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 weird, realistic, talky, sexy, thought provoking and melancholic films and TV shows about / with filmmaking, film within a film, artists and showbiz, storytelling, dialogue, mentor, runaway, pornography, obsession and culture clash plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
filmmaking
TOP 10 movies tagged as filmmaking: Eight and a Half (1963), Bowfinger (1999), Barely Legal (2003), Feud: Bette and Joan (2017), Broken Embraces (2009), S.O.B. (1981), Day for Night (1973), Mulholland Drive (2001), Contempt (1963), I Want Candy (2007).
Best films
List of filmmaking movies
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, reflective, philosophical ...
Plot:
filmmaking, surrealism, childhood, midlife crisis, mistress, loneliness, stream of consciousness, memory, flashback, adultery, actress, showbiz ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, vatican, europe, paris france ...
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72K
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:
funny, parody, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, satire, movie business, dog, actor, paranoia, cameraman, audition, desire for fame, alien, deception ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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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, sexy, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
high school, porn star, looking for sex, filmmaking, cheerleading, sexuality, college, stupidity, dumb, teenage life, porn industry, disorder ...
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 406 min.
TV show
Story:
Anthology series of famous feuds with the first season based on the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford which began early on their careers, climaxed on the set of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and evolved into an ...
Style:
sincere, melancholic, thought provoking, humorous, factual ...
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, feud, actress, jealousy, movie star, glory, aging, woman, workplace problem, family problems, loneliness ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles
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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, erotic, sexy ...
Plot:
obsession, filmmaking, betrayal, jealousy, love triangle, destructive relationship, tragic love, blind character, actress, couple relations, suffering, love affair ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
madrid, spain, iberian peninsula, ibiza, europe ...
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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, sexy, cynical, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
filmmaking, satire, depression, corpse, film producer, hollywood, cynicism, dog, nervous breakdown, doctor, tantrum, funeral ...
Time:
80s, 1930s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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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, feel good, sexy, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
filmmaking, art, nervous breakdown, adaptation, director, nothing goes right, actor's life, workplace, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, nice france, french riviera, 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:
psychological, surreal, neo noir, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, hallucination, hollywood, alternate reality, obsession, nightmare, doppelganger, lesbian sex, filmmaking ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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33K
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, psychological, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, screenwriter, satire, femme fatale, car accident, film producer, writers, relationships, marriage, estranged couple, female nudity, film industry ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
italy, france, rome italy, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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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:
not serious, humorous, light, teen sex comedy, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
porn, filmmaking, follow your dream, peeping tom, once in a lifetime opportunity, starlet, fish out of water, nothing goes right, blonde, artists and showbiz, hopes, porn actress ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
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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, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, filmmaking, hollywood, ambition, strange person, aspiring actor, actor, friendship between men, love, promise, director, nothing goes right ...
Time:
2000s, year 1998, year 2003, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, san francisco
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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, disturbing, enigmatic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
macabre, insanity, surrealism, alternate reality, filmmaking, curse, murder, nightmare, mysticism, doppelganger, infidelity, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, los angeles, usa, california, europe ...
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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:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, offbeat
Plot:
filmmaking, ego clash, righting the wronged, artists and showbiz, film producer, director, medication, cinema, manuscript, reading a newspaper aloud, movie actress, television reporter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
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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:
clever, talky, satirical, cynical, neo noir ...
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, suspense, murder, police investigation, blackmail, writers, satire, manipulation, murder mystery, showbiz, crime gone awry ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, pasadena california
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179K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Style:
humorous, atmospheric, stylized, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, showbiz, misfit, drug addiction, friendship, director, character study, actress, lgbtq, transvestism, desire for fame ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
los angeles, 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, captivating, humorous, thought provoking ...
Plot:
filmmaking, philosophy, society, artists and showbiz, social relations, cause and meaning, creativity, philosopher, monologue, nude, thoughtful, capitalism ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 155 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, inspirational, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, first love, friendship, filmmaking, nostalgia, cinema, haunted by the past, philosophy, flashback, movie theatre, village ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, sicily, rome italy, europe
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Romania
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An aspiring Romanian filmmaker obsessed with Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway goes to shocking extremes to convince Anne to star in his upcoming film.
Style:
slasher, psychological, mumblecore, surprise ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
found footage, psychopath, obsession, filmmaking, torture, mental illness, suspense, violence, sacrifice, woman in danger, criminal, murder of a woman ...
Place:
eastern europe, romania
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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:
philosophical, psychological, mind bending, satirical, absurd ...
Plot:
twins, twists and turns, loneliness, filmmaking, writers, mentally unstable, depression, existentialism, obsession, loser, writer's block, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, new york, new orleans, california, usa
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15K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, sexy, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, genocide, filmmaking, politics, armenian, freedom, war crime, atrocity, self discovery, against humanity, family problems, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1915, 21st century
Place:
armenia, canada, israel, ottoman empire, middle east ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of ...
Style:
thought provoking, sweet, talky, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
racism, filmmaking, african american, blaxploitation, interracial relations, suspense, eccentricity, prejudice, showbiz, hollywood, fighting the system, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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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, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
filmmaking, movie business, showbiz, artists and showbiz, amusement park, couple relations, musician, road trip, filmmaker, art, rock, car journey ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal, germany, europe
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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, surreal, campy ...
Plot:
filmmaking, showbiz, misfit, satire, kidnapping, hostage, heroin, perversion, nothing goes right, lifestyle, actor's life, dark humor ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
maryland, california, baltimore, usa
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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, mind bending, absurd, humorous, psychedelic ...
Plot:
nightmare, filmmaking, film producer, race against time, award ceremony, artists and showbiz, disorder, dream, surrealism, psychology, mental disorder, cult ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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:
melancholic, stylized, witty, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
movie business, filmmaking, hollywood, midlife crisis, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, showbiz, workplace, workplace situations, disagreement, satire, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, cannes
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.
Style:
parody, humorous, talky, not serious, clever ...
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, satire, dysfunctional family, farce, rising to stardom, jewish, ambition, showbiz, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, actor's life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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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, disturbing, scary, controversial, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cannibalism, torture, amazon rainforest, jungle, rape, violence, death, cannibal, animal cruelty, african tribe, sadism, murder ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
south america, latin america, north america, usa, new york
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
filmmaking, actor, black man, film industry, blaxploitation, showbiz, money, vulgarity, male protagonist, comedian, historical figure, celebrity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
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368K
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, realistic, stylized, captivating, factual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, success, businessman, aviation, corruption, test pilot, obsessive compulsive disorder, filmmaking, pilot, billionaire, millionaire, character study ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 50s, 1910s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, connecticut, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the ...
Style:
parody, humorous, funny, satirical, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
farce, filmmaking, showbiz, mime, hollywood, creativity, actor's life, comeback, alcohol abuse, disorder, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 50s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, new york, los angeles, manhattan new york city
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