet D. V. Cortelyou, the magazine's publisher. Greatly taken by young girl, Cortelyou arranges for her to live with... See full summary »
Director: Burton L. King | Stars: Gladys Walton, Niles Welch, Mary Thurman, J. Barney Sherry
Votes: 35
50. Sofi (2014)
23 min | Short, Drama, Family
Orphaned Sofi decides to leave the Roma ghetto in search of her father. She decides to escape from the ghetto in a big city seeking for her father. However, an eleven-year-old girl meets severe difficulties.
Director: Zhanna Karabalaeva