20 movies like Mistress, ordered by similarity : Irma Vep(1996), Ed Wood(1994), In the Soup(1992), The Disaster Artist(2017), Beware of a Holy Whore(1971), Postcards From the Edge(1990), Naked Acts(1996), White Hunter, Black Heart(1990), As Good as It Gets(1997), Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood(2019), The Front(1976), Paterson(2016) ...
5.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1992
112 Minutes
Robert Wuhl Martin Landau Robert De Niro Danny Aiello Eli Wallach Jace Alexander Tuesday Knight Sheryl Lee Ralph Christopher Walken Laurie Metcalf Jean Smart
director producer investor mistress actor screenwriter quirky witty hollywood, calif. movie set diner aspirations show business filmmaking re-writes second chance writing quest underdog transformation
A comedy about a screenwriter (Robert Wuhl), whose old movie script is read by a producer (Martin Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (... See full summary »
7.0/10
Comedy, Drama
France
1996
99 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Léaud Nathalie Richard Antoine Basler Nathalie Boutefeu Bulle Ogier Lou Castel Arsinée Khanjian Alex Descas Dominique Faysse Bernard Nissile Olivier Torres
director maggie cheung costume designer crew member journalist actress witty creative crafty offbeat france movie set hotel theater vacation home filmmaking life imitating art culture clash unrequited love failing career
A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
7.8/10
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.
7.1/10
Comedy
USA|France|Germany|Japan|Italy|Spain
1992
93 Minutes
Steve Buscemi Seymour Cassel Jennifer Beals Pat Moya Will Patton Sully Boyer Steven Randazzo Francesco Messina Jim Jarmusch Carol Kane Stanley Tucci
writer neighbor con artist producer actor director offbeat playful witty gritty new york city apartment restaurant street film set aspirations filmmaking unrequited love unlikely allies petty crime
New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he's creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can't pay the rent on the downtown grothole he calls home.
7.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
103 Minutes
James Franco Dave Franco Seth Rogen Zac Efron Alison Brie Paul Scheer Hannibal Buress Jerrod Carmichael Zoey Deutch Nathan Fielder Ari Graynor
director actor audience acting teacher friend filmmaker amusing hilarious emotional endearing passionate offbeat hollywood, calif. film set theater field restaurant apartment following your dreams filmmaker
When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.
Comedy, Drama
1971
117 Minutes
Eddie Constantine Lou Castel Hanna Schygulla Marcella Michelangeli Rainer Werner Fassbinder
director star actor actress cinematographer producer cheeky hedonistic offbeat spain film set hotel party filmmaking drinking boredom jealousy sexual tension show business rivalry
Members of a troubled German film crew spend most of their time drinking, talking and waiting in a hotel.
6.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1990
101 Minutes
Meryl Streep Shirley MacLaine Dennis Quaid Gene Hackman Richard Dreyfuss Rob Reiner Mary Wickes Conrad Bain Annette Bening Simon Callow Gary Morton
actress mother director celebrity alcoholic quirky witty endearing hollywood, calif. hospital house show business drugs rehabilitation mother/daughter relationship fame discovery rivalry transformation 1990s
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
5.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1996
87 Minutes
Jake-ann Jones Patricia DeArcy John McKie Ron Cephas Jones Renee Cox Sandye Wilson Natalie Robinson Maranantha Quick
aspiring actress mother boyfriend director producer actor confident cheeky inspiring film set bedroom sauna fear self-esteem weight problems molestation filmmaking stereotypes quest transformation
Aspiring actress Cicely has lost 57 pounds and landed her first movie role. The director didn't tell her about a nude scene. Reluctant to do it, she embarks on a personal journey that unveils secrets once hid under her excessive weight.
6.6/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1990
112 Minutes
Clint Eastwood Jeff Fahey George Dzundza Alun Armstrong Marisa Berenson Timothy Spall Mel Martin Richard Vanstone Jamie Koss Catherine Neilson Richard Warwick
director screenwriter producer native actor actress dark disturbing africa village river hotel london zimbabwe hunting filmmaking obsession africa fall quest
A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
7.7/10
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
USA
1997
138 Minutes
Jack Nicholson Helen Hunt Greg Kinnear Cuba Gooding Jr. Skeet Ulrich Shirley Knight Yeardley Smith Lupe Ontiveros
writer artist neighbor waitress psychiatrist dog quirky emotional new york city apartment diner romance friendship homosexuality confrontation obsessive-compulsive disorder redemption discovery love transformation
A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
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.
7.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1976
93 Minutes
Woody Allen Zero Mostel Herschel Bernardi Michael Murphy Andrea Marcovicci Remak Ramsay Marvin Lichterman Lloyd Gough David Margulies Joshua Shelley Danny Aiello
cashier screenwriter comedian actor neurotic friend rousing witty touching dark moving new york city television studio living space courtroom street diner show business corruption television
In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
7.4/10
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.
6.5/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1947
96 Minutes
Betty Hutton John Lund Billy De Wolfe William Demarest Constance Collier Frank Faylen William Farnum Snub Pollard Creighton Hale Chester Conklin James Finlayson
woman starlet director best friend mentor actor hilarious endearing inspiring new york city stage movie set hollywood, calif. movie studio sweatshop silent movies rags to riches show business second chance friendship
The real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials.
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.
7.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2002
114 Minutes
Nicolas Cage Meryl Streep Chris Cooper Tilda Swinton Cara Seymour Brian Cox Judy Greer Maggie Gyllenhaal Ron Livingston Jay Tavare Stephen Tobolowsky
screenwriter writer twin thief waitress quirky frenetic household jungle movie set restaurant new york city swamp evolution movie making robbery romance writer's block obsession pursuit
A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
5.6/10
Comedy
USA
2004
93 Minutes
Matthew Broderick Alec Baldwin Toni Collette Tony Shalhoub Calista Flockhart Tim Blake Nelson Ray Liotta James Rebhorn Buck Henry Ian Gomez Troy Winbush
fbi agent director gangster brother girlfriend mafia boss madcap cheeky providence, r.i. movie set hollywood, calif. working undercover show business aspirations sting filmmaking crime transformation quest underdog
A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.
7.1/10
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
USA|UK
2005
107 Minutes
Joel Edgerton Chiwetel Ejiofor Sarah Jane Potts Jemima Rooper Linda Bassett Nick Frost Ewan Hooper Robert Pugh Geoffrey Streatfield Kellie Bright Mona Hammond
entrepreneur drag queen fiancé employee charming witty quirky northampton, england factory runway milan, italy fashion cross-dressing business unusual friendship rise underdog transformation 2000s
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
6.5/10
Comedy
USA
1975
102 Minutes
Jeff Bridges Andy Griffith Donald Pleasence Blythe Danner Alan Arkin Richard B. Shull Herbert Edelman Alex Rocco Frank Cady Anthony James Burton Gilliam
writer actor filmmaker stuntman secretary cheeky lighthearted hollywood, calif. movie set nevada movies hollywood acting writing old west myths quest pursuit rise 1930s
During the 1930s, Lewis Tate aspires to be the next great American Western writer. But when he travels to California, he's recruited by Bert Kessler), a Hollywood unit manager, to star in a series of low-rent Westerns.
6.2/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1982
107 Minutes
Walter Matthau Ann-Margret Dinah Manoff Lance Guest Lewis Smith Martin Ferrero Eugene Butler Samantha Harper Santos Morales David Faustino Shelby Balik
actress screenwriter hairdresser father daughter girlfriend witty fiery touching brooklyn, n.y. hollywood, calif. family home movie studio father/daughter relationship family dysfunction estrangement show business ambition new town transformation
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has ... See full summary »
7.5/10
Drama, Comedy
USA|UK|Australia
2013
125 Minutes
Emma Thompson Tom Hanks Paul Giamatti Jason Schwartzman Colin Farrell Bradley Whitford Ruth Wilson B.J. Novak Rachel Griffiths Dendrie Taylor Kathy Baker
walt disney novelist filmmaker movie producer aunt driver charming endearing fascinating touching witty heartwarming hollywood, calif. london movie studio family home office limousine children's book film industry
Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
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