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Actors (2000)
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Actors (2000)
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, waiter, assassination attempt, cafe, interrogation, monologue, film history, homeless man, motorcycle accident, actress playing herself, drinking, drinking alcohol ...
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, filmmaking, showbiz, actor's life, lifestyle, celebrity culture and disorder mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Actors: Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997), Dead Tired (1994), Festival in Cannes (2001), Pittsburgh (2006), Just for the Record (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)
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, humorous, witty ...
Plot: radio station, silly humor, screwball, friends, disorder, couples, destiny, filmmaking, showbiz, love affair, astronaut, village ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, new york
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Dead Tired (1994)
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, melancholic, talky, humorous ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, twins, self discovery, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, actor's life, satire, cinema, filmmaking, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: france, paris france
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63%
Festival in Cannes (2001)
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, witty, talky, independent film ...
Plot: filmmaking, betrayal, friendship, actor's life, couples, crumbling marriage, couple relations, lifestyle, love and romance, desire for fame, ambition, rise to the top ...
Time: year 2001
Place: cannes, riviera
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58%
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Pittsburgh (2006)
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, artists and showbiz, couple relations, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, audition, filmmaking, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Just for the Record (2010)
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, not serious, realistic, clever, offbeat ...
Plot: disorder, womanizer, actor's life, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, showbiz, filmmaking, expose, actress, strip club, karate, cinema ...
Place: europe, england
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48%
Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
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, absurd, satirical, surreal, stylized ...
Plot: filmmaking, death, actor's life, showbiz, dark humor, disorder, nothing goes right, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ghost, cons and scams, stupidity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, europe, france, paris france, california ...
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A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
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, funny, ironic ...
Plot: filmmaking, adaptation, art, creativity, storytelling, couples, artists and showbiz, showbiz, rehearsal, disorder, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: england
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44%
Being Michael Madsen (2007)
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, witty, humorous, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot: paparazzi, showbiz, filmmaking, actor's life, celebrity, private vs public, false accusation, celebrity culture, society, journalism, vengeance, murder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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A Midwinter's Tale (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
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, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, shakespeare, theater, actor, gay subtext, hamlet, theatre group, friends, lifestyle, actor's life, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 90s
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42%
These Old Broads (2001)
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, feel good, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot: showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, actor's life, against the odds, rise and fall, aging, filmmaking, love affair, artists and showbiz, farce, hollywood ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 60s
Place: 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%
The Grand Dukes (1996)
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, witty ...
Plot: aging, couples, disorder, rally, farce, on the road, cons and scams, showbiz, lifestyle, love and romance, starting over, womanizer ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, france
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The Sexual Life of the Belgians Part 4: Pleasure and Hysteria (2000)
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, seduction, attempted seduction, nudity, actor's life, sex life, psychoanalysis, marxism, hysteria
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, belgium, brussels
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39%
Jay and Silent Bob Get Old: Tea Bagging in the UK (2012)
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, showbiz, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, buddies, profanity, stand up comedy, jay and silent bob, stoner, odd couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe, england
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39%
The Film to Come (2013)
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, siblings relations, couples, artists and showbiz, disorder, actor's life, midlife crisis, couple relations, nothing goes right, actor, brother brother relationship, movie actor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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38%
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
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38%
Les Jours venus (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An ex soixante- huitard is forced to look back at his past .His kids look at him like an old soldier from a very distant war.His banker called him urgently.His last script idea is refused.He remembers meeting his wife in Sarajevo during the war.Most ...
Style: clever, realistic, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Plot: midlife crisis, artists and showbiz, aging, dealing with death, unfulfillment, filmmaking, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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37%
Whiskey with Vodka (2009)
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, semi serious, realistic, 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
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Who's the Caboose? (1997)
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, filmmaking, showbiz, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, actor's life, terminal illness, nightclub, improv, comedian, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, los angeles, san francisco, california
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36%
Ricky Gervais Live 3: Fame (2007)
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, satire, live performance, actor's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, showbiz, society, comedian, stand up comedy, celebrity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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Incognito (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This offbeat musical drama stars Lucas (Bénabar), an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: desire for fame, musician's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, disorder, dishonesty, rock, hopes, cons and scams, hidden identity, friends ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Most Promising Young Actress (2000)
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: follow your dream, ambition, 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
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35%
Twice Upon a Time (2006)
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: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, witty
Audience: date night
Plot: introspection, aging, screwball, couples, lifestyle, movie business, parent child relationship, infidelity, love of one's life, artists and showbiz, lovers reunited, actor's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Hijacking Hollywood (1997)
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, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Plot: filmmaking, job, satire, hollywood, disorder, workplace situations, cons and scams, showbiz, hijacking, workplace, vengeance, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
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Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again (2011)
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: realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, humour, celebrity, celebrity culture, showbiz, media, lifestyle, filmmaking, elderly, star
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Kathy Griffin: Allegedly (2004)
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, celebrity culture, showbiz, stand up comedy, comedian, women's rights, interview, fashion, gay interest ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, saudi arabia, iraq
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Britney, Baby, One More Time (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, France, Netherlands
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Dude Schmitz, an independent filmmaker, attempting to secure funds for his second feature, blows an opportunity at what promises to be a lucrative interview with pop sensation Britney Spears. Dejected, Schmitz discovers Robert Stephens, a young, gay ...
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: desire for fame, hidden identity, obsessive quest, on the road, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, nothing goes right, transvestism, filmmaking, showbiz, teenage life ...
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana
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Nickelodeon (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, love triangle, american history, writers, film industry, movie business, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ambition, love and romance, celebrity culture ...
Time: 1910s, year 1976, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Love On The Cloud (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, best friend, ambition, follow your dream, actor's life, couples, love and romance, showbiz, filmmaking, artists and showbiz
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: china
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Sweet Liberty (1986)
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, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, crime gone awry, couple relations, love and romance, artists and showbiz, showbiz, fish out of water, actor's life, young lovers, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: usa, north carolina
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29%
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