A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death....

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the...

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct...

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to...

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning,...

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a...