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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier ...
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, captivating, compassionate, philosophical ...
Plot:
notre dame cathedral, love and romance, impossible love, unfulfilled love, theater, hunchback, tragedy, unfaithful, life is a bitch, musical performance, obsessive love, dancing ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Julia is incredibly talented. She can become a great ballerina. But for this purpose she must give up everything: the interests of the family, her first love, friendship. Over and over again the heroine will face a complex choice between the dream ...
Style:
colorful, sad, realistic, artsy
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
ballet, ballerina, dancing, female protagonist, theater, teacher, high school, friendship, performer's life, disorder, mentor protege relationship, rivalry ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that ...
Style:
melancholic, stylized, humorous, witty, intellectual ...
Plot:
sex scene, farce, existentialism, art, life philosophy, love and romance, actor's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, theater, writer's life, female nudity ...
Time:
1900s, year 1998, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
america, new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the role, the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.
Style:
humorous, christmas horror, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot:
christmas, devil, clergy, rivalry, intrigue, church, nothing goes right, theater, tradition, supernatural, catholic, religion ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
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416
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
theater, biopic, character study, political unrest, sacrifice, mortality, resilience, legacy, social change, illness, memory, slow burn ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Video registration of Carmelo Bene's play 'Lorenzaccio, al di là di de Musset e Benedetto Varchi', performed in Florence in 1986.
Style:
avant garde, poetic, intellectual, dramatic, intense ...
Plot:
theater, performance art, adaptation, literary, monologue, corruption, political intrigue, power, identity, betrayal, revenge, historical figure ...
Place:
florence
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
Nagasaki, 1964 – Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For ...
Style:
intense, period drama
Plot:
kabuki, japanese culture, rivalry, theater, yakuza, coming of age, legacy, ambition, brotherhood, post war japan, family drama, betrayal ...
Time:
60s, year 1964, year 1980, year 1995, 80s ...
Place:
osaka japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band ...
Style:
comedy drama, life affirming, inspirational, feel good
Plot:
prisoner, prison, theater, actor, personal growth, humanity, hopes, stage play, rehearsal, second chance, redemption, bittersweet ...
Place:
france, lyon, paris france
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161
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After being blacklisted from the NYC theatre industry, two Upper East Side New Yorkers, Tucker and Sandrene, decide their only course of action is to move to Fargo, North Dakota and start a theatrical revolution.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
ambition, satire, theater, cultural revolution, ambitious, theatre director, theatrical troupe, stage actor, teamwork, fish out of water, culture clash, performance art ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While working part-time as a food deliveryman, Antoine, an aspiring young rapper from the suburbs of Paris, meets Mrs. Loiseau, an eminent teacher at the Paris Opéra. Stunned by the young man's raw talent, she introduces him to the world of ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
opera singer, rap, theater, opera, singer, female singer, audition, musician's life, music, music teacher, double life, satire ...
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A stand-up comedian on the verge of breakout success must make a terrible choice when he discovers a murderer on the loose in the theater where he's about to perform his biggest show.
Style:
slasher, suspense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
murder, live performance, serial killer, theater, murder mystery, comedian, stand up comedy, stand up comedian, psychopath, nightlife, party, social differences ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, a starving family find hope in a charismatic hotel owner. Lured by the prospect of a free dinner, they discover that the evening's entertainment blurs the lines between performance and reality. Will they ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, spooky ...
Plot:
hotel, mother daughter relationship, fight, theater, corpse, terror, apocalypse, husband wife relationship, oppression, starvation, poverty, desperation ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Parikka, the actor once called the Funniest Man in Finland, and his troupe are about to be executed for the atrocities committed during the Civil War in Finland. Jaeger Lieutenant Nyborg, an admirer of Parikka, suspects a definite miscarriage of ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, thought provoking, scary, tense ...
Plot:
island prison, finnish civil war, humour, prisoner, firing squad, theater, joke, rehearsal, theatre group, escape attempt, disguise, pow ...
Time:
1910s, year 1918
Place:
germany, finland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Remake of a hit film from 1990, "The Cherry Orchard" which Nakahara himself directed, based on a popular comic book from Akimi Yoshida. The story takes place at a prestigious girls high school where everyone is oppressed with rules. One ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
girls' school, theater, female friendship, coming of age, adolescence, high school life, rebellion, adaptation, girlhood, identity, literary, nostalgia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sarah, the wife of a theater director, decides to leave her mutt of a husband because she is tired of his morbid fantasies. It is true that Baptiste has a rather unstable troupe that rehearses horror plays in a dance hall. Sarah comes out of the ...
Style:
dark, surreal, intense, psychological, dark comedy ...
Plot:
theater, macabre, female protagonist, obsession, performance art, rebirth, tragedy, intimate, alienation, getting home, provincial, hatchet ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Actress Lola Herrera and her ex-husband, actor Daniel Dicenta, face the camera with honesty as they tell each other what they needed to about their professional and personal lives.
Style:
emotional, sincere, minimal cast, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
theater, conversation, character study, actor, intimate, confession, realism, honesty, intimacy, relationships, single, minimalism ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties. He has not written anything for two years. In desperation, he offers the great Constant Coquelin a new play, a heroic comedy, in verse, for the ...
Style:
humorous, psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
writers, love, theater, hopes, escapades, writer's life, obsession, ambition, friendship, life philosophy, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of ...
Style:
parody, humorous, entertaining, light, funny ...
Plot:
satire, farce, dark humor, world war two, disorder, german occupation, theater, actor, daring rescue, nazi, gay, gay slur ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 50s, 1950s, 1930s
Place:
poland, england, germany, middle east, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.
Style:
suspense, tense, twist ending, psychological, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
whodunit, theater, murder, rehearsal, playwright, investigation, broadway, interrogation, deception, grief, female victim, manipulation ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Danny; a science teacher, tries to reunite with his ex-girlfriend Ruth, who has dumped him to become an actress in Hollywood. Stumbling into an LA theater during auditions asking: "Is this the audition for Macbeth?" he starts a series of ...
Style:
dark comedy, absurd, feel good, parody, slapstick ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
theater, shakespeare, superstition, fish out of water, ghost, supernatural, unrequited love, farce, taboo, satire, obsessive love, ex girlfriend ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the ...
Style:
witty, talky, independent film, historical drama, cult classic ...
Plot:
music, composer, biopic, writers, rehearsal, theater, opera, dancing, samurai, valet, inspiration, playwright ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1999, 1800s, 19th century, 1880s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's ...
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
crazy love, theater, art, nordic, relationships, dialogue, actor, memory, couples, dull life, couple relations, introspection ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
CI Shivakumar,a brash police officer, handles a lot of missing cases which has caused great strain on his marriage life. After a serious accident,Shiva admits his wife Aparna and daughter Lucky in hospital, only to find them missing next day. Will ...
Style:
suspense, thrilling, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, theater, disappearance, investigation, theatrical troupe, murder investigation, secret, murder mystery, crime solving, murderer, problem, killing ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Friends Franzi, Marieave and Kim planned to spend the summer rehearsing for a Peter Pan play, but when strange things start to happen at the theatre they take on the role of investigators.
Style:
light, captivating, entertaining, detective
Plot:
amateur detective, theater, private investigation, investigation, theatre play, friends, unsolved crime, theatrical troupe, group of friends, sleuth, secret revealed, friendship ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Bolivia, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Following his son Gabriel’s death, Jorge travels from conservative Bolivia to New York City to confront Gabriel’s boyfriend Sebastian. While the two battle over Jorge’s inability to accept his son, Sebastian channels his grief into a bold new ...
Style:
sexy, lgbt cinema, psychological, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
gay, gay love, death of lover, gay interest, gay relationship, gay lead character, brother sister relationship, gay couple, gay culture, suicide, gay son, male male relationship ...
Place:
bolivia, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As a thirty something acting teacher attempts to push a group of eager young performers out of their comfort zones, he struggles with his own ability to live an authentic and fulfilling life with his teenage son.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental
Plot:
gay interest, self discovery, family relations, actor's life, society, workplace, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, parents and children, misfit, dream, theater ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Joseph Kehr, a mentally disturbed aspiring actor returns to New York City to become the 'greatest actor of his generation'. In his pursuit of rising to the top, he enlists in an infamous acting class led by Professor Payton, a cunningly ...
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, independent film, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
fame, ambition, satire, sociopath, loner, desperation, social media, theater, obsession, social problems, actor's life, lifestyle ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Marisa feels that she is the supporting actress of her own life. She has no job, no projects, no prospects for the future. She looks away from her own life's downfall to become the rescuer of her best friend Mina, who is immersed in a desperate ...
Style:
road movie, independent film, melancholic, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
loneliness, relationship problems, existentialism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, guilt, theater, existential crisis, character study, female protagonist, aimlessness, slice of life, urban ...
Place:
madrid, spain
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
"Hollywood Acting Studio" follows Professor LaFrange, a failed Hollywood hopeful, and his attempts to teach "blockbuster cinema acting" to his community college acting class. LaFrange teaches his class the secrets to auditioning, ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, light, parody ...
Plot:
college, acting class, hollywood, desire for fame, follow your dream, college life, teachers and students, actor's life, hopes, improv, theater, satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A group of college theater students sneak into the Baxter University theater at night to initiate the 'frosh meat'. Something goes terribly wrong. The next night the same actors become locked into the theater, each one of them has to face ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
college, vengeance, rivalry, murder, actor, college student, theater, rite of passage, held captive, danger, backfire, violence ...
Time:
21st century
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