Will, um pacato dono de uma livraria londrina, vai ter a oportunidade de conhecer Anna Scott, uma estrela de cinema norte-americana que visita a sua loja incógnita. Dois ou três encontros fortuitos mais tarde e ambos iniciam um relacionamento terno, engraçado e cheio de idas e vindas.
Adonis Johnson nunca conheceu o seu famoso pai, o campeão mundial de pesos pesados Apollo Creed, que morreu antes de ele nascer. Ainda assim, é inegável que o boxe lhe corre no sangue e Adonis dirige-se para Filadélfia, o local do lendário combate entre Apollo Creed e um novato resistente chamado Rocky Balboa. Chegado à "Cidade do Amor Fraternal", Adonis localiza Rocky e pede-lhe que seja seu treinador. Apesar de insistir que largou o boxe para sempre, Rocky vê em Adonis a força e a determinação que conhecera em Apollo, o rival feroz que se tornou o seu amigo mais próximo. Rocky acede ao pedido e treina o jovem pugilista, apesar de o ex-campeão estar prestes a encontrar um adversário mais letal do que qualquer um que tenha enfrentado no ringue. Com Rocky a treiná-lo, depressa Adonis tem a sua possibilidade de ganhar o título... mas conseguirá ele desenvolver não só a motivação, mas também a garra de um verdadeiro lutador, a tempo de subir ao ringue?
Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) é um produtor de filmes sem sucesso que há vários anos tenta obter um sucesso de bilheteira que tanto deseja. O seu próximo filme terá todos os ingredientes que um filme de sucesso tem de ter: acção, extra-terrestes, uma mulher sensual (Heather Graham) e Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy), a maior estrela de Hollywood. Mas existe um pequeno problema: o próprio Kit não sabe que o papel é para ele.
Durante a época do Natal em Los Angeles, Ronna Martin (Sarah Polley) e Simon Baines (Desmond Askew) trabalham em um supermercado. Ronna está com o aluguel atrasado e vai ser despejada, enquanto Simon está morrendo de vontade de ir para Las Vegas com três amigos. Desesperada para conseguir dinheiro, ela aceita cobrir o turno de Simon enquanto ele está fora. Surgem então Adam (Scott Wolf) e Zack (Jay Mohr), dois atores de televisão que querem comprar 20 doses de ecstasys e dizem que usavam Baines como intermediário. Eles pedem a ela que consiga a droga. Ronna vê que é uma chance de entrar na jogada, intermediando a compra e assim ganhando o suficiente para não ser despejada, mas as coisas não saem como planejado.
An American low-budget action film celebrated an unexpected worldwide success in 1988: "Bloodsport". With its, the world of film fans and martial arts cinema discovered a new idol: Jean-Claude Van Damme. In the 1970s there was Bruce Lee, but at the end of the 1980s a Belgian won the day. Van Damme was a karate master and had unparalleled strength and flexibility. For ten years he was one of Hollywood's hottest action stars. But excessive overconfidence and drugs bring him down again. At home in Europe he becomes a laughing stock on talk shows. Only with "JCVD" does he manage to get back on his feet, playing his character with perspective and self-irony, but without ever giving up the reputation that his action films brought him and which has been a cult for several generations. The highs and lows of his eventful life are told through archive footage and contributions from people close to the popular Belgian actor.
TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday kid.
Berlin, the Prenzlauer Berg district. Daniel is a movie star accustomed to success. His loft apartment is stylish and so is his wife, and the nanny has the children under control. Everything is tip-top, bilingual and ready for him to jet off to an audition in London where a role in an American superhero film awaits the celebrated German-Spanish actor. Popping into the local bar on the corner, he finds Bruno sitting there. As transpires by the minute, Bruno has been waiting for this moment for a long time. And so this eternally overlooked man – one of reunification's losers and a victim of the gentrification of what was once East Berlin – takes his revenge. With Daniel as his target...
Ryan Banks (Jason Priestley) é um astro cujo comportamento de garoto rebelde está causando prejuízos à sua carreira. Seu melhor amigo, Todd Doherly (Bradley Cooper), bolou um plano para dar uma força à sua carreira: um programa de tv no qual o público vai escolher a noiva de Ryan. Ryan interpreta de maneira irrepreensível o papel de apaixonado por uma linda e sensata garota chamada Charlie Morton (Emma Caulfield). A popularidade de Ryan aumenta incrivelmente e o programa se torna um sucesso. Só há um probleminha: Todd se apaixonou pela "princesa encantada" de Ryan.
Jackie Chan is a true icon of Asian and Chinese culture. Over a 45-year-long career, he has carved a niche for himself as an actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter, but also singer and formidable businessman. After starring in almost 200 films, Jackie Chan has reconciled fans of genre film and Hollywood blockbusters, whilst bridging the gap between Asian and Western cinema. Through film excerpts, archive footage and images, and an offbeat approach inspired by the visual codes of the golden age of kung fu films, this documentary will take a look back at the creation of a popular hero who has come to be an icon for China, and for the entire Asian continent.
HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After starring in a film that was critically bashed, Jamie Kennedy takes on hecklers and critics and ask some interesting questions of people such as George Lucas, Bill Maher, Mike Ditka, Rob Zombie, Howie Mandel and many more. This fast moving, hilarious documentary pulls no punches as you see an uncensored look at just how nasty and mean the fight is between those in the spotlight and those in the dark.
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Gran Torino all the way to Cry Macho in 2021. It is no small task to cover more than 60 years of cinema history, especially when it is trying to surveyed with such breadth and diversity: TV star, international star, controversial icon, contested director, filmmaker with a capital F, Eastwood has been through it all, experienced it all, and it is first of all this romantic trajectory, this true American pastoral that the documentary wants to tell with all the passion it possibly can.
The gripping story of legendary American actor John Travolta: his rise to stardom in the 1970s; his agonizing fall in disgrace in the 1980s; and his stunning artistic rebirth in the 1990s.
Incredible video behind-the-scenes with the stars, Steven Spielberg, and see one of the last interviews with the legendary Stephen Sondheim.
A look at the life and work of the iconic US actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008); the embodiment of many mythic heroes who was both a staunch defender of the Civil Rights movement during the sixties and a spokesman for the National Rifle Association in his later years. The extraordinary and controversial public and personal career of one of the greatest film personalities of all time.
Pending release of the movie "Bean," Rowan Atkinson reflects on his comedy career and reveals how his comic creation Mr Bean evolved. This 1997 documentary includes career clips as well as interviews with Atkinson, writers Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, British comedians Lenny Henry and Mel Smith and movie celebrities Jeff Goldblum and Burt Reynolds.
Robert De Niro is famous for his award-winning portrayals of gangsters, criminals and socially disturbed men who show surprising traces of vulnerability. By analyzing his astonishing roles in iconic films through the years, the documentary reveal the complex actor behind these extreme characters. Because the public knows little about the man who is largely silent about his own life and emotions, this film tries to unwraps one of the most fascinating and enigmatic American actors of all time for the audience. For this the filmakers use clips from his feature films, archive footage of his sparse interviews and probe into his background to illustrate De Niro’s methods for becoming the characters he plays and the reasons he’s able to do so. All of this culminates in a rare exposé of the genesis of the hidden pain that enables the masterful actor to bring such intensity to the big screen.
Dumped two weeks before Christmas, actress Olivia O’Hara secretly returns to her tiny hometown to hide out, eat cookies and avoid the press. What she doesn’t expect is to be faced with the family she left behind, meeting a charming new guy Casey Rawlins, and a noisy reporter following her every move.
The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews with the actor, his family and acquaintances.
The life and times of actor and NRA activist Charlton Heston.
This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over her remarkable 60-year career.