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Disney Plus
78
7.5
/1635/
72
/129/
67
/53/
3.7
/7960/
93
/46/
82
/13/
76
/13/
cc age 13+

Howard (2018)
Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage and interviews with Ashman’s family, friends, associates, and longtime partner Bill Lauch, Howard is an intimate tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent and a rousing celebration of musical storytelling itself.
poster
MGM Plus
75
6.9
/96153/
69
/2684/
65
/1155/
3.5
/64342/
89
/57/
70
/1408/
81
/22/
cc age 17+

Get Shorty (1995)
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
poster
The Roku Channel
69
7.0
/4801/
68
/116/
63
/66/
3.5
/4990/
78
/77/
72
/454/
60
/22/

Overnight (2003)
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints.
poster
78
67
7.5
/2845/
75
/117/
70
/81/
3.7
/3677/
92
/50/
84
/98/

Corman's World (2011)
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.
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Kanopy
72
61
7.0
/1848/
70
/98/
67
/59/
3.4
/2459/
96
/24/
73
/56/
65
/9/

Birth of the Living Dead (2013)
A behind the scenes look into George Romero's groundbreaking horror classic Night of the Living Dead.
poster
63
57
6.2
/6566/
61
/136/
58
/99/
3.2
/4018/
87
/23/
45
/99/
64
/8/

The Big Picture (1989)
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
6.5
/28973/
66
/439/
64
/517/
3.1
/14078/
47
/132/
48
/384/
46
/37/
cc age 15+

Hollywood Ending (2002)
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val blinded by love when he opts for the reconnect? Is love blind when it comes to Ellie's staunch support? Literally and figuratively, the proof is the picture.
poster
fuboTV
77
51
7.3
/2014/
75
/109/
75
/25/
3.6
/2670/
96
/45/
87
/2/
66
/14/

The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021)
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
48
5.6
/29153/
55
/602/
54
/466/
2.7
/7762/
49
/140/
22
/1226/
51
/18/
cc age 16+

What Just Happened (2008)
During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete his latest projects. A demanding studio boss demands extensive changes to a movie starring Sean Penn, while another chief won't greenlight a project unless star Bruce Willis shaves his beard. Meanwhile, Ben tries to reconcile with his wife and maintain a relationship with his young daughter.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
46
7.7
/912/
78
/73/
79
/23/
3.7
/1779/
100
/8/
93
/7/

To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story (2017)
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story is the harrowing story of a stuntman overcoming a dehumanizing childhood filled with torment and bullying in Sparks, Nevada. After surviving a near-death burn accident, he worked his way up through Hollywood, leading to his ultimate rise as Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th series and making countless moviegoers forever terrified of hockey masks and summer camp. Featuring interviews with cinema legends, including Bruce Campbell (Ash vs. Evil Dead), Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), and Cassandra Peterson (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), To Hell and Back peels off the mask of Kane Hodder, cinema's most prolific killer, in a gut-wrenching, but inspiring, documentary. After decades of watching Kane Hodder on screen, get ready to meet the man behind the mask in To Hell and Back - an uniquely human story about one of cinema's most vicious monsters.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
46
5.6
/74538/
62
/1733/
54
/938/
2.6
/23868/
29
/167/
42
/3934/
37
/38/
cc age 15+

Be Cool (2005)
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
45
6.0
/2807/
53
/39/
57
/53/
2.8
/2204/
63
/59/

L.A. Without a Map (1999)
An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
64
34
6.7
/637/
62
/41/
62
/16/
3.3
/804/
71
/7/
58
/38/

Cleanflix (2009)
When a small Utah-based edited movie company is caught sanitizing Hollywood's copyrighted material, the film industry strikes back with a devastating blow.
poster
63
32
7.0
/768/
60
/16/
51
/13/
3.6
/812/
71
/14/
74
/17/
46
/14/

The Woman Chaser (1999)
An unscrupulous used car salesman and aspiring filmmaker in 1950s Los Angeles struggles to get his first film made, at all costs.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
40
32
5.0
/2822/
53
/260/
49
/44/
2.2
/1190/
18
/22/
42
/22/
24
/4/
cc age 13+

The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (2020)
Paul Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
42
32
5.1
/2566/
55
/55/
41
/35/
2.6
/1939/
23
/43/
33
/107/
41
/19/

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2005)
Hungry for an A-list interview that could launch him into the gossip-page stratosphere, Jiminy Glick, a small-time journalist with big aspirations and an even bigger appetite, drags his wife and kids across the country to the star-studded Toronto Film Festival. But in between the nonstop parties and all-you-can-eat buffets, Glick soon finds himself in the middle of an outrageously scandalous mystery that becomes the celebrity scoop of the decade!
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
30
6.1
/1096/
54
/17/
60
/9/
72
/18/
31
/13/
58
/10/

Pipe Dream (2002)
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
45
27
5.3
/2960/
52
/52/
47
/42/
2.8
/711/
19
/35/

Quicksand (2003)
The workaholic head of the compliance section of a New York bank flies to Monaco to investigate unusual deposits from an offshore bank and meets a down-on-his-luck international film star who has become embroiled in criminal activities.
poster
76
26
7.8
/1037/
79
/45/
75
/14/
3.6
/926/

Dean Martin: King of Cool (2021)
Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to television variety shows to live acts in Las Vegas. Filmmaker Tom Donahue explores Martin’s varied career, including his complicated relationships with Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, and others. We hear from admirers such as critic Gerald Early, actor Jon Hamm, and Hip-Hop artist RZA who testify to Martin’s enduring mystique.
poster
28
21
3.5
/3888/
37
/38/
38
/53/
1.9
/1371/
8
/37/
15
/59/

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1998)
Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad big budget action film, for which he proceeds to steal the reels, and leaves the cast and crew in a frenzy.
poster
51
20
5.0
/182/
51
/5/
33
/6/
50
/6/
75
/18/

Dreamers (2000)
Growing up in small-town America, two friends dream about escaping their confining families to search for their dreams and freedom in the big city. Arriving in Los Angeles, the two discover the harsh realities of the city as they enter the shadowy world of the film business. Ultimately, the two friends must choose between love and friendship and soon discover that life has its own destiny for everyone.
poster
Hoopla
73
20
7.4
/772/
71
/6/
61
/17/
3.7
/954/
89
/4/

The Role (1977)
The film follows the life of a successful film star, revealing her increasing alienation in a role both glamorized and patronized by society. After being forced into show business by her family, she spends her time between studios and disastrous love affairs, and feels more and more dissatisfied.
poster
60
20
6.5
/654/
61
/35/
64
/23/
3.2
/905/
46
/3/

The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films (2014)
Cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus relive the creation, rise and fall of their independent film company, Cannon Films. This documentary recounts their many successes and discusses their eventual downfall.
poster
68
18
6.7
/842/
68
/18/
52
/16/
86
/11/

Hilde (2009)
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
poster
67
17
7.0
/290/
67
/12/
65
/16/
3.4
/682/

Ban the Sadist Videos! Part 2 (2006)
An investigation of UK video censorship after the video recordings act was introduced.
poster
39
16
5.4
/502/
30
/4/
49
/16/
44
/9/
20
/12/

Hollywood North (2004)
The making of a serious, Canadian arthouse film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his drug-addled star, his leading lady and his venal backers.
poster
43
15
4.6
/448/
42
/8/
40
/7/
47
/690/

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (2000)
A Hollywood film executive gets blackmailed by a derelict who uses some damaging information to move into his house and take over his perfect life for himself.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
15
7.5
/984/
74
/20/
70
/15/
3.4
/302/
83
/3/

Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown (2016)
Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor. Yet Lewis was far more than just a clown. He was also a groundbreaking filmmaker whose unquenchable curiosity led him to write, produce, stage and direct many of the films he appeared in, resulting in such adored classics as The Bellboy, The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, and The Nutty Professor.
poster
40
10
4.8
/1422/
46
/23/
37
/19/
3.0
/220/
11
/8/

The Cool Surface (1994)
A writer returns to Hollywood after finishing his novel in the wilderness. Still smarting from his girlfriend's suicide and his publisher's criticisms of his novel, he becomes intrigued by the neighbor couple's abusive relationship.
poster
36
6
4.2
/616/
45
/8/
37
/13/
26
/4/

Movers & Shakers (1985)
Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.
poster
48
?
7.1
/494/
10
/1/
3.2
/324/

The Cinema Snob Movie (2012)
When an exploitation filmmaker goes undercover as a pretentious film snob to obtain proper filming permits, he is thrust into a strange mystery surrounding the very secretive film commission.
poster
44
?
6.9
/437/
20
/1/

Pulp Fiction: The Facts (2002)
Behind the scenes of the legendary classic film by Quentin Tarantino.
poster
?
7.9
/23/
20
/1/

Chuck Zito: An American Story (2024)
Follows multi-talented and versatile Chuck Zito: Boxer, martial arts expert, bodyguard, stunt man, actor, and ex-president of the New York Hells Angels club.
poster
?
5.4
/92/
51
/7/
70
/2/

Bad Director (2024)
Director Gregor Samsa, washed-up and in his late fifties, is reviewing his life. Having wasted it as a cultural worker doesn't exactly add to his joy.
poster
?
6.1
/68/
65
/2/
60
/4/

The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels (2008)
THE WILD WORLD OF TED V. MIKELS, a new documentary by Kevin Sean Michaels (no blood relation to Ted, but the same spirit), is a rollicking look at the independent cinema and film pioneering of Ted V. Mikels, who has been producing films for over 60 years. Way before limited-budget action films became termed as "grindhouse," Ted was wowing audiences with his own special brand of guts, gore, humor, violence and most of all -- style. THE CORPSE GRINDERS 1 + 2, THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES, 10 VIOLENT WOMEN, MISSION: KILLFAST, THE BLACK KLANSMAN, THE DOLL SQUAD, THE WORM EATERS and GIRL IN GOLD BOOTS are some of Ted's films that have made their cinematic mark.
poster
62
?
6.5
/250/
58
/7/
58
/9/
3.5
/350/

Demon Lover Diary (1980)
The film chronicles filmmaker Joel DeMott, significant other/film partner Jeff Kreines and filmmaker Mark Rance as they head to Michigan to make a low budget horror film.
poster
?
7.4
/29/
33
/3/

Midnight (2006)
Captures the parallel lives and intersection of two downhearted strangers staying at the same hotel on New Year's Eve.
poster
37
?
4.0
/209/
40
/4/
34
/8/

Nudity Required (1990)
Two friends use the casting couch to seduce women while pretending to be movie producers.
poster
79
?
7.7
/227/
73
/3/
57
/6/
88
/8/
100
/3/

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)
This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, silent film star, movie pioneer and keen businesswoman. Pickford's life also parallels an even larger story, telling of the birth of the cinema itself.
poster
73
?
7.3
/138/
78
/11/
69
/18/

They also sing of pain (1950)
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
poster
46
?
5.4
/214/
30
/6/
55
/2/

Horror Business (2005)
The movie covers the careers of five up-and-coming horror-movie loving directors – Mark Borchardt ('Coven'), Ron Atkins ('Necromaniac'), Dave Stagnari ('Catharsis'), John Gora ('Chirpy'), and Brian Singleton.
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Amazon Prime Video
38
?
4.4
/115/
45
/6/
25
/4/

Red Nights (1988)
The Story of a Idealistic Young man (Played by Chris Parker), who goes to Los Angeles to become an actor, but is disillusioned and jaded when the cold and realistic violent world of Hollywood shatters then explodes all around him.
poster
66
?
6.8
/94/
73
/11/
57
/3/

Discovering 'Evil Dead' (2002)
Stories of how the film Evil Dead, The (1981) rose up very high against the accusations of the 'Video Nasties' of the 1980's in the UK. Many controversial films are referenced here to give us an example of how Evil Dead, The (1981) didn't belong in the garbage bin, and how it was very original for its genre.
poster
?
7.8
/75/
80
/4/
60
/3/

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008)
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.
poster
47
?
5.4
/342/
36
/9/
51
/8/

Portraits of Women (1970)
Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.
poster
24
?
4.4
/110/
20
/4/
10
/2/

Producer (2019)
Road trip comedy about a presumptuous young producer who has to deliver lots of money in cash to a film set. As he encounters many obstacles on his way, both hilarious and life-threatening, his misadventure teaches him a much needed life lesson and leads to a totally unexpected final.
poster
69
?
8.5
/113/
50
/2/
73
/3/

5 Men and a Limo (1997)
5 Men and a Limo is a 1997 American short film produced by Aspect Ratio Films as an introduction sketch for the 26th Annual Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards. In the film voiceover actor Don LaFontaine picks up four other voiceover actors in his limo to travel to the awards. The actors talk about themselves and the awards, making humorous references to common phrases and techniques they use when voicing movie trailers.
poster
70
?
7.1
/337/
70
/10/
68
/10/

Carbide and Sorrel (1963)
After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to travel to Wittenberg - the only place where carbide can be found. Once there, Kalle find himself in the unfortunate situation of having to hitchhike his way back to Dresden, transporting seven heavy barrels of carbide. However, his inventiveness and optimistic attitude help transform the grueling task into an adventurous, entertaining, and funny journey.


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