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1. Ed Wood (1994)
R | 127 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette
Votes: 183,989 | Gross: $5.89M
2. Peeping Tom (1960)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
Votes: 39,266 | Gross: $0.08M
3. Nuovo Olimpo (2023)
TV-MA | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Two 25-year-old men who meet by chance, fall madly in love, and are then separated due to an unexpected event. For the next thirty years they pursue the hope of finding each other again.
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Luisa Ranieri, Greta Scarano, Loredana Cannata, Damiano Gavino
Votes: 5,166
4. American Movie (1999)
R | 107 min | Documentary, Comedy
Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.
Director: Chris Smith | Stars: Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Tom Schimmels, Monica Borchardt
Votes: 19,339 | Gross: $1.16M
5. Brigsby Bear (2017)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
After being freed from his life in an underground bunker, a man sets out to make a movie of the only TV show he has ever known.
Director: Dave McCary | Stars: Kyle Mooney, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins
Votes: 17,777 | Gross: $0.53M
6. An American Carol (2008)
PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.
Director: David Zucker | Stars: Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, Trace Adkins
Votes: 10,108 | Gross: $7.00M
7. Godard Mon Amour (2017)
R | 107 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1967, during the making of "La Chinoise," film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Micha Lescot
Votes: 6,005 | Gross: $0.08M
8. 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
9. Benjamin (II) (2018)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In Simon Amstell's affecting, bittersweet comedy, a rising young filmmaker is thrown into emotional turmoil by a burgeoning romance and the upcoming premiere of his second feature.
Director: Simon Amstell | Stars: Gabe Gilmour, Jack Rowan, Colin Morgan, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 2,464
10. Chambre 666 (1982 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, ... See full summary »
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni, Maroun Bagdadi, Ana Carolina
Votes: 1,509
11. Arrebato (1979)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.
Director: Iván Zulueta | Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro
Votes: 3,391
12. Other People's Children (2015)
85 min | Drama, Romance
A filmmaker, reeling from the death of her famous father, falls down the rabbit hole of a charismatic homeless man who becomes the subject of her latest documentary and her new love interest.
Director: Liz Hinlein | Stars: Diane Gaeta, Chad Michael Murray, Michael Mosley, Alexandra Breckenridge
Votes: 158
13. Starfuckers (2022)
14 min | Short, Drama
An intimate evening between a film director and an escort is disrupted when a familiar face arrives.
Director: Antonio Marziale | Stars: Antonio Marziale, Cole Doman, Jonathan Slavin
Votes: 698
14. Striptease (II) (1977)
108 min | Drama
A disillusioned, depressed film director is forced to confront his lack of humanity through his involvement in the death of a young actress and the suicide of her husband.
Director: Germán Lorente | Stars: Terence Stamp, Corinne Cléry, Pilar Velázquez, Alberto de Mendoza
Votes: 79
15. Friend of the World (2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
Director: Brian Patrick Butler | Stars: Nick Young, Alexandra Slade, Michael C. Burgess, Kathryn Schott
Votes: 89
16. Eliot (2013)
35 min | Short, Drama
Eliot is the story of a dreamy, passionate teenager who aims at setting himself free from a dull life by making super 8 movies with friends and decides, out of love, to act upon his own fate
Director: Philippe Reypens | Stars: Hugo Alsteens, Sébastien Rombaux, Eric De Staercke, Catherine Aymerie
Votes: 20
17. The Auteur (2008)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy
A sweet comedy about the world's greatest living porn director.
Director: James Westby | Stars: Melik Malkasian, Denise Chanterelle DuBois, Loren Hoskins, John Breen
Votes: 638
18. Room 999 (2023)
86 min | Documentary
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks a new generation of filmmakers similar questions.
Director: Lubna Playoust | Stars: Wim Wenders, Audrey Diwan, David Cronenberg, Joachim Trier
Votes: 79
19. The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974)
R | 90 min | Drama
Jared Martin plays an aspiring filmmaker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to film his vision with Sondra Locke as his subject. Supposedly based on a song by Leonard Cohen, which is used in the film.
Director: Michael Barry | Stars: Sondra Locke, Paul Sand, Jared Martin, Richard Dreyfuss
Votes: 784
20. Tilt (2017)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An unemployed documentary filmmaker's behavior becomes increasingly erratic in the months after his wife becomes pregnant.
Director: Kasra Farahani | Stars: Christian Calloway, Elijah T. Collins, Joseph Cross, Jessy Hodges
Votes: 643
21. Promise Her Anything (1966)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
A young lady has been widowed and left with a baby son to bring up alone. She decides that the baby needs a father figure and decides to marry a psychologist. She hides her son with an ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Robert Cummings, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 621
22. Hollyweird (1998 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Unsold TV pilot about three young ambitious true crime documentary filmmakers (an Ohio couple and their L.A. friend) recording their amateur sleuth attempts to solve grisly murders in Hollywood for their rising TV show 'Hollyweird.'
Director: Jefery Levy | Stars: Fab Filippo, Melissa George, Bodhi Elfman, Ivar Brogger
Votes: 52
23. Red Carpet (III) (2014)
117 min | Comedy, Romance
Adult movie director Jung-Woo dreams of working as a regular commercial film director. Eun-Soo is a commercial film actress, who began her career when she was a child. After Jung-Woo meets Eun-Soo he faces enormous changes in his life.
Director: Park Beom-su | Stars: Son Byung-wook, Hwang Chan-sung, Yoon Da-kyung, Jo Dal-hwan
Votes: 304
24. The Marina Experiment (2009)
Not Rated | 18 min | Documentary, Short
A father documents the emotional violations his daughter endured under his direction, throughout the first 16 years of her life. After his death, she uncovers boxes of reel-to-reel ... See full summary »
Director: Marina Lutz | Stars: Marina Lutz, Abbot Lutz
Votes: 54
25. Events (1970)
84 min | Drama
Sexuality without pretense gives the wallop to Events. A dramatic street story of young runaway flower-kids in the Greenwich Village of 1968, it raises ethical questions while the screen ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Baker | Stars: Ryan Listman, Joy Bang, Frank Cavestani, Marsha Rossa
Votes: 38
26. Dívka za zrcadlem (2018 TV Movie)
104 min | Drama
Renata is the happy mother of a seven-year-old daughter and she and her partner, journalist Ivan, live in a First Republic wooden cabin on the bank of a flooded quarry. The place is idyllic... See full summary »
Director: Andrea Sedlácková | Stars: Tatiana Dyková, Oldrich Kaiser, Vojtech Dyk, Eva Podzimková
Votes: 32
27. Kurosawa's Way (2011)
52 min | Documentary
Eleven major filmmakers from Europe, Asia and America talk about Akira Kurosawa and explore some ways on which he influenced their own work.
Director: Catherine Cadou | Stars: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Bernardo Bertolucci, Clint Eastwood, Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Votes: 152
28. Bass on Titles (1982)
32 min | Documentary, Short
Saul Bass discusses his most notable work in his own words.
Stars: Saul Bass, Herbert Yager
Votes: 110
29. Standing Woman (2021)
15 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Standing Woman is a dystopian tale of a near future where the government, rather than imprisoning criminals or deporting immigrants, turns them into trees as part of an insidious environmental campaign.
Director: Tony Hipwell | Stars: Andrew Dunn, Gemma-Louise Keane, Joanne Mitchell, Yuriri Naka
Votes: 35
30. Read Aloud (2015)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Drama
A young gay editor who dreams of performing is pushed into a new creative world by an online hookup.
Director: Blake Pruitt | Stars: Isaac Josephthal, Heather Litteer, Roko Scherer, Jose Sepulveda
Votes: 24
31. Fire Fire Desire (2015)
125 min | Drama, Romance
Swiss filmmaker Steff Gruber discovers his one-time Thai girlfriend Malee in a video travel guide for sex tourists on the internet. He becomes obsessed with the thought of finding her again... See full summary »
Director: Steff Gruber | Stars: Joe Bryan Baker, Dieter Balke, Philip Boyle, Noreya Eska
32. Cursed forest (2018)
63 min | Horror, Thriller
A young cameraman is sent on an educational task. However, everything is not going according to plan. The main character is not lucky enough to be in the cursed forest.
Director: Sergey A. | Star: Sergey A.
Votes: 448
33. The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (2016)
75 min | Biography
The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.
Director: Jan Nemec | Stars: Jirí Mádl, Karel Roden, Tatiana Pauhofová, Martin Pechlát
Votes: 77
34. Cinder Block (2017)
59 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
A crew of desperate filmmakers adapting an unfinished short novel by Nikolay Gogol discover that there's not much to adapt so they're trying to make for a feature film using scraps and leftovers from previous productions.
Directors: Sergey A., Georgiy Danilov, Evgeniy Mishukhin, Semyon Romanov, Mykola Yeriomin | Stars: Sergey A., Levyi Muzhik, Georgiy Danilov, Evgeniy Mishukhin
Votes: 52
35. Life and Film (The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny) (2009)
77 min | Documentary
After having been one of the most successful film directors in Europe in the nineteen sixties, Vojtech Jasny -Czech, 81-, lives now forgotten by many in a small apartment in New York. His ... See full summary »
Director: Arkaitz Basterra Zalbide | Stars: Vojtech Jasný, Rock Demers, Milos Forman, René Böll
Votes: 12
36. Alone (II) (2015)
92 min | Drama
Director: Joanna Lombardi | Stars: Diego Lombardi, Wendy Vasquez, Rodrigo Palacios, Alberto Rojas Apel
Votes: 52
37. Shooting Nick (2004)
108 min | Drama
A filmmaker shooting a documentary about America is carjacked by a couple and coerced into shooting the next two days of their lives.
Director: Daniel Yost | Stars: Robert Blanche, Sarah Rosenberg, Tyler Gannon, Daniel Yost
Votes: 25
38. Cinemassacre 200 (2008)
23 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
An autobiographical documentary on James Rolfe and how he got into making movies with the process of how he did it over the years.
Director: James Rolfe | Stars: Joe Morrotto, Gina Rolfe, James Rolfe, Scott Rolfe
Votes: 248
39. Forest monster (2021)
70 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Reporter Viktor Barinov makes his first documentary about a monster that lives in the Moscow region. What he finds will be a real shock.
Directors: Sergey A., Ivan Shakhov | Stars: Ivan Shakhov, Sergey A., Dmitriy Abalikhin, Nikolay Gromov
Votes: 472
40. Suuret pienet elokuvat (2021– )
Documentary
"Big Small Movies" is a documentary series where we follow story behind feature film Kontakti and reasons how the project became to be a decade-long journey.
Star: Jermu Mäkinen
41. Tabu V. (Wovon man nicht sprechen kann) (1998)
13 min | Short
About which one cannot speak, one must make films.
Director: Michael Brynntrup | Stars: Ichgola Androgyn, Jürgen Baldiga, Michael Brynntrup
42. Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This documentary is produced by one of the world's foremost authorities and biographers of Edwin S. Porter. Since little is known of Porter's personal life, the emphasis here is on his ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Musser | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Jay Leyda, Rob Issen, Robert Sklar
Votes: 136
43. Do vetru (2018)
78 min | Drama
Two siblings set sail as a crew on a yacht on the Aegean Sea. Circumstances soon change when a young documentary filmmaker comes aboard.
Director: Sofie Sustková | Stars: Vladimír Polívka, Jenovéfa Boková, Matyás Reznícek
Votes: 63
44. Vivant (2013)
18 min | Documentary, Short, Biography | Completed
As a young film enthusiast, David sought to find purpose in the daily grind, so he bought a super 8 camera and began capturing life. Oddly, he still wasn't satisfied and desired to find ... See full summary »
Director: David Tuchman | Stars: Fred Lee, David Tuchman, Christina Tuchman
45. The Auteur (2002)
5 min | Comedy, Short
THE AUTEUR chronicles porno director Arturo Domingo as he records the commentary track for DVD release, 'Requiem for a Wet Dream.' Filmed entirely in a Los Angeles sound studio, this is a ... See full summary »
Director: James Westby | Star: Melik Malkasian
Votes: 42
46. Projekt: Antarktis (2018)
97 min | Documentary
Directors: Michael Ginzburg, Tim David Mueller-Zitzke, Dennis Vogt | Stars: Tim David Mueller-Zitzke, Dennis Vogt, Michael Ginzburg
Votes: 77
47. Shelly (2016)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A socially bewildered aspiring filmmaker struggles to differentiate between the imaginary world of her latest project and reality.
Director: Lauren Rothery | Stars: Gore Abrams, Dominic Haydn Rawle, Maddison Rothery
Votes: 26
48. Powrót Agnieszki H. (2013)
70 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Agnieszha Holland takes Jacek Petrycki on a journey to the places of her youth; she tells him stories of experiences of the past. It is a dialogue of a famous director with the camera, behind which, there is her true friend.
Directors: Krystyna Krauze, Jacek Petrycki | Stars: Agnieszka Holland, Jacek Petrycki, Andrzej Koszyk, Andrzej Zajaczkowski
Votes: 31
49. The Orange Chronicles (2007)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Damian Kolodiy arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine expecting to stay for two weeks. Instead, a revolution exploded around him that inspired the world!
Director: Damian Kolodiy
Votes: 15
50. Far, Far Away (2017)
10 min | Short, Drama
George Lucas and his producer, Gary Kurtz, have to convince the studios to green light their new space film. They seek out help from artist Ralph McQuarrie to create concept artwork, who also helps them explain their film from the heart.
Director: Christian Hawkins | Stars: David Buckley, Guillermo Canba, John Eisen, Bernard Galane