Stage actress movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant stage actress movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, suspense, captivating, realistic, serious and emotional films and TV shows about / with stage actress, actress, theater, female nudity, obsession, female protagonist, male nudity, relationships, male female relationship and love plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as stage actress: The Dancer (2016), The Great Lillian Hall (2024), Seven Veils (2023), On Fallen Wings (2016), The Second Woman (2012), The Play (2019), Before/During/After (2020), Queen of Spades (2016), Kirstie (2013), Sentimental Value (2025).
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: France, Belgium, Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Nothing in her background destined Loïe Fuller from the American Midwest to become a Belle Epoque icon, even less a dancer at the Paris Opera. Even at the risk of destroying her back and burning her eyes with the stage lights, she will never falter ...
Style:
erotic, costume drama, melancholic, colorful, suspense ...
Plot:
dancing, female nudity, flashback, lesbian, love, sex scene, theater, bohemian life, lgbt, dancer, dancer's life, death of father ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
paris france, new york, brooklyn new york city, france
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Yet in rehearsals for a new play her confidence is challenged. People and events conspire to take away her ability to do what she loves most.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
theater, aging, broadway, dementia, stage actress, old age, changing lives, lifestyle change, old woman, career, actress, character study ...
Place:
new york
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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: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve…don’t you…?
Style:
captivating, exciting, dramatic, serious, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
theater, actress, broadway, aspiring actress, life, fame, manipulation, backstage, deception, rivalry, ambition, ward ...
Time:
1950s, 1930s, 1920s
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The dancer Xiaodie Shang arranged a dance "butterfly" for her lover who left five years ago, the dance made a good score, and she was invited by foreign cultural fund to Budapest to casting choreography. Xiaodie thinks the most promising ...
Style:
independent film, spoof, parody, splatter, rough ...
Plot:
dancer, dancer's life, performer's life, changing lives, dancing, night of the living dead, american horror, infected, gory, body horror, new life, attic ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
One suspects writer-director Carol Lai may have harboured some Black Swan ambitions with a tale that also centers around a stage practitioner who embarks on an unwitting destructive journey when playing a role to die for. The Second Woman, whose ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, thrilling, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
love triangle, jealousy, twins, love affair, family relations, relationships, male female relationship, love story, stage actress, love interest, sister sister relationship, twin sister ...
Place:
indiana
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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: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
This sharp-witted dramedy studies a middle-aged NYC theatre actress suddenly forced to figure out the kind of person she wants to portray in real life when her marriage comes to an end after she catches her husband cheating.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical
Plot:
marriage, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, female protagonist, dysfunctional marriage, marriage crisis, husband wife relationship, family problems, actress, satire, middle aged ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of the infamous Theatre Grand Guignol the story revolves around iconic actress Paula Maxa - the most famous of the Grand Guignol's leading ladies and the titular Most Assassinated Woman, who was graphically slain on ...
Style:
contemplative, tense, suspenseful, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
murder, partner, woman in danger, victim, violence, police officer, female protagonist, murder mystery, law enforcement, chase, evidence, corpse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Once upon a time, the great soprano Sofia Mayer conquered the world with her voice, her beauty and the legend she carefully built around herself. Now only the legend remains — the diva herself hasn't performed for years, nor been seen in the ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, psychological, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
intrigue, ambition, theater, gambling, card playing, actor, aspiration, desire for fame, female singer, workplace situations, stage actress, spectacle ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The son of a Broadway star, who was given up for adoption 26 years ago, tries to connect with his birth mother after his adopted mother dies.
Style:
sitcom, realistic, not serious, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, lifestyle, actor's life, parents and children, artists and showbiz, life turned upside down, disorder, birth mother, family drama, mother son relationship, adoption, broadway ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden, UK, Turkey
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, art house, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, family drama, sisterhood, memory, estranged father, reconciliation, legacy, family secret, sibling rivalry, intimate, stage actress ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Mexico, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp
Style:
sexy, erotic, romantic, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, sex, obsession, couple relations, dangerous attraction, passion, husband wife relationship, love story, passionate sex, desire, sex scene, carnival ...
Time:
19th century, year 2001, victorian era, turn of the century, 20th century ...
Place:
cuba, iran, morocco, delaware, havana cuba ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of 'Richard III' and gives ...
Style:
sexual, avant garde, art house, anthology, cult classic ...
Plot:
sex, love, decadence, nudity, photograph, marriage, husband wife relationship, violence, obsession, porn, group sex, desire ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually ...
Style:
mind twisting, cerebral, surreal, black and white, sexual ...
Plot:
surrealism, mute character, actress, silence, patient, existentialism, medical, nordic, art, dream, alienation, insanity ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When she wins a small supporting role in a play, a young actress is disappointed, but fate tempts her with another shot at stardom.
Style:
ambiguous ending, period piece, suspense
Plot:
theater, stage play, double life, ambition, female protagonist, obsession, identity, coming of age, professional rivalry, character study, urban, creative process ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Her father passed away very early and her mother lives and works in a crowded Chinese restaurant. Kitajima Maya, a 13-year old girl, has to carry the burden of making ends meet as she fights against her ill fate. However, she is able to overcome the ...
Style:
anime, shoujo, captivating, psychological, inspirational
Plot:
female protagonist, theater, ambition, rivalry, coming of age, actress, competition, youth, female rivalry, dream, perseverance, class differences ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
After a party amongst a theatre group, their sole actress, Anjali is subjected to a crime from one of the men in the group. A meeting is called for. In trying to reach a consensus, stories unravel, suspicions surface and clamour ensues.
Style:
intense, tension, suspense, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
theater, suspicion, sexual assault, trauma, secrets, accusation, moral dilemma, interrogation, deception, lie, guilt, social commentary ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The film, set in 1930s London, revolves around a feared theater critic named Jimmy Erskine, his loyal assistant, a newspaper owner who wants to get rid of the critic and an actress who has been devastated by the excoriating theatrical reviews. The ...
Style:
period drama, interesting
Plot:
actress, blackmail, murder, stage actress, theater, deception, critic, gay, male protagonist, whodunit, old man, funeral ...
Time:
1930s, year 1934
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Young writer, Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to, "Come back to me." Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, period piece, sweet, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
time travel, love story, passion, obsession, time, hotel, playwright, love triangle, supernatural, love and romance, fall in love, love affair ...
Time:
1900s, 80s, year 1980, victorian era, edwardian era ...
Place:
usa, chicago, america, michigan, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of ...
Style:
period piece, entertaining, stylized, sincere, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
midlife crisis, older woman younger man relationship, theater, adaptation, complex characters, women, loneliness, actor's life, love, adultery, art, backstage ...
Time:
1930s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1938, 50s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, west end london, canada ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
adoption, child care, youth, foster child, stage actress, village life, family relations, kids in trouble, paparazzi, countryside, society, actor's life ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
connecticut, usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story:
Brilliant young actress Charlie strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece, but it rapidly becomes apparent that his intentions are far from romantic.
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, captivating, stylized, tense ...
Plot:
arab israeli conflict, double agent, female spy, espionage, terrorism, mossad, sting operation, actress, terrorist, recruitment, female agent, terror ...
Time:
70s
Place:
israel, palestine, greece
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off ...
Style:
sexual, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
gigolo, older woman younger man relationship, nobility, aging, elderly, destructive relationship, age difference, passion, unrequited love, sad ending, age-gap relationship, trippy ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
italy, rome italy, america, usa, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Austria, Denmark
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Isabella Eklöf is an unemployed actress in her early thirties. Her friends all enjoy stable relationships, children and successful careers. In order to jump-start her life she decides to lie a bit on her next job application with unexpected ...
Style:
independent film, light hearted, romantic comedy
Plot:
female protagonist, thirty something, self discovery, personal growth, identity crisis, slice of life, intimate, bittersweet, satire, urban, young adult, stage actress ...
Place:
central europe, vienna, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theater are being killed off by an unknown maniac.
Style:
slasher, cult classic, creepy, bloody, classic horror ...
Plot:
murder, male nudity, love triangle, female nudity, guillotine, virus, exploitation, paranormal, serial killer, voyeur, mannequin, stage actress ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style:
gloomy, political thriller, sincere, political, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surveillance, cold war, spy, communism, berlin wall, stasi, politics, redemption, espionage, iron curtain, life philosophy, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Taking place between the years 1837 and 1843, Balzac’s classic novel focuses on the young poet Lucien de Rubempré, who leaves Angouleme for Paris in the pursuit of becoming an author.
Style:
costume drama, atmospheric, touching, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
theater, sex scene, female nudity, ambition, media manipulation, hashish, poet, male nudity, death, infidelity, nudity, dandy ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, georgian era
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Cordelia ia a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline and Caroline’s boyfriend Matt. ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
basement, relationship problems, couple relations, neighbor, male female relationship, girl next door, neighbor neighbor relationship, psychological trauma, twin sister, problem, secret, romantic relationship ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Style:
epic, captivating, neo noir, saga, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, murder, gangster, cosa nostra, sicilian mafia, literary, immigration, crime boss, assassination, melancholy ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
cuba, sicily, new york, las vegas, italy ...
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