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News & Current Events Mar 25, 2026 at 1:29 AM

Movies that show the real side of Hollywood

Posted by NagelDonk

I love old school Hollywood, I have stayed at the Chateau a handful of times, PB Mansion, toured WB and Universal and done all those museums that have movie memorabilia. I love movies like, "Hail Caesar", "Once Upon...America", and LA Confidential. What other movies take place around the film industry and Hollywood? It doesn't necessarily have to be noir style either. Thanks.
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Opus-the-Penguin Mar 25, 2026 +9
The Player (1992)
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Daveywheel Mar 25, 2026 +8
#Swimming With Sharks.
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Tr0nLenon Mar 25, 2026 +6
Once you unravel it in your mind a few times, that's what Mulholland Drive is showing you.
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Immediate_Branch_238 Mar 25, 2026 +3
The Nice Guys works as both a dysfunctional buddy comedy, and a sharp satire of the LA Glamour Lifestyle. Excellent film.
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Annihilator4life Mar 25, 2026 +1
Rewatchables pod this week was great
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Jondev1 Mar 25, 2026 +3
Sunset Boulevard is a classic "old hollywood" noir film. Tropic Thunder is a hilarious film industry satire. I also loved The Fabelmans, a semi-fictionalized version of spielbergs coming of age (not exactly about hollywood/industry but his interest in making film is of course a big part of it.)
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Relative-Freedom-295 Mar 25, 2026 +3
China town. The Assistant.
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Chickenshit_outfit Mar 25, 2026 +2
Ed Wood
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thespianomaly Mar 25, 2026 +1
“Karloff does not deserve to smell my shit!”
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QueefBeefCletus Mar 25, 2026 +2
Babylon is a love letter to old school Hollywood. Polarizing film, to be sure, but I fuckin ***adore*** it.
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PseudoLucian Mar 25, 2026 +2
Great movie. Many of the characters and situations are based on real people from the silent era, and stories told in the book Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger (originally published in France in 1959, released in the US in 1965, banned, and then re-released in 1975). Many of Anger's stories have been criticized as exaggerations or sheer fiction, but it's still a great book and great movie.
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NagelDonk Mar 25, 2026 +1
thanks all. I got them written down, gonna start with the free ones first.
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littleoctagon Mar 25, 2026 +1
This Film Is Not Yet Rated is a pretty decent doc on how the ratings game works
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Own-Librarian-9699 Mar 25, 2026 +1
HurlyBurly has some dark humor. The Player does too.
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DirtyGoatHumper Mar 25, 2026 +1
Not a movie, but if you haven't watched "The Studio" on Apple TV, it definitely fits the bill.
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ToddBradley Mar 25, 2026 +1
I'd like to see a film that goes deep into "Hollywood accounting"
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Great-Gonzo-3000 Mar 25, 2026
Blake Edwards' S.O.B.
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IgloosRuleOK Mar 25, 2026
Singin in the Rain
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Level-Tangerine-3877 Mar 25, 2026
Somewhere - speaking of the Chateau
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StellaZaFella Mar 25, 2026
The Hollywood Complex (2011)
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