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Kanopy
90
8.4
/258968/
81
/3777/
82
/2844/
4.4
/333854/
98
/125/
95
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94
/32/
cc age 13+

Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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Kanopy
88
8.0
/131901/
77
/2040/
81
/2471/
4.3
/243675/
97
/62/
91
/2559/
93
/23/

8½ (1963)
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
poster
87
8.1
/25403/
79
/852/
79
/400/
4.2
/61912/
100
/34/
94
/534/
95
/7/

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.
poster
86
8.0
/26156/
76
/486/
78
/638/
4.2
/47723/
98
/40/
91
/423/

Day for Night (1973)
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
86
7.9
/159370/
76
/4173/
74
/1569/
3.9
/215753/
98
/177/
92
/7951/
92
/30/
cc age 14+

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
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Criterion Channel
85
8.2
/26355/
80
/660/
80
/433/
4.4
/125883/
89
/19/
88
/179/
92
/15/

Close-Up (1990)
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
poster
85
8.5
/5491/
80
/412/
78
/168/
3.9
/10268/
100
/9/
94
/196/

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.5
/71476/
73
/1326/
71
/911/
4.4
/9070/
97
/65/
84
/903/
86
/20/
cc age 17+

The Player (1992)
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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Amazon Prime Video
84
7.7
/66870/
75
/1795/
75
/918/
4.1
/134000/
93
/147/
85
/3212/
87
/35/
cc age 16+

Grizzly Man (2005)
Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
83
8.0
/11389/
82
/882/
80
/192/
4.1
/41248/
98
/107/
98
/312/
76
/22/
cc age 11+

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.
poster
83
7.5
/66679/
74
/2418/
73
/1868/
4.0
/160674/
96
/306/
91
/78/
87
/43/
cc age 17+

Pain and Glory (2019)
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
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Kanopy
83
7.8
/16688/
75
/572/
75
/363/
3.9
/26198/
98
/203/
88
/483/
87
/35/
cc age 15+

Life Itself (2014)
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.
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Kanopy
82
7.2
/5085/
72
/157/
68
/122/
3.9
/20313/
99
/110/
77
/9/
93
/29/

No Bears (2022)
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.
poster
82
7.8
/5657/
74
/93/
74
/65/
3.7
/4259/
100
/16/
85
/111/
73
/10/

That's Entertainment! (1974)
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
poster
The Roku Channel
82
8.0
/29181/
79
/1579/
78
/731/
4.0
/61417/
97
/117/
89
/338/
79
/31/

Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing two years, and millions of dollars, the gigantic project ended in failure; but the artists Jodorowsky brought together to carry it out continued to work together, and ended up laying the foundations for modern science fiction cinema.
poster
The CW
82
8.0
/42287/
77
/2963/
76
/848/
3.8
/40650/
95
/93/
90
/360/
80
/11/
cc age 13+

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)
GOING CLEAR intimately profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of religion.
poster
81
7.7
/696/
66
/42/
77
/9/
4.0
/12670/
95
/59/
95
/218/
78
/11/
cc age 13+

Merrily We Roll Along (2025)
Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today. A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, filmed at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.
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MUBI
81
7.2
/4750/
67
/223/
70
/112/
4.0
/23103/
93
/74/
85
/22/

Close Your Eyes (2023)
Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
poster
81
8.0
/3161/
74
/31/
71
/30/
3.8
/1128/
96
/25/
87
/38/

The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film recounts the rise of her career from a dancer, to a movie actor to the most important film director in Nazi Germany who directed such famous propaganda films as Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The film also explores her later activities after Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 and her disgrace for being so associated with it which includes her amazingly active life over the age of 90.
poster
84
81
8.3
/6450/
79
/294/
74
/90/
3.8
/3589/
100
/6/
92
/863/

An Evening with Kevin Smith (2002)
Kevin Smith interacts in Q&A sessions throughout various college stops in the USA.
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Fandango at Home Free
81
7.4
/6613/
73
/350/
70
/171/
3.7
/19338/
95
/112/
85
/67/
83
/31/

De Palma (2016)
An intimate conversation between filmmakers, chronicling De Palma’s 55-year career, his life, and his filmmaking process, with revealing anecdotes and, of course, a wealth of film clips.
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Disney Plus
80
7.7
/4213/
78
/334/
77
/45/
3.9
/20537/
98
/61/
92
/34/
69
/13/
cc age 10+

Jim Henson Idea Man (2024)
Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man whose boundless imagination inspired the world.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
80
7.2
/21287/
73
/1073/
70
/460/
3.9
/41370/
99
/81/
82
/68/
90
/26/

The Tale (2018)
An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
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Criterion Channel
80
7.7
/2274/
78
/60/
74
/61/
4.2
/8388/
83
/6/
84
/16/

Jacquot (1991)
Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary.
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Kanopy
80
7.5
/347658/
73
/10662/
71
/7529/
3.5
/438590/
93
/232/
78
/8429/
83
/41/
cc age 8+

Hugo (2011)
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
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Kanopy
79
7.7
/1052/
80
/21/
75
/10/
3.9
/1516/
100
/42/
62
/1/
87
/17/

My Journey Through French Cinema (2016)
Famous French director Tavernier tells us about his fantastic voyage through the cinema of his country.
poster
79
7.5
/1870/
73
/51/
70
/37/
3.5
/1474/
100
/10/
82
/25/
81
/15/

That's Entertainment! III (1994)
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
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MGM Plus
79
7.5
/404242/
73
/8599/
72
/5683/
3.8
/324101/
86
/227/
79
/7993/
77
/41/
cc age 16+

The Aviator (2004)
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 obsessive-compulsive disorder.
poster
79
7.9
/258642/
78
/5963/
75
/2953/
4.0
/265703/
93
/60/
93
/9525/
59
/19/
cc age 17+

True Romance (1993)
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
poster
79
7.8
/2793/
72
/72/
69
/31/
3.9
/1806/
91
/76/
89
/110/
72
/23/

Stevie (2002)
In 1995 Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an 'Advocate Big Brother' to ten years earlier.
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Kanopy
79
6.8
/3894/
69
/128/
67
/95/
3.8
/15802/
100
/24/
87
/14/
80
/7/

Rapture (1980)
José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.4
/5986/
69
/124/
69
/100/
3.9
/13030/
97
/102/
69
/124/
90
/27/

This Is Not a Film (2011)
Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life under house arrest as he awaits a decision on his appeal.
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MUBI
78
7.8
/127079/
77
/3225/
76
/1463/
4.2
/167752/
64
/117/
85
/4896/
64
/23/

The Fall (2006)
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
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Fandor
78
7.5
/21517/
72
/463/
71
/310/
3.9
/38449/
86
/36/
87
/473/
81
/17/

Living in Oblivion (1995)
Low-budget independent filmmaker Nick Reve tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious beret-wearing director of photography, and lousy catering.
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Kanopy
78
7.7
/1240/
74
/60/
72
/39/
3.8
/4276/
96
/89/
96
/141/
76
/13/

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.3
/7544/
72
/317/
72
/246/
3.6
/14610/
96
/115/
77
/48/
79
/25/

Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
78
7.7
/8936/
76
/623/
75
/299/
3.8
/25592/
91
/34/
90
/31/

Spielberg (2017)
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
poster
78
7.2
/43997/
72
/707/
71
/697/
3.8
/34295/
82
/156/
75
/1564/
76
/32/
cc age 18+

Broken Embraces (2009)
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.
poster
78
77
7.1
/15250/
70
/361/
71
/323/
3.8
/45088/
100
/13/
82
/231/

Law of Desire (1987)
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.
poster
Netflix
77
7.7
/20376/
77
/982/
74
/257/
3.8
/15889/
88
/77/
91
/121/
77
/16/

Meru (2015)
Meru is the electrifying story of three elite American climbers—Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk—bent on achieving the impossible.
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Kanopy
76
6.6
/911/
66
/57/
69
/22/
3.7
/9269/
91
/47/
72
/2/
73
/14/

Leonor Will Never Die (2022)
Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.
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Hoopla
76
7.4
/3868/
70
/74/
69
/46/
3.7
/1848/
94
/121/
80
/603/
73
/35/

Wordplay (2006)
From the masters who create the mind-bending diversions to the tense competition at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Patrick Creadon's documentary reveals a fascinating look at a decidedly addictive pastime. Creadon captures New York Times editor Will Shortz at work, talks to celebrity solvers -- including Bill Clinton and Ken Burns -- and presents an intimate look at the national tournament and its competitors.
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Kanopy
82
76
7.9
/7098/
76
/163/
74
/97/
4.2
/10213/
96
/49/
88
/154/
78
/15/

5 Broken Cameras (2011)
Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he becomes the peaceful archivist of an escalating struggle as olive trees are bulldozed, lives are lost, and a wall is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli settlements.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.3
/12250/
73
/321/
70
/229/
3.6
/12271/
94
/103/
77
/590/
75
/36/

Lost in La Mancha (2002)
Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project.
poster
Peacock Premium
75
6.8
/249644/
70
/16261/
69
/3459/
3.4
/1012058/
82
/376/
84
/740/
73
/57/
cc age 13+

The Fall Guy (2024)
Fresh off an almost career-ending accident, stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
poster
75
7.4
/46546/
75
/1094/
73
/824/
3.6
/33658/
83
/24/
88
/1433/
64
/11/

The Party (1968)
Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.
poster
Fandor
75
7.1
/5431/
72
/239/
70
/159/
3.9
/25834/
92
/49/
66
/14/
81
/16/

Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets an artist named Yoon Heejung. Together, they go to Heejung's workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi with Soju for dinner, and get close. Later, they go to another café and have more drinks with Heejung's acquaintances. When asked if he is married, Chunsu is forced to reveal the fact that he is, and Heejung gets deeply disappointed...
poster
83
75
8.1
/4600/
81
/183/
79
/84/
4.0
/5415/
94
/153/

Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway (2008)
Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.


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