Movie business movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movie business movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, independent film, humorous, funny and witty films and TV shows about / with movie business, filmmaking, actor, hollywood, filmmaker, showbiz, artists and showbiz, actress, film within a film and film industry plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as movie business: The Holiday (2006), Get Shorty (1995), Hollywood Ending (2002), What Just Happened (2008), Bowfinger (1999), The Day of the Locust (1975), Eight and a Half (1963), Law of Desire (1987), The Player (1992), Trumbo (2015).

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 6.9
 321K
The Holiday (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Two women, one (Cameron Diaz) from America and one (Kate Winslet) from Britain, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man (Jude Law, Jack Black) but realizes that the imminent ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, sentimental, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: holiday, christmas, love, love story, love and romance, happy ending, couples, fall in love, multiple storylines, snow, looking for love, unrequited love ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, england, california, london, united kingdom ...
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 6.9
 89K
Get Shorty (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, ...
Style: funny, humorous, clever, intense, light ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mafia, hollywood, debt, movie business, producer, gangster, gambling, organized crime, filmmaking, caper, dark humor, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: miami, los angeles, california, usa, las vegas ...
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Hollywood Ending (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, light, stylized ...
Plot: movie business, blindness and impaired vision, filmmaking, adultery, dysfunctional family, justice, showbiz, one more chance, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, couple relations ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
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What Just Happened (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben (Robert De Niro) must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete his latest projects. A demanding studio boss (Catherine Keener) demands extensive ...
Style: stylized, melancholic, witty, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, movie business, hollywood, midlife crisis, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, workplace, disagreement, workplace situations, satire, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, cannes
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 6.5
 74K
Bowfinger (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, movie business, satire, dog, actor, cameraman, audition, desire for fame, african american, deception, actress ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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The Day of the Locust (1975)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
Style: cult classic, disturbing, cerebral, biting, cynical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: movie business, female nudity, hollywood, filmmaking, art, satire, great depression, showbiz, politics, surrealism, actor, social commentary ...
Time: 1930s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, glendale california
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Eight and a Half (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story: With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
Style: art house, psychological, surreal, cerebral, black and white ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, surrealism, childhood, dream, midlife crisis, stream of consciousness, memory, catholic, adultery, actress, movie business, showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, copenhagen, paris france ...
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 7.1
 14K
Law of Desire (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When porn director Pablo reluctantly breaks up with his boyfriend, Juan, he encourages him to stay in touch. Juan moves away to live in a lighthouse and eventually writes his ex, but in the interim Pablo has taken up a psychotic new lover, Antonio ...
Style: surreal, sexy, stylized, atmospheric, talky ...
Plot: gay, murder, lgbt, love, male nudity, movie business, obsession, filmmaking, love triangle, family relations, gays and lesbians, writers ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe, morocco, madrid
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 7.5
 65K
The Player (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Style: suspense, dark comedy, neo noir, clever, black comedy ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, film industry, murder, police investigation, blackmail, showbiz, writers, movie business, satire, murder mystery, manipulation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, future, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, pasadena california
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 7.4
 85K
Trumbo (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Style: political, factual, talky, suspense, intense ...
Plot: communism, communist, hollywood, biopic, politics, gossip columnist, gossip, cancer, movie business, mccarthyism, screenwriter, film industry ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 70s, 1940s, 1950s ...
Place: los angeles, kentucky, usa
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 7.5
 63K
Pain and Glory (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
Style: sincere, touching, disturbing, twist ending, hispanic ...
Plot: gay, movie business, filmmaker, lgbt, actor, introspection, addiction, cinema, drawing, childhood memory, nostalgia, death of mother ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, year 1985, 1950s, year 1981
Place: spain, madrid
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 7.1
 5K
Lisbon Story (1994)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lisbon Story is Wim Wender’s homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterous postcard of a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: filmmaking, movie business, artists and showbiz, showbiz, amusement park, couple relations, musician, road trip, filmmaker, art, on the road, rock ...
Time: 90s
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal, germany, europe
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White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa
Style: talky, melancholic, enigmatic, exciting, serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, obsession, wilderness, hunting, movie business, elephant, storytelling, obsessive quest, friendship, danger, friends, racial slur ...
Time: 50s, year 1990, 20th century, 1950s
Place: africa, uganda, london
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The Big Picture (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once ...
Style: light, suspense, melancholic, harsh, entertaining ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, friendship, movie business, rise to the top, desire for fame, rivalry, ambition, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, rich and poor, satire ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: california, usa
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 7.0
 6K
RKO 281 (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A film about the making of Citizen Kane. Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Style: talky, historical drama, atmospheric, stylized, clever ...
Plot: biopic, filmmaking, screenwriter, movie business, film industry, movie studio, writers, obsession, hollywood, anti semitism, american history, bankruptcy ...
Time: 1940s
Place: wisconsin
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 4.9
 111K
Anaconda (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil, Peru
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: jungle, snake, boat, animal attack, survival, dangerous animal, killer animal, danger, river, strong violent content, giant snake, amazon river ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: latin america, ecuador, brazil, south america
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Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 161 min.
Story: A faded TV actor and his stunt double embark on an odyssey to make a name for themselves in the film industry during the Helter Skelter reign of terror in 1969 Los Angeles.
Style: twist ending, controversial, cult classic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: hippie, friendship between men, alternate history, actor, filmmaking, nagging wife, struggling actor, cinema, sexy woman, home invasion, friendship, agent ...
Time: year 1969, 2010s, 60s, year 2019, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, italy
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 8.2
 8K
Get Shorty (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film with the help of washed-up filmmaker Rick Moreweather. Based on Elmore ...
Style: funny, light, captivating, erotic, exciting ...
Plot: movie business, love affair, hollywood, mafia, money laundering, mobster, twists and turns, partner, family problems, chase, money, happy ending ...
Place: los angeles
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Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the ...
Style: parody, witty, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hollywood, farce, racism, filmmaking, blaxploitation, black, prejudice, dark humor, storytelling, movie business, black history, misfit ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: california, usa
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 6.8
 8K
Star 80 (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen.
Style: disturbing, stylized, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: murder, playboy, female nudity, obsession, crimes of passion, nude model, fame, rise and fall, movie business, couple relations, jealous husband, true crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, year 1978
Place: vancouver, canada
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 7.1
 164K
Babylon (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and to sound films in the late 1920s.
Style: thrilling, dramatic, visual, captivating, witty ...
Audience: adult
Plot: film history, filmmaking, orgy, party, hedonism, hollywood, movie star, film industry, gambling, movie business, unrequited love, graphic violence ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 2020s, year 1932, 1930s ...
Place: los angeles, new york, california
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How Strange to be Named Federico (2013)
Genre: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the 20th anniversary of Federico Fellini’s death, Ettore Scola, a devoted admirer of the incomparable maestro, commemorates the lesser-known aspects of Fellini’s personality, employing interviews, photographs, behind-the-scenes footage as ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, factual, captivating ...
Plot: movie business, filmmaking, ambition, artists and showbiz, follow your dream, rising to stardom, friendship, biopic, direction and purpose, director, memories, desire for fame ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1940s, 1930s
Place: italy, rome italy
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Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.
Style: scary, atmospheric, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot: movie business, filmmaking, movie studio, workplace, hysteria, workplace situations, torture, actress, arthouse horror, scared, folk horror, unsettling ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: italy
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Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Mexico, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, realistic, serious, visual ...
Plot: gay, erection, male nudity, filmmaking, gay sex, movie business, love and romance, fall in love, artists and showbiz, homosexuality, thunderstorm, rain ...
Time: 2010s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1931, year 1948 ...
Place: mexico, soviet union, latin america, moscow russia, ussr
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The End of Violence (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican ...
Style: serious, enigmatic, surreal, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: surveillance, murder, violence, brutality, loneliness, relationships, twists and turns, movie business, hollywood, crumbling marriage, investigation, kidnapping ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, year 1996
Place: los angeles, iraq, california, usa
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 5.4
 2K
Judas Kiss (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A quirk in time and space gives a failed filmmaker the chance to reshape his destiny when he visits his peculiar alma mater.
Style: sincere, serious, lgbt cinema, independent film, queer cinema ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, changing the past or future, time travel, gay sex, one night stand, ambition, movie business, contests and competitions, destiny, gender, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Torremolinos 73 (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.
Style: humorous, erotic, atmospheric, funny, semi serious ...
Plot: adult filmmaking, porn, cuckold, movie business, couple relations, obsessive quest, crumbling marriage, obsession, fondling, rebelliousness, husband wife relationship, hotel ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: spain, europe
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 4.4
 4K
Cut (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its director was murdered. After they begin filming, they realize they're in for a bit of trouble, not unlike the late director...
Style: slasher, serious, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, filmmaking, survival, supernatural power, movie business, isolation, serial killer, deadly creature, supernatural, vengeance, danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s, year 1988
Place: australia, oceania
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 6.1
 3K
The Editor (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A one-time (and now one-handed) master film editor toiling in the cinematic sweatshops of 1970s Italy becomes the prime suspect in a series of brutal murders.
Style: slasher, horror comedy, spoof, retro, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, chainsaw, seeing eye dog, blind woman, murder, police, movie business, killed during sex, car chase, coitus, nudity, female pubic hair ...
Time: 2010s
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Kebab Connection (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now, he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. Titzie, an aspiring actress and Ibo's German girlfriend, finds ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty, light ...
Plot: restaurant, gangster, audition, pregnancy, movie business, food, dark humor, fall in love, contests and competitions, culture clash, cooking and food, babies and infants ...
Place: hamburg germany
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