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1. Scream 2 (1997)
R | 120 min | Horror, Mystery
Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jada Pinkett Smith
Votes: 210,549 | Gross: $101.36M
2. The Doors (1991)
R | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley
Votes: 99,424 | Gross: $35.18M
3. The Souvenir (2019)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Neil Young, Tosin Cole, Jack McMullen, Frankie Wilson
Votes: 14,563 | Gross: $1.04M
4. Step Up 3D (2010)
PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown.
Director: Jon M. Chu | Stars: Sharni Vinson, Rick Malambri, Adam Sevani, Alyson Stoner
Votes: 60,344 | Gross: $42.40M
5. Thesis (1996)
R | 125 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Xabier Elorriaga
Votes: 42,648
6. Vamps (2012)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
Bloodsucking party girls (Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter) find their destinies at stake when one falls for the son of a vampire hunter and the other encounters a long-ago love.
Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter, Larry Wilmore, Bettina Bresnan
Votes: 11,179 | Gross: $0.00M
7. The Freshman (1990)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Crime
An N.Y.C. film school student accepts a job with a local mobster who resembles a famous cinema godfather and who takes the young man under his wing, after demanding total loyalty.
Director: Andrew Bergman | Stars: Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller
Votes: 22,111 | Gross: $21.46M
8. The Souvenir: Part II (2021)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Honor Swinton Byrne, James Spencer Ashworth, Alice McMillan
Votes: 4,334
9. Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery
A film school is the center of a fresh spate of killings based on urban legends.
Director: John Ottman | Stars: Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner, Loretta Devine
Votes: 19,001 | Gross: $21.47M
10. I Want Candy (2007)
R | 87 min | Comedy
Two film students with no experience nor money want to make a film. They can only get financing for a porn film with porn star Candy.
Director: Stephen Surjik | Stars: Tom Riley, Tom Burke, Carmen Electra, Eddie Marsan
Votes: 7,692
11. Le divorce (2003)
PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her sister and French brother-in-law and niece in Paris.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Stockard Channing, Jean-Marie Lhomme
Votes: 12,113 | Gross: $9.07M
12. LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha (2010)
Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A video camcorder, a store security camera, and concealed cameras candidly expose lives in three loosely-linked tales.
Director: Dibakar Banerjee | Stars: Nushrratt Bharuccha, Anshuman Jha, Neha Chauhan, Rajkummar Rao
Votes: 6,148
13. Stoker Hills (2020)
91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Three college students filming a horror movie find themselves trapped in their own worst nightmare. Their only hope for survival is two detectives who find the camera they left behind.
Director: Benjamin Louis | Stars: Tony Todd, Steffani Brass, David Gridley, Vince Hill-Bedford
Votes: 2,607
14. Cut (I) (2000)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Years after the original director was killed during the filming of a low-budget thriller, a crew of film students set out to finish where she left off. When the filming begins, so too do the killings.
Director: Kimble Rendall | Stars: Molly Ringwald, Frank Roberts, Kylie Minogue, Geoff Revell
Votes: 3,775
15. Better Call Saul: Filmmaker Training (2022)
TV-14 | Animation, Short, Comedy
The trio of brilliant craftspeople behind the famous Saul Goodman Productions advertisements is back to teach you some of the fundamentals of filmmaking.
Stars: Josh Fadem, Hayley Holmes, Julian Bonfiglio, Rhea Seehorn
Votes: 137
16. George Lucas in Love (1999)
8 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
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.
Director: Joe Nussbaum | Stars: Martin Hynes, Lisa Jakub, Jason Peck, Jeff Wiens
Votes: 4,412
17. Mama's Boy (2022)
TV-14 | 102 min | Documentary, Biography
Centers around the upbringing of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and how his close relationship with his mother led to and inspired his activism.
Director: Laurent Bouzereau | Stars: Paris Barclay, Dustin Lance Black, Tom Daley, Troy Williams
Votes: 498
18. Man of Marble (1977)
160 min | Drama
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki
Votes: 4,798
19. I Love Your Work (2003)
R | 111 min | Drama, Mystery
The film follows fictional movie star Gray Evans through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds... See full summary »
Director: Adam Goldberg | Stars: Marisa Coughlan, Judy Greer, Shalom Harlow, Jared Harris
Votes: 1,997 | Gross: $0.00M
20. De unge år: Erik Nietzsche sagaen del 1 (2007)
Not Rated | 91 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Erik wants to make films. He starts 1979 at the Danish Film School. The many written and unwritten rules give him difficulty fitting in.
Director: Jacob Thuesen | Stars: Jonatan Spang, David Dencik, Carl Martin Norén, Therese Damsgaard
Votes: 740
21. I Am a Sex Addict (2005)
Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Comedy, Romance
Autobiographical comedy about a recovering sex addict, about his obsession with prostitutes, and how that affected his relationships and his life altogether.
Director: Caveh Zahedi | Stars: Caveh Zahedi, Christoff Colas, Rebecca Lord, Lindsey Tjian
Votes: 3,372 | Gross: $0.11M
22. The Callback Queen (2013)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
In the cut-throat London film industry a vivacious actress chasing her big break struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of the director's advances.
Director: Graham Cantwell | Stars: Amy-Joyce Hastings, Mark Killeen, Seán T. Ó Meallaigh, Kate Braithwaite
Votes: 282
23. Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)
R | 78 min | Comedy, Romance
A day in the life of two film-school students trying to find love and another house-mate.
Director: Emma-Kate Croghan | Stars: Frances O'Connor, Alice Garner, Matt Day, Matthew Dyktynski
Votes: 2,075 | Gross: $0.21M
24. Reel 2 (2020)
104 min | Horror
After being convinced his first movie REEL wasn't a blockbuster success because it starred a man, director SlasherVictim666 makes it his personal mission to find the perfect woman to star in REEL 2.
Director: Chris Good Goodwin | Stars: Stephanie Jaskot, Octavia Kaliszak, Michael Lake, Tylan Essery
Votes: 60
25. Bobby's Intermission (2023)
112 min | Comedy
A lone teenager's only hope of getting accepted into his dream film school is by seeking help from some unexpected new friends at the Vali-Hi Drive-In Theatre.
Director: Justin Atkinson | Stars: David Griffith, Paul S. Vang, Adriana Tokin, Rommy Romero
26. Road Kill (1999)
R | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Film student, Alex and his roommate, art student, Lars, meet a young woman, named Blue, who's recently become a tenant in their building, with a niche profession; she's a hired assasin. ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Leutwyler | Stars: Jennifer Rubin, Erik Palladino, Billy Jayne, Tony Denison
Votes: 293
27. Jacquot of Nantes (1991)
PG | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix
Votes: 2,014 | Gross: $0.15M
28. After Sunset, Dawn Arrives (2022)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama, Romance
A coming of age story about a Chinese man finds peace and self-acceptance at declining years.
Director: Andy Yi Li | Stars: Jesse Wang, Todd Lien, Austin Klopfenstein, Katie Chan
Votes: 26
29. The Lens Within Me
Drama | Announced
Plot kept under wraps; An original feature-length coming-of-age drama film with semi-autobiographical elements that's currently in the early screenwriting stages.
Director: Max Hechtman
30. The Auteur Theory (1999)
77 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
At an absurdly self-indulgent student film festival, the directors of the (mostly terrible) short films start getting killed off one by one and a budding British documentary filmmaker decides to investigate.
Director: Evan Oppenheimer | Stars: Alan Cox, Sean Gunn, Daniel Cantor, Armin Shimerman
Votes: 330
31. A Paris Education (2018)
137 min | Drama
Etienne comes to Paris from Lyon to study cinema, meets many new friends and falls under the thrall of the mysterious Mathias.
Director: Jean-Paul Civeyrac | Stars: Andranic Manet, Diane Rouxel, Jenna Thiam, Gonzague Van Bervesseles
Votes: 695 | Gross: $0.02M
32. Diary for My Lovers (1987)
141 min | Biography, Drama
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Ágnes Csere, Anna Polony, Mária Ronyecz
Votes: 326
33. Artifact (2013)
Action, Adventure, Drama
Human's struggle to obtain ancient Artifacts that have been scattered throughout space.
Stars: Cesar D' La Torre, Rich Finley, Ksenia Valenti, Daniel Begus
Votes: 56
34. Burning Soul (2016)
14 min | Short, Drama, History
Australia, June 1727, a ship from the Dutch East India Company wrecked on the hostile coast. Pieter and Hendrick are friends like brothers - they grew up together, sailed together, survived... See full summary »
Director: Cedric Desenfants | Stars: Teo Falck, Rasmus Hansen, Rasmus Callmer, Mal Bailey
Votes: 41
35. Spice It Up (2018)
82 min | Comedy, Drama
A film student struggles to complete her thesis project.
Directors: Lev Lewis, Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas | Stars: Jennifer Hardy CK, Shivali Barot, Samantha Cole, Déjah Dixon-Green
Votes: 74
36. Madeline & Cooper (2018)
Not Rated | 56 min | Drama
Madeline and Cooper are college students living in the same building, but met outside a party house mile away. After an awkward attempt at sex, Madeline asks Cooper to stay over leading them to become friends over next 2 days.
Director: Cooper Raiff | Stars: Madeline Hill, Cooper Raiff, Will Youmans
Votes: 37
37. Imago mortis (2009)
96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A series of strange murders take place in an European school of cinema and nobody, except the professors, seems to understand what's happening.
Director: Stefano Bessoni | Stars: Alberto Amarilla, Oona Chaplin, Leticia Dolera, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 895
38. Chhupam Chhaai (2016)
94 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In a small town in the heart of India, six teenage friends who secretly run "Friends Private Detective Agency," encounter their most challenging case; a murder mystery.
Director: Pratik Mittal | Stars: Akshat Jain, Sanket Chauhan, Anshu Khatri, Purva Bhawsar
Votes: 94
39. Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1992)
Unrated | 48 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In the year 1000, aliens from the planet Quetzalcoatl flee their dying planet and take refuge under the Earth's surface. Disturbed by 1950s American atomic testing, the aliens strike back ... See full summary »
Director: Craig Baldwin | Stars: Maurice Bishop, Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, John Foster Dulles
Votes: 373
40. And the Wind Returneth (1992)
133 min | Biography, Drama
The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before leaving for Israel in 1971. The film intertwines chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of films by Mikhail Kalik.
Director: Mikhail Kalik | Stars: Alla Balter, Borislav Brondukov, Vladimir Valov, Emmanuil Vitorgan
Votes: 46
41. Life! Camera Action... (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Family
A young girl in pursuit of her dreams of becoming a filmmaker against all odds.
Director: Rohit Gupta | Stars: Dipti Mehta, Shaheed K. Woods, Noor Naghmi, John Crann
Votes: 126
42. The Competition (2016)
Not Rated | 121 min | Documentary
An all-access tour behind the scenes at France's premiere film school, La Fémis.
Director: Claire Simon | Stars: Alain Bergala, Xanaë Bove, Emmanuel Chaumet, Claire Childeric
Votes: 361 | Gross: $0.02M
43. The Money Shot (2007)
78 min | Comedy
Carmen has just graduated from her filmmaking course at university. Unable to find an outlet for her talents she decides to make a porno. After all, how hard can it be?
Directors: Anna Brownfield, Lance Petrie | Stars: Elizabeth Anderson, Fiv Antoniou, James Bridekirk, Sarah Brownfield
Votes: 25
44. One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (1988)
55 min | Documentary
"Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a... See full summary »
Director: Ignacio Agüero | Star: Alicia Vega
Votes: 300
45. Oh Crappy Day (2021)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
A young filmmaker hopes to find love through online dating -- if he can just keep his OCD on the down low.
Director: Jon Lance Bacon | Stars: Ashton Leigh, Kayla Gibson, Jaime Wallace, Matt Gulbranson
Votes: 83
46. Hämta en cykel (1968)
17 min | Short
Early morning in an apartment in Stockholm: A young couple wakes up and gets out of bed reluctantly. They have breakfast. Now, a bicycle is to be brought down from the loft.
Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Pierre Bené, Monica Löf
Votes: 160
47. The Robert Rodriguez Ten Minute Film School (1998 Video)
15 min | Documentary, Short
A masterclass on how to make a film on $7,000.
Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Robert Rodriguez, Carlos Gallardo, Juan Suarez
Votes: 439
48. Legion of Doom (2018)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
A loose mix of friends freeload through film school and beyond.
Directors: Gerry Galli, Oscar Frederick Welsh | Stars: Gerry Galli, John Palonka, Breanna Peesker, Julia Marcello
Votes: 13
49. Jane Campion, la femme cinéma (2022)
98 min | Documentary, Biography
Follows the story of Jane Campion, the first-ever woman to win the Palme d'Or in 1993.
Director: Julie Bertuccelli | Stars: Jane Campion, Kerry Fox, Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel
Votes: 53
50. Lekcja polskiego kina (2002)
71 min | Documentary
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Star: Andrzej Wajda
Votes: 38