Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
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The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
Bel Air
I Knew It Was You
Marlene
The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra
Fame Whore
Meet Marlon Brando
Life After Tomorrow
Charlotte Rampling: The Look
Chasing Fame
“You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!” —Norma Desmond (SUNSET BOULEVARD)
Get a glimpse into fame with stories of people who've reached their highest peak and their lowest valley; ones that were mega stars and those who could have been a contender, only to show us that fame is not what it's cracked up to be.
Selected Films
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A Star Is Born
Esther Blodgett (Janet Gaynor) comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom only to have them shattered by a ruthless, cold-hearted town without pity, where the chances of finding fame are one in a hundred thousand. Enter falling (and falling down drunk) movie star Norman Maine (Fredric March), whom...Watch Movie
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Meet Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando is caught in a Method conundrum; expected to play "movie star," he wants to live in the moment. To help his moribund 1965 film MORITURI, Brando agreed to participate in a marathon, day-long series of filmed interviews with reporters from local TV stations across...Watch Movie
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Marlene
MARLENE is a portrait that brilliantly lifts the veil on a movie star of the brightest magnitude as she is fading into twilight. In September of 1982, Academy Award® winning actor and director Maximillian Schell (THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH) arrived in Paris for a series of on-camera interviews...Watch Movie
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Life After Tomorrow
LIFE AFTER TOMORROW reunites more than forty women who played orphans in the Broadway production of ANNIE and reveals the highs and lows of their experiences as child actresses in a cultural phenomenon. Once the curtain came down, many found it could be a hard-knock-life,...Watch Movie
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Bel Air
Daring to tread in the footsteps of Billy Wilder, Paul Morrissey and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Coppola's tongue-in-cheek spin on SUNSET BOULEVARD stars brother Marc (a ringer for third sibling Nicolas Cage, an executive producer here) as a pizza delivery guy who dreams of recapturing his...Watch Movie
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James Dean: The First American Teenager
James Dean is one of popular culture's greatest icons. He was the archetypal Hollywood rebel who lived fast and died tragically young at the age of just twenty-four. Dean's starring roles included EAST OF EDEN, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE and GIANT, but his reputation as an actor...Watch Movie
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Clean
Maynard Yates is trying to clean up his life when chance gives him a job as a limousine driver. He is soon chauffeuring the Hollywood elite and finds himself submerged in the dark, seedy underbelly of celebrity. When his own bad habits return, Maynard is unwillingly led into a downward spiral and...Watch Movie
