Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "film-executive"

1. Tropic Thunder (2008)

R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, War

Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Kahn

Votes: 448,770 | Gross: $110.52M

2. Movie 43 (2013)

R | 94 min | Comedy

A series of interconnected short films follows a washed-up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

Directors: Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Brett Ratner, Jonathan van Tulleken, Bob Odenkirk | Stars: Emma Stone, Stephen Merchant, Richard Gere, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 112,432 | Gross: $8.83M

3. New Nightmare (1994)

R | 112 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Jf Davis, Miko Hughes

Votes: 64,318 | Gross: $18.09M

4. Barton Fink (1991)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner

Votes: 129,084 | Gross: $6.15M

5. The Last Tycoon (1976)

PG | 123 min | Drama, Romance

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau

Votes: 9,600 | Gross: $1.82M

6. Violet (II) (2021)

R | 92 min | Drama

Violet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.

Director: Justine Bateman | Stars: Olivia Munn, Luke Bracey, Justin Theroux, Dennis Boutsikaris

Votes: 1,406

7. Full Frontal (2002)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Romance

A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Julia Roberts, David Hyde Pierce, David Duchovny, Nicky Katt

Votes: 11,314 | Gross: $2.51M

8. What Just Happened (2008)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Robert De Niro, John Turturro, Stanley Tucci, Sean Penn

Votes: 28,541 | Gross: $1.09M

9. Hollywood Ending (2002)

PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

A director is forced to work with his ex-wife, who left him for the boss of the studio bankrolling his new film. But the night before the first day of shooting, he develops a case of psychosomatic blindness.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Téa Leoni, Bob Dorian, Ivan Martin

Votes: 28,160 | Gross: $4.84M

10. The Starter Wife (2007)

276 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The ex-wife of a Hollywood studio boss restarts her life after their divorce.

Stars: Debra Messing, Judy Davis, Chris Diamantopoulos, Peter Jacobson

Votes: 2,250

11. Quicksand (2003)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a workaholic banker journeys to Monaco to investigate the suspicious activities of a company, he finds himself framed for murder and running for his life.

Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Michael Keaton, Michael Caine, Judith Godrèche, Rade Serbedzija

Votes: 2,768

12. The World's Greatest Lover (1977)

PG | 89 min | Comedy

A neurotic baker travels to Hollywood to attend a talent search for an actor to rival the great Valentino. Although not an actor, through blind luck he succeeds, to a certain degree.

Director: Gene Wilder | Stars: Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise, Fritz Feld

Votes: 2,215 | Gross: $21.58M

13. When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal and Helen Mirren (2011 Video)

TV-MA | 5 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

Billy proposes to producers a sequel with (literally) a bite to his classic movie.

Director: Lindsay Crystal | Stars: Billy Crystal, Helen Mirren, Mike Tyson, Maya Rudolph

Votes: 404

14. Mistress (1992)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama

This self-effacing comedy about film industry blues stars Robert Wuhl and Martin Landau as a writer/producer duo who must deal with the increasingly fickle demands of their film's financiers (Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro and Eli Wallach).

Director: Barry Primus | Stars: Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Vasek Simek, Thomas R. Voth

Votes: 2,394 | Gross: $1.10M

15. How to Make a Monster (1958)

Unrated | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.

Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke

Votes: 1,523

16. Lída Baarová (2016)

TV-14 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

A biographical film about the black-and-white era Czech actress Lída Baarová and her doomed love affair with one of the Third Reich's most powerful men: the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.

Director: Filip Renc | Stars: Tatiana Pauhofová, Karl Markovics, Gedeon Burkhard, Simona Stasová

Votes: 2,482

17. Filmworker (2017)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography

A documentary about how English actor Leon Vitali came to work as an assistant to American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick for over 30 years.

Director: Tony Zierra | Stars: Leon Vitali, Ryan O'Neal, Brian Capron, Mike Alfreds

Votes: 3,512 | Gross: $0.10M

18. The Dying Gaul (I) (2005)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.

Director: Craig Lucas | Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Campbell Scott, Patricia Clarkson, Ryan Miller

Votes: 2,483 | Gross: $0.34M

19. Cannes Man (1996)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

The Cannes Film Festival. It's where deals get made, producers get laid, and stars get paid. It's where all the movie industry meets to buy and sell all the movies on the planet. And it's ... See full summary »

Directors: Richard Martini, Susan Shapiro | Stars: François Petit, Robert Hockley, Luana Anders, Jack Ong

Votes: 756

20. Girl 27 (2007)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Biography

The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.

Director: David Stenn | Stars: Patricia Douglas, Baby Peggy, Richard W. Bann, Kelly Brown

Votes: 1,185

21. Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes (2021)

TV-MA | 30 min | Documentary

Ronan Farrow's intimate, revealing interviews with whistleblowers, journalists, private investigators and other sources for his book Catch & Kill.

Stars: Ronan Farrow, Rose McGowan, Rosanna Arquette, Ambra B. Gutierrez

Votes: 819

22. Casting By (2012)

TV-14 | 89 min | Documentary, Biography

The surprising, never-before-told tale of the indispensable yet unsung Casting Director - Iconoclasts whose keen eye, exquisite taste and gut instincts redefined Hollywood.

Director: Tom Donahue | Stars: Deborah Aquila, Risa Bramon Garcia, Ellen Chenoweth, Marion Dougherty

Votes: 1,638 | Gross: $0.01M

23. The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films (2014)

88 min | Documentary

Two Israeli cousins, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, in pursuit of the American Dream, turned the Hollywood power structure upside down, producing over 300 films and becoming the most powerful independent film company in the world.

Director: Hilla Medalia | Stars: Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus, Yehuda Barkan, Ram Globus

Votes: 605

24. Dancing in the Dark (1949)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Conceited actor Emery Slade, on a mission to recruit a Broadway star for Fox, picks unknown Julie Clarke instead.

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: William Powell, Mark Stevens, Betsy Drake, Adolphe Menjou

Votes: 229

25. Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project (2011)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography

An uncensored look at the life and work of film producer Harvey Weinstein.

Director: Barry Avrich | Stars: Matt Affleck, Ken Auletta, Peter Bart, Peter Biskind

Votes: 323

26. Nagarathil Samsara Vishayam (1991)

Action, Comedy, Thriller

Gopinath and his friend Samson get into a fix when they stumble upon a box containing forty lakh rupees in cash. While they try to hide it, the real owners come to know about this.

Stars: Jagadish, Siddique, Geetha Vijayan, Kuthiravattam Pappu

Votes: 46

27. Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)

Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Biography

A chronicle of the life and career of silent film star Mary Pickford.

Director: Nicholas Eliopoulos | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Amelia Earhart, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Votes: 223

28. Sammy the Screenplay (1997 Video)

10 min | Comedy, Short

A humorous look at the path a script takes on its way to becoming a Hollywood feature.

Director: Chris Hume | Stars: John Hurley, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider, Tamara Montana

Votes: 38

29. Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer (2009)

128 min | Documentary

A 100 year history of the development of movie marketing, reflecting technical improvements, audience taste and cultural sensibilities.

Directors: Michael J. Shapiro, Jeff Werner | Stars: Robert Osborne, Chris Arnold, Dan Asma, John Barrymore

Votes: 58

30. Hollywood Joker (2008)

6 min | Short, Comedy

The Joker crashes a meeting of Hollywood power brokers who are planning the recasting of The Joker role.

Director: Marc Cinquanta | Stars: Robert Babish, Matt Cinquanta, Gary Davis, John Matthews

Votes: 54

31. The Thieves, the Director, Her Actress & Their Studio Exec (2000 Video)

65 min | Adventure

Two thugs kidnap a bondage movie director and when the director's star attempts a rescue, they rope and gag the blonde cutie as well. The red-haired studio executive decides to attempt ... See full summary »

Director: Isaac W. | Stars: Miranda Capulet, Natasha Flade, Quinn K., Tabitha Katz

32. John H. (2003)

6 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

John H. takes drastic measures when production executives decide his film must be shot in Canada with a Canadian cast and crew.

Director: Greg Zekowski | Stars: Tony Haney, Marty Pistone, Warren A. Stevens, Forbes Riley

Votes: 11

33. In Defense of Lemmings (2004 Video)

10 min | Comedy, Short

Four comic vignettes -- involving an activist, a balding writer, some Jews, and Troma Entertainment President Lloyd Kaufman -- connect in a stream-of-consciousness style reminiscent of Monty Python, The Firesign Theatre, and Luis Bunuel.

Director: Justin Remer | Stars: Jacqueline Thuener-Rego, Cullen Carr, Joby Earle, Boris Kievsky

Votes: 43

34. The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950–1955)
Episode: Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guests: Charles Laughton, Isabel Bigley, Johnny Conrad, Sid Fields, Joe Kirk, Milton Frome, Bobby Barber, Jill Kraft, Anita Anton, Alex Fossell, Helen Donaldson, Three Beaus & a Peep, Al Goodman & his Orchestra (1952)

Not Rated | 58 min | Comedy, Romance

Abbott Costello do several of their burlesque routines with their usual supporting players and play host to screen great Chales Laughton.

Directors: Charles Friedman, Fred Hamilton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton, Isabel Bigley

Votes: 14

35. Oliver Harper's Retrospectives and Reviews (2011– )
Episode: The Hitcher (1986) (2022)

Documentary, Action, Horror

Oliver Harper reviews The Hitcher (1986) and dissects the behind-the-scenes.

Director: Oliver Harper | Stars: Oliver Harper, Robert Harmon, Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel