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, entertaining, serious, humorous, cult film and touching films and TV shows about / with washed up star, ambition, drinking alcohol, runaway, redemption, dialogue, actor's life, husband wife relationship, drunkenness and artists and showbiz plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres shot in USA, Germany, UK and other countries.
washed up star
TOP 10 movies tagged as washed up star: Jean-Claude Van Johnson (2016), BoJack Horseman (2014), A League of Their Own (1992), Summer of Dreams (2016), The Last Movie Star (2017), Unter Deutschen Betten (2017), Line (2017), Close-Up (2011), The Comeback (2005), Any Day (2015).
Best films
List of washed up star movies
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 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, captivating, entertaining, ironic, tense ...
Plot:
humour, washed up star, martial arts, working undercover, movie star, fighting crime, gang of outlaws, celebrity, crime spree, private investigation, unsolved crime, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show "Horsin' Around," but today he's washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful ...
Style:
adult animation, humorous, sitcom, anime, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
depression, existentialism, anthropomorphism, sadness, showbiz, hollywood, anthropomorphic animal, cynicism, relationships, down on your luck, washed up star, addiction ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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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, touching, sentimental, humorous, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, world war two, sport, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, friendship, female athlete, women, sibling rivalry, female bonding, underdog, happy ending ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
oregon, chicago illinois, new jersey, usa, colorado ...
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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, scary, surprise ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, jealousy, sibling rivalry, child star, aging, dysfunctional family, filmmaking, actress, violence, suspense ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1910s, year 1935, year 1917 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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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:
light, touching, sincere, captivating
Plot:
music teacher, washed up star, love and romance, small town life, fall in love, friendship, family relations, love, couples, celebrity, society, runaway ...
Place:
new york
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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:
disturbing, sincere, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
aging, old man, nostalgia, washed up star, hollywood, celebrity, depression, actor's life, artists and showbiz, loneliness, lifestyle, woman on top ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nashville tennessee, los angeles, tennessee, usa
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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:
psychological, humorous, feel good, light
Plot:
music business, washed up star, female singer, record producer, woman, aunt niece relationship, humiliation, taxi driver, cleaning lady, diary, broken arm, fellatio ...
Place:
germany, munich germany
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192
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Style:
light, entertaining, feel good, humorous
Plot:
father son relationship, family relations, villain as protagonist, go go dancer, domineering father, washed up star, teenage boy, pole dancer, ambition, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gold digger, machismo ...
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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, touching, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot:
social realism, addiction, husband wife relationship, fired from the job, fame, washed up star, father daughter estrangement, father daughter relationship, violence, drugs, divorce, drug addiction ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, los angeles, philadelphia
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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, captivating ...
Plot:
comeback, actress, tv show, lifestyle, ambition, workplace, celebrity culture, media satire, backstage, self involved, disorder, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
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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, entertaining, controversial, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
hippie, actor, nagging wife, friendship between men, cinema, sexy woman, struggling actor, knocked up, hollywood, violence, pig, celebrity ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, italy, usa
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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:
sentimental, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
dark past, lifestyle, unfulfillment, rise and fall, redemption, tragedy, rage, fistfight, death, boxing, courtroom, ambition ...
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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:
funny, entertaining, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot:
talent agent, workplace situations, actress, businesswoman, actor's life, celebrity culture, pop star, co worker co worker relationship, humour, aspiring actress, talent show, acting audition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
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5K
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, musician's life, price of fame, celebrity culture, rags to riches, desire for fame, music band, showbiz, lifestyle, ambition ...
Time:
50s, 60s
Place:
las vegas, mississippi
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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:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
wrestling, underdog, cheerleader, friendship, goofy hero, ambition, athlete's life, follow your dream, disorder, down on your luck, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, atlanta georgia
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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:
art house, stylized, gloomy, sexy, depressing ...
Plot:
drug addiction, existentialism, addiction, german, morphine, reporter, suicide attempt, crime gone awry, childhood, culture clash, greed, death ...
Time:
50s, 1930s, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
munich germany, berlin germany, germany
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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, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
soccer, sport, father son relationship, soccer coach, football, single father, mentor, relationships, parents, athlete, love and romance, coach ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, virginia
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311K
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:
emotional, depressing, bleak, touching, serious ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
wrestling, loneliness, aging, life is a bitch, sport, self destructing, fame, stripper, father daughter relationship, heart attack, ambition, character study ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, iran, usa, california
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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:
stylized, atmospheric, bloody, breathtaking, harsh ...
Plot:
character study, boxing, violent, sport, rise and fall, bad temper, tragedy, redemption, jealousy, gangsters, paranoia, fight ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 50s, 1940s, year 1956 ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, italy, detroit, miami ...
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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:
touching, humorous, melancholic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, hollywood, drug addiction, dysfunctional family, addiction, drug abuse, rehabilitation, women, depression, female protagonist, drugs, family problems ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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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:
emotional, realistic, road movie, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
redemption, cowboy, father son relationship, self discovery, hopes, haunted by the past, parents and children, family relations, human nature, actor's life, small town, road trip ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas, california, spain, nevada ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
Style:
sincere, stylized, serious, realistic, retro
Plot:
filmmaking, infidelity, alcohol abuse, sanitarium, drug addiction, isolation, ambition, missing person, airport, recording studio, heart attack, casino ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, usa, connecticut, europe
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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:
showbiz, comedian, ambition, actor's life, desire for fame, aging, family life, talent agent, rise and fall, rise to the top, loneliness, mentor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new jersey, new york
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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, loser, stupidity, dark humor, obsession, coach, delusion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
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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, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
teenager, high school, coming of age, college, youth, party, graduation, friends, cheerleading, house party, cheerleader, american football ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, california
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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:
serious, realistic, exciting
Plot:
martial arts, training, kickboxer, suspicion of adultery, gambling, relationship problems, washed up star, nightclub, casino, championship, gym, competition ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, ohio, las vegas
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An elderly, bedridden former movie star is "cared for" by her sister, who hates her and keeps her a virtual prisoner in the family mansion.
Style:
scary, serious, psychological, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
aging, rivalry, actor's life, switching roles, misfit, mentally unstable, confined, obsession, artists and showbiz, estate, family relations, showbiz ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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13K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.
Style:
clever, neo noir, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
private detective, suspense, murder, female nudity, missing person, police investigation, betrayal, corruption, murder mystery, femme fatale, uncover truth, nude ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, mexico
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Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
When an ingénue's sudden popularity threatens to shove her out of the spotlight, a movie star uses black magic in an attempt to derail her career.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, entertaining
Plot:
curses spells and rituals, obsession, artists and showbiz, rivalry, love and romance, supernatural, couples, power relations, woman in danger, fall in love, revenge, jealousy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
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254
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A washed up Vegas lounge singer, Jack Satin (Hamilton von Watts), has no money, no job, and delusional aspirations of fame. When Jack is forced to leave Vegas, he packs up his old Cadillac and hits the road for Atlantic City. But his car dies in the ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
redemption, haunted by the past, small town, jazz, love and romance, hopes, social relations, down on your luck, male female relationship, fish out of water, free spirit, road trip ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas
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