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Plot Summary:
Six women who came to Hollywood with the dream of becoming famous find themselves working as stand-ins for the glamorous stars of the late 1930s. Gathering for a birthday celebration at their local watering hole, they introduce a new member to the group -- instigating a turn of events that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, gloomy, period piece
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)
Plot Summary:
The melodrama of a failing, aging movie star who takes up with an ambitious masseur who takes her home only to show off in front of his former girl friend and her powerful father.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: southern gothic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, stylized, gloomy
Similar in 75%
Broken Windows (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four Women, Four Dreams, Four Realities.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic
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The Rite (1969)
Plot Summary:
A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated: Sebastian, volatile, a heavy drinker, in debt, guilty of killing his former partner, is having an affair with that man's widow. She is Thea, high strung, prone to fits, and seemingly fragile, currently married to Sebastian's new partner, Hans. Hans is the troupe leader, wealthy, self-contained, and growing tired. The judge plays on the trio's insecurities, but when they finally, in a private session with him, perform the masque called The Rite, they may have their revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: art house, clever, serious, surreal, contemplative, sexual, sexy
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Starstruck (1998)
Plot Summary:
A screenwriter befriends a washed up teen idol.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, sitcom, semi serious
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Anna (1987)
Plot Summary:
Czech refugee Krystyna (Paulina Porizkova) travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna (Sally Kirkland). After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must go through a battery of humiliating auditions to try and get work in her adopted land. But when Krystyna and Anna finally meet, they provide a support structure for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy
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Strangers Kiss (1983)
Plot Summary:
To help his actress girlfriend regain her confidence a Hollywood bigshot bankrolls a small budget film being made by a first-time producer and director pair. Despite the hand-to-mouth way it has to be made the film starts to come good, as does the off-set relationship between the actress and her unknown male lead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, eighties
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The Pianist (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Vanished Empire (2008)
Plot Summary:
This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, period piece
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Live Fast, Die Young (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a famous star is found dead at an exclusive Christmas Eve party filled with A-list Hollywood types, the police must hold for questioning a group of powerful entertainment industry players who are eager to leave the scene. As they reflect upon the death of their friend, apparently from a drug overdose, the witnesses begin to reflect upon their own life choices, triggering a profound discussion about life and spirituality.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, christian film, psychotronic
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Lotus Eaters (2011)
Plot Summary:
Story follows a group of young Londoners as they struggle to find meaning in their lives while masking their discontent with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized
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The Wild Party (1975)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, an aging silent movie comic star tries for a comeback by staging a wild party that turns into a sexual free-for-all. The comic ends up killing his mistress and her latest boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sentimental, serious, realistic, stylized, gloomy, period drama
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There Must Be a Pony (1986)
Plot Summary:
Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, stylized
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Hollywood Wives: The New Generation (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood star (Fawcett), fed up with her husband's cheating, hires a private investigator to tail him. Emotional support is offered by her two friends - a soul singer (Givens) and a famous director's wife (Gilbert).
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Fool for Love (1985)
Plot Summary:
A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her back to the life she is trying to leave behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: retro, grindhouse, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy, independent film
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Opening Night (1977)
Plot Summary:
An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, thought provoking, art house, postmodern, cerebral, tense, clever, realistic, contemplative
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The Portuguese Nun (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, serious, contemplative, gloomy
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After the Rehearsal (1984)
Plot Summary:
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's "A Dream Play." She talks of her hatred for her mother, now dead, an alcoholic actress, who was Vogler's star and lover. Vogler falls into a reverie, remembering a day Anna's mother, Rakel, late in life, came after rehearsal to beg him to come to her apartment. He awakes and Anna reveals the reason she has returned: she jolts him into an emotional response, rare for him, and the feelings of a young woman and an older man play out.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, art house, psychological, clever, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky
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The Wager (2007)
Plot Summary:
An actor at the pinnacle of his Hollywood career finds himself buckling to temptation after he accepts the lead in a classic tale of good versus evil. Michael Steele has just been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. In the wake of that announcement, Michael is cast in what may be the role of a lifetime. He's set to play the lead in an incredible story of monumental conflict, but will all of the swirling gossip around Michael cause him to stumble on the path of righteousness? His marriage is in jeopardy and his career is on the line. This man who has always tried to do the right thing must find the courage and conviction needed to set his life straight.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: christian film, serious, realistic, thought provoking, contemplative, gloomy
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Amazon Falls (2010)
Plot Summary:
Amazon Falls tells the story of a faded B-movie actress JANA who refuses to let go of her dream of being a star. Famous for her roles in Amazon movies where she portrayed a variety of pre-Xena warrior-princesses, she desperately tries to keep her leg in the B-movie game, and pursues her career with a zealous fervor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, serious, gloomy, semi autobiographical
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The Last Tycoon (1976)
Plot Summary:
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, retro, psychotronic, metafiction, cult classic, serious, gloomy
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An American in Hollywood (2014)
Plot Summary:
A talented young filmmaker from New York sets off to Los Angeles in pursuit of the Hollywood dream, only to discover through his relationship with a beautiful feisty young actress, that Hollywood is not all that it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating, humorous, independent film
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They Shoot Movies, Don't They? ...The Making of 'Mirage' (2000)
Plot Summary:
They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of investors, colleagues, friends and family, searching for money to finish his film. They Shoot Movies, Don't They? offers a line-blurring examination of what one might give up, in order to succeed.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, clever, captivating, independent film, mockumentary, humorous, fake documentary, cult film
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Dancing in September (2000)
Plot Summary:
A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, independent film
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A Woman, Her Men, and Her Futon (1992)
Plot Summary:
Recently divorced, aspiring filmmaker Helen (Jennifer Rubin) enters into a love triangle fueled by sexual hunger and manipulation. But as she attempts to define herself and fulfill her wants and needs, she must choose between her independence and her men. As Helen's exploits with controlling lover Paul (Michael Cerveris), casual beau Randy (Grant Show) and friend Donald (Lance Edwards) become fodder for her script, her choice becomes clear.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic, contemplative, sexual
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Beautiful Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
Odessa is a beautiful girl addicted to the attention and money that being an adult film star brings. William, a lonely mechanic, has a crush on her, and she indulges his fantasy and leads him on. Thinking he can save her and help her find a normal life, he befriends her drug-fueled bodyguard, Angry Jack, to get close to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy, independent film
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2nd Take (2011)
Plot Summary:
Reclusive writer takes aspiring actress under his wing.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, touching, serious, gloomy
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Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Delta of Venus (1995)
Plot Summary:
A struggling American writer and a fellow American expatriate begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, sensual, postmodern, independent film, serious, realistic, stylized, intellectual
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Bending All the Rules (2002)
Plot Summary:
When single photographer Kenna finally gets her own exhibition, she turns her attention to her love life. Yet two different men, sensitive Jeff and strong-willed Martin, are determined to win her heart, pulling her free spirit in opposite directions.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sexy, sincere, humorous, independent film
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Dangerous Game (1993)
Plot Summary:
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, melancholic, erotic, rough, art house, independent film, erotic drama, bleak, serious