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Camp
Camp (2003)
, 1h51
Directed by Todd Graff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Musical films, Road movies, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Daniel Letterle, Robin de Jesús, Anna Kendrick, Sasha Allen, Stephen Sondheim, Caitlin Van Zandt

The film centers on the experiences of several teenagers at Camp Ovation, a summer theatre camp. The campers are a mishmash of youngsters from different backgrounds and dealing with different issues, but all feel most comfortable while performing. School is out, and the campers reunite as they prepare to board the buses to Camp Ovation. Shy, self-conscious Ellen Lucas happily greets her friends, recovering from an embarrassing situation where she desperately tried to land a prom date, and ended up asking her brother. Nerdy Fritzi Wagner attempts to befriend icy diva Jill Simmons, but ends up toting her luggage instead. Returning camper Jenna Malloran laments that her parents forced her to have her jaw wired shut in order to lose weight. Upon arrival to Camp Ovation, the kids settle in. Ellen converses with her friend Michael Flores, a gay teenager who was violently beaten by his classmates after showing up to his junior prom in drag. The campers are struck dumb with the arrival of Vlad Baumann, a handsome new camper who is, as a staff member marvels, "an honest-to-god straight boy.
Hearts of the West
Hearts of the West (1975)
, 1h42
Directed by Howard Zieff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Films about television
Actors Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin, Richard B. Shull

Lewis Tater (Jeff Bridges), a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who harbors dreams of becoming the next Zane Grey, decides to leave his family home in Iowa to go to the University of Titan in Nevada so he can soak up the western atmosphere. He arrives to find that there is no university, only a mail order correspondence course scam run by two crooks out of the local hotel. He tries to spend the night at the hotel, and is attacked by one of the men. He escapes his attacker and steals their car, pulling over when it runs out of gas.
Valentino
Valentino (1951)
, 1h42
Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors Anthony Dexter, Dona Drake, Eleanor Parker, Richard Carlson, Otto Kruger, Patricia Medina

Rudolph Valentino arrives in America and becomes a movie star. He falls in love with an actress and dies an early death.
Withnail & I
Withnail & I (1987)
, 1h43
Directed by Bruce Robinson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Black comedy
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, Buddy films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick, Daragh O'Malley

The film depicts the lives and misadventures of two "resting" (struggling and unemployed) young actor friends in late-1969 London. They are the flamboyant alcoholic Withnail and "I" (named "Marwood" in the published screenplay but not in the credits) as his more level-headed, anxiety-prone, and ennui-crippled friend and the film's narrator. Withnail is filled with indignation over life’s injustices, despite his privileged background. He rages against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune all the more because he blames others for the adverse consequences of his exuberant arrogance, flagrant narcissism and habitual lying, alcoholism, and drug use. Withnail sets the tone for the friendship, with Marwood going along with whatever Withnail wants to do. They live in a filthy Georgian flat in Camden Town. While they wait for a part, daily life revolves around getting coins to use in the meters that provide gas or electricity, going to collect benefits, and waiting for the pubs to open so they can drink and be somewhere with heating. Their only other company at the flat besides each other is the local drug dealer, Danny; a somewhat distasteful man with far out, often bizarre viewpoints on the current state of affairs and a knack for irritating Withnail.
To Be or Not to Be
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
, 1h39
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Films about television, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill

Before the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the stars of a theater company in Warsaw are the "ham" Josef Tura (Jack Benny) and his beautiful wife, Maria (Carole Lombard). As part of the company's rehearsal of a play satirizing the Nazis, one of the actors, Bronski (Tom Dugan), takes to the street to prove that he looks like Hitler in his costume and makeup. People gawk at the appearance of the Nazi dictator in Warsaw, until a young girl asks for the autograph of "Mr. Bronski."
Inside Daisy Clover
Inside Daisy Clover (1966)
, 2h8
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon, Ottola Nesmith

Set in the mid-1930s, the plot centers on Daisy Clover (Wood), a teenage tomboy who lives in a ramshackle trailer with her eccentric mother (Gordon) on a California beach and dreams of Hollywood stardom. She submits a song recording to the well-known film producer Ray Swan (Plummer), who puts her under contract. Ray and his wife Melora (Katharine Bard) foster Daisy's rise to fame by any means necessary, forcing Daisy to deal with the pressures of stardom and the Swans' manipulation of her life and career. Daisy reluctantly accepts the placement of her mother in a mental institution, to protect Daisy's reputation as "America's valentine", and is told to tell any interviewers that her mother is dead.
At Long Last Love
At Long Last Love (1975)
, 2h3
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, Duilio Del Prete, Eileen Brennan, John Hillerman

Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
Repossessed
Repossessed (1990)
, 1h20
Directed by Bob Logan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Films about television, Demons in film, Comedy horror films
Actors Leslie Nielsen, Linda Blair, Ned Beatty, Anthony Starke, Thom Sharp, John Ingle

Father Jedediah Mayii (Nielsen) casts out the devil from the body of young Nancy Aglet (Blair). Seventeen years later, in 1990, Nancy's body is possessed once again, however, while watching "The Ernest and Fanny Miracle Hour", a religious broadcast.
Maps to the Stars
Maps to the Stars (2014)
, 1h51
Directed by David Cronenberg
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films about films, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Films about television, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Carrie Fisher, Sarah Gadon

Agatha arrives in Los Angeles and employs limousine driver Jerome to take her to the site of the former house of child star Benjie Weiss. Agatha has severe burns to her face and body, and takes a copious amount of medication. Benjie visits a child suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the hospital; however, the girl later dies. Benjie’s father, Dr. Stafford Weiss, is a TV psychologist who is treating aging actress Havana Segrand for abuse she suffered at the hands of her deceased mother, also an actress. Havana’s agent struggles to get Havana a role in a remake of her mother’s film Stolen Waters. Havana routinely hallucinates about the deceased younger version of her mother.
The Big Knife
The Big Knife (1955)
, 1h51
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about television, Films based on plays
Actors Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters

Charlie Castle, a very successful Hollywood actor, lives in a huge home. But his wife Marion is on the verge of leaving him, which he refuses to confirm to influential gossip columnist Patty Benedict.
Bubba Ho-tep
Bubba Ho-tep (2002)
, 1h32
Directed by Don Coscarelli
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Musical films, Political films, Comedy horror films
Actors Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce, Bob Ivy, Heidi Marnhout, Paul Giamatti

An elderly man at The Shady Rest Retirement Home in East Texas is known to the staff as Sebastian Haff, but claims to be Elvis. He explains that during the 1970s, Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) grew tired of the demands of his fame and switched places with an Elvis impersonator named Sebastian Haff (also Campbell). He claims it was Haff who eventually died in 1977, while he, the real Elvis, lived in quiet, happy anonymity and made a living pretending to be himself. After a propane explosion destroyed documentation which was the only proof that he was actually Elvis, he was unable to return to his old lifestyle.
Life
Life (2015)
, 1h51
Directed by Anton Corbijn
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about television, Photographie
Actors Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Ben Kingsley, Alessandra Mastronardi, Joel Edgerton, Michael Therriault

The story follows Dennis Stock, who works at the Magnum Photos Agency and got an assignment to shoot rising Hollywood star James Dean, before the release of East of Eden. Friendship developed between them during the assignment, as the pair traveled from Los Angeles to New York to Indiana.
Flashbacks of a Fool
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
, 1h54
Directed by Baillie Walsh
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about television
Actors Daniel Craig, Harry Eden, Claire Forlani, Felicity Jones, Eve, Emilia Fox

Joe Scott (Daniel Craig) is a has-been actor, who seemed to have had great success at one time but who now just spends his time drinking, doing drugs and sleeping with random women. The only person he has in his life is his personal assistant Ophelia and even she is getting tired of him. He receives a call from his mother to say his childhood best friend, Boots, whom he has not seen in years, has died. He attends a disastrous meeting with an up-and-coming director and his agent, who has lost interest in Joe. Joe learns he will not get the part he had hoped would restore his flagging career. His agent tells him that he is washed up, no one wants to work with him and quits. This upsets Joe, who goes for a walk along the beach and walks into the waves. Floating in the sea, he remembers his teenage life.
Naked in New York
Naked in New York (1993)
, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Mary-Louise Parker, Ralph Macchio, Eric Stoltz, Jill Clayburgh, Tony Curtis, Timothy Dalton

The film is narrated in flashback by Jake Briggs (Eric Stoltz), a young aspiring playwright, culminating in the production of one of his plays off-Broadway by agent Carl Fisher (Tony Curtis). The play is a flop, at least in part because the lead parts are given to two actors, Dana Coles and Jason Brett (Kathleen Turner and Chris Noth), who are "not right" for the roles. Along the journey, Jake reviews his relationships with girlfriend Joanne (Mary-Louise Parker), best friend Chris (Ralph Macchio), his mother Shirley (Jill Clayburgh), and his mostly absentee father Roman (Paul Guilfoyle). The film ends with Jake and Joanne going their separate ways, mostly because of competing career goals, and Jake hoping to write more plays with greater success.