Movies like Actors 2000
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Actors (2000)
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Original name: Les Acteurs
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
Style:
humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, surreal, clever, contemplative, talky, cynical, metafiction
Plot:
filmmaking, actor's life, lifestyle, showbiz, artists and showbiz, actor, film industry, actress, television, jazz, midlife crisis, police officer, doctor, restaurant, homosexuality, waiter, existential crisis, assassination attempt, bisexuality, gay slur, cafe, interrogation, nostalgia, monologue, film history ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and witty films with plots about artists and showbiz, showbiz, filmmaking, actor's life, lifestyle, satire and celebrity culture mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Actors: Most Promising Young Actress (2000), A Midwinter's Tale (1995), Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997), Dead Tired (1994), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Yvon Rance, a born hairdresser and an elegant middle-aged man with a perfect toupee, reigns in his native Brittany over a clientèle of little old ladies. But his main reason for living, his masterpiece, is Laetitia, his only daughter, whom he has ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic
Plot:
ambition, follow your dream, actor's life, desire for fame, life turned upside down, youth, artists and showbiz, overnight success, parents and children, beauty salon, father daughter relationship, hairdresser ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, france, brittany, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available ...
Style:
black and white, talky, witty, clever, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, theater, shakespeare, actor, actress, audition, hamlet, gay subtext, theatre group, lifestyle, actor's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
90s, 1930s
Place:
london, england, australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A radio play is going to go on air at a Tokyo radio station. It is a weepy melodrama written by housewife Miyako, who is the winner of the competition run by the station. Suddenly, the hot-tempered lead actress Nokko decides she wants the name of ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, clever, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
radio station, silly humor, love affair, filmmaking, destiny, village, astronaut, village life, farce, showbiz, writer's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc (Michel Blanc) is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around ...
Style:
light, absurd, talky, melancholic, humorous ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, twins, self discovery, disorder, artists and showbiz, actor's life, nothing goes right, satire, cinema, filmmaking, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
Style:
art house, talky, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
gender bending, filmmaking, drunk, egoism, stress, autobiography, lgbt, hotel, satire, mistaken identity, celebrity culture, village life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, a big producer, needs Millie for a small part in a fall ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, talky, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
filmmaking, actor's life, betrayal, friendship, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, desire for fame, ambition, rise to the top, couples ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
cannes, riviera
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jeff Goldblum put his Hollywood actor life on hold to star alongside his new girlfriend in a Pittsburgh regional theater production of The Music Man. Co-directors Bradley and LaBrache tread a surprisingly elegant line between genuine documentary and ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, mockumentary ...
Plot:
lifestyle, showbiz, relationship vs career, actor's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, audition, filmmaking, media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars ...
Style:
humorous, witty, talky, cynical, parody ...
Plot:
filmmaking, satire, circumcision, adaptation, creativity, art, storytelling, dialogue, couples, artists and showbiz, showbiz, nosy ...
Time:
year 2005, 18th century, 21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a ...
Style:
humorous, satirical, absurd, surreal, stylized ...
Plot:
filmmaking, death, showbiz, actor's life, dark humor, disorder, nothing goes right, cons and scams, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, ghost, stupidity ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, france, europe, paris france, california ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
"These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, witty, biting ...
Plot:
showbiz, lifestyle, actor's life, ambition, against the odds, rise and fall, aging, love affair, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, farce, hollywood ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 60s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.
Style:
parody, semi serious, cynical, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, showbiz, paparazzi, filmmaking, actor's life, celebrity, false accusation, private vs public, celebrity culture, vengeance, journalism, society ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
Style:
cynical, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot:
aging, rally, disorder, couples, on the road, cons and scams, farce, showbiz, artists and showbiz, actor's life, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, france
Similarity:
27%
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, obnoxious boss, love and romance, curses spells and rituals, older woman younger man, older woman younger man relationship, movie business ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A director in his midlife-crisis wants to start a new movie and he invites twelve actresses in his flat in Brussels. Every actress tries to convince him of her talent. The director tries to seduce them at the same time but this is not what they ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sexy, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, artists and showbiz, filmmaking, male female relationship, attempted seduction, seduction, psychoanalysis, actor's life, nudity, hysteria, sex life, marxism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
belgium, europe, brussels
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A year after the collapse of a low-budget British rom-com, documentary maker Andy Wiseman sets out to find out what went wrong. He speaks to the producer, Nicholas Johnson, an alcoholic whose office is a lap-dancing club, the writer, Flynn Beatty, ...
Style:
mockumentary, witty, satirical, parody, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, film industry, behind the scenes, satire, interview, irreverent, deadpan, obscurity, alcoholism, disorder, womanizer, actor's life ...
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
25%
405
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A once-idealistic writer inadvertently ignites a feeding frenzy in Hollywood with the mention of a mysterious new screenplay and its illusive author.
Style:
semi serious, witty, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
filmmaking, media, hidden identity, writer's life, lifestyle, workplace, showbiz, artists and showbiz, innocence lost, dishonesty, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Ricky Gervais third stand-up comedy routine.
Style:
humorous, funny, cynical, talky, witty ...
Plot:
stand up comedian, live performance, satire, lifestyle, actor's life, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, showbiz, society, comedian, atheism, stand up comedy ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe, california
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
At fifty Louis Gravet, a serious actor, would like to become a comedian. His brother Peter, a film director, has the idea of hiring him for the lead role of a comedy. Family circumstances, their wives, their children, niece, lead him to make another ...
Style:
sincere, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
filmmaking, couples, siblings relations, disorder, actor's life, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, midlife crisis, couple relations, brother brother relationship, actor, movie actor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A documentary team gets a grant to do a film on a rare fatal disease that is attacking homeless people. However, they quickly find the film too depressing. Ducking into a nightclub, they discover a young Manhattan comedienne and decide instead to ...
Style:
mockumentary, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, hollywood, showbiz, filmmaking, nightclub, terminal illness, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, actor's life, improv, film industry, comedian ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, los angeles, san francisco, california
Similarity:
25%
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, skinny dipping ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, india, france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes very ...
Style:
melancholic, witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
young lovers, culture clash, crime gone awry, couple relations, artists and showbiz, love and romance, showbiz, fish out of water, actor's life, couples, celebrity culture, filmmaking ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century, 1930s, 18th century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, UK, Romania
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Thirty years ago they were lovers. Their affair fascinated a nation. Louis was a director and Alice was his muse. Then came the breakup It too, was public and painful. They have not met since. But Alice, who has established herself as a first lady ...
Style:
witty, feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, screwball, introspection, lifestyle, aging, love of one's life, infidelity, movie business, parent child relationship, actor's life, artists and showbiz, showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england, london
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
alcohol abuse, lifestyle, love and romance, showbiz, troublemaker, actor's life, aging, artists and showbiz, drinking, drunk, actor, addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
The hilarious duo Jay & Silent Bob are back. Film icons Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes made history and fans all over the world with the characters Jay & Silent Bob from the movies Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, talky, not serious, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friends, friendship, filmmaking, showbiz, buddies, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, profanity, stand up comedy, live performance, pop culture, storytelling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An aspiring director working as a lowly production assistant, conspires with his aspiring producer roommate to steal the reels of a mega budgeted film he's working on.
Style:
independent film, cynical, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
filmmaking, job, satire, hollywood, disorder, cons and scams, workplace situations, showbiz, hijacking, artists and showbiz, obnoxious boss, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, not serious, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
satire, tour guide, disorder, artists and showbiz, human nature, art exhibition, art, modern art, sexual content, performer's life, snobbism, stowaway ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
Style:
art house, stylized, clever, witty, mind bending ...
Plot:
filmmaking, cat burglar, latex, nervous breakdown, satire, movie actress, actress playing herself, female nudity, culture clash, hotel, paranoia, kung fu ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, los angeles, new york ...
Similarity:
22%
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:
realistic, semi serious, cynical, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, desire for fame, rise to the top, love and romance, lifestyle, actor's life, rising to stardom, workplace, filmmaking, workplace situations, workplace romance, best friend ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Kathy Griffin's all new feature-length stand-up DVD featuring the D-List Diva herself destroying the A-list stars we know and love.
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, cynical ...
Plot:
celebrity, workplace, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, showbiz, celebrity culture, stand up comedy, comedian, women's rights, interview, gay interest, gossip ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
saudi arabia, afghanistan, iraq
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
For four decades comic genius Mel Brooks and talk show king Dick Cavett have partnered to give the world scintillating conversation and sidesplitting humor. In 2010 they reunited on stage to share show business memories and hilarious stories for ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, light ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
showbiz, artists and showbiz, interview, talk show, celebrity, humour, friendship, theater, live performance, nostalgia, improv, behind the scenes ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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