Filmmaker movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant filmmaker movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, weird, captivating, suspense, independent film and realistic films and TV shows about / with filmmaker, filmmaking, bare chested male, female nudity, camera, film within a film, storytelling, cigarette smoking, nude and artists and showbiz plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Horror genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
filmmaker movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as filmmaker: The Exterminating Angels (2006), Official Competition (2021), Diary of the Dead (2007), Malcolm & Marie (2021), I Am Happiness on Earth (2014), Chaplin (1992), Rotting in the Sun (2023), Staying Vertical (2016), The Blackwell Ghost (2017), Close-Up (1990).

List of filmmaker movies

The Exterminating Angels (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: François, a French director, is conducting a rather unorthodox casting. He tries to understand how women desire and especially how they get pleasure. But by getting too close to their fire, he hasn’t sensed the Angels coming.
Style: erotic, sexy, serious, surreal, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: intimacy, erotica, lesbian, transgression, female masturbation, masturbation, lesbian threesome, female nudity, threesome, sodomy, hotel room, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france
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Official Competition (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent ...
Style: comedy drama, semi serious, captivating, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot: businessman, lesbian, filmmaking, filmmaker, eccentric woman, gays and lesbians, workplace situations, eccentricity, understanding, ambition, co worker co worker relationship, eccentric man ...
Place: iberian peninsula
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Diary of the Dead (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
Style: scary, tense, apocalyptic, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, found footage, apocalypse, chase, gory, virus, zombie apocalypse, danger, filmmaker, death, violence, chaos ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000, 2000s
Place: bolivia
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Malcolm & Marie (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: As a filmmaker and his girlfriend return home from his movie premiere, smoldering tensions and painful revelations push them toward a romantic reckoning.
Style: realistic, black and white, minimal cast, serious, talky ...
Plot: interracial relations, filmmaker, smoking, brawl, director, black, frustration, angry, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, quarantine, relationships ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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I Am Happiness on Earth (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, captivating, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: bisexual, gay interest, naked man, filmmaker, gay, male masturbation, erection, dancer, male pubic hair, movie business, male homosexuality, gay sex ...
Place: mexico
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 7.5
 65K
Chaplin (1992)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: With the use of flashback, an elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, who urges him to be more vulnerable and emotionally honest with his memoirs while journeying through his poverty-stricken childhood, closest ...
Style: sentimental, inspirational, period piece, costume drama, factual ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: biopic, rising to stardom, mccarthyism, childhood, filmmaker, flashback, actor's life, hollywood, female nudity, success, film history, filmmaking ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 70s, 1930s, 1800s ...
Place: london, california, england, los angeles, switzerland
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Rotting in the Sun (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey ...
Style: dark comedy, depressing, ambiguous ending, black comedy, psychological thriller ...
Plot: influencer, satire, filmmaker, unsimulated sex, gay interest, male nudity, male pubic hair, outdoor sex, lgbt, nude beach, absurdism, existentialism ...
Place: mexico city
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Staying Vertical (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Screenwriter Leo is searching for the wolf in the south of France. During a scouting excursion he is seduced by Marie, a free-spirited and dynamic shepherdess. Nine months later she gives birth to their child. Suffering from post-natal depression ...
Style: road movie, sexual, erotic, entertaining, light ...
Plot: bisexuality, bisexual man, farm, gay, father son relationship, filmmaker, gay slur, drifter, sexuality, single father, screenwriter, gay interest ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france
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The Blackwell Ghost (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
Story: A filmmaker tries to prove that ghosts are real but soon regrets his intentions after he finds himself being terrorized in a haunted house by a ghost with a dark past. An authentic documentary that shows actual ghost footage that was captured on ...
Style: creepy, disturbing, spooky, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: haunted house, found footage, ghost, filmmaker, paranormal activity, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, paranormal investigation, child murderess, violence, danger, haunting ...
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 8.2
 26K
Close-Up (1990)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into ...
Style: avant garde, realistic, semi serious, spiritual, meta ...
Plot: filmmaking, filmmaker, hidden identity, trial, uncover truth, cons and scams, legal, courtroom, iranian, reporter, mistaken identity, true crime ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s, year 1989
Place: tehran iran, iran, middle east, persia, kurdistan ...
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Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Luxembourg, Spain, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Style: gothic, scary, dark, dark comedy, creepy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dracula, vampire, filmmaking, supernatural, filmmaker, monster, escapades, human nature, imaginary, artists and showbiz, great ending, bloodsucker ...
Time: 1920s, y2k, year 2000, 2000s, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
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Living in Oblivion (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor, nothing goes right, filmmaker, satire, character study, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, lifestyle, actor's life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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 7.5
 405K
The Aviator (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe ...
Style: epic, inspirational, realistic, period piece, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, success, aviation, entrepreneurship, businessman, test pilot, entrepreneur, biopic, business, filmmaking, obsessive compulsive disorder, corruption ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 1920s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, connecticut, new york, usa ...
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 7.5
 133K
The Fabelmans (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story about a young man’s discovery of a shattering family secret and an exploration of the power of movies to help us see the truth about each other and ourselves.
Style: semi autobiographical, dramatic, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: father son relationship, coming of age, teenage boy, bullying, childhood, relationships, filmmaker, autobiography, boy, anti semitism, filmmaking, life ...
Time: 2020s, year 1957, 20th century, year 1965, year 1963 ...
Place: arizona, northern california, new jersey, california, north america ...
Is relevant?
 6.8
 312K
Nope (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Plot unknown.
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological horror ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: massacre, alien, first contact, chimpanzee, alien monster, ufo, brother sister relationship, horse, childhood trauma, eaten alive, horse ranch, alien invasion ...
Time: 2020s, year 1998, future, 90s, year 1996
Place: california, los angeles
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: "This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert ...
Style: mockumentary, parody, funny, independent film, spoof ...
Audience: adult
Plot: heavy metal, satire, musician, music, rock music, rock and roll, profanity, concert tour, singer, dating, chauffeur, friendship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984, 70s
Place: seattle, middle east, austin texas, atlanta georgia, north carolina ...
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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: realistic, serious, stylized, atmospheric, visual ...
Plot: gay, erection, male nudity, naked man, gay sex, homosexuality, filmmaking, sodomy, rain, filmmaker, thunderstorm, movie business ...
Time: year 1948, 2010s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1917 ...
Place: mexico, soviet union, latin america, moscow russia, ussr
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Style: suspense, scary, independent film, dark, psychological ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: witch, found footage, folk horror, urban legend, supernatural, fear, survival, lost in the woods, supernatural horror, panic, forest, wilderness ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1999
Place: maryland, usa, north america
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 5.9
 5K
Pasolini (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story: We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, intellectual, independent film ...
Plot: death, sex scene, gay, female nudity, filmmaker, artists and showbiz, murder, interview, society, biopic, writers, nudity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy
Is relevant?
 7.3
 88K
Youth (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, France, UK, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: YOUTH explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing ...
Style: sexy, philosophical, cerebral, meditative, melancholic ...
Plot: composer, screenwriter, hotel, life, husband wife relationship, love, aging, sex scene, spa, nude women, father daughter relationship, sauna ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: switzerland, swiss alps, italy, venice, alps
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Absolute Beginners (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Two childhood best friends enjoying their final seaside summer as they prepare for film school meet an aspiring athlete who ignites unfamiliar desires.
Style: sincere, psychological, touching, realistic, light ...
Plot: nude beach, gay, female nudity, filmmaker, basketball, life, basketball team, love, youth, male nudity, male female relationship, friends ...
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Federico Fellini's 8½ (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: psychological, art house, cerebral, philosophical, surreal ...
Audience: date night
Plot: surrealism, childhood, filmmaking, midlife crisis, loneliness, stream of consciousness, flashback, memory, satire, catholic, dream, actress ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s, 1930s
Place: italy, europe, paris france, france, england ...
Is relevant?
 6.6
 6K
Redoubtable (2017)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Myanmar
Duration: 107 min.
Story: During the making of one of his films, French film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 17-year old actress Anne Wiazemsky and later gets married.
Style: art house, disturbing, captivating, romantic, entertaining
Plot: cinema, film critic, male nudity, filmmaker, revolution, male objectification, love and romance, nudity, protest, nude, actress, sea ...
Time: year 1960, year 1968, year 1967, 90s, year 2017 ...
Place: paris france, france, south of france, italy, europe
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Colour It Yellow (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A young idealistic English filmmaker, Sue, arrives in India to make a film on Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and their contemporaries and their fight for freedom from the British Raj. Owing to a lack of funds, she recruits ...
Style: serious, entertaining, cult classic, sincere, exciting ...
Plot: politics, rebelliousness, sikh, murder, patriotism, courage, coming of age, society, state affairs, protest, patriot, corruption ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 21st century
Place: india, middle east, new delhi, asia, london ...
Is relevant?
 4.6
 851
Skin Creepers (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two unsuccessful filmmakers want to make a pornographic movie, but things go very wrong as their lead actress gets possessed by a demon.
Style: suspense, sexy, black comedy, psychotronic, sex comedy ...
Plot: exorcism, filmmaker, dark humor, male friendship, supernatural power, evil, slut, preacher, friendship between men, biopic, man in underwear, movie studio ...
Is relevant?
 7.1
 204K
Babylon (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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: costume drama, visual, thrilling, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: film history, filmmaking, hedonism, orgy, party, hollywood, movie star, film industry, gambling, profanity, sex scene, graphic violence ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 2020s, 1930s, year 1932 ...
Place: los angeles, california, new york
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Walt Before Mickey (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the book "Walt Before Mickey" covers the early years of Walt Disney's career. The legendary Walt Disney had a tumultuous childhood, yet he was determined to overcome obstacles in his path, before the creation of his first ...
Style: factual, serious, feel good, motivational, independent film
Plot: brother brother relationship, filmmaker, brother, follow your dream, relationship vs career, dream come true, rise to the top, dream, success, bigger dreams, motivation, daydreamer ...
Time: edwardian era
Is relevant?
 3.5
 887
Reel Evil (2012)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Struggling filmmakers - Kennedy, Cory and James - finally catch the break they were looking for when they are hired to shoot a 'behind-the-scenes' documentary for a major studio production. But their dream job quickly turns into a ...
Style: scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, dark fantasy ...
Plot: found footage, ghost, hospital, supernatural, danger, escapades, artists and showbiz, doctor, filmmaker, psychiatric ward, witch, supernatural horror ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course.
Style: humorous, not serious, surreal, entertaining, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: partner, goofy hero, disorder, workplace, buddies, farce, artists and showbiz, filmmaker, shopping mall, stoner, debt, embezzlement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant?
 7.2
 22K
Tape (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A three-character ensemble piece set within the confines of a tawdry motor lodge in Lansing, Michigan. After 10 years apart, three disparate people come together to play out the unresolved drama of their final days in high school. Intrigued, we ...
Style: cerebral, independent film, sincere, suspenseful, minimal cast ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cheerleading, rape, high school, manipulation, love triangle, confession, childhood sweetheart, friends, dialogue, guilt, drug, blackmail ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: michigan, oakland california
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