A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Casts William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Franklyn Farnum, Larry J. Blake, Charles Dayton
MOVIE COMMENTS
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The Next Best Thing
Murder, My Sweet
Cairo 30
Dead Youth
Blind Rain
The Beginning and the End
Coast to Coast
The Recruiter
Black Mask
Jorge
The Amazing Life of Molly Star
Hail, Caesar!
Why Get Married the Day the World Ends?
Wind Over the City
Cul-de-sac
Layer Cake
Nichts als Gespenster
Dark Blue
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Next Best Thing
IMDB 5.3 | Mar , 2000
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.Murder, My Sweet
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 1944
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.Cairo 30
IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 1966
Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's help to find him a job, Salem not only gets him a job at the ministry where he works but he finds him a bride as well. But the bride is the mistress of Qasem Bek, who will be visiting her once a week.Dead Youth
IMDB 6.4 | Jan , 1967
The homoerotic poetry of Mutsuo Takahashi sets the stage for these associated images based on male desire.Blind Rain
IMDB 0 | May , 1969
A poetic story about the first love of boy Sanya to girl Lena.The Beginning and the End
IMDB 8 | Oct , 1960
Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their sister, Nefisah—struggle to avoid slipping into poverty. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.Coast to Coast
IMDB 6.6 | Apr , 2004
Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. Their son is getting married in California and they decide to drive across the country to attend. Along the way, as they visit family and friends, they reflect on their tattered relationship and the events that transpired to create the estrangement.The Recruiter
IMDB 7.5 | Mar , 2025
A young Irish recruitment agent must navigate the challenges of his job and the temptation of emigration as he tries to decide whether to stay in Ireland or start a new life abroad.Black Mask
IMDB 10 | Feb , 2012
Jimmy McNamara is an ex-writer and WWII vet turned accountant who receives a call from Vivian, his ex-fiance and nightclub singer. Vivian got a Hollywood contract and is taking Jimmy with her. All he has to do is retrieve the negatives of compromising pictures that put her bright future in danger. But Jimmy's mission might not be as simple as it seems.Jorge
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1998
A lovelorn man is entranced by a beautiful girl who takes a ladybug from his neck.The Amazing Life of Molly Star
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2024
A famed Hollywood actress from Lebanon walks viewers through the pivotal steps she took to achieve international success in her career, until she is forcefully disrupted by the unexpected.Hail, Caesar!
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 2016
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.Why Get Married the Day the World Ends?
IMDB 5.7 | Jun , 2000
Juliette is frantically running away from a man when a car hits her. Lying in the street, semiconscious and stunned, she commences counting. She knows that if no one helps her by the time she reaches 100, something terrible will happen.Wind Over the City
IMDB 6 | Nov , 1996
In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe and tries to keep her close, dreaming and working hard to rebuild a new town while the troupe increasingly faces decline and the end of its run.Cul-de-sac
IMDB 6.7 | Jun , 1966
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.Layer Cake
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2004
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...Nichts als Gespenster
IMDB 5.8 | Nov , 2006
Episodes about different stages of relationships: from flirtation to falling out of love.Dark Blue
IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 2002
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 2002
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.The World, the Flesh and the Devil
IMDB 6.3 | May , 1959
Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they form a close friendship until the arrival of Benson Thacker who has managed to pilot his small boat into the city's harbor. At this point, tensions rise between the three, particularly between Thacker, who is white, and Burton, who is black.