Theatre director movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant theatre director movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, independent film, realistic, humorous and semi serious films and TV shows about / with theatre director, theater, infidelity, actress, family relations, jealousy, actor, relationships, director and mother daughter relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Czech Republic and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as theatre director: Marriage Story (2019), Artists (2016), Seven Veils (2023), Actresses (2007), Corroboree (2007), Meeting Spencer (2011), Madeline's Madeline (2018), Jane Wants a Boyfriend (2015), Fosse/Verdon (2019), Little Men (2016).
Best films
New films
| Our Friend (2019) | 7.3 | |
| Little Men (2016) | 6.7 | |
| Babygirl (2024) | 5.8 | |
| Force of Habit (2019) | 6.8 | |
| Babs (2017) | 6.4 |
List of theatre director movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes.
Style:
sad, romantic drama, thought provoking, rough, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
divorce, marriage, parent child relationship, infidelity, father son relationship, theatre director, troubled marriage, husband wife relationship, husband wife conflict, lawyer, courtroom, mission ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The original, 8-episode series by eminent theatre artists - Monika Strzępka and Paweł Demirski about what is going on behind-the-scenes of one of the muncipial theatres in Warsaw. The story also can be read as an ambiguous metaphor, where artistic ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, semi serious, disturbing, political ...
Plot:
theatre director, theater, ambition, satire, employer employee relationship, coping, ambitious man, workplace, workplace situations, theatre group, creative process, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Finland, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, she allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, dark, intense ...
Plot:
trauma, opera, theater, female protagonist, theatre director, repression, theatre group, theatrical producer, problem, stage actress, theatre play, character study ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Comédienne hantée par son rôle de Nathalia Petrovna, l'héroïne de la pièce de Tourguéniev Un Mois à la campagne qu'elle répète difficilement, Marcelline tente de noyer ses angoisses dans une piscine sur un air de Glenn Miller. ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, captivating, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
unfulfillment, midlife crisis, family relations, actor's life, theatre director, lifestyle, theater, parents and children, rivalry, friendship, childlessness, single ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A beautiful young man has been summoned to an eerie meditation retreat by a dying theatre director. The young man has been given a tape of instructions; over a weekend he must perform scenes from the director's life. He visits different rooms ...
Style:
serious, surreal, atmospheric, captivating, meta ...
Plot:
self discovery, estrangement, artists and showbiz, theater, theatre director, dying, surrealism, retreat, wizards and magicians, gory, imaginary kingdom, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After a series of Hollywood flops, famed director Harris Chappell (Jeffrey Tambor) returns to New York to relaunch his Broadway career. But Chappell's triumphant comeback begins to spiral out of control into a wild night of comic misadventure ...
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
artists and showbiz, comedy of errors, disorder, nothing goes right, goofy hero, theatre director, broadway, comeback, friendship, society, profanity, restaurant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
mental illness, coming of age, theatre group, depression, theatre director, husband wife relationship, underage drinking, african american, brother sister relationship, public speaking, job, theater ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young woman with Asperger's tries to find her first boyfriend with a little help from her older sister.
Style:
romantic, emotional, captivating, humorous, rom com ...
Plot:
asperger's syndrome, autism, dating, first kiss, female protagonist, food, first date, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, journalist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the romantic and creative partnership between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. He was a filmmaker and one of theater's most influential choreographers and directors; she was the greatest Broadway dancer of all time. Together, they ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, interesting
Plot:
dancing, dancer, dancehall girl, passion, biopic, choreographer, infidelity, choreography, actress, theatre director, relationship vs career, backstage ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s
Place:
syria, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Greece, Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute ...
Style:
social, atmospheric, melancholic, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
best friend, boy, friendship between boys, bullying, father son relationship, 13 year old, landlord tenant relationship, coming of age, psychotherapist, storytelling, theatre director, acting class ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work on their marriage keep running afoul, and everything's ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
couple relations, love and romance, actor's life, couples, love triangle, husband wife relationship, marriage, marital problem, male female relationship, theatre director, human nature, chess ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
venice california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter. A tale of love and disappointment, about music and passionate love-making and about people ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, entertaining, witty ...
Plot:
small town, theater, opera, actor's life, artists and showbiz, performer's life, showbiz, rehearsal, opera singer, womanizer, death, funeral ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
czech republic
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre decides to prepare for the meeting. He goes to the theater with his girlfriend Ariane and has ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, melancholic, tense
Plot:
father daughter relationship, role playing, theatre director, family drama, relationships, estrangement, character study, female protagonist, frustration, introspection, identity, intimate ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, art house, independent film, poetic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, theatrical agent, social issues, theatre director, lifestyle, shakespeare, theatrical producer, social problems, self discovery, theater, identity, memory ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Chile, France, South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young Czech theater director has an ambition to adapt Eurypides' Phaedra. However, having affair with the actress, he puts his marriage at risk and the play turns to be a fiasco. Desperate, he tries to be the best possible father and husband. ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
adulterous husband, infidelity, theatre play, love triangle, small town, adultery, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, relationship problems, family problems, theatre director, fall in love ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A musical director who craves advancement participates in a musical which picks the role of a king in a survival method as a mentor. There he meets a multicultural child who becomes partners with him and experiences his first intentions and ...
Style:
captivating, inspirational, uplifting, emotional, intercultural ...
Plot:
coming of age, theater, friendship, singing, audition, child prodigy, music, coping, musician's life, dance performance, friends, teamwork ...
Place:
south korea, the philippines
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161
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After being blacklisted from the NYC theatre industry, two Upper East Side New Yorkers, Tucker and Sandrene, decide their only course of action is to move to Fargo, North Dakota and start a theatrical revolution.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
ambition, satire, theater, cultural revolution, ambitious, theatre director, theatrical troupe, stage actor, teamwork, fish out of water, culture clash, performance art ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min.
Style:
sincere, captivating, disturbing, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
handicapped, man in a wheelchair, wheelchair bound, rich and poor, journey, nostalgia, cruise ship, physical disability, care, friendship, disability, lifestyle ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A man who is a theater director and music composer picks up a young homeless woman off the street. But as soon as she starts living with him she becomes his object of desire. Soon his ex-girlfriend finds out about his new lover in his life and ...
Style:
erotic, erotic drama, sensual
Plot:
lesbian sex, seduction, sexual tension, obsessive love, love triangle, obsession, emotional manipulation, homeless woman, romantic rivalry, loneliness, sexual jealousy, manipulation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A theater director and script-writer falls for a female worker from the Havana docks, but his machismo, social and working conflicts, and the Cuban woman's condition interfere with their relationship.
Style:
satirical, witty, romantic comedy
Plot:
machismo, gender roles, love triangle, satire, infidelity, jealousy, feminism, sexual tension, sexually liberated, social realism, political satire, urban ...
Place:
cuba
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A woman and three men. Nina, who's come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he's smitten. She also meets Paulot's flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot's jealous ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, anthology, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex scene, forbidden love, love triangle, public nudity, promiscuous woman, sexual promiscuity, male nudity, oral sex, female masturbation, porn actor, female pubic hair, erotica ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Filmed entirely on location in East Hampton, Long Island, "Last Summer in the Hamptons" concerns a large theatrical family spending the last weekend of their summer together at the decades-old family retreat which economic circumstances ...
Style:
independent film, talky, clever, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, matriarchy, playwright, theatre director, family relations, estate, death in the family, family home, theatrical troupe, theatre play, theatre group ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, long island, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanja at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to ...
Style:
inspirational, road movie, poetic, slow cinema, art house ...
Plot:
driver, infidelity, japanese wife, stage play, snow, loss of wife, chauffeur, road trip, sex, grief, audition, asian ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, year 2019
Place:
japan, hiroshima japan, south korea, hokkaido, tokyo ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style:
philosophical, cult classic, confusing, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
existentialism, depression, death, writers, theater, twists and turns, schizophrenic, loneliness, philosophy, writer's life, mental illness, actor ...
Time:
year 2008, 90s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, berlin germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
Style:
witty, humorous, independent film, lighthearted, hilarious ...
Plot:
death, dysfunctional family, loneliness, suicide, investigation, murder, drinking, greed, storytelling, eccentricity, last will and testament, inheritance ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, texas, southern usa
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was it the Nazis, or was it someone else? Det. Tony Rossini investigates, along with Larry "Cash" Carter, a theatre director ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, grim, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
murder mystery, anti semitism, investigation, whodunit, suspicion, justice, resistance, political intrigue, conspiracy, cover up, ethical dilemma, urban ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938
Place:
central europe, europe, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Natsu Takato is a 35-year-old popular screenwriter. She lives with her husband Shogo in the outskirts of Saitama. Shogo used to work as a TV station director, but he now supports Natsu by doing housework and working as her business manager. Natsu ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama, contemplative ...
Plot:
infidelity, female protagonist, sexually frustrated woman, screenwriter, marital problem, husband wife relationship, family relations, family problems, middle aged woman, marital infidelity, relationships, male female relationship ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, thrilling, psychological, captivating, interesting
Plot:
aids, drug addiction, drug overdose, theater, audition, drug addict, theatre play, young couple, young lovers, couples, slice of life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
paris france, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the ...
Style:
funny, teen, dark comedy, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, friendship, depression, jealousy, teacher, mentor, love triangle, teen angst, adolescence, preparatory school, student ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, y2k, year 1998
Place:
midwest, texas, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life ...
Style:
road movie
Plot:
scarecrow, loss of eyesight, road accident, new love, blindness and impaired vision, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, blindness, car crash, swimming pool, dying mother, blind character, therapist ...
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany, russia
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