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HBO Max Amazon Channel
90
8.3
/278450/
82
/5405/
81
/3361/
4.3
/551011/
100
/78/
95
/7919/
99
/17/
cc age 6+

Singin' in the Rain (1952)
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
poster
Kanopy
88
8.0
/131365/
78
/2000/
81
/2446/
4.3
/236073/
97
/62/
91
/2558/
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
86
8.0
/26035/
76
/483/
78
/633/
4.2
/45887/
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.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
86
8.8
/2758879/
86
/83357/
84
/38333/
4.2
/3440553/
87
/363/
91
/41631/
74
/42/
cc age 14+

Inception (2010)
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/59806/
78
/867/
79
/901/
4.4
/83069/
96
/46/
93
/674/

Andrei Rublev (1966)
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.2
/26076/
80
/652/
79
/427/
4.4
/121064/
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
Kanopy
84
7.8
/66764/
74
/1343/
75
/1185/
4.1
/122194/
96
/56/
90
/1589/

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
poster
84
7.9
/418898/
76
/10528/
78
/6755/
4.3
/1045749/
84
/264/
87
/10334/
87
/38/
cc age 18+

Mulholland Drive (2001)
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.5
/10325/
68
/150/
72
/277/
4.2
/18639/
100
/28/
82
/161/

La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.5
/71005/
73
/1292/
72
/898/
4.0
/122543/
97
/65/
84
/904/
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?
poster
83
7.5
/66439/
74
/2387/
73
/1855/
4.1
/158350/
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.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.6
/26574/
74
/514/
74
/521/
4.1
/55789/
93
/58/
84
/612/

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.4
/9293/
74
/220/
70
/179/
3.9
/12804/
96
/23/
90
/163/
79
/18/

An Angel at My Table (1990)
Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with mental and emotional issues, Frame grows up in an impoverished family and experiences numerous tragedies while still in her youth, including the deaths of two of her siblings. Portrayed as an adult by Kerry Fox, Frame finds acclaim for her writing while still in a mental institution, and her success helps her move on with her life.
poster
MGM Plus
82
7.4
/73639/
73
/2239/
73
/1605/
4.1
/249960/
88
/59/
81
/804/
86
/15/

Blow Out (1981)
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.
poster
82
7.7
/691278/
73
/19989/
74
/13269/
4.0
/1088439/
91
/360/
78
/5818/
87
/58/
cc age 16+

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.
poster
81
7.2
/4667/
67
/217/
71
/110/
4.0
/22634/
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
Kanopy
81
7.6
/16565/
75
/315/
73
/268/
4.0
/20532/
95
/107/
81
/397/
83
/32/

Pina (2011)
Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.8
/13727/
79
/304/
76
/249/
4.3
/53432/
96
/27/
90
/196/
69
/15/

Opening Night (1977)
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.2
/11831/
71
/202/
70
/253/
3.8
/16150/
97
/32/
85
/233/

The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
poster
Hulu
81
8.0
/875781/
77
/21885/
77
/15158/
4.2
/2595802/
85
/320/
84
/19892/
79
/42/
cc age 17+

Black Swan (2010)
The story of a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life is completely consumed with dance. Nina lives with her retired ballerina mother who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When the artistic director decides to replace the prima ballerina for the opening production of their new season, Nina is his first choice.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.6
/8202/
74
/124/
71
/148/
3.9
/11438/
76
/17/
85
/1/

Veronika Voss (1982)
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.
poster
Kanopy
80
7.4
/71721/
71
/1252/
73
/1323/
3.8
/133290/
87
/52/
84
/1447/
82
/15/

Blow-Up (1966)
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
poster
Hoopla
80
7.6
/134393/
75
/2669/
74
/1797/
4.1
/161118/
90
/67/
89
/2632/
69
/19/
cc age 17+

Barton Fink (1991)
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
poster
80
7.8
/190217/
74
/2892/
75
/2433/
4.0
/165117/
92
/74/
88
/5881/
71
/19/
cc age 16+

Ed Wood (1994)
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.4
/5939/
69
/124/
69
/99/
3.9
/12376/
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.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.3
/7867/
70
/121/
68
/143/
3.7
/5125/
89
/9/
88
/192/

Camille Claudel (1988)
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.5
/8339/
74
/161/
71
/184/
3.8
/5920/
91
/11/
89
/187/

All the Mornings of the World (1991)
Following the death of his wife, a renowned musician ostracises himself from the outer world and dedicates his life to music. However, his life changes when a young man approaches him to learn music.
poster
78
7.2
/43874/
72
/691/
71
/690/
3.8
/32966/
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
Kanopy
77
7.2
/7580/
74
/329/
69
/207/
3.8
/33537/
90
/80/
75
/12/
75
/17/

David Lynch: The Art Life (2017)
An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.
poster
75
7.0
/7828/
71
/698/
70
/674/
3.8
/128341/
94
/18/
78
/7/
73
/6/

Yannick (2023)
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
poster
Kanopy
75
6.4
/272/
65
/10/
71
/3/
3.2
/1944/
89
/18/

Art College 1994 (2025)
In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, artistic research, ideals and ambitions brought about by new influences. Caught between tradition and modernity, they have to decide who they want to become.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
6.8
/67662/
69
/1496/
70
/1202/
3.9
/157528/
72
/117/
75
/4266/
73
/25/
cc age 17+

Inland Empire (2006)
When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
poster
The Roku Channel
75
7.0
/30767/
68
/455/
66
/335/
3.4
/15098/
79
/110/
74
/634/
77
/31/
cc age 17+

Pollock (2000)
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
poster
74
6.9
/29492/
66
/555/
66
/470/
3.7
/29136/
83
/173/
69
/1417/
81
/34/
cc age 12+

Bright Star (2009)
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
74
7.0
/10575/
72
/342/
67
/235/
3.9
/64762/
94
/49/
71
/141/
80
/23/

Irma Vep (1996)
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad in a rubber catsuit and unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself adrift in the insanity of the film industry…
poster
MGM Plus
74
7.5
/18953/
73
/318/
72
/288/
3.9
/19299/
87
/31/
88
/321/
61
/9/

Lenny (1974)
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment as too obscene for the public.
poster
The Roku Channel
72
6.9
/43400/
68
/1590/
69
/1513/
3.8
/152242/
79
/191/
66
/211/
76
/34/
cc age 13+

At Eternity's Gate (2018)
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
poster
Kanopy
74
72
7.2
/15503/
68
/293/
67
/325/
3.6
/21631/
89
/27/
81
/233/

L'Âge d'or (1930)
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
poster
The Roku Channel
72
6.9
/4463/
65
/85/
64
/66/
3.5
/3252/
89
/28/
72
/109/
65
/14/

Vincent & Theo (1990)
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
poster
72
7.1
/8173/
71
/146/
65
/104/
3.7
/7568/
89
/28/
83
/253/
68
/22/

Henry Fool (1998)
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
7.0
/3516/
69
/52/
68
/92/
3.6
/3844/
79
/14/
70
/25/
83
/15/

Intervista (1987)
Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.
poster
Kanopy
82
71
7.3
/3117/
77
/107/
70
/76/
4.2
/15108/
100
/5/
87
/147/

Blue (1993)
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.
poster
75
70
7.2
/8674/
75
/213/
71
/147/
3.5
/4338/
86
/7/
79
/128/

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
poster
Hoopla
70
6.5
/14127/
62
/183/
63
/178/
3.5
/10761/
68
/56/
80
/623/
64
/20/

The Pillow Book (1995)
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
6.9
/23451/
67
/390/
66
/302/
3.4
/29194/
67
/30/
77
/615/
65
/20/

Basquiat (1996)
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
poster
70
6.9
/60110/
70
/1440/
70
/1162/
3.8
/97255/
73
/40/
77
/1884/
67
/16/

Naked Lunch (1991)
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
69
7.2
/4052/
72
/65/
77
/120/
3.9
/9778/
88
/8/
82
/63/
75
/7/

Testament of Orpheus (1960)
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.
poster
74
69
7.3
/13077/
72
/199/
72
/201/
3.7
/7920/
80
/15/
81
/205/
68
/14/

Lust for Life (1956)
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.


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