Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "casting"

51. Two Days (2003)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama

Paul Miller has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. In two days, he's going to kill himself. But in true Hollywood style, he's hired a film crew to chronicle his last moments.

Director: Sean McGinly | Stars: Adam Scott, Karl Wiedergott, Mark Phinney, Paul Rudd

Votes: 1,019

52. The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama

The film follows the trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Director: John Erman | Stars: Tony Curtis, Bill Macy, Harold Gould, Sharon Gless

Votes: 485

53. Girl Model (2011)

Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Thriller

A documentary on the modeling industry's 'supply chain' between Siberia, Japan, and the U.S., told through the experiences of the scouts, agencies, and a 13-year-old model.

Directors: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin | Stars: Ashley Arbaugh, Rachel Blais, Olivia Arben, Tigran Khachatrian

Votes: 2,310 | Gross: $0.02M

54. Poranek kojota (2001)

100 min | Comedy

Kuba, a young cartoon artist who works as a waiter at sophisticated parties, falls in love with beautiful Noemi and accidentally gets involved in gangster affairs.

Director: Olaf Lubaszenko | Stars: Maciej Stuhr, Karolina Rosinska, Michal Milowicz, Magdalena Kumorek

Votes: 4,070

55. Every Little Step (2008)

PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Music

Follows the plight of real-life dancers as they struggle through auditions for the Broadway revival of "A Chorus Line". Also investigates the history of the show and the creative minds behind the original and current incarnations.

Directors: Adam Del Deo, James D. Stern | Stars: Bob Avian, Justin Bellero, Michael Bennett, Jay Binder

Votes: 1,668 | Gross: $1.72M

56. 15 Years and One Day (2013)

96 min | Adventure, Drama

Margo is struggling to deal with her son, Jon a rebellious and free-spirited teenager who runs with a bad crowd.

Director: Gracia Querejeta | Stars: Tito Valverde, Maribel Verdú, Arón Piper, Belén López

Votes: 1,387

57. The Road to Coronation Street (2010 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 75 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of how the 22-year-old Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street (1960).

Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Ann Aris, Lynda Baron, Steven Berkoff, David Dawson

Votes: 407

58. Phantom Project (2022)

Unrated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Follow Pablo, a young actor who dreams of starring in a film, but in order to pay the bills he has to work as a simulated patient in medical schools and in weird sessions of alternative therapies.

Director: Roberto Doveris | Stars: Juan Cano, Ingrid Isensee, Violeta Castillo, Fernanda Toledo

Votes: 261

59. In Praise of Love (2001)

PG | 97 min | Drama

An author works on a project on the subject of love, and, in the process, crosses paths with a former love in his life.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny

Votes: 3,029 | Gross: $0.25M

60. Nina Wu (2019)

Unrated | 102 min | Drama

Nina Wu, a girl who leaves small theatre company in the country for the big city in pursuit of her actress dream. The wait seems to be endless, as she lives a lonely and repressed life ... See full summary »

Director: Midi Z | Stars: Ke-Xi Wu, Vivian Sung, Kimi Hsia, Li-Ang Chang

Votes: 1,326

61. Carmen (I) (1983)

R | 102 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very Spanish version of Bizet's dramatization of Prosper Merimee's novella Carmen. The choreographer Antonio falls in love with Carmen, the main... See full summary »

Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Marisol

Votes: 3,581

62. Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975 TV Movie)

100 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In Los Angeles in 1947, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, whose nude body was dumped in a lot after being ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Brooke Adams, Donna Mills, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Ronny Cox

Votes: 404

63. Return of the Ewok (1982 Video)

24 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy

Young Warwick Davis decides he wants to be in pictures, so he gets himself an agent. The agent gives him an Ewok outfit and points him towards Elstree Studios. There Warwick wanders from set to set looking to find the other Ewoks.

Director: David Tomblin | Stars: Warwick Davis, Jeremy Bulloch, Patricia Carr, Anthony Daniels

Votes: 376

64. 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: 281

65. Click Bait (2007)

73 min | Horror

After answering an online casting post, Sarah and her boyfriend, Daniel, drive to the set of an independent horror movie. They soon find out that the movie is a snuff film directed by three psychopaths.

Director: Nicolas Bressier | Stars: Mélanie Artilland, Nicolas Darche, Mélanie Garino, Stephane Ollier

Votes: 77

66. Casting By (2012)

TV-14 | 89 min | Documentary, Biography

The surprising, never-before-told tale of the indispensable yet unsung Casting Director - Iconoclasts whose keen eye, exquisite taste and gut instincts redefined Hollywood.

Director: Tom Donahue | Stars: Deborah Aquila, Risa Bramon Garcia, Ellen Chenoweth, Marion Dougherty

Votes: 1,638 | Gross: $0.01M

67. Filmworker (2017)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography

A documentary about how English actor Leon Vitali came to work as an assistant to American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick for over 30 years.

Director: Tony Zierra | Stars: Leon Vitali, Ryan O'Neal, Brian Capron, Mike Alfreds

Votes: 3,514 | Gross: $0.10M

68. Waiting in the Wings: The Musical (2014)

Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Music, Musical

A mix-up occurs between a theatre geek and a hot stripper. Hilarity ensues when they realize to "make it," they're going to have to learn some new tricks.

Director: Jenn Page | Stars: Jeffrey A. Johns, Adam Huss, Rena Strober, Lee Meriwether

Votes: 214

69. Costa Azzurra (1959)

84 min | Comedy

Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The journalist Gino comes to interview the great industrial Signore Carsoli. The famous ... See full summary »

Director: Vittorio Sala | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Rita Gam, Antonio Cifariello, Elsa Martinelli

Votes: 172

70. My Days of Glory (2019)

98 min | Comedy

An actor who enjoyed success in his youth finds his career and life in a downward spiral as he gets older.

Director: Antoine de Bary | Stars: Vincent Lacoste, Emmanuelle Devos, Christopher Lambert, Noée Abita

Votes: 572

71. The Fear of Speed (2002 Video)

90 min | Action, Comedy

A low budget spoof of "The Fast and the Furious" - fast cars, cute girls, drugs, guns and a girl with fear of speed/Tachophobia.

Director: Jeff Centauri | Stars: Dale DaBone, Noname Jane, Voodoo, Andre McCoy

Votes: 141

72. Hollyweird (2019)

86 min | Comedy, Drama

Two outsiders try to make it through the weirdness of being Latino in Hollywood-- one by lying to himself, the other by lying to the world.

Director: Edwin Porres | Stars: Richa Moorjani, Cody Renee Cameron, Douglas Spain, Michael J. Knowles

Votes: 71

73. Roberto (2013)

Comedy

The world's worse film agent Roberto Angelo, attempts to sign every actor in the world. This is not because he is generous, but because he is a sleaze bag and a crazy one at that.

Director: Jason Croot | Stars: Phoebe Price, Denise Moreno, Georgina Leahy, Melissa Ricci

Votes: 89

74. Nach Fünf im Urwald (1995)

99 min | Comedy, Romance

Anna, 17 years old, is happy to throw her first big birthday party without her parents, but some of her guests are so stoned that they leave a big chaos and, even worse, destroy the ... See full summary »

Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: Franka Potente, Axel Milberg, Dagmar Manzel, Farina Brock

Votes: 1,568

75. IMDbPro Original Interviews with Leading Casting Directors (2014– )

Documentary

Top casting directors discuss how they use IMDbPro and how it can help actors get discovered.

Stars: Sharon Bialy, Kerry Barden, Richard Hicks, Carrie Audino

Votes: 78

76. Alla ricerca di Tadzio (1970 TV Movie)

30 min | Documentary

Documentary on Luchino Visconti's travels and auditions in search for a young actor to portray the role of Tadzio in his adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice", finally choosing Swedish actor Björn Andrésen.

Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Björn Andrésen, Sergio Garfagnoli, Luchino Visconti

Votes: 252

77. Le Challat de Tunis (2013)

90 min | Documentary, Drama, Mystery

Tunisia, before the revolution. A man on a motorbike, razor blade in hand, prowls the streets of Tunis slashing women's buttocks. They call him The Challat, aka "The Blade", and the mere ... See full summary »

Director: Kaouther Ben Hania | Stars: Mohamed Slim Bouchiha, Jallel Dridi, Moufida Dridi, Narimène Saidane

Votes: 186

78. Notes Towards an African Orestes (1970)

65 min | Documentary

The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye, Marcello Melis, Yvonne Murray

Votes: 551

79. To Dream, to Dream (1976)

85 min | Comedy, Drama

Mario "el Rulo" ("Curly", Gianfranco Pagliaro) is a globetrotter who travels the inner country offering artistic performances. One day, he happens to come to the hometown of Carlos (Carlos ... See full summary »

Director: Leonardo Favio | Stars: Gian Franco Pagliaro, Carlos Monzón, Nora Cullen, Oscar Carmelo Milazzo

Votes: 223

80. The End of My World (2017)

Not Rated | 30 min | Short, Drama

First Polish gay short drama. After a few years of their relationship, Eryk leaves Filip and disappears without a trace. Filip is unable to handle the new situation and is convincing ... See full summary »

Director: Kamil Krawczycki | Stars: Bartlomiej Ostrowski, Karol Kubasiewicz, Pawel Dobek, Magdalena Kaczmarek

Votes: 99

81. Das ist ja das Leben selbst! (2012)

59 min | Drama, Romance

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Director: Björn Last | Stars: Stefan Sandrock, Arijana Antunovic, Kaya Marie Möller, Karolina Lodyga

Votes: 64

82. Emma Peeters (2018)

90 min | Comedy

After 10 years of struggle in Paris, Emma Peeters has to face the facts: she will never be an actress. She decides to commit suicide on her 35th birthday. That is when she meets Alex, a funeral home employee.

Director: Nicole Palo | Stars: Monia Chokri, Fabrice Adde, Stéphanie Crayencour, Andréa Ferréol

Votes: 300

83. Paris (1998)

97 min | Documentary, Drama

A movie director is looking for an actress in Paris, for his next film. This is a pretext for different conversations with Parisians and interrogations about movie-making.

Director: Raymond Depardon | Stars: Sylvie Peyre, Luc Delahaye, Emilie Lafarge, Barbara Jung

Votes: 55

84. The Movies (2005 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Comedy

You play the head of a movie studio who must produce movies, manage your personnel and market your product as the technology of the medium changes over the years.

Director: Peter Molyneux | Stars: Benedict Caeser, Ben Cullum, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood

Votes: 539

85. Hasenherz (1987)

78 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

The thirteen year old Janni is depressed, because she's still a little behind in her physical development. This leads to bullying remarks from her classmates. One day, a film crew comes to ... See full summary »

Director: Gunter Friedrich | Stars: Volkmar Kleinert, Mario von Jascheroff, Hartmut Beer, Bettina Hohensee

Votes: 65

86. Frankie and Johnny Are Married (2003)

R | 95 min | Comedy

Television director and producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work... See full summary »

Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Michael Pressman, Lisa Chess, Alan Rosenberg, Stephen Tobolowsky

Votes: 250 | Gross: $0.02M

87. Cracks in the Shell (2011)

113 min | Drama

Fine suffers from not being seen but she also does her best at not being noticed, even though she is an acting student. At night, when her mentally handicapped sister Jule cannot get to ... See full summary »

Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Stine Fischer Christensen, Ulrich Noethen, Dagmar Manzel, Christina Drechsler

Votes: 1,003

88. Decibels of Love (2016)

91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

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Director: Miloslav Halík | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Rudolf Hrusínský, Alzbeta Bartosová, Filip Cíl

Votes: 75

89. Joe and Caspar Hit the Road (2015)

Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy

YouTube personalities Joe Sugg and Caspar Lee go on a road trip driving all around Europe.

Director: Brian Klein | Stars: Joe Sugg, Caspar Lee, Greta Menchi, Oli White

Votes: 641

90. La vie d'artiste (2007)

107 min | Comedy

Dubbing actress Alice dreams of a role that fits her. Bertrand, a French teacher, hopes to become a full-fledged writer. As for Cora, a young provincial, she wants to break into the song. The destinies of these three will intersect.

Director: Marc Fitoussi | Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Émilie Dequenne, Denis Podalydès, Valérie Benguigui

Votes: 213

91. The Alien Legacy (1999 Video)

68 min | Documentary

The best bits of the Alien franchise.

Director: Michael Matessino | Stars: Nick Allder, Bolaji Badejo, Mia Bonzanigo, Bob Burns

Votes: 407

92. Le cinéma de papa (1971)

GP | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

Young Jewish man tries to find his way in 1960's Paris while pondering whether to follow his father into the fur business or go into films.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Yves Robert, Hénia Suchar, Claude Berri, Alain Cohen

Votes: 250

93. Leave It All Behind (2018)

16 min | Short, Drama

A struggling actor tortured by his past finds an opportunity to make his dream come true.

Director: Paul Santoli | Stars: Victoria Giambalvo, Cassandra Lebron, Joe Porciello, Paul Santoli

94. Special Actors (2019)

119 min | Comedy

Kazuto has a lifelong dream of becoming an actor, but has been suffering from a special medical condition where he faints and collapses when he gets nervous.

Director: Shin'ichirô Ueda | Stars: Nozomi de Lencquesaing, Aver Hamilton II, Hiroki Kono, Hayate Masao

Votes: 489

95. The Audition (2013)

14 min | Short, Comedy

François attends a casting. After a very strange interview, he finds out he is actually at the heart of the mysterious set up in which he is forced to take part...

Director: Pierre Niney | Stars: François Civil, Brice Hillairet, Noémie Merlant, Yann Sorton

Votes: 81

96. Minte-mã frumos în Centrul Vechi (2016)

115 min | Comedy, Romance

Matters of the heart weave themselves into a love pentagon between five actors as they rehearse for a stage play in Bucharest's historic quarter.

Director: Iura Luncasu | Stars: Marius Damian, Zaharia Visan, Pavel Ulici, Nicoleta Hâncu

Votes: 159

97. Emergency Kisses (1989)

90 min | Drama

The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life, and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such a project in which she wanted to play herself.

Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Brigitte Sy, Philippe Garrel, Louis Garrel, Anémone

Votes: 354

98. Penthouse: Casting Call (2000 Video)

59 min

Who wants to be a Penthouse Pet? We were there to find out. A bevy of girls answered our casting call and we put them to the test in front of our cameras. You will never look at "the girl next door" the same way again.

Directors: Nicholas Guccione, Nikie Guccione | Stars: Amy Lynn Baxter, Leslie Glass, Gina Marca

99. Like Minds: Casting the Boys (2006 Video)

Documentary, Short, Crime

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Stars: Toni Collette, Richard Johns, Gregory Read, Eddie Redmayne

Votes: 15

100. Shoky & Morthy: Last Big Thing (2021)

99 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

Shoky and Morthy are best friends and successful YouTubers, but their fame is slowly beginning to fade. While Morthy would like to quit, Shoky comes up with ideas for making their videos ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Fehu | Stars: Stepán Kozub, Jakub Stáfek, Tomás Magnusek, Martina Babisova

Votes: 242