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Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York, has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. But his firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career.

Ali, a small-town girl from Iowa, moves to Los Angeles in the hopes of pursuing her dreams. She stumbles upon a struggling burlesque nightclub and decides to become a dancer there. She faces financial troubles and rivalries but perseveres with her passion for music and dance.

Two small-town sisters go to Hollywood and find themselves seduced by the glamor of the big time and big money as high-priced professional escorts.

Behind the scenes of Hollywood's low-budget movie industry. It is a powerful portrait of the fragility of fame and the cost of stardom. B-pictures have long been the spawning ground of today's and tomorrow's stars. They started the careers of Jack Nicholson and Sylvester Stallone among many others, as well as now super star directors Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Ron Howard and James Cameron. The film examines the evolution of starry-eyed newcomers arriving in Hollywood and discovering the harsh reality of getting into pictures.

An innocent and naive young woman arrives in Los Angeles to make it as a big-name actress, only to suffer though the pain and humiliation of the casting couch routine again and again thus getting a first hand look at Hollywood at its worst.

Small town girl Marcy comes to LA with stars in her eyes, thinking she can make it big on Search for a Star. Instead, with little money and no friends, she finds herself sleeping in her car. Things dramatically change when she meets Rose, living in a cardboard box, and Mort, a wheelchair-bound Gulf War veteran. After first fighting over territory, these three lost souls bond in friendship, protecting and supporting each other in a story that is at once profoundly funny, heart-warming and poignant.

Hollywood, CA, a place of refuge for dreamers from all over the world. Enter a small town girl from Kansas who comes to LA to hit it big....a jaded Detective who's looking for a way out....and her disappearance that binds them. Perhaps he would find her, perhaps he would find himself.

A young woman moves to Hollywood to find fame and fails badly.

Hollywood After Dark is a 1961 drama film that explores the dark side of Hollywood and the pursuit of fame. The story revolves around a young, aspiring actress who moves to Los Angeles in hopes of achieving stardom. However, she soon discovers the seedy underbelly of the industry as she encounters exploitation, casting couch culture, and the broken dreams of those around her. The film delves into the lust for fame and the sacrifices people are willing to make to achieve it.

A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.

A beauty queen called Sheila Anderson wins a part in a Hollywood motion picture. The film turns out to be a cheap nudie film, she is then shunned by the theatrical community and ends up working as a nude model. Soon she is old news and struggles to get work, resulting in abject poverty.

Former federal prosecutor from New York, Ted Black reinvents himself as a lawyer for LA's powerful. His firm's crisis compels an ethical compromise to stay afloat.