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1) Nine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
With only a week left before shooting begins on the filming of his latest movie, world famous film director Guido Contini is desperately searching for a way to overcome his creative block. Escaping to a seaside resort, he attempts to restore the equilibrium to his personal and professional existence by drawing inspiration from the women in his life.
2) Benjamin
Publisher
Artsploitation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A charmingly offbeat gay romantic comedy about a mess-of-a-filmmaker juggling the anxieties and excitement of his upcoming film premiere with the fear and awkwardness of a burgeoning romance. Written and directed by British comedian Simon Amstell who peppers this charming, laugh-out-loud funny tale with hilariously deadpan one-liners and a scene-stealing cast of supporting characters.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mabel and Rosenthal are the two stars of a pretentious art-horror film directed by an unhinged tyrant who may or may not be German (he goes by 'Herr Director'). Mabel is playing a blind woman while Rosenthal, who has facial tumors caused by neurofibromatosis, is essentially playing a version of himself. Both their characters are part of a mad doctor's plot to 'cure' disabilities. But while Mabel can distance herself from her character, Rosenthal's...
4) Movie 43
Publisher
Relativity Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this series of interconnected short films a washed-up producer pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest names in Hollywood. No inappropriate story line is off limits. The film contains jaw-dropping, sometimes shockingly disturbing, but always entertaining intertwined stories.
5) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Description
Pompo is a talented and gutsy producer in Nyallywood, the movie-making capital of the world. Although she's known for B-movies, one-day Pompo tells her movie-loving but apprehensive assistant Gene that he will direct her next script: a delicate drama about aging and tormented creative genius, starring the legendary and Brando-esque actor Martin Braddock, and a young actress seeking her first break. But when the production heads towards chaos, can...
8) Ed Wood
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed worst movie director of all time. Wood was the auteur behind Glen or Glenda? and Plan 9 from outer space, and it is during the making of these two no-budget flicks that Wood is profiled.
Publisher
Ocean Avenue Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A documentarian is making a film about Christianity's decline, so relocates his family to Athens, GA intending to infiltrate and observe. Although he wants to be objective, his producer convinces him to use hidden cameras inside the family's "small group" and the discovery of this invasion of privacy threatens the real connection he's been making with the others in his group.
10) The fall guy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
He's a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
12) Silent movie
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A has-been movie director (Mel Brooks) intends to make a comeback by making a silent movie, and in the process, save his film studio from a takeover by a New York-based conglomerate.
13) Hitchcock
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Determined to film the grisly murder story Psycho, despite lack of studio support, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock risks his reputation, his home, and even the love of his wife, Alma, in order to succeed.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
p2022, c2021.
Language
Español
Description
A billionaire decides on a whim to create a movie, hiring a team he considers the best: a renowned filmmaker and two egotistical actors -- one from Hollywood and the other from experimental theatre -- who cannot get along. While the director creates bizarre rituals to test their abilities, the actors find themselves confronting each other as well as their pasts and their bodies of work.
16) Keep the change
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When aspiring filmmaker David is mandated by a judge to attend a social program at the Jewish Community Center, he is sure of one thing, he doesn't belong there. But when he's assigned to visit the Brooklyn Bridge with the vivacious Sarah, sparks fly and his convictions are tested. Their budding relationship must weather Sarah's romantic past, David's judgmental mother, and their own preconceptions of what love is supposed to look like.
17) Godard mon amour
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, is shifting from revolutionizing cinema to becoming a revolutionary tout court. His female star is Anne Wiazemsky, writer Franȯis Mauriac's granddaughter, sixteen years his junior. Anne and Jean-Luc have been dating since 1966 and they marry this very year. She admires Jean-Luc's originality, intelligence, wit and boldness while he loves Anne's freshness and - admiration of him. But May 1968 puts their marriage to the...
18) X
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1979 some young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast members find themselves in a fight for their lives.
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