Theatre director movies and TV shows – page 2
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List of theatre director movies
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
Style:
erotic drama, psychological thriller
Plot:
intern, forbidden love, ceo, submission, infidelity, lesbian daughter, cheating wife, female nudity, adultery, sex scene, forbidden romance, female protagonist ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The attractive, 32-year old and single Dora edits scripts for plays and is working on "Dangerous Liaisons." One day when her lover shoves her, half-naked, out on a balcony at the sudden appearance of the wife that Dora didn't know he ...
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, offbeat
Audience:
date night
Plot:
pregnancy, womanizer, fall in love, opposites attract, couples, love and romance, couple relations, sexual relations, passionate kiss, secret relationship, boobs, secret lover ...
Place:
europe, hungary
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, multicultural ...
Plot:
actor's life, desire for fame, rise to the top, ambition, theater, youth, teachers and students, celebrity culture, showbiz, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, backstage ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
london, england, europe, palestine
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A struggling actress is cast in her last off (off) Broadway show - a modern take on “A Christmas Carol” - before giving up her dream and moving home. Instead, she finds romance with her director and a renewed passion for her craft and the city. ...
Style:
romantic, humorous, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, family outing
Plot:
christmas, christmas romance, happy ending, winter, obsessive quest, fall in love, actor, workplace, life philosophy, society, destiny, male female relationship ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a ...
Style:
suspense, inspirational, dramatic, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, prisoner, father, mother in law son in law relationship, american football, murder, investigation, political conspiracy, framed for murder, accused of murder, hopes, family problems ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
france, oklahoma city, marseille
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are deposited there, scary things begin to happen. Therefore and because of a strange bet with his fellow ...
Style:
creepy, suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, morgue, brutality, night watchman, doctor, murder, rape, psycho killer, oral sex, bet, danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Berlin playwright Lisa follows her husband Martin to Switzerland, where he manages a private school. However, when her twin brother Sven’s leukaemia begins to wreak havoc on his health, she decides she must return to her roots, which has ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining
Plot:
twin brother and sister, siblings relations, brother, cancer patient, twin brother, actor, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, family relations, gay brother, lgbtq ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, swiss alps
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
An edgy drama about a gay teen's tumultuous decent into drugs and anonymous sex, Wrecked smashes cinematic taboos while it spins its cautionary tale. Ryan is an earnest 18-year-old trying to develop a career as an actor and getting his life on ...
Style:
serious, touching, art house, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, impossible love, group sex, love triangle, lgbt, sex, erection, male pubic hair, gay teenager, youth, love and romance, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
Style:
talky, emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
coming of age, art, historical figure, youth, actor's life, teenage life, blind ambition, artists and showbiz, boss and employee, fall in love, mentor, self discovery ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 2008, year 1937, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, england ...
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Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A study of a relationship that starts quickly, burns bright, and then gets rocky, not from any one thing, but from an accumulation of civilization and its discontents. Stuart is glib and generous, Nicole is shy and forthright. Is love enough to see ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
couples, couple relations, sexual relations, female pubic hair, marriage proposal, fall in love, hopes, destiny, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, sex scene, making love, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A female cop goes undercover as a dancer at an old theater to catch a serial killer who has been murdering women auditioning for a musical.
Style:
slasher, independent film, slasher horror
Plot:
serial killer, police, female police officer, rock and roll, dancer, women, killer, woman in jeopardy, characters murdered one by one, characters killed one by one, undercover cop, dancehall girl ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Buck is a man-child who has lived his existence in a life of kindergarten collages and lollipops. Buck remembers his old childhood friend Chuck, with whom he feels a need to reconnect with after having invited him to his mother's funeral. Buck ...
Style:
psychological, dark comedy, stylized, cynical, humorous ...
Plot:
obsession, stalking, gay, friendship, homoeroticism, homoerotic friendship, dark humor, unrequited love, childhood friend, death of mother, lgbt, danger ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two years after the terrifying events that occurred in Woodsboro, Sidney is now attending Windsor College in Cincinnati, and Gale Weathers' best selling book on Sidney's life has now been made into a major motion picture. When two college ...
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, sexy, bloody, scary ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, college, serial murder, strong female lead, villain, mystery killer, female protagonist, masked man, haunted by the past, killer, blood, murder ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, ohio
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Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Hungary
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, surprise ending ...
Plot:
ballerina, dancing, possession, obsession, ballet school, haunted by the past, female ghost, love interest, conspiracy, ghost, rehearsal, bird attack ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
budapest, europe, central europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton ...
Style:
independent film, period piece, witty, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, writers, gay cruising, male nudity, glbt, lgbt, murder, lgbtq, homosexual, gay relationship, biopic ...
Time:
60s, year 1987, 20th century, 1950s, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, europe, australia, morocco, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Czechoslovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981
Style:
freeze frame, crying, period drama
Plot:
world war one, renaissance, biopic, signing a contract, work abroad, national identity, czech german relations, superstition, moral dilemma, forest, drunken man, shooting ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917, year 1916, year 1915, year 1914
Place:
eastern europe, central europe, prague, america, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inseparable friends Štěpán and Kendy are students in their final year of high school. When they are in the principal's office after the trouble with the rather scandalous song "On the Carpet", the school principal gives them the ...
Style:
metafiction, teen comedy
Plot:
skinny dipping, sexual attraction, public nudity, bare butt, nudity, male pubic hair, horniness, bare chested male, classmate classmate relationship, theatre director, man in underwear, director ...
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Paula McFadden knows: In romance, actors all follow the same stage instruction: Exit. Without warning, her actor boyfriend split today for a movie role and sublet their Manhattan apartment. The new tenant's name: Elliot Garfield. Profession: ...
Style:
sweet, romantic comedy, funny, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
single mother, true love, love story, happy ending, dancer, audition, actor, love, divorce, women, passion, aspiring actor ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country, 1960. Marc et Philippe are two of the counsellors. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. A night, Marc surprises Philippe dressed and made-up like a woman. From now on, he will keep ...
Style:
crying, realistic, semi serious, psychological, humorous ...
Plot:
summer camp, gay, gay interest, outdoor sex, homoeroticism, swimming pool, lgbt, humiliation, assault, male nudity, female nudity, bullying ...
Time:
80s, 60s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Wiktor Zawadzki is a playwright who flies to Gdansk to have a look at the rehearsals of his new avantgarde play. Although the play asks serious existential questions, the stage director and the actors have no artistic idea for it. Unable to find a ...
Style:
tension, suspense
Plot:
rehearsal, photographer, flashback, mental illness, schizophrenia, airplane, schizophrenic, mother daughter relationship, love triangle, telephone call, hotel, artist ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sultry Sandra Julien stars as a teenage virgin who is traumatized after being raped by her 2 "friends", a young man and his sister, leaving her with no interest in sex. Discouraged, she embarks on a journey of sexual awakening in hopes of ...
Style:
erotic
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
lesbian sex, prostitution, rape, sexual awakening, female sexual predator, female rapist, rape victim, lesbianism, female nudity, sex, love interest, gardener ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Harvard graduate transports a load of marijuana from Boston to Berkeley, California.
Plot:
marijuana, drug, drug dealer, college, graduation, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, corruption, military police, police raid, student, university ...
Time:
year 1972
Place:
boston
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 252 min.
Story:
L'Amour Fou follows the dissolution of the marriage between Claire, an actress (played by Bulle Ogier), and Sebastien, her director (Jean-Pierre Kalfon).
Style:
black and white, black comedy, experimental, avant garde
Plot:
love, dialogue, filmmaking, lgbt, underground, failed marriage, theatre group, television crew, male protagonist, female protagonist, existential loneliness, frustration ...
Time:
year 1969
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
Style:
disturbing, lyrical, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
female nudity, lovers reunited, infidelity, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, love affair, love triangle, couple relations, actor's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, obsessive quest ...
Time:
year 2001, 18th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, italy, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An American actor in England tries to find love and work.
Style:
romantic, erotic, clever, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
making love, nymphomania, satire, hospital, love, actor, chase, dating, sex scene, nude, infidelity, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
Style:
witty, touching, sincere, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
childhood sweetheart, dark humor, small town, american football, character study, architect, fighting the system, social differences, old love, social relations, haunted by the past, love affair ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
florida, puerto rico, bolivia, southern usa, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, rom com, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
elderly, love story, love and romance, fall in love, age difference, love triangle, older man younger woman relationship, opposites attract, couples, female nudity, dating, writers ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, new york, france, usa, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
Style:
melancholic, psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Plot:
actress, skinny dipping, lesbian, movie actress, divorce, midlife crisis, women, mountain, relationships, sexual attraction, character study, suicide attempt ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, swiss alps, alps, london, zurich switzerland ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, social differences, midlife crisis, parents and children, couples, love and romance, ex lover, father daughter relationship, wealth, death of father, dying, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sri lanka, venezuela, paris france, africa, india ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, serious, talky, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
gay, adultery, infidelity, existentialism, forbidden love, secret relationship, character study, introspection, lifestyle, city life, actor's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, london, czech republic, manhattan new york city ...
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