Kun tuottaja Max Barberin viimeisin elokuva floppaa, jää hän velkaa mafiapomo Reggie Fontainelle. Henkensä ollessa uhattuna Max ryhtyy tuottamaan uutta elokuvaa aikomuksenaan tapattaa pääosanesittäjänsä stuntissa vakuutusrahojen toivossa. Max palkkaa rooliin Duke Montanan, mutta ei osaa odottaa, että kameran edessä oleminen palauttaa vanhan alkoholisoituneen näyttelijän elämänilon. Kun Max epäonnistuu tapattamaan Duken yksinkertaisessa stuntissa, hän laittaa Duken alttiiksi yhä vaarallisempiin tilanteisiin. Duke selviytyy stuntista toisensa jälkeen ja yllättäen tämän seurauksena, Max päätyy tekemään uransa parhaan elokuvan.
Guy is a young film executive who's willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn, has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides to exact revenge on Buddy by kidnapping him and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment.
Turhautunut Kathryn viettää päivänsä yksin kotona ylellisessä Hollywood-huvilassa hänen elokuvatuottajamiehensä ollessa jatkuvasti töissä. Hänen tahrattoman siistinä pitämänsä talo on yhä enemmän kultainen häkki. Pakonomainen siivoaminen on Kathrynille keino pitää frustraatiot kurissa, jottei hän soittelisi jatkuvasti agentilleen kyselläkseen uusista rooleista, mutta sekään ei tuo kestävää helpotusta. Niinpä kun hänen rutiiniaan rikkomaan ilmestyy uusi puutarhuri, Kathrynin kiinnostus herää. Hän ei vain tiedä, että komealla "renessanssimiehellä" ja hänen kumppanillaan on mielessään jotain aivan muuta kuin vain kevyttä flirttiä.
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
As the eldest son of the legendary actor and producer Kirk Douglas (1916-2020), it was not easy for Michael Douglas to make his way in Hollywood and, like his father, become a recognized actor and a prestigious producer.
An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.
Three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. "Two for Dinner" where a married couple temporarily living in two different locations are more separated than they think. "Sailing Lesson" about a long-married couple who spend a day on a sailboat rekindling their romance… and unexpected events arise. "Late Lunch" where a young woman who recently lost her mother gathers together a group of her mother’s friends to share memories, with surprising revelations.
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But contrary to appearances, his destiny was full of pitfalls. This film lifts the veil on a founding childhood that allowed him to overcome many obstacles throughout his life thanks to the tutelary figures of his father and mother. Told from the inside with the help of his autobiography, interviews and unpublished archives, this epic story traces the career of this turbulent young actor who launched the New Wave in Breathless before becoming the popular Bebel, an indestructible and provocative vigilante. From film to film, this documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who built himself up to reach the top: his triumphs but also his trials, his doubts, his secrets, his angers, his clowning, his disappointments or his personal dramas.
Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.
A vampiric producer decides to end his life to live on film.
How could the Cannes Film Festival become the biggest cinema event in the world? For 75 years, Cannes has succeeded in this prodigy of placing cinema, its sometimes paltry splendors but also its requirements of great modern art, at the center of everything, as if, for ten days in May, nothing was more important than it. This film tells how Cannes has become the largest film festival in the world by opening up to cinematic modernity while never forgetting that cinema remains a performing art, a popular art.