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1. Sleepwalk with Me (2012)
PG-13 | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Directors: Mike Birbiglia, Seth Barrish | Stars: Mike Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose, James Rebhorn, Carol Kane
Votes: 12,192 | Gross: $2.26M
2. Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
The life of Buddy Young, a comic legend in flashbacks but an old man looking for work in the present.
Director: Billy Crystal | Stars: Billy Crystal, David Paymer, Julie Warner, Helen Hunt
Votes: 6,343 | Gross: $13.35M
3. Give My Regards to Broadway (1948)
92 min | Musical
The Norwick family has had a successful run on the vaudeville circuit, but now some of the family want out. Mom is ready to retire on the family's farm, and daughter June wants to quit now ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Dan Dailey, Charles Winninger, Nancy Guild, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 139
4. Babes in Arms (1939)
Unrated | 94 min | Comedy, Musical
A group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got talent, too.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 2,849
5. My Favorite Year (1982)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
An aging, dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show in 1954, and a young comedy writer is tasked with the thankless job of keeping him ready and sober for the broadcast.
Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna
Votes: 10,522 | Gross: $20.12M
6. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The media and disaffected teens mistake the acerbic rants of an obnoxious teenage punk rocker as a rallying cry for the women of America, launching her and her talentless group to national stardom.
Director: Lou Adler | Stars: Peter Donat, Diane Lane, Marin Kanter, Laura Dern
Votes: 3,049
7. The Sunshine Boys (I) (1975)
PG | 111 min | Comedy
A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a television special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith
Votes: 6,706
8. The Impostors (1998)
R | 101 min | Comedy
Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.
Director: Stanley Tucci | Stars: Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Walker Jones, Jessica Walling
Votes: 5,377 | Gross: $2.20M
9. Swing Time (1936)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick
Votes: 14,588
10. A Chorus Line (1985)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Music, Musical
Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Michael Douglas, Terrence Mann, Michael Blevins, Yamil Borges
Votes: 11,643 | Gross: $14.20M
11. Auto Focus (2002)
R | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life of TV star Bob Crane and his strange friendship with electronics expert John Henry Carpenter.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson
Votes: 14,932 | Gross: $2.06M
12. Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)
R | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Three women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.
Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, Larenz Tate
Votes: 4,548 | Gross: $12.41M
13. Funny Bones (1995)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
An unsuccessful comedian uncovers a family secret and learns the true price of letting inherent talent shine.
Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Oliver Platt, Lee Evans, Leslie Caron
Votes: 3,890 | Gross: $0.53M
14. Dead Set (2008)
TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
During a fictional series of Big Brother, a zombie outbreak occurs, but the house-mates are unaware of the impending doom outside of the Big Brother House.
Stars: Paul 'Bubble' Ferguson, Jaime Winstone, Andy Nyman, Riz Ahmed
Votes: 20,922
15. It All Came True (1998)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A man buys a house on Manhattan, uninhabited for decades - except the ghosts of the previous owner and his wife. They meddle in his love life.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: James Spader, Polly Walker, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith
Votes: 1,326
16. Controlled Chaos (2003)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
The Assistant to a world-famous film director must hide her boss' scandalous lifestyle from reporters.
Director: Azita Zendel | Stars: Amy Blomquist, Don Hughes, Erik Engstrom, Charley King
Votes: 39 | Gross: $0.04M
17. Prison (1949)
79 min | Drama
A film director tries to create the best film in history, but finds out that human abilities have their limits.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Doris Svedlund, Birger Malmsten, Eva Henning, Hasse Ekman
Votes: 2,141
18. Mad Love (1935)
Passed | 68 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy
Votes: 5,878 | Gross: $0.37M
19. The Country Girl (1954)
Unrated | 104 min | Drama, Music
A director hires an alcoholic has-been and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife, who he believes is the cause of all the man's problems.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden, Anthony Ross
Votes: 6,676
20. Stage Fright (1950)
Approved | 110 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Michael Wilding
Votes: 16,159
21. A Double Life (1947)
Approved | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Ronald Colman, Edmond O'Brien, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters
Votes: 3,973
22. Ellie Parker (2005)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A hilarious comic portrait of a young woman's struggle for integrity, happiness, and a Hollywood acting career.
Director: Scott Coffey | Stars: Naomi Watts, Jennifer Syme, Greg Freitas, Gaye Pope
Votes: 4,817 | Gross: $0.03M
23. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
After being mistaken for an actor, a New York thief is sent to Hollywood to train under a private eye for a potential movie role, but the duo are thrown together with a struggling actress into a murder mystery.
Director: Shane Black | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bernsen
Votes: 237,461 | Gross: $4.24M
24. Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
A portrait of the 30 year relationship between Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. With comments by their friends and family.
Stars: Ian McKellen, Renée Asherson, Alan Bates, Michael Blakemore
Votes: 61
25. The John Garfield Story (2003 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Biography
This documentary, aired on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable network, looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he died at age 39. His difficult ... See full summary »
Director: David Heeley | Stars: Julie Garfield, Ellen Adler, Joseph Bernard, Phoebe Brand
Votes: 231
26. Breathing Hard (2001)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
A struggling Hollywood writer takes a job as a driver for a cursing, cantankerous old British actress. She believes she has one great role left in her...and decides that it should be in his new play.
Director: Eric Neal Young | Stars: John Rafter Lee, June Claman, John Billingsley, Laura Lieblein Adam
Votes: 28
27. Typecasted (2006)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Angelo (Frank Fata) and Tony (Adam Piacente) will do just about anything to make it in showbiz. Even if that means constantly playing characters that portray the stereotype they worked ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Roberts | Stars: Marcus Black, Brian Demaseo, Tory Eletto, Frank Fata
Votes: 8
28. Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in small character roles. Meanwhile, her ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Patsy Ruth Miller, Louise Dresser, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jerry Miley
Votes: 19
29. The Mysterious Miss X (1939)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Keith Neville and Dan Casey, two small-time stage actors, are traveling by bus back to New York City, and have an overnight stay in a small town. They take a room in a local hotel and a ... See full summary »
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Michael Whalen, Lynne Roberts, Chick Chandler, Mabel Todd
Votes: 66
30. Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999 TV Movie)
Unrated | 57 min | Documentary, Biography
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members an acquaintances. Including seven minutes of additional material not seen in the TV version.
Director: Hugh Munro Neely | Stars: Courtney Love, David Stenn, Budd Schulberg, Catherine Mulligan
Votes: 253
31. Painted Faces (1929)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A vaudeville performer is murdered backstage and another performer is tried for the crime.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Helen Foster, Barton Hepburn, Dorothy Gulliver
Votes: 88
32. Dance Charlie Dance (1937)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked into backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise when he is sued for plagiarism.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Jean Muir, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 145
33. Festa (1989)
82 min | Comedy, Drama
Hired to entertain a party in a luxury home, in São Paulo, a musician, a snooker player, and an old decadent actor keep waiting downstairs, never being invited to the party upstairs to perform their acts.
Director: Ugo Giorgetti | Stars: Antonio Abujamra, Otávio Augusto, Pedro Paulo Calvoso, Jessica Canoletti
Votes: 211
34. I'm Still Alive (1940)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Steve Bennett is a daring flier who crashes airplanes for the movies, and Laura Marley is an arrogant movie star who is transformed into a very likable woman when she marries Steve. But she... See full summary »
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes, Howard Da Silva, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 95
35. I Live for Love (1935)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Donna (Del Rio) is a diva of the stage and wants her lover Rico (Alvarado) as her leading man. To keep this from happening, the producers (Churchill, Cavanaugh) grab Roger Kerry (Marshall) off the street and say he has a contract.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Everett Marshall, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 178
36. The Hollywood Collection: Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man (1999 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Biography
In the 1942 This Gun For Hire, he was only a supporting actor. But his portrayal of a cold, ruthless killer with a core of gentle sadness had an impact on audiences everywhere. Teamed with ... See full summary »
Director: Gene Feldman | Stars: Sue Carol, Anthony Caruso, Jeff Corey, Edward Dmytryk
Votes: 40
37. Le plus beau pays du monde (1999)
120 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
Director: Marcel Bluwal | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Marianne Denicourt, Jean-Claude Adelin, Jacques Bonnaffé
Votes: 44
38. Akropol (1996)
125 min | Musical, Drama
This musical shows of the Acropole dominated Greek theater during the 1950s and 60s. Acropole follows Prince, the self-made producer of this unusual and mythic theater, and Lakis, the ... See full summary »
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Lefteris Voyatzis, Stavros Paravas, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Themis Bazaka
Votes: 177
39. Ginger (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Jane Withers, O.P. Heggie, Jackie Searl, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 73
40. Accent on Youth (1935)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss tries to fix her up with a man closer to her age and already in love with her.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Herbert Marshall, Phillip Reed, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 132
41. Sons o' Guns (1936)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Joan Blondell, Beverly Roberts, Eric Blore
Votes: 278
42. Quadrille (1938)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend ... See full summary »
Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Sacha Guitry, Gaby Morlay, Jacqueline Delubac, Georges Grey
Votes: 423
43. Till We Meet Again (1936)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Romance, War
In August 1914 London, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan to marry immediately. But the War comes ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael, Lionel Atwill, Rod La Rocque
Votes: 70
44. The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Eddie Grant is a radio station sound-effects man whose honeymoon takes a turn for the worse when they discovers the corpse of a program producer in in their honeymoon suite.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Arthur Lake, Janis Carter, Lynne Roberts, Frank Sully
Votes: 98
45. Here Comes Carter (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Drama
Kent Carter is just a regular Joe who works at a movie studio and observes interesting behavior concerning actors. He uses the info to become a hard driven gossip reporter and bring down a star with a mean streak.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Ross Alexander, Glenda Farrell, Anne Nagel, Craig Reynolds
Votes: 279
46. Forced March (1989)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, History, War
Ben Kline is a successful television actor looking for a meaningful role to make him a movie star. When he sets out to play a hero who died in the Holocaust, he is forced to face the ... See full summary »
Director: Rick King | Stars: Chris Sarandon, Renée Soutendijk, Josef Sommer, John Seitz
Votes: 111
47. James Cagney: Top of the World (1992 TV Movie)
47 min | Documentary
James Cagney was a song-and-dance man who loved animals, supported the underdog and was liked by everybody, but is remembered for his roles as a cold-blooded gangster.
Director: Carl H. Lindahl | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Casey Cagney Thomas, James Cagney, Mae Clarke
Votes: 207
48. King of Burlesque (1936)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Mona Barrie
Votes: 230
49. Le schpountz (1938)
Passed | 160 min | Comedy
Meeting a movie team on location near his house, a young man gets a lot of encouragement for his dreaming career as a movie star in what was only sarcasm from the members of the team. This ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Fernandel, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Léon Belières
Votes: 786
50. The Blair Witch Mountain Project (2002)
G | 22 min | Short
An intrepid journalist tries to track down Tia and Tony, the beloved alien stars of Disney's 1975 film "Escape to Witch Mountain" and its 1978 sequel "Return from Witch Mountain".
Director: Ike Eisenmann | Stars: Hope Levy, Ike Eisenmann, Kim Richards, Brad Savage
Votes: 123
51. Merton of the Movies (1947)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
A Kansas bumpkin goes to Hollywood to become a movie star and gets a job burlesquing his favorite actor - only he thinks the role is serious.
Director: Robert Alton | Stars: Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, Gloria Grahame, Leon Ames
Votes: 502
52. Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Gale Storm, Walter Brennan, Vincent Price
Votes: 127
53. The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood Jr. (1995)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Biography, Horror
How was it possible that a movie like Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) could be made? This documentary about Edward D. Wood Jr.'s masterpiece gives the answer.
Director: Brett Thompson | Stars: Maila Nurmi, Dolores Fuller, Paul Marco, Conrad Brooks
Votes: 483
54. Happy (1983 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A former child show host misses the good old days. He and his sidekick from the show are doing a gig when the place gets robbed and the sidekick murdered. The host is the only one who saw the robber well so the robber goes after him.
Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Dom DeLuise, Dee Wallace, Henry Silva, Jack Gilford
Votes: 54
55. Chaplin's Goliath (1996)
54 min | Documentary, Biography
A film about Eric Campbell, the tall Scottish actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charles Chaplin's Tramp character.
Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Bill Paterson, Brenda Bull, Peter Menzies, Jimmy Logan
Votes: 147
56. Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000 TV Movie)
85 min | Documentary, Biography
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.
Director: Kevin Brownlow | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Forrest J. Ackerman, Michael F. Blake, Teresa Blake
Votes: 514
57. Enchantment (1921)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
The frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a gentlemanly cave man and the film becomes another variation of the 'Taming of the Shrew' theme.
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Edith Shayne, Tom Lewis
Votes: 319
58. Man of the Year (1995)
86 min | Comedy, Romance
Mockumentary look at Playgirl Magazine centerfold and 1992 Man of the Year, Dirk Shafer, who kept it a secret from the magazine that he is gay. Most of the film is a fictionalized retelling... See full summary »
Director: Dirk Shafer | Stars: Vivian Paxton, Claudette Sutherland, Michael Ornstein, Cal Bartlett
Votes: 347
59. Girl 27 (2007)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Biography
The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
Director: David Stenn | Stars: Patricia Douglas, Baby Peggy, Richard W. Bann, Kelly Brown
Votes: 1,185
60. See the Man Run (1971 TV Movie)
73 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Kidnappers making a ransom demand dial a wrong number & reach a struggling actor instead. He decides to cut himself in for some of the money.
Director: Corey Allen | Stars: Robert Culp, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, June Allyson
Votes: 156
61. Clownwise (2013)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
At the beginning of their careers Oskar, Max and Viktor created a superstar clown trio called The Busters. Their clownery personified little islands of freedom in the midst of a motionless ... See full summary »
Director: Viktor Taus | Stars: Didier Flamand, Oldrich Kaiser, Jirí Lábus, Kati Outinen
Votes: 199
62. The Firebird (1934)
Approved | 74 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola ... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Verree Teasdale, Ricardo Cortez, Lionel Atwill, Anita Louise
Votes: 326
63. Attack of the Bat Monsters (1999)
92 min | Comedy
A group of low-budget filmmakers make a horror movie.
Director: Kelly Greene | Stars: Michael Dalmon, Maurice Ripke, Fred Ballard, Casie Tabanou
Votes: 78
64. The Lady of Scandal (1930)
Passed | 76 min | Romance, Comedy, Drama
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Basil Rathbone, Ralph Forbes, Nance O'Neil
Votes: 261
65. Love on the Ground (1984)
125 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house; an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Isabelle Linnartz
Votes: 649
66. Confession (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Aging down on her luck cabaret singer murders a respectable composer. On trial she slowly gives in and explains her crime. They had a complicated history.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Kay Francis, Basil Rathbone, Ian Hunter, Jane Bryan
Votes: 1,325
67. You're a Sweetheart (1937)
Approved | 96 min | Music, Romance
Hal Adams tries to win the heart of Broadway star Betty Bradley.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Alice Faye, George Murphy, Ken Murray, Charles Winninger
Votes: 145
68. Actor for Hire (2015)
TV-14 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A bald, out of work actor finds immediate and overwhelming success when he discovers the power of persona in the form of a cheap wig.
Director: Marcus Mizelle | Stars: Jesse O'Neill, Joel Hogan, Jandres Burgos Caballero, Greg Perrow
Votes: 1,619
69. Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)
100 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Comedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic, Bruce's increasingly iconoclastic act transformed ... See full summary »
Director: Robert B. Weide | Stars: Robert De Niro, Steve Allen, Honey Bruce Friedman, Kitty Bruce
Votes: 611 | Gross: $0.02M
70. Sin vergüenza (2001)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
A movie script is presented to Isabel. After reading it she realizes it's based on an old love affair she had with movie director Mario Fabra, the author of the script.
Director: Joaquín Oristrell | Stars: Verónica Forqué, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Candela Peña, Carmen Balagué
Votes: 531
71. Dramatic School (1938)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Aspiring actress Louise Mauban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way ... See full summary »
Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard, Alan Marshal, Lana Turner
Votes: 476
72. Men Are Not Gods (1936)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
Ann Williams (Miriam Hopkins), secretary to eccentric drama critic T.H. Skeates (A.E. Matthews), is persuaded to alter a ruinous review of Shakespearean actor Edmond Davey (Sebastian Shaw) ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Reisch | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Sebastian Shaw, Rex Harrison
Votes: 354
73. Our Miss Fred (1972)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, War
Shakespearian actor Fred Wimbush's drafted during WWII. While entertaining the troops with his drag act one day, the Germans capture them. Thinking he's a girl, they let him go. He mustn't break his character until he reaches safety.
Director: Bob Kellett | Stars: Danny La Rue, Alfred Marks, Lance Percival, Lally Bowers
Votes: 206
74. Close-Up (2011)
85 min | Drama
"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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jose E. Cruz Jr. | Stars: Shaun Paul Costello, Valentina Mohle, Alan Ruck, Ryan Dunn
Votes: 69
75. Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth-talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural and ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Alice White, Jack Mulhall, Blanche Sweet, Ford Sterling
Votes: 406
76. The Saxon Charm (1948)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.
Director: Claude Binyon | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Susan Hayward, John Payne, Audrey Totter
Votes: 313
77. Mr. Right (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Harry hates being a TV producer and dreams of leaving his job to travel the world. He loves Alex, an aspiring actor who is struggling to create an identity for himself as a performer. Rugby... See full summary »
Directors: David Morris, Jacqui Morris | Stars: James Lance, Luke de Woolfson, Benjamin Hart, Georgia Zaris
Votes: 536
78. Holyman Undercover (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
An Amish man comes to Hollywood to be a missionary, and gets cast as Satan on a nighttime soap opera.
Director: David A.R. White | Stars: David A.R. White, Fred Willard, Andrea Logan, Jennifer Lyons
Votes: 302
79. The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
April 14, 1865. As four year of Civil War draw to a close, our country again faces unforgettable tragedy: the assassination of the President. Starring Lance Henriksen as the Great ... See full summary »
Director: John Gray | Stars: Rob Morrow, Lance Henriksen, Donna Murphy, Jean Louisa Kelly
Votes: 385
80. Caught in the Draft (1941)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
A movie star who can't stand loud noises accidentally joins the Army.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lynne Overman, Eddie Bracken
Votes: 892
81. Inside the Labyrinth (1986 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary, Music
A behind-the-scenes look at the David Bowie film Labyrinth (1986), also featuring director Jim Henson and co-star Jennifer Connelly.
Director: Desmond Saunders | Stars: Jim Henson, David Bowie, Charles Augins, Brian Henson
Votes: 559
82. The Velvet Touch (1948)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Broadway star unintentionally kills her impresario but keeps mum about it after the police investigator targets a rival actress.
Director: Jack Gage | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet
Votes: 1,284
83. La bomba (1999)
96 min | Comedy
Three young Italian actors while attending Actor's Studio set up as a joke an extortion acting like real mafiosi. After the successful first extortion they decide to continue on that way. But the NY mafia realize what is happening and...
Director: Giulio Base | Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Rocco Papaleo, Enrico Brignano, Lola Pagnani
Votes: 338
84. Pick a Star (1937)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Jack Haley, Rosina Lawrence, Patsy Kelly, Mischa Auer
Votes: 550
85. In Broad Daylight (1971 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend, and hatches a plot to murder them both.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Richard Boone, Suzanne Pleshette, Stella Stevens, John Marley
Votes: 251
86. Frankie and Johnny Are Married (2003)
R | 95 min | Comedy
Television director and producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work... See full summary »
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Michael Pressman, Lisa Chess, Alan Rosenberg, Stephen Tobolowsky
Votes: 249 | Gross: $0.02M
87. Exit Smiling (1926)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
A maid who works for a traveling theatrical troupe wants desperately to be an actress, and manages to get some small roles in the company's productions, but is determined to do anything she... See full summary »
Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Beatrice Lillie, Jack Pickford, Doris Lloyd, DeWitt Jennings
Votes: 518
88. Speaking Parts (1989)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely woman stalks a co-worker by obsessively watching videos he appears in. He is an actor trying to get a part in a new TV movie, written by his lover. She has written about her brother's death, but is losing control of the project.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose, Tony Nardi
Votes: 1,570
89. Brando (2007 TV Movie)
165 min | Documentary, Biography
The life and legacy of Marlon Brando and how he changed acting.
Directors: Mimi Freedman, Leslie Greif | Stars: Marlon Brando, Edward R. Murrow, Janet Aemisegger, Betty Gossell
Votes: 734
90. Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992)
Not Rated | 63 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary about the career and eventual death from AIDS of actor Rock Hudson.
Director: Mark Rappaport | Stars: Eric Farr, Lauren Bacall, Cyd Charisse, Marc Christian
Votes: 526
91. The David Cassidy Story (2000 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 88 min | Biography, Drama
The life story of teen actor and singer David Cassidy, best remembered for the TV show hit "The Partridge Family", is presented with his up's and down's, the rise to fame, personal ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Andrew Kavovit, Malcolm McDowell, Dey Young, Roma Maffia
Votes: 268
92. Because of Him (1946)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Helen Broderick
Votes: 428
93. The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person. Hit song: "Love Walked In.
Directors: George Marshall, H.C. Potter | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, The Ritz Brothers, Vera Zorina
Votes: 523
94. Sweethearts (1938)
Passed | 114 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Votes: 705
95. Something to Sing About (1937)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical
A New York bandleader journeys to Hollywood when he is offered a contract with a studio, but he is determined to do things his way and not theirs.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley, Mona Barrie
Votes: 1,023
96. Wives and Lovers (1963)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
A struggling author and his wife suddenly become wealthy and move to the suburbs. Divorced neighbor and "companion" aid marital misconstrue which almost culminates in a divorce.
Director: John Rich | Stars: Janet Leigh, Van Johnson, Shelley Winters, Martha Hyer
Votes: 308
97. It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
While hospitalized young Billy meets his silent movie idol Tim Bart but then the talkies came, destroying Bart's career. Now Bart must convince his young friend he is still a star.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Richard Dix, Fay Wray, Victor Kilian, Charles Arnt
Votes: 703
98. Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 840
99. Let's Make Up (1954)
72 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Errol Flynn, Anna Neagle, David Farrar, Kathleen Harrison
Votes: 197
100. The House in Nightmare Park (1973)
95 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
In 1907, an actor is invited to perform in an isolated country house, and becomes involved in mysterious and dangerous events.
Director: Peter Sykes | Stars: Frankie Howerd, Ray Milland, Hugh Burden, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 771
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