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1. The Gentlemen (2019)
R | 113 min | Action, Crime
An American expat tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong
Votes: 400,843 | Gross: $36.47M
2. Life Itself (2018)
R | 117 min | Drama, Romance
As a young New York City couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
Director: Dan Fogelman | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening, Mandy Patinkin
Votes: 24,665 | Gross: $4.10M
3. Seven Psychopaths (2012)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken
Votes: 273,982 | Gross: $15.02M
4. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Votes: 236,507
5. Adaptation. (2002)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton
Votes: 203,082 | Gross: $22.25M
6. Inland Empire (2006)
R | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Laura Dern
Votes: 62,064 | Gross: $0.75M
7. Audition (1999)
R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura
Votes: 89,269
8. Home Again (2017)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
Director: Hallie Meyers-Shyer | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Michael Sheen, Candice Bergen, Pico Alexander
Votes: 35,126 | Gross: $27.02M
9. Crooked House (2017)
PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Max Irons, Stefanie Martini, Glenn Close, Honor Kneafsey
Votes: 27,548
10. Close Your Eyes (2023)
169 min | Drama
A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez
Votes: 2,752
11. Southland Tales (2006)
R | 145 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Carlos Amezcua
Votes: 40,639 | Gross: $0.28M
12. Trumbo (2015)
R | 124 min | Biography, Drama
In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K.
Votes: 84,793 | Gross: $7.86M
13. My Week with Marilyn (2011)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama
Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interactions between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).
Director: Simon Curtis | Stars: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond
Votes: 89,606 | Gross: $14.60M
14. Bad Education (2004)
NC-17 | 106 min | Crime, Drama
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Javier Cámara, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Votes: 63,423 | Gross: $5.21M
15. The Moon & Back (2022)
PG-13 | 74 min | Comedy
A year after her father's death, Lydia Gilbert feels completely lost - until she discovers something unexpected: a space opera script in need of a blockbuster budget, written by her father.
Director: Leah Bleich | Stars: Isabel May, Missi Pyle, Nat Faxon, P.J. Byrne
Votes: 53
16. The Rewrite (2014)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.
Director: Marc Lawrence | Stars: Hugh Grant, Whit Baldwin, Vanessa Wasche, Enid Graham
Votes: 22,250
17. Hollywood Homicide (2003)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two LAPD detectives who moonlight in other fields investigate the murder of an up-and-coming rap group.
Director: Ron Shelton | Stars: Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Isaiah Washington, Lena Olin
Votes: 39,350 | Gross: $30.94M
18. Playing It Cool (2014)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
Unrequited love motivates a guy to write about his experiences.
Director: Justin Reardon | Stars: Chris Evans, Michelle Monaghan, Topher Grace, Aubrey Plaza
Votes: 30,110
19. Please Stand By (2017)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her 500-page manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition at Paramount Pictures.
Director: Ben Lewin | Stars: Dakota Fanning, Alice Eve, Toni Collette, Lexi Aaron
Votes: 15,241 | Gross: $0.01M
20. Bergman Island (2021)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A couple retreat to the island that inspired Ingmar Bergman to write screenplays for their upcoming films when the lines between reality and fiction start to blur.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Mia Wasikowska, Anders Danielsen Lie
Votes: 9,913
21. Living in Oblivion (1995)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
This ultimate tribute to all independent filmmakers takes place during one day on the set of a non-budget movie.
Director: Tom DiCillo | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney, Danielle von Zerneck
Votes: 20,166 | Gross: $1.15M
22. 84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean De Baer
Votes: 11,228 | Gross: $1.08M
23. The Singing Detective (1986)
70 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery
Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
Stars: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, David Ryall
Votes: 4,810
24. Fedora (1978)
PG | 114 min | Drama, Romance
Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement only to discover the horrible truth behind her success.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, José Ferrer
Votes: 5,187 | Gross: $2.20M
25. The Singing Detective (2003)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Northam
Votes: 8,944 | Gross: $0.34M
26. Totally F***ed Up (1993)
TV-MA | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Six queer teenagers struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of varying obstacles.
Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: James Duval, Roko Belic, Susan Behshid, Jenee Gill
Votes: 3,939 | Gross: $0.10M
27. Kiss of the Damned (2012)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A beautiful, lonely vampire falls in love with a screenwriter and transforms him into one of the undead, but their budding romance is threatened by her vivacious, troublemaking sister.
Director: Xan Cassavetes | Stars: Joséphine de La Baume, Ching Valdes-Aran, Milo Ventimiglia, Caitlin Keats
Votes: 5,403 | Gross: $0.01M
28. The Lonely Lady (1983)
R | 92 min | Drama
Hoping to achieve success in Hollywood, a young aspiring screenwriter allows others to exploit her. She goes through affair after sordid affair in her attempt to write her own screenplay and have it produced.
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Pia Zadora, Lloyd Bochner, Bibi Besch, Joseph Cali
Votes: 1,287 | Gross: $1.22M
29. Eskimo Nell (1975)
85 min | Comedy
Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch, an exotic movie producer. He wants to make a new erotic movie starring a big woman - the "Eskimo... See full summary »
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Michael Armstrong, Terence Edmond, Christopher Timothy, Roy Kinnear
Votes: 434
30. Luck by Chance (2009)
Not Rated | 156 min | Drama
When Vikram gets tapped to play the male lead in a Bollywood film, he can't believe his luck. But it may ruin his relationship with his girlfriend.
Director: Zoya Akhtar | Stars: Farhan Akhtar, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia
Votes: 11,050 | Gross: $0.36M
31. Catch Hell (2014)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A fading Hollywood pretty-boy gets taken and brutalized in Louisiana by two local men with his total ruination at heart.
Director: Ryan Phillippe | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Ian Barford, Stephen Louis Grush, James DuMont
Votes: 3,129
32. Mistress (1992)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
This self-effacing comedy about film industry blues stars Robert Wuhl and Martin Landau as a writer/producer duo who must deal with the increasingly fickle demands of their film's financiers (Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro and Eli Wallach).
Director: Barry Primus | Stars: Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Vasek Simek, Thomas R. Voth
Votes: 2,394 | Gross: $1.10M
33. Reincarnation (2005)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Yûka, Karina, Kippei Shîna, Tetta Sugimoto
Votes: 6,767
34. Nanking (2007)
R | 88 min | Biography, History, War
Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.
Directors: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman | Stars: Hugo Armstrong, Rosalind Chao, Stephen Dorff, John Getz
Votes: 3,589 | Gross: $0.16M
35. The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
91 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
The notorious fictional town of Royston Vasey is under threat and its inhabitants are forced to leave.
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Michael Sheen
Votes: 5,921
36. Wishing for a Dream (2016)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Actress Mika Andrews and her filmmaker boyfriend Louis Digman struggle through the trenches of the entertainment industry to succeed in "Hollywood." Told in raw documentary style, the ... See full summary »
Director: Jared Cohn | Stars: Jared Cohn, Sara Malakul Lane, Nicole Alexandra Shipley, Gabriel Campisi
Votes: 105
37. Karaoke (1996)
63 min | Drama
Daniel Feeld is a screenwriter with pains in his gut and a new screenplay called "Karaoke", about a girl named Sandra who works in a seedy Karaoke bar and is murdered by a lowlife named ... See full summary »
Stars: Albert Finney, Roy Hudd, Richard E. Grant, Keeley Hawes
Votes: 621
38. Hollywood Story (1951)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull
Votes: 923
39. The Big Take (2018)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Thriller
A reclusive movie star is fingered for a crime in this dangerous case of mistaken identity.
Director: Justin Daly | Stars: James McCaffrey, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Zoë Bell, Robert Forster
Votes: 4,992
40. Home Delivery: Aapko... Ghar Tak (2005)
151 min | Comedy, Romance
Sunny Malhotra (Vivek Oberoi) is a 28 year old writer who has carved a name for himself as a popular agony uncle, named Gyan Guru, writing for the Times of Hindustan. Sunny also managed to ... See full summary »
Director: Sujoy Ghosh | Stars: Vivek Oberoi, Mahima Chaudhry, Ayesha Takia, Boman Irani
Votes: 660 | Gross: $0.05M
41. Messages Deleted (2010)
Not Rated | 92 min | Thriller
A screenwriting teacher is forced to live out the plot of a screenplay idea he stole from a student, who now seeks revenge.
Director: Rob Cowan | Stars: Matthew Lillard, Deborah Kara Unger, Gina Holden, Serge Houde
Votes: 2,246
42. Johns (1996)
R | 96 min | Drama, Romance
It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Silver | Stars: David Arquette, Lukas Haas, Tony Epper, John C. McGinley
Votes: 1,820 | Gross: $0.05M
43. Speaking Parts (1989)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely woman stalks a co-worker by obsessively watching videos he appears in. He is an actor trying to get a part in a new TV movie, written by his lover. She has written about her brother's death, but is losing control of the project.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose, Tony Nardi
Votes: 1,569
44. Just Write (1997)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Romance
A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.
Director: Andrew Gallerani | Stars: Sherilyn Fenn, Jeremy Piven, JoBeth Williams, Wallace Shawn
Votes: 1,081
45. The Waiting Room (2003)
94 min | Drama
Zeki Demirkubuz plays the lead character Ahmet who wants to make a film about Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'. He falls into a deep depression, loses interest in the film and life, ... See full summary »
Director: Zeki Demirkubuz | Stars: Zeki Demirkubuz, Nurhayat Kavrak, Nilüfer Açikalin, Serdar Orçin
Votes: 3,303
46. Concealed Weapon (1994)
R | 80 min | Thriller
Something unthinkable is happening among Hollywood's elite power players... and Oliver Wright is in the midst of it all. A struggling actor, Oliver gets the lead in a movie for a well-known... See full summary »
Directors: Dave Payne, Milan Zivkovic | Stars: Daryl Haney, Suzanne Wouk, Julie Baltay, Brick Rage
Votes: 195
47. The Dying Gaul (I) (2005)
R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.
Director: Craig Lucas | Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Campbell Scott, Patricia Clarkson, Ryan Miller
Votes: 2,481 | Gross: $0.34M
48. La rabbia (2008)
104 min | Drama
A young director, lives with a girl. His only aim is to leave a footstep of his presence on this world realizing a film.
Director: Louis Nero | Stars: Franco Nero, Nico Rogner, Giorgio Albertazzi, Tinto Brass
Votes: 162
49. Big Shot's Funeral (2001)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Kwan, Paul Mazursky, You Ge
Votes: 2,407 | Gross: $0.00M
50. Tale of Cinema (2005)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In Seoul, a suicidal student meets a young woman who decides to join him in his fatal gesture. Tongsu, an unsuccessful filmmaker, spots a beautiful young woman, who happens to be the lead actress in the film he has just seen.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kim Sang-kyung, Uhm Ji-won, Lee Ki-woo, Lee Kyung-jin
Votes: 1,872