Washed up star movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant washed up star movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, touching, serious, entertaining and funny films and TV shows about / with washed up star, ambition, family relations, fame, drunkenness, kiss, actor's life, actor, actress and husband wife relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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washed up star movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as washed up star: Jean-Claude Van Johnson (2016), A League of Their Own (1992), The Wrestler (2008), Summer of Dreams (2016), The Last Movie Star (2017), Unter Deutschen Betten (2017), Line (2017), Close-Up (2011), The Comeback (2005), Any Day (2015).

List of washed up star movies

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Jean-Claude Van Johnson (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 187 min.
TV show
Story: Jean-Claude Van Damme is a global martial arts & film sensation, also operating under the simple alias of "Johnson" as the world's best undercover private contractor. Retired for years, a chance encounter with a lost love ...
Style: funny, entertaining, ironic, captivating, intense ...
Plot: washed up star, humour, working undercover, movie star, fighting crime, gang of outlaws, celebrity, private investigation, crime spree, investigation, crime investigation, unsolved crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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A League of Their Own (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, sweet, witty ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: baseball, world war two, sister sister relationship, friendship, female friendship, female athlete, alcoholic, feminist, female protagonist, sibling rivalry, underdog, coach ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century, 90s
Place: oregon, chicago, indiana, usa, midwest ...
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 7.9
 319K
The Wrestler (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with ...
Style: depressing, emotional, bleak, touching, serious ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: wrestling, loneliness, aging, life is a bitch, fame, father daughter relationship, self destructing, professional wrestling, stripper, ambition, character study, father daughter estrangement ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, iran, bolivia, usa, north america
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their ...
Style: gothic, psychological, psychological thriller, psychological horror, scary ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mental illness, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, jealousy, sibling rivalry, child star, filmmaking, aging, dysfunctional family, actress, violence, fame ...
Time: 20th century, year 1935, year 1917, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place: los angeles, america, california, usa
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Summer of Dreams (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Debbie Taylor is a former 1980s pop star bent on making a comeback and returning to the Billboard charts. As she prepares to once again take the music industry by storm, Debbie's record label deems her irrelevant and abruptly drops her. Out of ...
Style: touching, sincere, light, captivating
Plot: music teacher, washed up star, small town life, fall in love, love and romance, celebrity, runaway, family relations, couples, friendship, society, love ...
Place: new york
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The Last Movie Star (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Vic Edwards was one of the biggest movie stars in the world, known for his mustachioed good looks and cocky swagger. With his Hollywood glory a distant memory, the now-octogenarian Vic is prompted to reassess his life with the passing of his beloved ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: aging, old man, nostalgia, hollywood, washed up star, actor's life, depression, celebrity, artists and showbiz, loneliness, lifestyle, goth girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nashville tennessee, los angeles, usa, tennessee
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Unter Deutschen Betten (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Linda was a one hit wonder as a pop singer. She never managed to follow up her early success and now her producer and boyfriend Friedrich has taken on a new and younger starlet while Linda has to take up her former cleaning lady's offer to work ...
Style: humorous, psychological, feel good, light
Plot: washed up star, female singer, music business, humiliation, aunt niece relationship, record producer, woman, cleaning lady, diary, swimming pool, taxi driver, rooftop ...
Place: germany, munich germany
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 7.3
 210
Line (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Style: suspense, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: family relations, father son relationship, golddigger, villain as protagonist, ambitious man, pole dancer, machismo, domineering father, ambition, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, washed up star, teenage boy ...
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 8.1
 69
Close-Up (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: "CLOSE-UP" is a dramatic feature film told through the eyes of a failed Philadelphia actor who has succumbed to drug addiction. Our story follows him during the Holidays as he desperately tries to regain everything he has lost in his life; ...
Style: ambiguous ending, psychological, contemplative, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, social realism, addiction, drug, fired from the job, divorce, violence, father daughter relationship, fame, father daughter estrangement, washed up star, drug addiction ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, philadelphia, los angeles
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 8.1
 8K
The Comeback (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The series initially follows Valerie Cherish (Kudrow), a veteran sitcom actress who has been out of the spotlight for more than a decade, as she attempts in 2005 to return to the industry that made her famous. Valerie lands a role on a new network ...
Style: sitcom, biting, humorous, not serious, mockumentary ...
Plot: comeback, actress, ambition, lifestyle, workplace, celebrity culture, media satire, backstage, disorder, self involved, artists and showbiz, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 161 min.
Story: A faded TV actor and his stunt double embark on an odyssey to make a name for themselves in the film industry during the Helter Skelter reign of terror in 1969 Los Angeles.
Style: twist ending, controversial, cult classic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: hippie, friendship between men, alternate history, actor, filmmaking, nagging wife, struggling actor, cinema, sexy woman, home invasion, friendship, agent ...
Time: year 1969, 2010s, 60s, year 2019, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, italy
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 4.9
 1K
Any Day (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Following his release from prison, an ex-fighter meets a woman who helps him put his life back together.
Style: emotional, sentimental, realistic, touching
Plot: dark past, lifestyle, redemption, rise and fall, unfulfillment, self destructing, rage, washed up star, ambition, death, tragedy, comeback ...
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Paquita Salas (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: One of Spain's best talent agents in the '90s, Paquita now finds herself searching desperately for new stars after suddenly losing her biggest client.
Style: feel good, semi serious, entertaining, funny, light ...
Plot: talent agent, businesswoman, actress, workplace situations, actor, movie actress, filmmaking, talent, aspiring actress, creative block, artists and showbiz, acting class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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 6.9
 5K
Elvis (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: elvis presley, music, rock music, biopic, musician's life, price of fame, celebrity culture, rags to riches, rock and roll, desire for fame, music band, showbiz ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 1950s
Place: las vegas, mississippi
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 4.5
 957
Americathon (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.
Style: psychotronic, political, slapstick, slapstick comedy
Plot: native american, political satire, conspiracy, voice over narration, satire, bankruptcy, sabotage, ventriloquist, arab, government, rock, adultery ...
Time: future, year 1979, 90s
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 6.9
 2K
Rimini (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, France, Austria
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter breaks into his ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, comedy drama, dark comedy ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, male nudity, dead mother, family relations, brothers, life, family problems, decadence, male pubic hair, singer, washed up star, father daughter conflict ...
Place: germany
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Ready to Rumble (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two slacker wrestling fans are devastated by the ousting of their favorite character by an unscrupulous promoter.
Style: humorous, entertaining, funny, intense, feel good ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: wrestling, underdog, cheerleader, wrestler, friendship, loser, ambition, goofy hero, follow your dream, athlete's life, down on your luck, disorder ...
Time: y2k, year 2016, 90s
Place: new york, usa, atlanta georgia
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Veronika Voss (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the ...
Style: noir, black and white, art house, stylized, neo noir ...
Plot: drug addiction, existentialism, addiction, morphine, reporter, movie star, hardcore, exodus, world war two, time travel, women, wartime life ...
Time: 1950s, year 1982, 80s
Place: munich germany, germany
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Playing for Keeps (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.
Style: romantic, funny, sexy, inspirational, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: soccer, father son relationship, football, soccer coach, single father, eligible bachelor, relationships, mentor, parents, family drama, athlete, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
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 8.1
 378K
Raging Bull (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his ...
Style: black and white, stylized, atmospheric, visual, bloody ...
Audience: adult
Plot: character study, boxing, redemption, rise and fall, violent, boxer, biopic, bad temper, tragedy, jealousy, gangster, paranoia ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1980, 60s, 1940s ...
Place: new york, chicago, bronx new york city, italy, miami ...
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Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion ...
Style: humorous, touching, melancholic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mother daughter relationship, addiction, hollywood, drug addiction, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, rehabilitation, women, depression, female protagonist, drug, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 7.1
 78K
Fright Night (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), is a vampire. So when the bloodsucker starts stalking Charley, he turns to has-been actor Peter Vincent ...
Style: scary, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, monster, supernatural horror, blood, mysterious character, neighbor, teenager, gory, bloodsucker, brutality, werewolf ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, iowa
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Don't Come Knocking (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. ...
Style: realistic, road movie, talky, sentimental, sad ...
Plot: redemption, cowboy, father son relationship, hopes, self discovery, parents and children, haunted by the past, family relations, human nature, actor's life, small town, road trip ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: montana, usa, utah, nevada
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Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
Style: retro, meta, stylized, realistic, serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, infidelity, alcoholism, drug addiction, ambition, casino, ex husband ex wife relationship, american abroad, hospital, sleeping pill, first love, mentor protege relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, usa, connecticut, europe
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Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of ...
Style: humorous, intense, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: comedian, showbiz, actor's life, ambition, family life, aging, desire for fame, talent agent, rise and fall, rise to the top, judaism, fame ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: new york
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Eastbound & Down (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
Style: humorous, sitcom, not serious, realistic, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, desire for fame, teacher, ambition, lifestyle, ex athlete, obsession, stupidity, dark humor, loser, delusion, coach ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, hawaii, mexico, usa
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Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom ...
Style: romantic, realistic, feel good, funny, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, coming of age, college, youth, graduation, house party, party, friends, cheerleader, american football, bullying ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, y2k, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, california
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 4.6
 650
Final Impact (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A former kick-boxing world champion discovers a young fighter, and believes together they can win back the world crown.
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious
Plot: martial arts, tough heroes, swimming pool, training, kickboxer, gym, gambling, suspicion of adultery, relationship problems, championship, nightclub, washed up star ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio, usa, las vegas
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 6.3
 14K
Mindhorn (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A washed up actor who played Mindhorn, a secret agent with a bionic eye, returns to the Isle of Man, the area where his most famous role was set, to help catch a killer.
Style: parody, captivating, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Plot: murderer, conspiracy, amateur detective, husband wife relationship, betrayal, mental illness, paranoia, revenge, deception, corruption, kidnapping, heroes ...
Time: 2010s, year 1989, 80s
Place: london
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Grown Up Movie Star (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, emotional, teen ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, single father, family relations, father daughter relationship, teenage sexuality, ambition, blind ambition, teenage life, sexual awakening, rebelliousness, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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