Filmmaking movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant filmmaking movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, meta, serious, humorous, cult classic and weird films and TV shows about / with filmmaking, artists and showbiz, film within a film, film industry, filmmaker, showbiz, actor, film producer, director and actress plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as filmmaking: Inland Empire (2006), Barely Legal (2003), Contempt (1963), Clash of Egos (2006), I Want Candy (2007), S.O.B. (1981), Beauty Spot (2011), Bowfinger (1999), Eight and a Half (1963), Day for Night (1973).
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
Style:
surreal, psychological, mindfuck, experimental, psychedelic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, macabre, filmmaking, danger, alternate reality, insanity, curse, murder, nightmare, actress, abusive husband, mysticism ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
poland, los angeles, usa, california, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Teenager Deacon works at a video shop, and his buddies, Fred and Matt, sell the bootleg porno films he acquires. Deacon gets fired, but the pals have the bright idea of filming their own Internet porn flick in order to make money and become more ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, sex comedy, humorous, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
high school, porn star, looking for sex, filmmaking, sexuality, college, dumb, stupidity, adult filmmaking, teenage life, porn industry, disorder ...
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36K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker ...
Style:
art house, philosophical, erotic, grindhouse, visual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, screenwriter, satire, femme fatale, film producer, writers, relationships, marriage, female nudity, estranged couple, film industry, passive aggression ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place:
france, rome italy, italy, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Tony has recently been released from a sentence for violent behaviour. He promises to improve his ways and is finally granted a few hours alone with his two children. They celebrate the reunion by going to the movies to see a new film by the famous, ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, offbeat
Plot:
filmmaking, ego clash, righting the wronged, artists and showbiz, film producer, medication, director, manuscript, film set, cinema, bare chested male, shootout ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two hopeful lads from Leatherhead trying to break into the movies stumble upon the opportunity of a lifetime. Frustrated by their arty film teacher, wannabe producer Joe and his talented but neurotic director friend Baggy head to London to sell what ...
Style:
sex comedy, teen sex comedy, not serious, humorous, light ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
porn, filmmaking, blonde, follow your dream, peeping tom, starlet, nothing goes right, fish out of water, once in a lifetime opportunity, lesbian sex, hopes, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Style:
funny, cynical, witty, clever, humorous ...
Plot:
filmmaking, satire, depression, corpse, film producer, hollywood, cynicism, dog, tantrum, funeral, nervous breakdown, doctor ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
california, usa
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248K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Style:
black and white, romantic, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, showbiz, love and romance, dog, actor's life, fame, actress, love, art ...
Time:
1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, iran
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74K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio ...
Style:
parody, funny, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, movie business, satire, dog, actor, cameraman, audition, desire for fame, african american, deception, actress ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, 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:
art house, psychological, surreal, cerebral, black and white ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
filmmaking, surrealism, childhood, dream, midlife crisis, stream of consciousness, memory, catholic, adultery, actress, movie business, showbiz ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe, copenhagen, paris france ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Style:
humorous, sexy, tense, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, art, nervous breakdown, adaptation, director, workplace situations, workplace, artists and showbiz, actor's life, nothing goes right, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
20th century, future, year 1973, 70s
Place:
france, europe, nice france, riviera, french riviera
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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, art house, neo noir, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, lesbian, amnesia, obsession, hollywood, nightmare, hallucination, doppelganger, alternate reality, filmmaking, dream ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, future, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, usa, california
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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, humorous, absurd, funny ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
friendship, filmmaking, hollywood, bromance, strange person, ambition, aspiring actor, actor, friendship between men, biopic, love, promise ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 90s, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, america, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Style:
suspense, dark comedy, neo noir, clever, black comedy ...
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, film industry, murder, police investigation, blackmail, showbiz, writers, movie business, satire, murder mystery, manipulation ...
Time:
20th century, year 1992, future, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, pasadena california
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage film makers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.
Style:
cynical, satirical, absurd, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
filmmaking, showbiz, misfit, satire, kidnapping, dark humor, hostage, heroin, perversion, actor's life, lifestyle, nothing goes right ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
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202K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
Style:
satirical, absurd, black comedy, mind bending, dark comedy ...
Plot:
twins, filmmaking, depression, writer's block, writers, imagination, mentally unstable, loser, existentialism, obsession, siblings relations, eccentricity ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
florida, new york, california, usa
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Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, Austria, Netherlands
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema offers an introduction into some of Žižek's most exciting ideas on fantasy, reality, sexuality, subjectivity, desire, materiality and cinematic form. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of ...
Style:
intellectual, psychological, philosophical, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
filmmaking, philosophy, social relations, artists and showbiz, society, cause and meaning, creativity, monologue, psychoanalysis, exploitation, conference, human relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.
Style:
sentimental, touching, factual, compassionate, sad ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
childhood, filmmaking, biopic, hollywood, writer's life, family drama, love, family relations, showbiz, success, parents and children, writers ...
Time:
year 2013, edwardian era, 60s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
california, los angeles, australia, usa, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Style:
sad, uplifting, inspirational, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, friendship, first love, filmmaking, cinema, nostalgia, haunted by the past, adolescence, breast feeding, village, funeral ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, rome italy, corsica
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Style:
neo noir, emotional, stylized, sexy, suspenseful ...
Plot:
obsession, filmmaking, jealousy, betrayal, destructive relationship, tragic love, actress, blind character, couple relations, blindness, family drama, suffering ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 20th century, 80s, 90s ...
Place:
madrid, spain, iberian peninsula, ibiza, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben (Robert De Niro) must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete his latest projects. A demanding studio boss (Catherine Keener) demands extensive ...
Style:
stylized, melancholic, witty, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
filmmaking, movie business, hollywood, midlife crisis, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, workplace, disagreement, workplace situations, satire, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, cannes
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382K
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:
realistic, epic, stylized, period piece, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
success, mental illness, aviation, biopic, filmmaking, entrepreneur, corruption, test pilot, entrepreneurship, businessman, character study, obsessive compulsive disorder ...
Time:
1930s, year 2004, 1920s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, connecticut, usa ...
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143K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Tells the comedic tale of Eddie Mannix, a fixer who worked for the Hollywood studios in the 1950s. The story finds him at work when a star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming.
Style:
humorous, black comedy, talky, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, movie star, showbiz, kidnapping, actor, dark humor, journalist, chinese restaurant, screenwriter, film industry, ransom ...
Time:
50s, year 2016, 1950s, 2010s, year 2015 ...
Place:
los angeles, greece, usa, california, malibu california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
Style:
surreal, humorous, absurd, mindfuck, psychedelic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, nightmare, film producer, award ceremony, artists and showbiz, disorder, dream, surrealism, time travel, mental disorder, alternate timeline, human relationship ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa, USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One such actress was Tippi Hedren, ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, sexual harassment, actor's life, obsession, prodigy, artists and showbiz, starlet, infatuation, older man younger woman relationship, passion, movie star, dream girl ...
Time:
1900s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style:
realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, literary, female nudity, time travel ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
Style:
psychological, sexy, melancholic, erotic, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, redemption, drug, obsession, multiple storylines, addiction, lifestyle, life is a bitch, downfall, showbiz, human nature, infidelity ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
los angeles, israel, california, middle east, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Style:
brutal, bloody, disturbing, controversial, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cannibalism, torture, jungle, rape, gory, cannibal, found footage, amazon rainforest, animal cruelty, sadism, violence, african tribe ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century
Place:
south america, latin america, north america, usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lisbon Story is Wim Wender’s homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterous postcard of a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
filmmaking, movie business, artists and showbiz, showbiz, amusement park, couple relations, musician, road trip, filmmaker, art, on the road, rock ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal, germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Mexico, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Focuses on Sebastian and Costa, obsessive filmmakers who, in their quest to uncover the myth of Christopher Columbus and resistance to colonial power by Indian rebel Hatuey, ultimately end up embroiled in a modern revolt against Western ...
Style:
political, talky, visually appealing, tense, harsh ...
Plot:
filmmaking, politics, protest, culture clash, society, rebellion, demonstration, prejudice, audition, unlikely friendships, storytelling, mentor ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, latin america
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10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
Style:
stylized, art house, witty, clever, surreal ...
Plot:
filmmaking, latex, cat burglar, actress playing herself, nervous breakdown, satire, culture clash, kung fu, paranoia, hotel, slave, fantomas ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, los angeles, new york
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