In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.
Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, ...
A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.
Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.
A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.
A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her life.
Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.
A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number one-patient is an insecure mob boss.
Ambitious but troubled movie director, Edward D. Wood Jr, tries his best to fulfill his dream, despite his lack of support.
A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people.
A fast-track lawyer can't lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish after he turns his son down for the last time.