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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. ...
Style:
sketch comedy, humorous, spoof, not serious, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satire, sketch, musician, comedian, politics, adult humor, singer, stand up comedian, comedy team, cross dressing, actor, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 2000s, y2k, 70s ...
Place:
usa, new york, america
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Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Vietnam veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoir, Tropic Thunder, is being made into a film, but Director Damien Cockburn can’t control the cast of prima donnas. Behind schedule and over budget, Cockburn is ordered by a studio executive ...
Style:
parody, hilarious, funny, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
satire, profanity, jungle, wilhelm scream, stupidity, vietnam war, showbiz, dark humor, violent, helicopter crash, adaptation, storytelling ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
vietnam, southeast asia, hawaii, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Oslo in beautiful autumn. Ingvild is a stage manager at the National Theatre, and trying to make a life change, with her artistic ambitions. Not liking actors, she still manages to get into two very different affairs.
Style:
disturbing, romantic, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
relationships, actor, theater, autumn, couples, couple relations, romantic relationship, love affair, love and romance, love story, male female relationship, actor's life ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
Comedian and actor, Kevin Hart teams up with BET Networks to bring viewers one of the funniest shows on television "Real Husbands of Hollywood". The semi-scripted series is the fakest reality show ever following these men of Hollywood ...
Style:
parody, humorous, mockumentary, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
comedian, hollywood, satire, actor, actor's life, celebrity culture, showbiz, backstage, black, lifestyle, marriage, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Italy, Austria, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Susanna travels to Paris with her small group of actors. There she saves Emperor Napoleon from rather painful predicaments, uncovers a number of nasty court intrigues and finds, with much skill and ability, the man of her choice.
Style:
sex comedy, romantic comedy, lighthearted, satirical, costume drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female nudity, actor, female protagonist, napoleonic era, palace intrigue, farce, seduction, scandal, irreverent, palace, hairy bush, nudity ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
paris france, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Pastewka is a German television sitcom that began airing on German TV channel Sat.1 in 2005. The series, currently in its sixth season, is set in Cologne, with German actor Bastian Pastewka starring as a fictionalized version of himself. It has been ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, witty, cynical, not serious ...
Plot:
comedian, family relations, everyday life, private vs public, actor's life, nothing goes right, actor, showbiz, workplace, workplace situations, antisocial behavior, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Important Things with Demetri Martin is a sketch-variety show that aired on Comedy Central starring comedian Demetri Martin. Each episode examined a single theme, the "important thing", such as timing, power, control and money. All ...
Style:
realistic, witty, humorous, not serious, clever ...
Plot:
comedian, pop culture, absurd humor, stand up comedian, singer, musician, artists and showbiz, society, talented, actor, sketch, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, witty, dark comedy, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mishap, bad luck, comedian, antisocial behavior, conversation, misunderstanding, lifestyle, socially awkward, everyday life, actor, showbiz, actress ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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405K
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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Genre: Biography
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bruce Lee in G.O.D. is a "docudrama" about the filming of Game of Death. The first 40 minutes of the film is a dramitisation of events before Lee dropped filming for GOD to do Enter the Dragon, interspersed with interviews with people ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, realistic, serious
Plot:
martial arts, actor, martial artist, tough guy, warrior, asian, jeet kune do, wing chun, kung fu fighting, karate, kung fu master, philosopher ...
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13K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series based on Mad, and contained animated Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin cartoon shorts as well as images of Alfred E. Neuman. Its first TV broadcast was on October 14, 1995. The one-hour show aired ...
Style:
sketch comedy, not serious, humorous, realistic, spoof ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satire, live performance, comedian, sketch, guest, pop culture, singer, musician, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, actor, television ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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236K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style:
surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doppelganger, obsession, mental illness, symbolism, paranoia, nightmare, lookalikes, infidelity, disturbed individual, spider, surrealism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A movie star finds his correspondence with an 11-year-old actor exposed, prompting assumptions that begin to destroy his life and career.
Style:
rough, melancholic, bleak, captivating, grindhouse ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
gay interest, child, gay love, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, fall in love, relationship vs career, love and romance, sex, actor, society ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 2000s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, art house, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, obsession, dream, alternate reality, parallel universe, hollywood, filmmaking, lesbian sex, nightmare ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, usa, california, mulholland drive
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
Style:
feel good, light, period piece, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
friendship, hollywood, strange person, male nudity, filmmaking, bromance, male pubic hair, aspiring actor, ambition, friendship between men, actor, sex scene ...
Time:
2010s, year 2003, year 1998, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, america, san francisco
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sad ...
Plot:
world war two, illness, aging, friendship, actor's life, elderly, showbiz, actor, death, husband wife relationship, backstage, air raid ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Style:
surreal, emotional, disturbing, cerebral, cynical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hollywood, dysfunctional family, mental illness, aspiring actor, satire, child star, obsession, actress, threesome, sex, false memory, menage a trois ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, canada
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
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, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, theater, shakespeare, actor, actress, audition, hamlet, gay subtext, theatre group, lifestyle, actor's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
90s, 1930s
Place:
london, england, australia
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82K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.
Style:
witty, sexy, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
ambitious, sex scene, friends, young adult, nudity, sex, woman urinating, roommate, city life, female friendship, strong sexual content, oral sex ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, idaho, usa, brooklyn new york city
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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:
clever, funny, humorous, cult classic, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
debt, hollywood, movie business, producer, gangster, filmmaking, gambling, dark humor, mobster, organized crime, loan shark, mafia ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
miami, los angeles, california, florida, usa ...
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled, "Farewell My Concubine," that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou ...
Style:
visually stunning, visual, epic, retro, realistic ...
Plot:
homosexuality, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, gender bending, theater, suicide, homoerotic friendship, crazy love, cultural revolution, chinese history, boy, sexual abuse ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 1930s, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place:
china, beijing china, tibet, asia, japan ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, inspirational, period piece, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
forbidden love, cross dressing, love and romance, shakespeare, lovers, gender disguise, couples, writer's life, tudors, literary, passionate love, monarchy ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, middle ages, medieval times, 90s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, britain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An actor who enjoyed success in his youth finds his career and life in a downward spiral as he gets older.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, feel good, light, crying
Plot:
male pubic hair, actor, society, rivalry, destiny, friendship, youth, fired from the job, life philosophy, male friendship, friendship between men, struggling actor ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An Amish man comes to Hollywood to be a missionary, and gets cast as Satan on a nighttime soap opera.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, captivating ...
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, ambition, society, lifestyle, actor, missionary, nightclub, fame, tv star, faith ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Some teenagers are ambitiously setting up a famous Jon Fosse-play. They hire a well known actor to be their mentor, unaware that he's going through a life crisis. Their new mentor chooses Vegard, promising footballer and local douchebag, to ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, romantic, humorous
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, fall in love, theatre group, actor, friendship, teenage protagonist, stage play, ambition, teenage boy, coming of age, personal growth, school bully ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Henry, a young actor, finds himself involved in a film by cinema superstar, Cédric Rovere. Charmed by his benevolence, feelings hitherto unknown are aroused, while Rovere, intrigued by Henry's dream, lives this shoot as an unexpected gift.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
filmmaking, artists and showbiz, self discovery, actor, love, jealousy, rivalry, friendship, actor's life, anton chekhov, rural setting, gift ...
Time:
2000s, 5th century, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, venice
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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, couples, siblings relations, disorder, actor's life, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, midlife crisis, couple relations, brother brother relationship, actor, movie actor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Story:
The daily struggles and hopes of an entire group of Mexican actors: Freddy, Sandra, Jonathan, Karina and Jorge, show us what "being an actor" really means on a daily basis.
Style:
independent film, emotional
Plot:
actor, real life, everyday life, behind the scenes, struggle, character study, aspiration, slice of life, intimate, perseverance, film industry, hopes ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
latin america, mexico city, cannes
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Taylor Starks and his co-workers, all aspiring actors, toil in a Los Angeles restaurant while "waiting" for their big break.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
ambition, restaurant, follow your dream, actor, dream, disgruntled worker, aspiration, showbiz, friendship, realism, character study, slice of life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles
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