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Kanopy
90
8.4
/258946/
81
/3777/
82
/2844/
4.4
/333854/
98
/125/
95
/3486/
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
/131886/
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.
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Criterion Channel
85
7.9
/38734/
77
/877/
76
/645/
4.2
/78171/
96
/52/
89
/442/

In a Lonely Place (1950)
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
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Criterion Channel
84
7.5
/71464/
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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The Roku Channel
84
7.8
/254519/
76
/4728/
74
/3438/
3.8
/167931/
95
/321/
87
/6582/
89
/41/
cc age 13+

The Artist (2011)
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
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Hulu
83
7.6
/77186/
74
/2985/
74
/960/
3.9
/666118/
96
/275/
91
/67/
90
/53/
cc age 15+

All of Us Strangers (2023)
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
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Kanopy
83
7.8
/16686/
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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Fandor
78
7.5
/21516/
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.
poster
78
7.2
/9949/
71
/289/
69
/158/
3.8
/19476/
90
/21/
84
/115/

The Last of Sheila (1973)
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game—but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
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Kanopy
78
7.3
/7542/
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
78
7.2
/43992/
72
/703/
71
/693/
3.8
/34194/
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.
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79
77
7.7
/17633/
75
/330/
73
/282/
4.0
/20870/
80
/49/
85
/248/
86
/17/

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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Kanopy
77
7.4
/38683/
72
/724/
70
/926/
3.8
/105205/
92
/65/
85
/718/

Contempt (1963)
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
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Criterion Channel
75
6.9
/1699/
65
/20/
64
/32/
3.5
/806/
76
/37/
79
/7/
82
/15/

Safe Conduct (2002)
During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the Vichy government, assistant director Jean Devaivre uses his position at the German-controlled studio Continental Films as a cover for his resistance activities, while screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses his wits to keep from being involved in the creation of any collaborationist propaganda.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
7.2
/8769/
71
/323/
70
/176/
3.6
/10397/
94
/72/
84
/443/
61
/15/

Best Worst Movie (2009)
A look at the making of the film Troll 2 (1990) and its journey from being crowned the "worst film of all time" to a cherished cult classic.
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Kanopy
74
6.7
/32404/
65
/996/
65
/792/
3.7
/48321/
91
/176/
65
/347/
80
/42/
cc age 16+

Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
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Kanopy
74
7.0
/379037/
71
/13388/
67
/6919/
3.5
/315626/
81
/295/
75
/15936/
72
/41/
cc age 13+

Super 8 (2011)
In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train derailment. Soon after, their quiet town is gripped by unexplained disappearances, strange phenomena, and a growing sense of fear, as they uncover that something terrifying has been set loose.
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Kanopy
73
7.1
/286070/
72
/8394/
68
/4156/
3.7
/246725/
82
/216/
71
/4372/
66
/43/
cc age 17+

Seven Psychopaths (2012)
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
poster
73
6.8
/22080/
72
/1440/
65
/433/
3.3
/12999/
90
/168/
72
/209/
76
/30/
cc age 15+

Their Finest (2017)
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
poster
74
73
7.0
/11503/
71
/349/
66
/290/
3.7
/20368/
94
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73
/222/

White Dog (1982)
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.
poster
73
6.9
/47469/
68
/1010/
66
/655/
3.5
/45968/
82
/141/
73
/1136/
71
/31/
cc age 17+

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
poster
73
7.3
/170650/
72
/8052/
71
/3674/
3.6
/401133/
90
/347/
85
/1088/
76
/44/
cc age 16+

The Disaster Artist (2017)
An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
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Hoopla
74
72
7.6
/6877/
73
/364/
70
/64/
3.3
/9301/
89
/39/

A Biltmore Christmas (2023)
Contemporary screenwriter Lucy Hardgrove is hired to pen the remake of the holiday classic His Merry Wife!, which was shot at the renowned Biltmore Estate. Taking a tour of the grounds, she accidentally knocks over an hourglass, transporting her back in time to 1946, right when His Merry Wife! is being filmed.
poster
The Roku Channel
72
6.7
/666/
68
/28/
58
/11/
3.3
/1722/
96
/45/
63
/12/
74
/15/

The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)
A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers and filmed in Cyprus in 1973.
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Amazon Prime Video
73
71
6.9
/14236/
70
/270/
68
/260/
3.5
/13497/
100
/12/
71
/194/
70
/12/

The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinces Maria to screen test for, and then star in, his next big picture. But as the producer's possessive nature and the realities of stardom weigh on Maria, she seeks a genuine lover with whom she can escape.
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Fandango at Home Free
71
6.7
/23458/
66
/303/
62
/286/
3.5
/18232/
84
/115/
70
/397/
75
/26/
cc age 16+

State and Main (2000)
The residents of a small Vermont town don't know what hit them when a beleaguered Hollywood film crew brings a chaotic shoot to their quaint village.
poster
71
7.0
/30425/
72
/587/
69
/500/
3.7
/36553/
65
/37/
81
/1197/
61
/11/
cc age 13+

The Way We Were (1973)
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
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Amazon Prime Video
70
6.9
/11392/
67
/190/
66
/157/
3.5
/9191/
90
/41/
73
/223/
75
/17/

The Stunt Man (1980)
A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.
poster
Peacock Premium
70
6.3
/39154/
65
/1761/
67
/553/
3.0
/126321/
88
/231/
89
/419/
72
/46/
cc age 16+

Bros (2022)
Two emotionally unavailable men attempt a relationship.
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Kanopy
70
6.5
/8580/
62
/231/
59
/259/
3.3
/16229/
87
/168/
62
/23/
76
/34/
cc age 10+

The Truth (2019)
Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.
poster
72
70
7.1
/4828/
71
/341/
66
/137/
3.4
/7539/
79
/14/
79
/122/

The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened? (2015)
The Death of 'Superman Lives': What Happened? feature film documents the process of development of the ill fated "Superman Lives" movie, that was to be directed by Tim Burton and star Nicolas Cage as the man of steel himself, Superman. The project went through years of development before the plug was pulled, and this documentary interviews the major filmmakers: Kevin Smith, Tim Burton, Jon Peters, Dan Gilroy, Colleen Atwood, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and many many more.
poster
70
6.5
/77354/
66
/1695/
61
/917/
3.4
/45564/
83
/110/
61
/1727/
73
/33/
cc age 14+

Bowfinger (1999)
On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio gofer, he sets out to shoot a blockbuster featuring the biggest star in Hollywood, Kit Ramsey -- only without letting Ramsey know he's in the picture.
poster
Kanopy
70
7.4
/87236/
73
/3381/
71
/1648/
3.4
/55581/
74
/206/
79
/771/
60
/33/
cc age 16+

Trumbo (2015)
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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Kanopy
68
6.6
/569/
63
/16/
58
/19/
3.4
/590/
100
/12/
50
/3/
69
/6/

The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies (2013)
A love story about the legendary sexploitation director Joe Sarno and his loyal wife and business partner Peggy. The film relates their part in the history of sex film, their lives between New York and Sweden, and their struggle to produce one last erotic film.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
68
6.6
/9104/
64
/145/
60
/98/
3.1
/6151/
88
/42/
60
/169/
73
/20/

The Brothers McMullen (1995)
Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s.
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The Roku Channel
78
67
7.5
/2852/
75
/117/
71
/81/
3.7
/3731/
92
/50/
84
/98/

Corman's World (2011)
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.
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Hulu
66
6.5
/7335/
67
/494/
59
/52/
2.7
/20449/
85
/65/
58
/92/
68
/15/
cc age 13+

BRATS (2024)
In the 1980s, Andrew McCarthy was part of a young generation of actors who were set to take over Hollywood after a string of successful teen movies. However, when the New York magazine cover story in 1985 dubs them the Brat Pack, stars in the making suddenly find themselves losing control over the trajectory of their careers. Now, almost forty years later, McCarthy looks to reconnect with peers and co-stars so that together they can reflect on their respective legacies.
poster
66
7.0
/364256/
73
/10359/
70
/5508/
3.6
/939977/
51
/162/
80
/33194/
52
/31/
cc age 13+

The Holiday (2006)
Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
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Netflix
75
65
7.6
/2211/
76
/321/
74
/88/
3.8
/7716/

Wick Is Pain (2025)
Witness the never-before-seen footage and true story behind the John Wick phenomenon – from independent film to billion-dollar franchise.
poster
Hulu
65
6.5
/72826/
65
/3651/
63
/1248/
3.2
/268443/
75
/200/
69
/290/
60
/40/
cc age 13+

See How They Run (2022)
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
poster
Netflix
65
7.1
/202968/
70
/7892/
73
/3615/
3.9
/998861/
57
/364/
52
/589/
61
/63/
cc age 17+

Babylon (2022)
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
poster
80
65
8.4
/8874/
80
/78/
74
/51/
4.2
/9481/

Iruvar (1997)
A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.
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Kanopy
74
64
7.6
/4492/
71
/66/
71
/68/
3.4
/2649/
78
/9/
83
/73/

George Lucas in Love (1999)
1967 film student George Lucas has writer's block trying to finish his "Space Wheat" script, until a beautiful fellow student with a familiar hairstyle teaches him that the best stories are in plain sight.
poster
Hoopla
75
64
7.4
/2265/
73
/89/
70
/53/
3.6
/4395/
94
/16/
87
/47/
59
/7/

Milius (2013)
The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
72
64
7.0
/6718/
68
/106/
63
/98/
3.3
/3304/
92
/13/
75
/133/

RKO 281 (1999)
In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
64
7.1
/11781/
67
/174/
65
/67/
3.6
/8841/
83
/18/
67
/257/
58
/4/

Luck by Chance (2009)
Not wanting the same fate as befell her sisters, Sona Mishra re-locates to Mumbai to try to make a living making movies, but she soon finds that the path she has chosen is not an easy one.
poster
Hoopla
64
6.8
/83053/
69
/2298/
65
/1597/
3.1
/48762/
60
55
/40/
cc age 13+

Hitchcock (2012)
Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel "Psycho." When the studio refuses to back the picture, Hitchcock decides to pay for it himself in exchange for a percentage of the profits. His wife, Alma Reville, has serious reservations about the film but supports him nonetheless. Still, the production strains the couple's marriage.


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