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7.4
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72
/2575/
72
/1858/
3.8
/111566/
91
/54/
81
/2141/
88
/21/
cc age 13+

Tootsie (1982)
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
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Hulu
79
7.6
/939360/
73
/30316/
74
/14338/
3.8
/2713013/
86
/581/
70
/6406/
84
/62/
cc age 17+

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…
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Fandor
78
7.5
/21403/
72
/458/
72
/306/
3.9
/37455/
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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80
76
IMDb 96
7.9
/4395/
80
/121/
72
/21/
3.9
/53067/
87
/144/
96
/471/
68
/30/
cc age 13+

Rental Family (2025)
An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.
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Hulu
75
6.6
/7153/
66
/526/
67
/211/
3.4
/37272/
95
/83/
72
/35/
80
/17/

Sleep (2023)
A pregnant wife who becomes worried about her husband’s sleeping habits. What starts out as some light sleep-talking soon escalates to unexpectedly grotesque behaviour. They consult a sleep clinic without success and as his nightmarish behaviour escalates, they desperately seek help from a shaman.
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75
7.4
/46315/
75
/1090/
72
/812/
3.6
/31811/
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.
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Kanopy
72
6.5
/17043/
63
/886/
63
/171/
3.3
/76890/
94
/219/
64
/126/
80
/43/
cc age 15+

You Hurt My Feelings (2023)
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.
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72
69
7.2
/8597/
73
/290/
74
/194/
3.7
/6436/
70
/6860/

King of Comedy (1999)
Wan Tin-Sau is an actor who cannot seem to catch a break, since his only professional jobs are limited to being a movie extra. As well as being an actor, he is also the head of his village's community center.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
68
6.3
/74565/
62
/4201/
65
/911/
3.0
/1027047/
77
/297/
66
/744/
70
/50/
cc age 15+

Materialists (2025)
A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.
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Netflix
65
7.1
/200702/
70
/7731/
73
/3553/
3.9
/962923/
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.
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Hoopla
63
61
6.4
/9072/
64
/337/
61
/176/
3.6
/19286/
57
/21/
66
/334/
58
/12/

Freaked (1993)
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.
poster
61
6.5
/36877/
64
/689/
60
/432/
3.1
/12112/
68
/181/
48
/2787/
62
/33/
cc age 18+

Hollywoodland (2006)
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based on a true story.
poster
60
6.6
/39612/
68
/1627/
65
/758/
3.2
/16585/
45
/132/
59
/520/
43
/34/
cc age 16+

Wish I Was Here (2014)
Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he'd always dreamed he'd be as a little kid. When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home-school them. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.
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59
5.9
/2078/
60
/61/
59
/43/
3.0
/1273/
67
/1350/

Hero at Large (1980)
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.
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56
5.5
/8873/
57
/186/
52
/106/
2.8
/2611/
51
/61/
41
/180/
66
/22/

Two Girls and a Guy (1998)
Two women confront their boyfriend, a two-timing actor who professed eternal love to each.
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65
51
6.9
/3914/
65
/54/
64
/78/
3.7
/4236/
40
/5/
83
/30/

The State of Things (1982)
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
poster
51
6.0
/149498/
63
/4386/
60
/2949/
2.9
/126437/
27
/161/
47
/9035/
44
/35/
cc age 14+

Along Came Polly (2004)
Reuben Feffer is a guy who's spent his entire life playing it safe. Polly Prince is irresistible as a free-spirit who lives for the thrill of the moment. When these two comically mismatched souls collide, Reuben's world is turned upside down, as he makes an uproarious attempt to change his life from middle-of-the-road to totally-out-there.
poster
49
5.3
/118257/
59
/4068/
58
/1914/
2.4
/113614/
21
/112/
55
/11342/
38
/29/
cc age 15+

Little Nicky (2000)
After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his throne to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of them escape to Earth to create a kingdom for themselves. This action closes the portal filtering sinful souls to Hell and causes Satan to wither away. He must send his most weak but beloved son, Little Nicky, to Earth to return his brothers to Hell.
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47
5.3
/3796/
52
/54/
52
/67/
2.7
/1415/
29
/24/
32
/37/

Jimmy Hollywood (1994)
Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has suffered a head wound and has problems with short-term memory. Jimmy's vigilante alter ego soon becomes a media wonder--but Jimmy remains a total unknown and his long-suffering girl friend Lorraine is getting fed up with the whole situation.
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46
5.4
/2891/
61
/177/
58
/154/
2.7
/3007/

Dreamgirls (2015)
Parallel love stories of three young women in Berlin: Hannah - an unhappy attorney who sexually demeans herself in order to get at least some love and romance, Leni who runs a coffee shop and has just been ditched by her long term boyfriend, and Vivienne who ends up falling in love with a puppy-eyed pasta designer with 21 dogs.
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Fandango at Home Free
46
4.9
/78495/
48
/3062/
54
/2138/
1.8
/112186/
48
/31/
46
/1057/

A Serbian Film (2010)
Retired porn star Milos leads a normal family life trying to make ends meet. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to financially support his family for the rest of their lives, Milos must participate in one last mysterious film. From then on, Milos is drawn into a maelstrom of unbelievable cruelty and mayhem.
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AMC+
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45
6.1
/4701/
63
/139/
56
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3.2
/610/
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/16/
40
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56
/9/

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster (2011)
Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. He discovers a way to do both, robbing banks Hollywood style, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.
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Kanopy
70
43
6.6
/1259/
65
/37/
59
/28/
3.3
/1403/
88
/17/
68
/5/
79
/5/

Nobody's Watching (2017)
Nico is a famous actor in Argentina, but in New York, nobody takes notice. He needs to juggle bartending, babysitting and odd jobs to keep himself afloat. But when old friends from Buenos Aires come to visit, he needs to juggle the image of his old life with the reality of the struggling actor in New York City.
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68
43
6.6
/3435/
66
/126/
68
/179/
3.3
/1965/
74
/2/

Umbrella Coup (1980)
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
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70
41
7.4
/1782/
73
/36/
60
/27/
3.7
/2340/

Multi-Facial (1995)
Through a series of auditions, a young actor in New York City struggles with his identity.
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39
5.7
/306/
61
/8/
58
/4/
2.9
/1968/
100
/18/
70
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cc age 14+

In Camera (2024)
A young man spends most of his time recording self-tapes for parts he never gets. After multiple rejections for a series of nightmarish commercial auditions, he takes it upon himself to find a new part to play.
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59
39
5.8
/2046/
60
/38/
55
/35/
3.1
/617/
60
/5/
61
/68/

The Actors (2003)
During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum of money. Seeing an opportunity to make some fast money, O'Malley convinces hapless extra, Tom, to meet Barreller as the debt collector.
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79
34
7.3
/1279/
80
/8/
78
/12/
3.6
/397/
95
/122/

Audition (2005)
Louis is "repo man" who is no stranger to strong-arm tactics in his work, but he has dreamed of becoming an actor since he was a child. When his cousin helps him get an audition, Louis gets the help of a famous actor to secretly help rehearse his scenes. He doesn't even tell his girlfriend Suzie. But Suzie also has a secret; she's pregnant and doesn't want her child to grow up in an atmosphere of violence.
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52
33
5.7
/1298/
64
/35/
53
/68/
3.0
/1534/
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/7/
36
/4/
41
/5/

A Castle in Italy (2013)
Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a leading family of wealthy Italian industrialists. The story of a family falling apart, a world coming to an end and love beginning.
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56
32
5.6
/223/
56
/26/
57
/27/
2.8
/2383/

Not All Men, But... (2025)
Simone, a cop with conservative ideas, infiltrates a feminist collective. However, her cover is thin. To divert attention and get out of this bad situation, Simone finds nothing better than to randomly accuse a man of having raped her.
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The Roku Channel
71
32
6.7
/812/
66
/50/
57
/20/
3.2
/1146/
89
/9/
84
/1/

Life After Flash (2017)
A look at the roller coaster life of Sam J. Jones since his role as Flash Gordon, his struggles and successes, and the aftermath of when he went up against one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood.
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66
32
6.8
/1453/
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61
/14/
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/46/

City of Life (2009)
A privileged young male Arab at odds with his cultural identity and his less fortunate street smart friend; a disillusioned Indian taxi driver who bears an uncanny resemblance to a famous Bollywood star; and a former Romanian ballet dancer now working as a flight attendant and searching for love and companionship ... these individuals all live in Dubai and their lives are about to collide for better or for worse in a city where ambition, growth and opportunity are encouraged and dreams can still manifest. "City of Life" is an urban drama that tracks the various intersections of a multi-ethnic cast, examining how random interactions and their consequences can irrevocably impact another's life.
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71
31
7.8
/1142/
69
/22/
66
/34/
3.7
/822/

The End of the Day (1939)
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
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Netflix
51
29
5.4
/1650/
56
/103/
55
/106/
2.5
/1853/
40
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cc age 16+

The Four of Us (2021)
After their partner swap experiment takes a turn, four friends arrive at a remote beach hut to face the fallout and purge themselves of deeper truths.
poster
78
29
7.5
/941/
76
/11/
69
/17/
3.5
/349/
100
/26/

Murder by Natural Causes (1979)
An elaborate mystery involving a famous mentalist, his unfaithful wife who is trying to literally scare him to death, the best friend of the family, and the wife's ham-actor lover -- not only an intriguing who- (or whether) dunit, but also a literate, adult dramatic puzzle with an endless series of twists.
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61
24
6.1
/1169/
56
/13/
65
/10/
3.2
/383/
80
/5/
44
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I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.
poster
55
24
5.9
/1036/
62
/100/
54
/136/
3.1
/650/
39
/4/

Playing Dead (2013)
Jean, a forty-year-old struggling, out-of-work actor has hit rock bottom. Although open to any kind of work, he can't get a break. At the unemployment office, his counselor has a rather odd proposal: he can get a job helping the police reconstruct crime scenes, by standing in for the dead victim. Jean's obsession for detail impresses the detectives, allowing him to take a leading role in a sensitive investigation in Megève ski resort, during low season, after a series of murders
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62
23
5.7
/827/
63
/20/
67
/30/
3.1
/367/
64
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The House in Nightmare Park (1973)
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early ‘70s. Starring Hugh Burden and Oscar winner Ray Milland, and written by Terry Nation. Foster Twelvetrees, a struggling tragedian who scrapes a living by giving hammy performances from the classics, can hardly believe his luck when he’s invited to give a dramatic reading at the country home of a well-off family. Joy soon turns to outraged horror when he discovers dead bodies, foul intentions, lots of snakes and a madwoman in the attic. Can he uncover the hidden family secret before he comes to a sticky end..?
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62
20
6.1
/589/
63
/25/
56
/16/
3.4
/1005/

Insect (2018)
The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of "The Insect Play", a famous satirical work from 1922 by the brothers Karel and Josef Čapek which features insects with decidedly human traits: greed, egocentrism, jealousy.
poster
51
17
5.1
/773/
56
/31/
56
/36/
3.0
/516/
36
/2/

Les Rois du gag (1985)
Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law and comics without fame. One day, the famous television comics, Gaëtan, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters".
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?
4.4
/40/

Four Tales of Two Cities (1996)
Anthology of four short films: Griffin Dunne's Duke of Groove (1995), Illeana Douglas' Boy Crazy, Girl Crazier (1995), Adrienne Shelly's Urban Legend (1994) and Fisher Stevens' Phinehas (1996).
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?
7.0
/49/
70
/1/

The Crucial Moment (1938)
Kulinyi, the theatre secretary in Budapest, becomes the director of a rural theatre. He takes with him a talented, budding theatre couple, Gábor Bálint and Éva Pap. He fights a hopeless battle with drunken and jaded actors, undemanding audiences, and demands the release of their untalented relatives with creditors. Finally, tired of failure, all three return to Pest. Kulinyi resumes his post as secretary. Gábor Bálint, out of options, approaches the famous actor Ferenc Tőrös and asks him to let him play the role for one night only, so that he can prove his talent.
poster
?
4.3
/25/
10
/1/
70
/1/

Overnight (1986)
An out of work actor takes a role in a vampire porno.
poster
?
7.5
/17/

The Great Nick D (2024)
A sweet-natured tale of redemption following a washed up 90's porn star now a Venice Beach nobody, who gets a second chance to restart his mainstream acting career in order to win back the Oscar nominated actress girlfriend from his past.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
7.4
/59/
26
/3/

The Hit Producer (2015)
Katelin Ballantine, a struggling movie producer in search of an investor, reluctantly follows the promise of money into Dublin's drug underworld where she witnesses a botched murder attempt. Forced to finish the job, she is blackmailed into killing for Edmund Murren, a small time, ruthless drug supplier hell bent on becoming top dog. Two years later, Katelin has put a who's who list of drug bosses six feet under and uses her producer role to maintain a low profile. But, when a seemingly simple job unexpectedly spirals out of control, and her identity becomes known to Murren's remaining ambitious and vengeful rivals, she is cut loose. Now the target, and with family in the line of fire, Katelin must adapt to survive the onslaught of the drug underworld as the thin veil masking her double life slips away.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
6.5
/69/
20
/3/
15
/2/

Scorpio Men on Prozac (2010)
A collection of stories surrounding a group of young men taking the prescription drug Prozac.
poster
?
6.5
/73/
70
/2/

So You Want to Be an Actor (1949)
Joe McDoakes, unemployed thespian, makes all the casting calls,reads all of the trade papers, sees agents and tries out for casting directors and producers
poster
40
?
6.8
/344/
10
/2/
42
/3/

Le Fear (2010)
Carlos Revalos a 21 times Film Director embarks on his biggest Film yet 'Le Fear' a horror love story with a 3 million pound budget what can go wrong? everything as Carlos hires the worst cast and crew ever to walk on this planet which makes the film a recipe for disaster, Larry Rothschild the executive producer on the film who was promised Brad Pitt which never happened instead he got Leon the pompous Lead actor who walks off set time and time again, Debbie D the hysterical inexperienced glamor model who fluffs her lines over and over, the werewolf wearing a rain coat and who cant speak a word of English and the sparky who is color blind and many more misfits and Carlos has no control of any of them this is Larry's first attempt at investing in a film and no doubt his last.


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