Movies Similar to It Happened in Hollywood

Singin' in the Rain(1952)

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

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Scarlet River(1933)

Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.

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On the Dying Grass(2024)

After a Hollywood agent suffers the loss of her biggest client and closest friend, she is asked to represent an AI version of the deceased actor.

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Trumbo(2015)

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

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The Gangster(1947)

Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is his singer girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.

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One Girl's Confession(1953)

Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the belief that she can dig up the loot upon her release from prison.

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Women's Prison(1955)

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

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Dinner with a Vampire(1988)

A camera crew unearths a thousand year old vampire from Mesopotamia. Years after his rise from the grave, the vampire becomes a famous horror film director and holds auditions for his up and coming film. Four young hopefuls are chosen and are invited to spend the night at the vampire's house. At dinner the vampire reveals his true nature to his guests and the real reason why they are there, to kill him before dawn, as he has grown bored with his existence.

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Fly By Night(1942)

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.

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The Blackout(1997)

A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out that some questions about his past are best left unanswered.

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The Hollywood Detective(1989)

An actor at the end of the line who used to play a PI on TV turns to real detective work when a fan of his begs him to help her.

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Dillinger(1945)

The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.

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Behind Desires(2023)

A couple's fight makes their desires come true.

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Beware! The Blob(1972)

A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace-- the local hippies, cops, drunks and bowlers must all face the Blob!

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A Field, A Body, An Angel(2025)

A lonely detective embarks on a surreal odyssey when dreams of a dead serial killer entwine with a bizarre unsolved mystery.

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Terror at Midnight(1956)

A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves.

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Hell's Half Acre(1954)

A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.

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The Majestic(2001)

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

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The Muppet Movie(1979)

The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever (his future muppet crew), and some special celebrity guest stars, while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

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Big Fat Liar(2002)

After one of his class papers is stolen and turned into a movie, a young student and his best friend exact a hilarious, slapstick revenge on the Hollywood hot shot who has taken credit!

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