A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of Rio de Janeiro.
An ambitious singing and dancing cat in 1939 Hollywood overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.
Madonna's rise to fame from 1978 to 1992, exploring her personal life, controversies, and the challenges she faced during that period.
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic youth. The story depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay, her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Salsa singer screws over everybody on his way to the top; when his latest record flops, his career starts doing downhill.
There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her films saved a movie studio from bankruptcy, and a President credited her with raising the morale of Depression-weary Americans. Her earliest movies gave a foretaste of her talents and soon would become the songs and dances that helped make those movies immortal.
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
You've read the stories, you've seen the documentaries. Now see the movie that brings it all to life.
Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture.
France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation. In 1954, 19-year-old Francoise Sagan shot to fame with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse. Flamboyant, scandalous and underrated, Sagan lived her life at the furthest edge of excess. She won and lost fortunes at the roulette table, bought and crashed superb sports cars, drank, danced and partied, leaving a trail of lovers in her wake.
West Flemish Brussels native Brihang, aka Boudy Verleye, is seeing his popularity soar. How does he balance this flourishing artist's life with young fatherhood? From the summer of 2024 to the spring of 2025. From the stage at Couleur Café to his latest album, "Droomvoeding": Brihang is having a remarkable year. He'll play Rock Werchter for the first time, tour the Netherlands, and receive an MIA and Gold Record for his "Droomvoeding" in early 2025. After that, Brihang's popularity reaches a peak. The show "Brihang - Extra Lang" sells out in no time. He effortlessly fills the Coretec Dome two nights in a row. As a West Flemish native, he becomes one with the audience. As much as Boudy and Brihang want to enjoy the "now," there's always something pushing him towards the future. He still lives in Brussels, but his heart is set on where he came from. Will he and his family find happiness elsewhere?
Nine-year-old Woong-bi, a child actress, has one problem. She can't cry when she acts. She tries to ask other child actors for advice, think sad thoughts and cry, but she doesn't cry easily. Although she is frustrated because of her tearful acting in the audition script, she also auditions with her own acting for a momentarily. Park Woong-bi's Powerful Tears Challenge
As the first all-female band to play their instruments, write their songs and have a No. 1 album, The Go-Go’s made history. Underpinned by candid testimonies, this film chronicles the meteoric rise to fame of a band born in the LA punk scene who became a pop phenomenon.
This is the story of a man who climbed the Hollywood ladder, one rung at a time, until he reached the top and became the most popular American actor of his era.
Brocka's potboiler about the rise of a starlet is the quintessential rags-to-riches, prey-turned-predator story, brimming with true-life anecdotes and an authentically acerbic sense of the seamier side of show business.
For three decades now, Qatar, this small desert kingdom, has not stopped being talked about; because of its financial power and the secrecy that surrounds it, the royal family that runs it fascinates as much as it frightens.
Jeff Bezos is not only one of the richest men in the world, he has built a business empire that is without precedent in the history of American capitalism. His power to shape everything from the future of work to the future of commerce to the future of technology is unrivaled. As politicians and regulators around the world start to consider the global impact of Amazon — and how to rein in Bezos’ power — FRONTLINE investigates how he executed a plan to build one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world.
A young woman finds fame after befriending an influencer who helps her become popular online.