20 movies like Jesus of Montreal, ordered by similarity : Day for Night(1973), My Art(2016), Monster in a Box(1991), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)(2014), No Pay, Nudity(2016), The High Note(2020), Next of Kin(1984), Casting(2017), The Big Chill(1983), Was weg is, is weg(2012), Paterson(2016), Mon Oncle d'Amerique(1980) ...
Comedy, Drama
Canada|France
1989
119 Minutes
Lothaire Bluteau Catherine Wilkening Johanne-Marie Tremblay Rémy Girard Robert Lepage Gilles Pelletier Yves Jacques Denys Arcand
actor priest performers passionate profound creative canada montreal stage actors religion christianity controversy rebellion performance underdog discovery 1980s
A group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
France|Italy
1973
120 Minutes
Jacqueline Bisset François Truffaut Jean-Pierre Aumont Jean-Pierre Léaud Valentina Cortesa Alexandra Stewart Jean Champion Nathalie Baye Bernard Menez Jean-François Stévenin
actor actress director crew member fiancée doctor witty playful melodramatic sad stage france backstage movie making affair fame celebrity acting quest love
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Comedy, Drama
2016
86 Minutes
Parker Posey Lena Dunham John Rothman Joshua Safdie Robert Clohessy Barbara Sukowa Al Thompson Grace Dunham Laurie Simmons Benjamin Eakeley Garland Hunter
artist friend dog man amusing charming emotional endearing cheeky creative new york city gallery office garden restaurant artistic struggle creative process creative block friendship small town
Frustrated by her lack of recognition, a middle-aged artist leaves the city for upstate New York to regain her creative spark.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
1991
88 Minutes
writer amusing brooding creative witty london stage writer's block performance alienation suicide writing pursuit escape discovery 1980s
This is the story of Spalding Gray and his attempt to write a novel. It is a first person account about writing and living, and dealing with success while trying to be successful.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2014
119 Minutes
Michael Keaton Zach Galifianakis Edward Norton Andrea Riseborough Amy Ryan Emma Stone Naomi Watts Lindsay Duncan Merritt Wever Jeremy Shamos Bill Camp
action hero actor broadway director girlfriend daughter ex-wife creative charming emotional amusing dark apartment new york city broadway theater backstage street restaurant acting father/daughter relationship challenge
A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
92 Minutes
Gabriel Byrne Nathan Lane Frances Conroy Donna Murphy Valerie Mahaffey Ben Sinclair Boyd Gaines Jon Michael Hill Zoe Perry Mark Blum J.R. Horne
actor dog friend receptionist daughter producer cheeky emotional creative new york city office lounge restaurant apartment veterinarian's office acting dreams hard decisions rejection ageism
Aging actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne), who has lost his way with his career, with his family, and with his friends (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy, & Boyd Gaines) finds out that the way out is through.
Drama, Music, Comedy
USA
2020
113 Minutes
Dakota Johnson Tracee Ellis Ross Kelvin Harrison Jr. Ice Cube Zoë Chao Eddie Izzard June Diane Raphael Bill Pullman Diplo Ben Lewis Deniz Akdeniz
personal assistant superstar singer manager passionate creative emotional inspiring new york city ballroom detroit los angeles concert hall stage talent egoism chasing dreams music business aging pursuit
The screams of the children echo throughout the night as a violent reminder of a demon of the past. La Llorona, a paranormal force has returned and seeks the blood of the innocent, proving that the legend is real.
Comedy, Drama
Canada
1984
72 Minutes
Patrick Tierney Berge Fazlian Sirvart Fazlian
young man father mother daughter impostor stranger creative profound disturbing amusing psychiatrist's office family home canada family dysfunction new identity parenthood adoption therapy video tape transformation
Unhappy living with his loveless parents, a young man convinces a family of Armenian immigrants that he's their long-lost son and moves in with them, improving all of their lives in the process.
Comedy, Drama
Germany
2017
90 Minutes
Toby Ashraf Milena Dreißig Judith Engel Stephan Grossmann Tim Kalkhof Corinna Kirchhoff Andrea Sawatzki Andreas Lust Markus von Lingen
actor director perfectionist casting director gripping quirky amusing film set city room relationships passion self-discovery film industry filmmaking learning experience discovery pursuit 2010s
For her first television film - a remake of Fassbinder's Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant - director Vera wants the perfect cast. But the first day of shooting is fast approaching and... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1983
103 Minutes
William Hurt Glenn Close Kevin Kline Tom Berenger Jeff Goldblum Mary Kay Place Meg Tilly JoBeth Williams Don Galloway
businessman journalist actor rebel doctor veteran engaging witty unrestrained amusing dark moving south carolina house reunion vacation home town funeral mourning marriage
A group of seven former college friends gather for a week-end reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.
Comedy, Drama
Germany
2012
80 Minutes
Florian Brückner Mathias Kellner Maximilian Brückner Johanna Bittenbinder Heinz Josef Braun Nina Proll Jürgen Tonkel Siegfried Terpoorten Marie Leuenberger
uncle man activist brother girlfriend brooding profound amusing melodramatic inspiring bavaria village nuclear safety coma environment journey brother relationship metamorphosis quest discovery
Three brothers are finding her way home after a disastrous accident of her uncle in their childhood.
Comedy, Drama
France|Germany|USA
2016
118 Minutes
Adam Driver Golshifteh Farahani Barry Shabaka Henley Cliff "Method Man" Smith Chasten Harmon William Jackson Harper Masatoshi Nagase Sterling Jerins Rizwan Manji
bus driver passenger dog bartender wife writer calm emotional heartwarming inspiring profound new jersey bus bar house small-town life writing working class work-life balance discovery
A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
Comedy, Drama
France
1980
123 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Nicole Garcia Roger Pierre Marie Dubois Nelly Borgeaud Pierre Arditi Gérard Darrieu Philippe Laudenbach
executive actress politician philosopher profound france factory city affair family love triangle ambition discovery transformation 1980s
The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.
Comedy, Biography, Drama
USA
1994
124 Minutes
Johnny Depp Martin Landau Sarah Jessica Parker Patricia Arquette Jeffrey Jones G.D. Spradlin Vincent D'Onofrio Lisa Marie Bill Murray Mike Starr Max Casella
filmmaker actor girlfriend actress orson welles quirky creative moving hollywood, calif. film set ed wood show business aspirations filmmaking friendship underdog quest love 1950s
Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams, despite his lack of talent.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
85 Minutes
Jesse Wakeman Kris Avedisian Louisa Krause Ted Arcidi Shawn Contois Kate Fitzgerald Patrick Languzzi Robby Morse Levy Alexander Cook Kyle Espeleta
man childhood friend neighbor family member co-worker businessman cheeky emotional creative new york city wall street rhode island train boat funeral going home childhood friends loss memories self-discovery
With sudden passing of his grandmother, Peter Latang returns to his hometown and encounters his long lost, childhood friend, Donald Treebeck. What begins as a simple favor, turns into a long day's journey into the past.
Comedy, Drama
Canada
1986
100 Minutes
Dominique Michel Dorothée Berryman Pierre Curzi Rémy Girard Yves Jacques Daniel Brière Louise Portal Genevieve Rioux Gabriel Arcand
husband wife divorcée homosexual bachelor girlfriend cheeky sultry moving hedonistic montreal university country house gym infidelity monogamy sex passion party marriage
Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.
Comedy, Drama
Canada|France
2003
99 Minutes
Rémy Girard Stéphane Rousseau Marie-Josée Croze Marina Hands Dorothée Berryman Johanne-Marie Tremblay Dominique Michel Louise Portal Yves Jacques Pierre Curzi Sophie Lorain
father professor son friend love interest emotional profound amusing montreal canada vermont death terminal illness health care father/son relationship philosophy sex discovery love 2000s
During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
Drama
Canada
1970
103 Minutes
Geneviève Bujold Donald Sutherland Monique Leyrac William Mitchell
christian priest widow son love interest wealthy woman melodramatic passionate gripping intense montreal church house hill canada rural community faith religion marriage loss
A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
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.
Sci-Fi, Comedy, Drama
USA|France
2009
101 Minutes
Paul Giamatti Dina Korzun Emily Watson David Strathairn Lauren Ambrose Katheryn Winnick Boris Kievsky Oksana Lada Natalia Zvereva Rebecca Brooksher
actor doctor courier actress poet russian engaging offbeat emotional amusing new york city st. petersburg, russia stage doctor's office street apartment unlikely allies self-discovery acting souls
Paul is an actor who feels bogged down by his participation in a production of Chekov's play, Vanya.
Comedy, Drama
Soviet Union
1976
94 Minutes
Yelena Solovey Rodion Nahapetov Oleg Basilashvili Konstantin Grigorev Aleksandr Kalyagin Vera Kuznetsova Nikita Mikhalkov
russian revolutionary actress cameraman filmmaker actor emotional gripping passionate russia countryside small town bolshevic revolution filmmaking ignorance romance deception transformation discovery forbidden love
Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the ... See full summary »