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1. Babylon (I) (2022)
R | 189 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde
Votes: 167,798
2. Fool's Paradise (2023)
R | 98 min | Comedy
A fool for love becomes an accidental celebrity only to lose it all.
Director: Charlie Day | Stars: Charlie Day, Ken Jeong, Kate Beckinsale, Adrien Brody
Votes: 6,044
3. Sunset (1988)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway
Votes: 4,625 | Gross: $4.59M
4. An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
R | 86 min | Comedy
When a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee realizes he's an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big-budget action movie he knows is horrible, he steals the master reels and tries to make a deal.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Coolio, Chuck D, Eric Idle
Votes: 3,771 | Gross: $0.05M
5. Action (1999–2000)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
A dark comedy about Peter Dragon, a sleazy Hollywood executive. His last, massively expensive, movie bombed and he needs a hit. Will "Beverley Hills Gun Club" be it and how far will he have to go to make it?
Stars: Jay Mohr, Illeana Douglas, Jarrad Paul, Jack Plotnick
Votes: 1,601
6. Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television (2017–2019)
TV-MA | 30 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
In a world where Hollywood actors can partner up with real cops to solve crimes on their shows, a no-nonsense cop is forced to team up with an air-headed actor, Ryan Hansen, for his new YouTube Premium crime reality show/meta sitcom.
Stars: Ryan Hansen, Aly Michalka, Samira Wiley, Noelle E Parker
Votes: 724
7. The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
Approved | 130 min | Drama
A dictatorial film director (Peter Finch) hires an unknown actress (Kim Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Milton Selzer
Votes: 1,503
8. Show People (1928)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson, Paul Ralli
Votes: 4,007 | Gross: $1.10M
9. Erotic Images (1983)
R | 93 min | Drama
Beautiful Britt Ekland gets an education in Hollywood hustling, behind the scenes and behind closed doors,in this sizzling story of celebrity, seduction and sensual temptation. Take a bold ... See full summary »
Director: Declan Langan | Stars: Britt Ekland, Alex Palermo, John McCann, Robert Woods
Votes: 80
10. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Musical
A filmmaker attempts to sell a surreal script he has written, which comes to life as he pitches it.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Billy Lenhart
Votes: 2,642
11. Movers & Shakers (1985)
PG | 80 min | Comedy
Joe Mulholland, Head of Production at a Hollywood studio, makes a rather fool-hardy promise to a dying friend. He undertakes to make a major movie using the title - if not the content - of ... See full summary »
Director: William Asher | Stars: Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Vincent Gardenia, Tyne Daly
Votes: 586 | Gross: $0.37M
12. That's Adequate (1989)
R | 82 min | Comedy
Fake documentary about a fictional Hollywood film studio.
Director: Harry Hurwitz | Stars: Tony Randall, James Coco, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara
Votes: 285
13. Desperation Boulevard (1998)
90 min | Comedy
A former child star tries to get her career back in Hollywood.
Director: Greg Glienna | Stars: Judy Tenuta, Michael Lerner, Erin Moran, Wil Shriner
Votes: 101
14. I Hate Actors (1986)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.
Director: Gérard Krawczyk | Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim
Votes: 259
15. Hollyweird (1998 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Unsold TV pilot about three young ambitious true crime documentary filmmakers (an Ohio couple and their L.A. friend) recording their amateur sleuth attempts to solve grisly murders in Hollywood for their rising TV show 'Hollyweird.'
Director: Jefery Levy | Stars: Fab Filippo, Melissa George, Bodhi Elfman, Ivar Brogger
Votes: 52
16. Boy Crazy, Girl Crazier (1995)
21 min | Short, Comedy
Celena and Charlie live together in L.A., and both of them want to make it in the movies. At a Hollywood party, Charlie manages to grab himself a part in a film, and he does it by stealing ... See full summary »
Director: Illeana Douglas | Stars: Kevin Breznahan, Illeana Douglas
Votes: 25
17.
The Critic (1994–2001)
Episode:
L.A. Jay
(1994)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
After writing a screenplay, Jay takes leave from his job and moves to Hollywood, where he is hired to write a sequel to a movie he hated.
Directors: Bret Haaland, Gregg Vanzo | Stars: Jon Lovitz, Nancy Cartwright, Christine Cavanaugh, Gerrit Graham
Votes: 128
18.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Hollywood A.D.
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A screenwriter tags along with Mulder and Scully as they investigate a church bombing. The case becomes the plot of a Hollywood movie, but the agents find their case, and themselves, distorted on the big screen.
Director: David Duchovny | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Garry Shandling
Votes: 3,590
19.
The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode:
Michele Lee and Mel Torme
(1971)
TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family
In questions and answers, an audience member teaches Lyle and Harvey how to hula. In a spoof of Hollywood talent scouting, Vanessa Vanilla (Carol) is found dishing ice cream and becomes a ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner
Votes: 29
20.
Fuck You, It's January!!! (2015– )
Episode:
Fuck You, It's Forever!!!
(2017)
9 min | Comedy
A discussion of January, a dumping ground for lackluster cinematic releases expanding indefinitely past the year and into the oblivion.
Directors: Jay Bauman, Mike Stoklasa | Stars: Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman
Votes: 9
21.
Animaniacs (2020–2023)
Episode:
Jurassic Lark/Suspended Animation Part 1/Of Mice and Memes/Suspended Animation Part 2
(2020)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner return; Brain uses the Internet to achieve world domination.
Directors: Scott O'Brien, Katie Rice | Stars: Jess Harnell, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, Rob Paulsen
Votes: 404