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1. Full House (1987–1995)
TV-G | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A widowed sportscaster raises his three daughters with assistance from his rock and roll brother-in-law and madcap best friend.
Stars: Bob Saget, John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure
Votes: 63,121
2. The Invitation (II) (2022)
PG-13 | 105 min | Horror, Thriller
A young woman is courted and swept off her feet, only to realize a gothic conspiracy is afoot.
Director: Jessica M. Thompson | Stars: Nathalie Emmanuel, Thomas Doherty, Sean Pertwee, Hugh Skinner
Votes: 31,528
3. Broad City (2014–2019)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy
Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
Stars: Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson, Hannibal Buress, Arturo Castro
Votes: 35,744
4. tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.
Director: Lin-Manuel Miranda | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesus, Vanessa Hudgens
Votes: 119,691
5. 50/50 (2011)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard
Votes: 342,987 | Gross: $35.01M
6. Never Look Away (2018)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl
Votes: 25,367 | Gross: $1.30M
7. Bad Samaritan (2018)
R | 110 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A pair of burglars stumble upon a woman being held captive in a home they intended to rob.
Director: Dean Devlin | Stars: David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Kerry Condon, Carlito Olivero
Votes: 26,116 | Gross: $3.44M
8. Take This Waltz (2011)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.
Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman, Aaron Abrams
Votes: 30,294 | Gross: $1.24M
9. The Driller Killer (1979)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, Harry Schultz
Votes: 8,444
10. My Masterpiece (2018)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Arturo is an unscrupulous art dealer and Renzo his socially-awkward painter and longtime friend. Willing to risk it all, they develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves.
Director: Gastón Duprat | Stars: Andrea Acatto, Lucas Aranda, Raúl Arévalo, Mahmoud Azim
Votes: 7,316
11. The Middleman (2008)
TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
A struggling artist is recruited by a secret agency to fight against evil forces. Based on the graphic novels by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine.
Stars: Matt Keeslar, Natalie Morales, Brit Morgan, Mary Pat Gleason
Votes: 3,118
12. House of Horrors (1946)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Horror
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Robert Lowery, Virginia Grey, Bill Goodwin, Martin Kosleck
Votes: 1,290
13. The Art of Love (1965)
99 min | Comedy
Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson
Votes: 992 | Gross: $7.63M
14. The Moderns (1988)
R | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A struggling artist is hired to forge paintings, causing him to cross paths with his ex-wife and her powerful new husband.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Wallace Shawn, Geneviève Bujold
Votes: 2,036 | Gross: $2.01M
15. Iruvar (1997)
140 min | Biography, Drama
A struggling actor and a writer-politician become friends as young men and rise to great heights in cinema and politics respectively. But when both become contenders for the top political post in the state, a rift develops between them.
Director: Mani Ratnam | Stars: Mohanlal, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Prakash Raj, Gautami
Votes: 7,329
16. DC Showcase: Death (2019)
19 min | Animation, Short, Action
Vincent, a struggling artist with unresolved inner demons, tries to find a way in life. When he encounters Death incarnate, he finally has a chance to defeat his demons.
Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Jamie Chung, Leonardo Nam, Darin De Paul, Keith Szarabajka
Votes: 2,077
17. Whiplash (1948)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
A struggling artist becomes a New York City prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter's night club singing sister.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
Votes: 781
18. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)
R | 91 min | Comedy
A young business executive hates the direction his life is taking, and decides to make some changes. He becomes a struggling (but happy) tap-dancing magician. His old boss is financially ruined, but finds a way to bounce back by commercialising his career change.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Tom Smothers, John Astin, Katharine Ross, Orson Welles
Votes: 1,012 | Gross: $0.07M
19. 12 Gifts of Christmas (2015 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Family, Romance
With just two weeks left until Christmas, a busy marketing executive hires a struggling artist-turned-personal shopper to help him buy gifts for his friends and family.
Director: Peter Sullivan | Stars: Katrina Law, Aaron O'Connell, Donna Mills, Melanie Nelson
Votes: 5,212
20. Aleksi (2018)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Aleksi is a disaffected 28-year-old who ignores her pressing responsibilities by following her impulses with various men.
Director: Barbara Vekaric | Stars: Tihana Lazovic, Goran Markovic, Sebastian Cavazza, Jason Mann
Votes: 781
21. 12 Days of Giving (2017 TV Movie)
TV-G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
After winning a $50,000 prize, a man decides to pay things forward by buying Christmas gifts for strangers under the pseudonym "Lucky the Elf."
Director: Christine Conradt | Stars: Ashley Jones, David Blue, Jax Connolly, Preston James Hillier
Votes: 1,122
22. Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Macdonald Carey, Constance Moore
Votes: 605
23. Crime Against Joe (1956)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
A disreputable Korean War veteran is suspected of murder.
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: John Bromfield, Julie London, Henry Calvin, Patricia Blair
Votes: 387
24. The Meaning of Life (I) (2017)
93 min | Drama, Music
A starving musician Finn Faber (Tyler Shaw) gets a temporary job as a therapeutic clown at a hospital entertaining sick kids. He is assigned a 9 year-old leukemia patient: Sophia Hill (Sadie Munroe). Finn soon learns that Sophia coming into his life was no coincidence, but an important lesson he needed to learn before making a big step forward in life.
Director: Cat Hostick | Stars: John Boylan, Joel Chico, Daniel DeSanto, Sergio Di Zio
Votes: 35
25. Comic Girls (2018– )
23 min | Animation, Comedy
Moeta Kaoruko ia a 15-year-old high school student and manga creator, who uses the pen name Chaos. After ranking at the bottom of a reader survey, Kaoruko's editor recommends that she enter... See full summary »
Stars: Hikaru Akao, Kaede Hondo, Saori Ônishi, Rie Takahashi
Votes: 265
26. Dizengoff 99 (1979)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the easy-going, sexually-liberated 1970's Tel Aviv, three young friends, struggling filmmaker Nati, his impressionable girlfriend Ossi and his geeky friend Mushon, move in together in a ... See full summary »
Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Gidi Gov, Gali Atari, Anat Atzmon, Meir Suissa
Votes: 255
27. Satin (2011)
TV-14 | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A washed up Vegas lounge singer, Jack Satin (Hamilton von Watts), has no money, no job, and delusional aspirations of fame. When Jack is forced to leave Vegas, he packs up his old Cadillac ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Olness | Stars: Hamilton von Watts, Melissa Joan Hart, Michael Cudlitz, Robert Guillaume
Votes: 268
28. Bild von ihr (2011)
100 min | Drama
'Bild von Ihr' tells the story of a poor, young ,creative artist whose life gets turned upside down when he meets an unemotional business woman who pays him to have rough sex with her. ... See full summary »
Director: Florian Anders | Stars: Eugen Bauder, Hubert Burczek, Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen, Manuel Cortez
Votes: 12
29. The Waiters (2006)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama
Taylor Starks and his co-workers, all aspiring actors, toil in a Los Angeles restaurant while "waiting" for their big break.
Director: Derik Wingo | Stars: Derik Wingo, Lorrainne Petersen, Scott Vogel, Kathryn Reese
Votes: 39
30. Living on Love (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mary, a sometimes employed Midwest transplant living in New York is forced to share an apartment with Jack, a starving artist-night watchman. Both having problems paying their rent, ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: James Dunn, Whitney Bourne, Joan Woodbury, Solly Ward
Votes: 309
31. A Parisian Romance (1932)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
Octave Feuillet's play about an elderly Parisian rake who romances a parade of sophisticated women without falling for any of them. He meets his match when he tries to win a young girl away from her fiance, a struggling young artist.
Director: Chester M. Franklin | Stars: Lew Cody, Marion Shilling, Gilbert Roland, Joyce Compton
Votes: 66
32. Alaston malli karkuteillä (1953)
77 min | Comedy
Director: Ville Salminen | Stars: Raili Mäki, Sakari Jurkka, Rauni Luoma, Matti Lehtelä
Votes: 78
33. Let's Make a Movie (2012)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy
Cassie Thompson, a film-school dropout, decides to make a movie in order to turn her dead-end life around.
Director: Elana A. Mugdan | Stars: Hallie York, Johnathan Fernandez, Brian Cheng, Eric James Eastman
Votes: 104
34. Six Seconds (2014)
6 min | Short, Romance
Scarlet; a broke English major is madly in love with Julian; a talentless artist with a hot temper. In a sequence of six second events their lives are turned upside-down. Shortly after ... See full summary »
Director: Kearsten Johansson | Stars: Kearsten Johansson, Ryan Reed
35. Tähtisilmä (1955)
72 min | Comedy, Romance
Maija lives as a lodger in the same cottage as the artist Lauri who, being poor, is shacking up with socialite Ansa. Maija's live radio appearance, a betting win and Lauri's success in an altarpiece competition change the course of events.
Director: Matti Oravisto | Stars: Heidi Krohn, Jussi Jurkka, Hillevi Lagerstam, Niilo Tarvajärvi
Votes: 47
37. Forever Into Space (2015)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Forever Into Space tells the story of Audrey Harrington (Kelly Sebastian), an over-educated and underemployed twenty-something film blogger attempting to make sense of the times while ... See full summary »
Director: Greg W. Locke | Stars: Kelly Sebastian, Oliver Fetter, Tyler Evan Rowe, Julianna Piechoczek
Votes: 11
38. Zois (2018)
Documentary, Biography
Escaping the electrical fence and dodging border guards' bullets was just the beginning of a long journey from Eastern Europe to the USA.
Director: Bujar Alimani
39. Jump (II) (2021)
19 min | Short, Drama
Alfred, a middle-aged party clown, leads a somewhat artistic life in New York City, but it's not quite what he imagined in his youth. As he gets older, Alfred begins to question whether he ... See full summary »
Director: Natalia Curea | Stars: Al Pagano, Dasha Dakkuri, Erinn Holmes, Matthew Manta
Votes: 14
40. Pixels and Polygons: An Indie Game Developer Story (2013)
75 min | Documentary
Pixels and Polygons: An Indie Game Developer Story is at it's core, a self shot documentary being produced to give insight into the life of a "starving artist", or in this case, an ... See full summary »
Votes: 16
41. J.M. Nells (2016– )
6 min | Comedy
Jane Nells is a narcissistic young playwright attempting to produce her hilariously awful play in NYC.
Stars: Remington Moses, Nicola Rose, Ben Kaufman, Tina Jetter
42.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996–1998)
Episode:
Something to Treasure
(1998)
TV-14 | 49 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The widow of a miner hires Hetty to discover his treasure map showing where valuable gemstones he stole from the mine owners are hidden.
Director: David Giles | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, Suzanne Maddock
Votes: 85
43.
Daisy Jones & The Six (2023)
Episode:
Track 3: Someone Saved My Life Tonight
(2023)
16+ | 49 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A newly-sober Billy balances music with his familial responsibility, while the band picks up the pieces in the wake of a disastrous tour. Daisy finds it far more difficult to write music when there are expectations.
Director: James Ponsoldt | Stars: Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Suki Waterhouse
Votes: 1,156
44.
Great Art (2016– )
Episode:
I, Claude Monet
(2020)
50 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life of 19th century French Impressionist painter Claude Monet told through his letters and paintings.
Director: Phil Grabsky | Stars: Henry Goodman, Tim Marlow