Movies like Stardom

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Stardom (2000)
 5.7
 2K
Stardom (2000)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Style: clever, stylized, captivating, realistic, cynical, humorous, mockumentary, touching, independent film, offbeat ...
Plot: fashion, obsession, model, rise and fall, rags to riches, lifestyle, rising to stardom, rise to the top, ambition, desire for fame, showbiz, celebrity culture, older man younger woman relationship, fame, satire, small town, photographer, age difference, fashion model, nude women, shallowness, celebrity, fashion industry, supermodel, modeling ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, canada, europe, montreal, argentina, new jersey ...
Keyword: music video, sport, doctors

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Most similar movies to Stardom

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and witty films with plots about lifestyle, artists and showbiz, showbiz, satire, celebrity culture, ambition and media satire mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Stardom: Ready to Wear (1994), Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000), Mr. Saturday Night (1992), Childstar (2004), Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ready to Wear (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Paris Fashion Week draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Follows the various storylines of these characters, centering around a murder investigation of a prominent fashion figure. Features an ...
Style: satirical, humorous, talky, light, artsy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: fashion, fashion model, farce, fashion show, storytelling, multiple storylines, art, public nudity, media satire, lovers reunited, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when ...
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: satire, rise to the top, desire for fame, workplace romance, filmmaking, workplace situations, lifestyle, actor's life, love and romance, workplace, rising to stardom, best friend ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of ...
Style: humorous, intense, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: comedian, showbiz, actor's life, ambition, family life, aging, desire for fame, talent agent, rise and fall, rise to the top, judaism, fame ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.0
 1K
Childstar (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Childstar is about an egotistical 12-year-old named Taylor Brandon Burns who has skyrocketed to fame at that young age. His relationship with his driver, Rick, takes a turn when Taylor confides in him about the problems of celebrity and the fears of ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film ...
Plot: youth, fame, actor's life, coming of age, lifestyle, showbiz, filmmaking, movie business, artists and showbiz, parents and children, celebrity culture, family relations ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: fashion, counterculture, fashion industry, satire, model, fashion model, hippie, designer, swing, lust, modernism, art ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.0
 2K
2gether (2000)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A movie that spoofs boy bands like N*Sync, New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, etc. It's the boy band version of Spinal Tap!
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music industry, celebrity culture, showbiz, music, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, music band, partner, nightlife, relationship vs career, rock, musician's life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.0
 734
Cannes Man (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his ...
Style: mockumentary, parody, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot: filmmaking, satire, movie business, disorder, farce, showbiz, media satire, celebrity culture, cons and scams, desire for fame, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, france, europe, usa, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.4
 7K
Delirious (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance Toby becomes romantically involved with K'Harma Leeds, the ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: paparazzi, obsession, ambition, rise to the top, desire for fame, photograph, artists and showbiz, showbiz, celebrity culture, lifestyle, opposites attract, vengeance ...
Time: year 2006
Place: new york, england, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Dying of Laughter (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Nino and Bruno are two comedians who reach the heights of success with their duo act, turning them into huge TV celebrities. However, the hate between them grows as fast, and as much, as their fame
Style: dark comedy, captivating, biting, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: buddy, satire, behind the scenes, comedian, friends, dark humor, nightclub, media satire, workplace situations, rise to the top, buddies, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 90s
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash', famous artists, actors and musicians speak out on how The Rutles influenced them.
Style: mockumentary, parody, not serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: friends, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, unfulfillment, music band, desire for fame, performer's life, workplace, musician's life, music, journalism, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.1
 4K
Trust Me (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Trust Me follows flailing Hollywood agent Howard, who seemingly strikes gold after signing the next big child star. What results is an unexpected ride through the nasty inner workings of Hollywood, as Howard desperately tries to make it in an ...
Style: humorous, cynical, semi serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: starlet, showbiz, desire for fame, ambition, lifestyle, prodigy, intrigue, artists and showbiz, youth, rivalry, celebrity culture, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Martin and Lewis (2002)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of the 10-year rocky relationship between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, slapstick, sexual
Plot: ambition, friendship, rising to stardom, desire for fame, actor's life, rise and fall, musician's life, showbiz, breakup, rise to the top, celebrity culture, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 60s, 50s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.4
 527
No Shame (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A script fell to Isabel by chance. In reading it you realize it's the same story of the romance she had with the film director Mario Fabra, author of the script. Isabel decides appointment with Mario, who was not seen again, but at the moment ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, biting, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, lovers reunited, ego clash, love and romance, rise to the top, ambition, lifestyle, filmmaking, showbiz, youth, actor's life, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, madrid, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.6
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Sunset Strip (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives. Zach will open that night for a British rocker at Whisky a Go-Go; he lives in a canyon and plays impromptu duets with a mysterious guitarist he ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, realistic, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: hollywood, musician, desire for fame, ambition, rising to stardom, music band, lifestyle, love triangle, nightlife, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, actor's life ...
Time: 70s, y2k, year 1972
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Hollywood North (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The making of a serious, Canadian art house film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his drug-addled star, his leading lady and his venal backers.
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, showbiz, actor's life, celebrity culture, lifestyle, love and romance, obnoxious boss, curses spells and rituals, movie business, older woman younger man relationship, satire ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.5
 350
Showboy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Christian Taylor, a writer on hit TV series Six Feet Under, is being profiled by a British documentary crew when he's sacked, though he doesn't know they've overheard the firing. They follow him to Las Vegas, where he is ostensibly ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: follow your dream, actor's life, rise to the top, showbiz, gay, silly humor, lifestyle, starting over, workplace, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, couples ...
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
41%
All About Actresses (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: While shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses, the director falls for one of them.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: filmmaking, actress, showbiz, lifestyle, celebrity culture, actor's life, love and romance, midlife crisis, money, film producer, humiliation, actor ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.
Style: satirical, semi serious, realistic, cynical, biting ...
Plot: architecture, satire, french teacher, social relations, couples, opposites attract, politics, society, small town life, small town, rural setting, environmental ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.7
 22K
State and Main (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Hollywood Film unit invades a small Vermont town leading to wholesale abandonment of values and virtue. A smart, warm and funny movie - and not just for movie buffs. Tagline: When a film crew came to Waterford, Vermont - They Shot First And Asked ...
Style: talky, feel good, humorous, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, hollywood, filmmaking, showbiz, greed, movie business, lifestyle, love and romance, small town life, disorder, couple relations, nothing goes right ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new england, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.7
 1K
The New Age (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find ...
Style: satirical, disturbing, melancholic, meditative, cynical ...
Plot: dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, society, self discovery, crumbling marriage, filmmaking, lifestyle, starting over, rise and fall, couple relations ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Drop Dead Gorgeous (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An aspiring model, Cynthia, becomes the focus of a documentary when she is chosen as the face for the world's biggest fashion designer, Claudio. Cynthia accidentally overdoses and with deadlines looming they decide to use her corpse to continue ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, mockumentary ...
Plot: dishonesty, dark humor, cons and scams, fashion industry, satire, drug overdose, corpse, death, photographer, nudity, sexual content, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 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 ⇓
39%
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Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In 1973, martial arts great Bruce Lee died, his final film, Game of Death, left unfinished. With the public hungry for more Lee, movie execs decide to find a replacement. This outrageous satire looks at the entire process, from the oddball ...
Style: mockumentary, not serious, humorous, parody, realistic ...
Plot: martial arts, actor's life, rising to stardom, rise and fall, against the odds, showbiz, filmmaking, media, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, lifestyle, odd couple ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Hell on Heels: The  Battle of Mary Kay (2002)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The film is about two companies who are battling it out for customers, Mary Kay, and one of her workers Lexi Wilcox are fighting it out with Jinger Heath. Who will win? You will have to see.
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: makeup artist, rise to the top, rivalry, ambition, workplace, lifestyle, elderly, workplace intrigue, office, business, fashion, satire ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.8
 2K
Hits (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A talentless teen will do anything to get on TV's "The Voice." Meanwhile, her father, a municipal worker, creates an uproar when a video of his rants at City Hall goes viral.
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot: talent, fame, delusion, dark humor, society, media satire, celebrity culture, computers and web, teenager, suburbs, art, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Once in a Lifetime (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Mona Bergström is a sweet eurovision-obsessed woman in her 30's. She is married to a lazy husband and have 4 children, all named after her favorite Swedish eurovision popstars. Her brother is a crossdressing guy selftitled "Candy ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, singer, rising to stardom, ambition, lifestyle, desire for fame, moral dilemma, aspiring singer, sibling relationship, contests and competitions, showbiz, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.7
 433
Out of Sync (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Roger Deacon, a down-and-out record producer, is given the job of making a singing star out of an industry mogul's girlfriend, an attractive but talentless starlet. He discovers a housewife with a powerful singing voice and decides to secretly ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic ...
Plot: hidden identity, desire for fame, ambition, rise to the top, celebrity culture, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, performer's life, cons and scams, showbiz, disorder, music industry ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.7
 687
Say Uncle (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young artist (Peter Paige), desperate to replace the relationship he had with his recently relocated godson, is targeted by a neighborhood mom (Kathy Najimy) as a potential threat to the community.
Style: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, cynical ...
Plot: gender, godparent, false accusation, coming of age, gay, suburban life, lifestyle, suburbs, small town life, small town, lgbt, glbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, oregon, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.7
 626
Garbage (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two best friends, garbage truck drivers in Hollywood become celebrities overnight after they find Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar for JERRY MAGUIRE in the trash and suddenly their lives go topsy-turvy.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hollywood, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, overnight success, buddies, odd couple, lifestyle, celebrity culture, showbiz, once in a lifetime opportunity, working class, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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