O poveste înțesată cu ambiții și excese, Babylon rememorează succesele și eșecurile a diverse personaje care au populat decadentul Hollywood la începuturile lui.

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

Esther Blodgett, o cântăreață măruntă, e descoperită de faimosul actor Norman Maine, apoi ea ajunge în vârf, iar el se afundă în băutură.

Rosel Zech joacă rolul unei actrițe din anii ’40 care, la 10 ani după război, devine dependentă de morfină. Titlul ei de glorie: prietenia cu infamul Goebbels.

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral.

Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younger hotel masseur and resident gigolo.