Movies like The Big Knife

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) ...

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The Big Knife

Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover-up to protect his valuable career.

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Man About Town

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.

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Two Weeks in Another Town

An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to make a comeback in Rome.

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Hitchcock

The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.

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The Purple Rose of Cairo

In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.

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Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood

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.

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Crime of Passion

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.

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The Bad and the Beautiful

An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.

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What Price Hollywood?

The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.

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Play It as It Lays

A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.

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Triad Election

A violent chain reaction unfolds as a crafty entrepreneur (Louis Koo) wrests power from a veteran Hong Kong crime lord (Simon Yam).

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Odds Against Tomorrow

Racial tension flares up among an ex-cop, a bigot and a black entertainer who band together to rob a bank.

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Molly's Game

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.

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Yella

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.

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Grace of Monaco

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.

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The Gentlemen

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.

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Souls for Sale

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

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711 Ocean Drive

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.

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The Saxon Charm

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.

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Chikamatsu Monogatari

An unforgiving man pursues his wife (Kyoko Kagawa) and her lover (Kazuo Hasegawa) in feudal 17th-century Japan.

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The Barefoot Contessa

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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