20 movies like The Big Knife, ordered by similarity : Man About Town(2006), Two Weeks in Another Town(1962), Hitchcock(2012), The Purple Rose of Cairo(1985), Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood(2019), Crime of Passion(1957), The Bad and the Beautiful(1952), What Price Hollywood?(1932), Play It as It Lays(1972), Triad Election(2006), Odds Against Tomorrow(1959), Molly's Game(2017) ...
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1955
111 Minutes
Jack Palance Ida Lupino Rod Steiger Shelley Winters Wendell Corey Jean Hagen Ilka Chase Everett Sloane Wesley Addy Paul Langton Nick Dennis
actor wife agent tabloid reporter producer gripping frenetic brooding hollywood, calif. movie studio blackmail movies scandal marriage hit and run escape temptation wretched excess rivalry 1950s
Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover-up to protect his valuable career.
5.5/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2006
97 Minutes
Ben Affleck Rebecca Romijn John Cleese Sam Ball Mike Binder Gina Gershon Adam Goldberg Howard Hesseman Bai Ling Jerry O'Connell Kal Penn
agent wife client freelance writer actor teacher hilarious frenetic profound hollywood, calif. movie studio movie set family home classroom film industry marriage work vs. family infidelity self-discovery scandal
A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a reporter out to bring him down.
Drama
1962
106 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Edward G. Robinson Cyd Charisse George Hamilton Claire Trevor Daliah Lavi Rosanna Schiaffino
director wife actor woman leading man doctor emotional frenetic inspiring amusing mental institution hollywood, calif. new england rome movie set apartment alcoholism mental breakdown failing career hollywood
An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to make a comeback in Rome.
6.8/10
Biography, Drama, History
USA|UK
2012
98 Minutes
Anthony Hopkins Helen Mirren Scarlett Johansson Toni Collette Danny Huston Jessica Biel Michael Stuhlbarg James D'Arcy Michael Wincott Kurtwood Smith Richard Portnow
director wife film studio executive movie producer actress actor crafty gripping cheeky hollywood, calif. movie studio household film set alfred hitchcock filmmaking historical events serial murders husband/wife relationship rise underdog
The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.
7.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1985
82 Minutes
Mia Farrow Jeff Daniels Danny Aiello Dianne Wiest Van Johnson Zoe Caldwell John Wood Milo O'Shea Deborah Rush Irving Metzman John Rothman
waitress husband producer actor archaeologist countess quirky amusing touching new jersey theater apartment street hollywood, calif. airplane loneliness marriage magic great depression poverty
In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
7.6/10
Drama, Comedy
USA|UK|China
2019
159 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Brad Pitt Margot Robbie Kurt Russell Dakota Fanning Damon Herriman Austin Butler Emile Hirsch Scoot McNairy Luke Perry Al Pacino
actor struggling actor middle-aged man hippie stuntman director cool confident offbeat hollywood restaurant ranch movie set movie studio movie making acting alcoholism stardom starting over fall
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
6.5/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1957
84 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Sterling Hayden Raymond Burr Fay Wray Virginia Grey Royal Dano Robert Griffin Dennis Cross
columnist police detective police chief wife reporter friend tense suspenseful brooding gripping san francisco los angeles house newsroom murder ambition marriage investigation infidelity career
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
7.8/10
Drama
USA
1952
118 Minutes
Lana Turner Kirk Douglas Walter Pidgeon Dick Powell Barry Sullivan Gloria Grahame Gilbert Roland Leo G. Carroll Vanessa Brown Paul Stewart Sammy White
movie star writer director producer brooding cool spirited tense engaging hollywood, calif. manipulation cheating hollywood ambition betrayal underdog fall rise wretched excess 1950s
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
7.1/10
Drama
USA
1932
88 Minutes
Constance Bennett Lowell Sherman Neil Hamilton Gregory Ratoff Brooks Benedict Louise Beavers Eddie Anderson Bryant Washburn Florence Roberts Gordon De Main Heinie Conklin
actress movie star director producer husband engaging melodramatic hollywood, calif. restaurant movie set france fame movies marital problems alcoholism scandal rise transformation fall 1930s
The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1972
99 Minutes
actress director celebrity husband wife producer intense dark powerful sad los angeles movie set las vegas mojave desert nervous breakdown failed romance infidelity career vs. love hollywood escape
A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
2006
92 Minutes
crime boss godson wife rival thug brutal frenetic suspenseful melodramatic china hong kong river office crime syndicate election jealousy corruption gang war abduction rivalry
A violent chain reaction unfolds as a crafty entrepreneur (Louis Koo) wrests power from a veteran Hong Kong crime lord (Simon Yam).
Crime, Drama
1959
95 Minutes
Harry Belafonte Robert Ryan Shelley Winters Ed Begley Gloria Grahame Will Kuluva Richard Bright Lew Gallo Fred Scollay Carmen de Lavallade Wayne Rogers
thief ex-convict entertainer girlfriend police chief wife dark gritty gripping new york state bank new york city heist racism escape greed dangerous assignment fall wretched excess temptation
Racial tension flares up among an ex-cop, a bigot and a black entertainer who band together to rob a bank.
7.4/10
Biography, Drama
China|Canada|USA
2017
141 Minutes
Jessica Chastain Idris Elba Michael Cera Kevin Costner Jeremy Strong Chris O'Dowd Bill Camp Brian d'Arcy James Graham Greene Claire Rankin Michael Kostroff
skier fbi agent movie star athlete russian mobster defense attorney spectacular fascinating confident gripping hollywood, calif. hotel casino gambling feminism rise rivalry temptation fall 2000s
The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
6.7/10
Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Germany
2007
89 Minutes
Nina Hoss Devid Striesow Hinnerk Schönemann Burghart Klaußner Barbara Auer Christian Redl Wanja Mues Michael Wittenborn
estranged wife blackmailer abusive husband businessman thrilling suspenseful brooding engaging germany office car estrangement abuse blackmail schemes fall wretched excess temptation 2000s
Yella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift.
5.7/10
Biography, Drama
Switzerland|France|Italy|Belgium
2014
102 Minutes
Nicole Kidman Tim Roth Frank Langella Paz Vega Parker Posey Derek Jacobi Milo Ventimiglia Robert Lindsay Geraldine Somerville Nicholas Farrell André Penvern
nicole kidman princess celebrity movie star wife alfred hitchcock charming creative disheartening heartwarming melodramatic intense hollywood, calif. monaco movie set france movies monarchy relationships aspirations
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
7.8/10
Comedy, Crime, Drama
UK|USA
2020
113 Minutes
Matthew McConaughey Charlie Hunnam Michelle Dockery Jeremy Strong Lyne Renée Colin Farrell Henry Golding Tom Wu Chidi Ajufo Hugh Grant Simon Barker
american expatriate drug czar rival thug fiery confident gripping gutsy london drug house secret headquarters drug trafficking bribery blackmail theft rivalry pursuit rivalry transformation
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.
7.0/10
Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA
1923
80 Minutes
Eleanor Boardman Mae Busch Barbara La Marr Richard Dix Frank Mayo Lew Cody
minister serial killer wife director actress charles chaplin hilarious frenetic suspenseful small town train hollywood, calif. movie set desert hollywood acting love triangle stalking serial murders stardom
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
6.9/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1950
102 Minutes
Edmond O'Brien Joanne Dru Otto Kruger Barry Kelley Dorothy Patrick Don Porter Howard St. John Robert Osterloh Sammy White
repairman hit man police detective gangster assistant gangster's wife brooding gripping suspenseful tense los angeles pier las vegas desert gambling horse racing blackmail murder swindling doomed romance
An electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path.
6.7/10
Drama
USA
1948
88 Minutes
Robert Montgomery Susan Hayward John Payne Audrey Totter Harry Morgan Harry von Zell Cara Williams Chill Wills Heather Angel
writer wife theatrical producer singer ex-wife intense uneasy brash new york city hospital apartment nightclub beach hollywood, calif. show business egoism writing marriage singing drinking
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.
Drama, History
1954
116 Minutes
Kazuo Hasegawa Kyoko Kagawa Yoko Minamida Eitaro Shindo Sakae Ozawa Chieko Naniwa Ichiro Sugai Tatsuya Ishiguro Hisao Toake Ikkei Tamaki Kimiko Tachebana
businessman wife employee brother young girl underling melodramatic dark passionate brooding estate japan shop false accusations doomed romance on the run scandal theft siblings forbidden love
An unforgiving man pursues his wife (Kyoko Kagawa) and her lover (Kazuo Hasegawa) in feudal 17th-century Japan.
7.0/10
Drama
Italy|USA
1954
128 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Ava Gardner Edmond O'Brien Marius Goring Rossano Brazzi Valentina Cortesa Elizabeth Sellars Warren Stevens
dancer director producer tycoon press agent count sad passionate french riviera london spain hollywood, calif. cemetery nightclub stardom filmmaking rags to riches exploitation loss of innocence deception
This is the life of a Hollywood movie star named Maria, as told by writer/director Harry et al, from being discovered in Madrid, Spain, until her funeral in Italy.
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