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1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
R | 161 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch
Votes: 849,527 | Gross: $142.50M
2. 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: 168,143
3. You Hurt My Feelings (2023)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.
Director: Nicole Holofcener | Stars: Amber Tamblyn, David Cross, Tobias Menzies, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Votes: 12,430
4. Along Came Polly (2004)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A buttoned-up newlywed finds his strictly organized life descend into chaos when he falls in love with an old classmate.
Director: John Hamburg | Stars: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Votes: 143,754 | Gross: $88.10M
5. Little Nicky (2000)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
After two of the devil's three sons escape Hell to wreak havoc on Earth, the devil must send his third son, the mild-mannered Nicky, to bring them back before it's too late.
Director: Steven Brill | Stars: Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Rhys Ifans
Votes: 112,608 | Gross: $39.46M
6. Sleep (I) (2023)
95 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A young, expectant wife must figure out how to stop her husband's nightmarish sleepwalking habits before he harms himself or his family.
Director: Jason Yu | Stars: Kim Gook Hee, Yoon Kyung-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Jung Yu-mi
Votes: 2,124
7. Hollywoodland (2006)
R | 126 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952).
Director: Allen Coulter | Stars: Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins
Votes: 35,967 | Gross: $14.42M
8. Living in Oblivion (1995)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
This ultimate tribute to all independent filmmakers takes place during one day on the set of a non-budget movie.
Director: Tom DiCillo | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney, Danielle von Zerneck
Votes: 20,175 | Gross: $1.15M
9. Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
R | 84 min | Drama
Two girls wait outside a young actor's door and find out he's had them both as "only" girlfriend the last ten months. They wait inside after breaking in. When Blake comes home he just can't stop lying but they stay.
Director: James Toback | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Heather Graham, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Angel David
Votes: 8,710 | Gross: $1.95M
10. Wish I Was Here (2014)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A struggling actor, father and husband finds himself at a major crossroads, which forces him to examine his life, his family and his career.
Director: Zach Braff | Stars: Zach Braff, Joey King, Pierce Gagnon, Kate Hudson
Votes: 39,095 | Gross: $3.59M
11. No Pay, Nudity (2016)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Aging actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne), who has lost his way with his career, with his family, and with his friends (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy, & Boyd Gaines) finds out that the way out is through.
Director: Lee Wilkof | Stars: Zoe Perry, Gabriel Byrne, Frances Conroy, Donna Murphy
Votes: 216 | Gross: $0.01M
12. Sarabhai V/S Sarabhai (2004–2017)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The show revolves around the lives of the members of an Uber Wealthy - High Society Gujarati family of Cuffe Parade - South Mumbai, whose daughter-in-law is from a middle class Delhi background.
Stars: Satish Shah, Ratna Pathak Shah, Sumeet Raghavan, Rupali Ganguly
Votes: 18,179
13. Multi-Facial (1995)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama
A short film about the problems that accompany an actor as he auditions, due to his multi-ethnic appearance.
Director: Vin Diesel | Stars: Vin Diesel, Lewis Steidl, Cara Gaffen, Phillip Jones
Votes: 1,700
14. The Four of Us (2021)
TV-MA | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After a four-week partner swap, two couples meet again in a remote beach house and discover that everything has changed. Suddenly, their feelings are put to the test and they start reevaluating their life choices and expectations.
Director: Florian Gottschick | Stars: Nilam Farooq, Louis Nitsche, Jonas Nay, Paula Kalenberg
Votes: 1,455
15. Hero at Large (1980)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
A struggling actor buying milk stops a robbery while wearing a superhero uniform, promoting a movie. The unknown hero decides to try again. Can he impress his cute neighbor?
Director: Martin Davidson | Stars: John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy, Kevin McCarthy
Votes: 1,829 | Gross: $15.93M
16. Jimmy Hollywood (1994)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A failing actor living in crime infested Los Angeles, frustrated with his career, decides to take the law into his own hands, and becomes the leader of a mock-vigilante group that videotapes criminals and turns them over to the police.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Joe Pesci, Christian Slater, Victoria Abril, Jason Beghe
Votes: 3,649 | Gross: $3.69M
17. Citizen Gangster (2011)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama
WWII vet Eddie Boyd is torn between providing for his young family and an unfulfilled dream of becoming a Hollywood star. He discovers a way to do both, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.
Director: Nathan Morlando | Stars: Scott Speedman, Kelly Reilly, Kevin Durand, Joseph Cross
Votes: 4,597
18. The State of Things (1982)
121 min | Drama
The crew is running out of money to finish their film.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly
Votes: 3,614 | Gross: $6.00M
19. Murder by Natural Causes (1979 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Allison, the unfaithful wife of a famous mentalist with a heart problem, wants her lover to try to kill her husband by scaring him to death, but the whole thing goes downhill.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Richard Anderson, Katharine Ross, Hal Holbrook, Barry Bostwick
Votes: 871
20. Hollywood Wives (1985)
270 min | Drama, Romance
A three-part, six-hour adoptation of Jackie Collins' book about a group of very wealthy, attractive, snobbish women who are caught up in the low life and high society of Hollywood.
Stars: Candice Bergen, Joanna Cassidy, Mary Crosby, Angie Dickinson
Votes: 380
21. I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
Daughter leaves her mother from the east coast to visit her dad in L. A. she hasn't seen for years to find a fast pace life in movies and discovers who her father is.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Dinah Manoff, Lance Guest
Votes: 1,108 | Gross: $6.97M
22. The Great Nick D (2024)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
A sweet-natured tale of redemption following a washed up 90's porn star now a Venice Beach nobody, who gets a second chance to restart his mainstream acting career in order to win back the Oscar nominated actress girlfriend from his past.
Directors: Ansel Faraj, Nathan Wilson | Stars: Lara Parker, David Selby, O-Lan Jones, Kathryn Leigh Scott
23. The Actors (2003)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Crime
Two failed actors decide to pull a con on a local gangster by pretending to be the people to whom he owes money.
Director: Conor McPherson | Stars: Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Michael Gambon, Lena Headey
Votes: 1,964
24. Reading Writing & Romance (2013 TV Movie)
TV-G | 88 min | Family, Romance
Wayne's an actor with money problems. He finally accepts his parents' advice of teaching in high school (temp). He makes Shakespeare seem fun. He meets and likes Amy, a colleague. However, he's still looking for parts as actor.
Director: Ernie Barbarash | Stars: Eric Mabius, Virginia Williams, Stefanie Powers, Adam Kulbersh
Votes: 809
25. City of Life (2009)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A privileged young male Arab at odds with his cultural identity and his less fortunate street smart friend; a disillusioned Indian taxi driver who bears an uncanny resemblance to a famous ... See full summary »
Director: Ali F. Mostafa | Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara, Sonu Sood, Saoud Al Kaabi, Jason Flemyng
Votes: 1,424
26. The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 259 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Judd Apatow presents an emotional two-part in-depth look at the life, career and complex internal struggles of his loving mentor, the influential stand-up comedian and actor Garry Shandling, based on Shandling's personal diaries.
Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Garry Shandling, Judd Apatow, Kevin Nealon, Mike Shandling
Votes: 2,177
27. A Castle in Italy (2013)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
A family is forced to sell their Italian home.
Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Louis Garrel, Filippo Timi, Marisa Borini
Votes: 1,253
28. French film
90 min | Drama, Romance | Post-production
Sam and Léna, two actors, are in love. Sam wants to completely possess Léna. She gives herself entirely to him. Yet their relationship deteriorates to the point of disaster.
Director: Claude Chamis | Stars: Luca Colucci, Pauline Miocekovitz, Augustin De Winter, Nathan Moreira
29. Life After Flash (2017)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary
A look at the roller coaster life of Sam J. Jones since his role as Flash Gordon, his struggles and successes, and the aftermath of when he went up against one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood.
Director: Lisa Downs | Stars: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Brian Blessed, Topol
Votes: 757
30. Insect (2018)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Amateur actors rehearsing "Pictures from the Insects' Life". The actors find themselves living out their characters' roles and hallucinating insects. "Insects", is intercut with the ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Jirí Lábus, Jan Budar, Pavel Nový, Norbert Lichý
Votes: 523
31. La fin du jour (1939)
99 min | Drama
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Victor Francen, Michel Simon, Louis Jouvet, Madeleine Ozeray
Votes: 1,031
32. The House in Nightmare Park (1973)
95 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
In 1907, an actor is invited to perform in an isolated country house, and becomes involved in mysterious and dangerous events.
Director: Peter Sykes | Stars: Frankie Howerd, Ray Milland, Hugh Burden, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 772
33. Traumfrauen (2015)
109 min | Comedy
The story of three young women and one older one (the mother of two of the others), who are looking for love and romance.
Director: Anika Decker | Stars: Hannah Herzsprung, Karoline Herfurth, Palina Rojinski, Iris Berben
Votes: 2,727
34. The Dark Side of Hollywood (1998)
54 min | Documentary
A documentary looking 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Odette Springer | Stars: Jon Kalina, Edward Albert, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Lisa Boyle
Votes: 34
35. Audition (2005)
111 min | Drama
Forty-year old Louis is a loud-mouthed repo-man who has nurtured a lifelong dream of becoming a successful actor. Fortunately for Louis his cousin is a casting agent, and he soon learns ... See full summary »
Director: Luc Picard | Stars: Luc Picard, Suzanne Clément, Denis Bernard, Alexis Martin
Votes: 1,251
36. The Gentle Twelve (1991)
116 min | Comedy
In a jury room, jurors deliberate on the guilt or innocence of a bar hostess accused of pushing her ex-husband into the path of an oncoming truck. Most of the jurors are nice folks ... See full summary »
Director: Shun Nakahara | Stars: Kazuyuki Aijima, Michiko Hayashi, Zen Kajihara, Yoshihiro Katô
Votes: 280
37. Lazare (2020)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.
Director: Philippe Chalem | Stars: Emine Meyrem, Milena Straube, Lionel Rousselot, Stanislas Siwiorek
Votes: 11
38. Scorpio Men on Prozac (2010)
R | 115 min | Drama
A collection of stories surrounding a group of young men taking the prescription drug Prozac.
Director: Rand Marsh | Stars: Seth Macari, Justin Hartley, Erin Cummings, Olivier Taillieu
Votes: 63
39. The Hit Producer (2015)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Katelin Ballantine, a struggling movie producer in search of an investor, reluctantly follows the promise of money into Dublin's drug underworld where she witnesses a botched murder attempt... See full summary »
Director: Kevin de la Isla O'Neill | Stars: Michelle Doherty, Neill Fleming, Fergus Kealy, Susan Barrett
Votes: 55
40. The Eighty Fourth (2019)
20 min | Short, Drama
A struggling actor is crippled by debt, he battles depression and sees taking his own life as his only way out.
Director: Joe Bryant | Stars: Tony Cook, Rachel Warren, Michael Burhan, Kieran Ansell
41. Playing Dead (2013)
104 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A has-been actor takes a job playing the victims in a homicide reenactment, where he sparks with the civil officer investigating the real-life crime.
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: François Damiens, Géraldine Nakache, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Anne Le Ny
Votes: 999
42. Bum Rap (1988)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama
Paul Colson is a New York cabdriver and struggling actor. When he learns that he has about three days left to live due to a rare blood disorder, he goes through all five stages of loss and grief in a darkly comedic way.
Director: Danny Irom | Stars: Craig Wasson, Blanche Baker, Al Lewis, Anita Gillette
Votes: 68
43. My Tiny Universe (2004)
TV-14 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
When a struggling actor stumbles upon an A-list movie producer's cellphone, a sleazy lifestyle of lies, wives, and mistresses is exposed - and lit up in flames - in this witty and biting Hollywood satire.
Directors: Lucy Phillips, Glen Scantlebury | Stars: Andy Comeau, John Heard, Debi Mazar, Lesley Ann Warren
Votes: 265
44. Tiro al aire (1980)
105 min | Drama
Following his mother`s death, wise son Sebastian(Adrian Ferrario) attempts to organise dad Nestor(Hector Alterio) to cope with basic household chores. Sebastian shows Nestor how to light ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Aldo Romero, Mario Sábato | Stars: Héctor Alterio, Graciela Alfano, Aldo Barbero, Héctor Bidonde
Votes: 45
45. Four Tales of Two Cities (1996)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Anthology of four short films: Griffin Dunne's Duke of Groove (1995), Illeana Douglas' Boy Crazy, Girl Crazier (1995), Adrienne Shelly's Urban Legend (1994) and Fisher Stevens' Phinehas (1996).
Directors: Illeana Douglas, Griffin Dunne, Adrienne Shelly, Fisher Stevens | Stars: Patrick Breen, Kevin Breznahan, Kate Capshaw, Chris Chavkin
Votes: 27
46. Actor Commits Suicide on Youtube (2009)
15 min | Short, Drama
A young actor records his suicide and leaves instructions to have the video posted to YouTube and MySpace.
Director: Ernest Dancy | Stars: Ernest Dancy, Mfon Ekpe
Votes: 29
48. Johnny Castle: Rising Star (2006)
65 min | Documentary
Ever since he was a kid, Johnny Castle had a dream: to become a movie star. Driven by his obsession, Johnny moved to Los Angeles, and the corner of Hollywood and Vine Boulevards became his ... See full summary »
Director: Paolo Vandoni | Stars: Johnny Castle, Vincent Di Paolo, Tom Green, Ted Rivera
49. Upstream (1927)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Among the residents of a theatrical boarding-house is the last member of a once-great acting family, down on his luck. When an offer to star in a London "Hamlet" comes, he takes lessons ... See full summary »
Director: John Ford | Stars: Earle Foxe, Nancy Nash, Grant Withers, Lydia Yeamans Titus
Votes: 354
50. Le Fear (2010)
Not Rated | 62 min | Comedy, Horror
A failed Director tries his luck in casting and producing a Feature Film which he wrote 'Le Fear'. He hires the worst Film crew and cast ever to walk this planet the outcome is catastrophic and produces a hilarious outcome.
Director: Jason Croot | Stars: Kyri Saphiris, Spencer Austin, Lucinda Rhodes Thakrar, Ilona Saic
Votes: 344