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- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsMichelle WilliamsGabriel LaBellePaul DanoGrowing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.A Spielberg masterpiece.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsDavid ArquetteNeve CampbellCourteney CoxWhile Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them.An underrated, hilarious entry into the Scream series that follows murders on the making of a ‘Stab 3’.
- DirectorDaniel MyrickEduardo SánchezStarsHeather DonahueMichael C. WilliamsJoshua LeonardThree film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.A good found footage horror film about making a documentary.
- DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsJosh BrolinGeorge ClooneyAlden EhrenreichA Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.The thin plot is just a vessel for the Coen brothers to recreate the glamour of old Hollywood, but the performances and comedy make up for that. They also do a very good job at recreating classic film genres.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioCate BlanchettKate BeckinsaleA biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.Very good Scorsese/DiCaprio outing about the eccentric man behind the spruce goose and some great films.
- DirectorJulian JarroldStarsSienna MillerToby JonesImelda StauntonThe turbulent relationship between filmmaker Sir Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) and actress Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller).This concerns the making of The Birds and Marnie, and the abuse the star of both of those movies faced from the director. It is a little underdeveloped, but overall good.
- DirectorTom GeorgeStarsKieran HodgsonPearl ChandaGregory CoxIn 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.Though it’s more of a murder mystery, it follows the making of a film that didn’t end up actually being made. There are plenty of scenes in Hollywood and moments showing the screenwriting process.
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsAlana HaimCooper HoffmanSean PennThe story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.The focus in this isn’t making movies, but since the love interest is an actor, it is a subplot.
- DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.This true classic is all about 1930s Hollywood and the transition from silent to sound film.
- DirectorCraig BrewerStarsEddie MurphyKeegan-Michael KeyMike EppsEddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.It follows the making of the Blaxploitation classic ‘Dolemite’.
- DirectorHenry JaglomStarsHenry JaglomAndrea MarcovicciMichael EmilA Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentine's Day in a deserted movie theatre where he interviews them all on their opinions on love and loneliness.A bizarre indie drama in which a filmmaker makes a documentary by interviewing people about love and loneliness.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsJohnny DeppMartin LandauSarah Jessica ParkerAmbitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.A film about the life of one of the most notorious directors: Edward D Wood Jr.
- DirectorJohn OttmanStarsJennifer MorrisonMatthew DavisHart BochnerA film school is the center of a fresh spate of killings based on urban legends.In this sequel, murders start happening at a film school. There are many scenes devoted to showing making movies.
- DirectorJay RoachStarsBryan CranstonDiane LaneHelen MirrenIn 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.A film about the great black listed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenGloria SwansonErich von StroheimA screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.A classic about a washed up Hollywood actress and a screenwriter’s relationship.
- DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta SvilovaA man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.A surreal representation of filmmaking, showing men with movie cameras all over Russia.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsHeather LangenkampRobert EnglundJf DavisA demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?A meta horror film about making a cheesy horror sequel.
- DirectorE. Elias MerhigeStarsJohn MalkovichWillem DafoeUdo KierThe filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.A great filmmaking satire on a fictional story of the making of Nosferatu.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinBilly ArmstrongAgnes AyresCharlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set, he is told to help the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given a chance to act but instead enters a dice game. When he does finally act, he ruins the scene, wrecks the set, and tears the skirt from the star.A funny Charlie Chaplin short about the tramp failing to work at a film company.
- DirectorBen AffleckStarsBen AffleckBryan CranstonJohn GoodmanActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.It’s really an intense thriller about saving 6 Americans from terrorists, but part of that is creating a fake movie, and a lot of that process is shown.
- 199316mUnrated4.1 (825)ShortDirectorBen AffleckStarsJay LacopoKarla MontanaJohanna McCloyA first-time feature-film director (who's also the writer and producer) is casting the lead actress. We meet him talking to his wife about the picture and the process. We meet the actress, Sandy, negotiating with her roommate and talking by phone to her mother. Then, we watch Sandy audition for the director at the call-back session; also attending are the casting director and the production company's sycophants. The wrinkle is that the director is a homicidal misogynist, his wife is tied up and hanging from the ceiling, and Sandy has something in her purse that bodes a rocky future.Ben affleck’s first film is strange. It’s about a sexist film director who does exactly what the title says, then hires an actress for his next film. She may also be his next victim.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsJohn HustonOja KodarPeter BogdanovichAt a media-swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.A great found footage-like film about the fictional director Jake Hannaford, “the Ernest Hemingway of the cinema.”
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsAsa ButterfieldChloë Grace MoretzChristopher LeeIn 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.A film about George Melies that shows some scenes of him making movies.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsGary OldmanAmanda SeyfriedLily Collins1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).The story of writing the iconic classic citizen Kane.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsTerence StampMonica PardoAnne ToniettiDuring a trip to Rome, a debauched Shakespearian actor is tormented by fans, the press, the Italian film industry and the Devil - who appears as a little girl seeking to collect his head.The bizarre, horrific and haunting landscape of a depressed and drunken movie actors’s mind.
- DirectorBuddy Van HornStarsClint EastwoodLiam NeesonPatricia ClarksonInspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder various San Francisco celebrities, with himself being one of the targets.The story of Dirty Harry trying to solve a murder that’s connected to a horror exploration director.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsMary SteenburgenRoddy McDowallJan RubesA fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
- DirectorDamien ChazelleStarsRyan GoslingEmma StoneRosemarie DeWittWhile navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.
- DirectorDavid WainStarsFrank GingerichMorgan GingerichAnnette O'TooleIn the 1970s and '80s, National Lampoon's success and influence creates a new media empire overseen in part by the brilliant and troubled Douglas Kenney.
- DirectorTodd SolondzStarsGreta GerwigKeaton Nigel CookeTracy LettsA dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsBéatrice DalleCharlotte GainsbourgAbbey LeeTwo actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches - but that's not all. 'Lux Æterna' is also an essay on cinema, the love of film, and on-set hysterics.
- DirectorBarry SonnenfeldStarsGene HackmanRene RussoDanny DeVitoA mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt, and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.
- DirectorZak PennStarsWerner HerzogKitana BakerGabriel BeristainA documentary exploring the myth of the Loch Ness monster.
- DirectorCord JeffersonStarsJeffrey WrightTracee Ellis RossJohn OrtizA novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsKarlheinz BöhmAnna MasseyMoira ShearerA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
- DirectorTony ScottStarsChristian SlaterPatricia ArquetteDennis HopperIn Detroit, a pop-culture nerd steals cocaine from his new wife's pimp and tries to sell it in Hollywood, prompting the mobsters who own the drugs to pursue the couple.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsRichard GereGregory HinesDiane LaneMeet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner, and guests (like gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-1930s Harlem.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenCharlotte RamplingJessica HarperWhile attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
- DirectorDavid MametStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanWilliam H. MacyRebecca PidgeonA movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsJoel McCreaVeronica LakeRobert WarwickHollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.