Movies like The Oscar

If you like "The Oscar" you are looking for cult classic, independent film and detective movies about / with marketing, hollywood, movie star, award, filmmaking, redheaded woman and agent themes of Drama genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
The Oscar (1966)
 5.2
 1K
The Oscar (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Snotty Hollywood actor becomes even more full of himself after he's nominated for Best actor at the Academy Awards.
Style: cult classic, independent film, detective, campy, cult film
Plot: marketing, hollywood, movie star, award, filmmaking, redheaded woman, agent, prostitute, party, camp, divorce, stripper, yacht, actor, showbiz, bullfighting, blackmail, actress, burlesque, ambition, producer, personal assistant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unfaithful husband, rolls royce ...
Time: year 1966
Place: new york, tijuana mexico
Keyword: mexican

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to The Oscar

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and semi serious films with plots about showbiz, hollywood, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, actress, couples and actor mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like The Oscar: The Lonely Lady (1983), An American in Hollywood (2014), Butterfly Caught (2017), The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968), The Last Tycoon (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
The Lonely Lady (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, rough
Plot: lesbian, female nudity, screenwriter, misogyny, sex scene, hollywood, rape, film industry, price of fame, older man younger woman relationship, bare chested male, casting couch ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
An American in Hollywood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A talented young filmmaker from New York sets off to Los Angeles in pursuit of the Hollywood dream, only to discover through his relationship with a beautiful feisty young actress, that Hollywood is not all that it seems.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: filmmaking, ambition, follow your dream, fall in love, hopes, buddies, showbiz, love and romance, hollywood, friends, artists and showbiz, young
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Butterfly Caught (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three beautiful aspiring actresses embark on a mission to break into the competitive Los Angeles acting scene only to discover the road leading to stardom comes at a price.
Style: captivating, psychological, sincere, touching
Plot: price of fame, longing, ambition, hollywood, down on your luck, showbiz, rising to stardom, female friendship, glory, actress, life is a bitch, mission
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
Style: retro, neo noir, psychological thriller, cult classic
Plot: reincarnation, female psychopath, showbiz, hollywood, movie star, obsession, falling from height, possession, doppelganger, movie studio, junkie, impersonation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Movie in collections
agent movies
1574
prostitute movies
4336
new york movies
4863
The Last Tycoon (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, literary, female nudity, time travel ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
Style: retro, meta, stylized, realistic, serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, infidelity, alcoholism, drug addiction, ambition, casino, ex husband ex wife relationship, american abroad, hospital, sleeping pill, first love, mentor protege relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, usa, connecticut, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 4.7
 330
Starstruck (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A screenwriter befriends a washed up teen idol.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, humorous
Plot: hollywood, disorder, dark humor, dull life, friends, love and romance, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, unfulfillment, actor's life, buddies, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
They Shoot Movies, Don't They? ...The Making of 'Mirage' (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, captivating, mockumentary ...
Plot: lifestyle, ambition, obsession, actor's life, addiction, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, blind ambition, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, media ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Movie in collections
party movies
4809
camp movies
2810
divorce movies
2467
stripper movies
1399
Hollywood Wives: The New Generation (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Hollywood star (Fawcett), fed up with her husband's cheating, hires a private investigator to tail him. Emotional support is offered by her two friends - a soul singer (Givens) and a famous director's wife (Gilbert)
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, sexual
Plot: hollywood, private detective, best friend, celebrity culture, showbiz, couple relations, aging, womanizer, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, celebrity, hollywood star ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 5.0
 404
The Wager (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An actor at the pinnacle of his Hollywood career finds himself buckling to temptation after he accepts the lead in a classic tale of good versus evil. Michael Steele has just been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. In the wake of that ...
Style: christian film, realistic, serious, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: christianity, hollywood, actor's life, desire for fame, human spirit, introspection, ambition, relationship vs career, couples, society, hotshot hero, rising to stardom ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American film starring George Peppard as a character based largely on Howard Hughes and Alan Ladd as a former western gunslinger turned actor with the pseudonym Nevada Smith, played the following year in a prequel ...
Style: retro, stylized, clever, serious, realistic ...
Plot: showbiz, hollywood, aviation, sex, love story, friendship, filmmaking, uncontrollable, family problems, friends, couples, lifestyle ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: The story of how Norma Jean, once an orphan in Hollywood California, becomes Marilyn Monroe, the movie star and celebrity.
Style: iconic
Plot: hollywood, movie star, insanity, lie, self destructing, makeover, jealousy, gas station, mother daughter relationship, divorce, blonde, photographer ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, 60s
Place: connecticut, big ben london, new york, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The State of Things (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal, France, Spain, Netherlands, UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956) . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish ...
Style: contemplative, spiritual, black and white, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, children, film industry, spirituality, art, chaos, film producer, showbiz, disorder, chases and races, workplace, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, germany, portugal, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Redlight Greenlight (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After 10 years of toil, a moral, determined and penniless agent trainee is given his only and last opportunity to make agent. Standing in his way; a 24 hour time frame, Hollywood's most amoral, hyper ambitious and successful agent deciding his ...
Plot: business, hollywood, wall street, agent
Place: beverly hills, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
A Woman, a Part (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself.
Plot: woman, mental illness, friend, mentally unstable, exhaustion, party, swimming pool, grudge, nervous breakdown, one night stand, agent, actress ...
Place: los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Single Room Furnished (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The fall of a blonde, Mansfield, from innocence to prostitution. Mansfield died before the movie was completed.
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, sexual, emotional ...
Plot: prostitution, erotica, pregnancy, prostitute, female protagonist, exploitation, infidelity, wooing, teenage life, showbiz, looking for love, love affair ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
September 30, 1955 (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rebel. Icon. Legend. James Dean’s untimely death on September 30, 1955, shocked the world and helped define an entire generation. This gripping drama chronicles the reactions of an Arkansas college town to the tragedy and focuses on Jimmy J., a ...
Plot: filmmaking, radio, suburbs, movie star, college, friend, autumn, actor, death, fandom
Time: 1950s, year 1955
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Dangerous Game (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
Style: psychological, sexy, melancholic, erotic, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: filmmaking, redemption, drug, obsession, multiple storylines, addiction, lifestyle, life is a bitch, downfall, showbiz, human nature, infidelity ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, israel, california, middle east, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Movie in collections
yacht movies
583
actor movies
1506
showbiz movies
1233
Ivans xtc. (To Live and Die in Hollywood) (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Update on Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," set in contemporary Hollywood.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, spiritual ...
Plot: uncover truth, introspection, rise and fall, ambition, life is a bitch, showbiz, drug abuse, self destructing, hollywood, death, spirituality, skinny dipping ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
1st Time 16mm (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid.
Style: psychological, captivating, experimental, disturbing
Plot: movie business, filmmaking, film producer, filmmaker, ambition, film industry, financial problem, money problems, award
Place: portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 4.7
 195
Stand-ins (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Six women who came to Hollywood with the dream of becoming famous find themselves working as stand-ins for the glamorous stars of the late 1930s. Gathering for a birthday celebration at their local watering hole, they introduce a new member to the ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: hollywood, showbiz, filmmaking, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, actor's life, artists and showbiz, alcohol abuse, twists and turns, doppelganger, bigger dreams ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1937, pre world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Play It As It Lays (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: mental institution, mental breakdown, mental illness, best friend, family relations, hollywood, showbiz, infidelity, filmmaking, drug abuse, alienation, forced abortion ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, beverly hills, las vegas, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 5.8
 5K
Live! (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A mockumentary following an ambitious TV network executive trying to produce a controversial reality show where contestants play Russian Roulette
Style: contemplative, semi serious, witty, humorous, mockumentary ...
Plot: russian roulette, game of death, fictional game show, rivalry, television, filmmaking, showbiz, human nature, ambition, artists and showbiz, found footage, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Movie in collections
blackmail movies
1895
actress movies
1484
ambition movies
4895
Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: The story of the life of the actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Plot: hollywood, celebrity, actress, cruise ship, love, courtroom, honeymoon, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, marriage, divorce, domineering mother ...
Time: 60s, 1940s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 4.2
 292
Blue Money (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Handsome and successful Jim appears to have it all: he's married to the beautiful and supportive Lisa, has a healthy baby, and works a cool gig as the director of hardcore porno fare. Jim's seemingly perfect life starts to fall apart when ...
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: adultery, exploitation, adult filmmaking, dishonesty, couples, filmmaking, life turned upside down, love affair, infidelity, money, telephone call, wine ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 4.6
 211
Sweet Ecstasy (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Olivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during a theatre rehearsal, and is introduced to her acquaintances -- a group of jaded rich kids who spend their time storming around the Riviera harassing ...
Style: sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: hedonism, lovers on the run, beach, yacht, nihilism, foreplay, brother sister relationship, actress, student, couples, destructive relationship, love and romance ...
Time: 60s
Place: french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.4
 2K
Mistress (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the ...
Style: humorous, cynical, cult classic, light, captivating ...
Plot: filmmaking, mistress, screenwriter, hollywood, showbiz, artists and showbiz, dark humor, film producer, financier, interracial, satire, media satire ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 7.9
 12K
Opening Night (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
Style: independent film, serious, cerebral, thought provoking, art house ...
Plot: aging, actor, actress, theater, thoughtful, beat generation, existentialism, strong female lead, art, mental disorder, time travel, filmmaking ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Black Starlet (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Girl leaves Gary, Indiana, to become a star in Hollywood.
Style: independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, hollywood, betrayal, drug, black, casting couch, stripper, price of fame, fortune, poverty, rags to riches, starlet ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.2
 208
Strangers Kiss (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: To help his actress girlfriend regain her confidence a Hollywood bigshot bankrolls a small budget film being made by a first-time producer and director pair. Despite the hand-to-mouth way it has to be made the film starts to come good, as does the ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, gangster, realism, couples, underdog, artists and showbiz, actor's life, love and romance, fall in love, showbiz, love triangle ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, 1950s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie