20 movies like Vanya on 42nd Street, ordered by similarity : Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)(2014), Madeline's Madeline(2018), The Last Metro(1980), Opening Night(1977), Irma Vep(1996), After the Rehearsal(1984), Me and Orson Welles(2008), Aasma(2009), Synecdoche, New York(2008), Curtain Up(1952), Stage Struck(1957), All About Eve(1950) ...
7.4/10
Drama
USA
1994
119 Minutes
Wallace Shawn Julianne Moore Brooke Smith Larry Pine George Gaynes Lynn Cohen Phoebe Brand Jerry Mayer Madhur Jaffrey
actor actress director creative quirky powerful new york city times square theater backstage street acting theater show business creative process transformation 1990s
New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre.
7.7/10
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.
6.4/10
Drama
USA
2018
94 Minutes
Helena Howard Molly Parker Miranda July Okwui Okpokwasili Felipe Bonilla Lisa Tharps Sunita Mani Curtiss Cook Reynaldo Piniella Myra Lucretia Taylor
actor actress director mother friend creative confident tense incredible new york city stage theater car park studio acting life story mother/daughter relationship theater life imitating art
A theatre director's latest project takes on a life of its own when her young star takes her performance too seriously.
7.4/10
Drama
France
1980
130 Minutes
Catherine Deneuve Gérard Depardieu Jean Poiret Heinz Bennent Andréa Ferréol Paulette Dubost Sabine Haudepin Jean-Louis Richard Maurice Risch
theater owner director actress actor designer critic uneasy emotional engaging paris theater montmartre world war ii german occupation love triangle theater production secret performance discovery temptation
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1977
144 Minutes
Gena Rowlands Ben Gazzara Joan Blondell John Cassavetes Paul Stewart Zohra Lampert John Finnegan Ray Powers
actress playwright director alcoholic spiritual leader girl chilling bleak profound theater street stage mental illness alcoholism theater breakdown performance fall wretched excess 1970s
A renowned actress teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.
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.
Drama
1984
72 Minutes
Erland Josephson Ingrid Thulin Lena Olin Nadja Palmstjerna-Weiss Bertil Guve
director actress alcoholic mother old flame dense striking engaging sad stage sweden theater theater acting aging affair mother/daughter relationship guilt discovery love
An aging Swedish stage director's (Erland Josephson) ex-lover (Ingrid Thulin) and would-be lover (Lena Olin) visit him on the set.
6.7/10
Drama
UK|Isle Of Man|USA
2008
107 Minutes
Zac Efron Claire Danes Christian McKay Zoe Kazan James Tupper Leo Bill Eddie Marsan Ben Chaplin Al Weaver Kelly Reilly Iain McKee
teen boy director secretary orson welles actor mentor lighthearted emotional inspiring stage new york city mercury theatre ballroom backstage theater acting dreams jealousy performance new life
In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar", directed by a young Orson Welles.
3.8/10
Drama
India
2009
Minutes
Shubhashish Seema Biswas Hrishita Bhatt Nauheed Cyrusi Mansi Dovhal Ravi Gossain
young man young woman theater owner theater promoter actor actress amusing bleak gripping emotional endearing india city house bungalow theater aspirations career aspirations chasing dreams hiv
A theatre group containing talented, aspiring college actors sets out to have some fun.
7.6/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2008
124 Minutes
Philip Seymour Hoffman Samantha Morton Michelle Williams Catherine Keener Emily Watson Dianne Wiest Jennifer Jason Leigh Hope Davis Tom Noonan Sadie Goldstein Robin Weigert
director wife girlfriend actor brooding intricate new york city warehouse theater theater playwright divorce marriage quest transformation love 2000s
A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
6.1/10
Comedy
UK
1952
81 Minutes
Robert Morley Margaret Rutherford Olive Sloane Kay Kendall Joan Rice Michael Medwin Charlotte Mitchell Liam Gaffney
author wealthy woman theatrical producer actor actress director charming hilarious creative playful england provincial town theater theater theater production acting rehearsal discovery rise transformation
In a small town in the 1950s, a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's ... See full summary »
6.0/10
Drama
USA
1957
95 Minutes
Henry Fonda Susan Strasberg Joan Greenwood Herbert Marshall Christopher Plummer Daniel Ocko Pat Harrington Frank Campanella John Fiedler Pat Englund Jack Weston
actress playwright producer rival airy tender stage new york city sardi's restaurant broadway theater fame aspirations theater unrequited love love transformation rise 1950s
A young woman arrives in New York City determined to become a great theatrical star, but discovers that her goal may not be as easily attainable as she had hoped.
8.2/10
Drama
USA
1950
138 Minutes
Bette Davis Anne Baxter Celeste Holm George Sanders Gary Merrill Hugh Marlowe Thelma Ritter Marilyn Monroe Gregory Ratoff Barbara Bates Walter Hampden
actress critic producer writer director witty crafty stage restaurant new york city dressing room household ambition theater production show business quest rivalry 1950s
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
7.1/10
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Biography, Drama
USA
2018
106 Minutes
Melissa McCarthy Richard E. Grant Dolly Wells Ben Falcone Gregory Korostishevsky Jane Curtin Stephen Spinella Christian Navarro Pun Bandhu Marc Evan Jackson Erik LaRay Harvey
celebrity biographer friend writer storyteller amusing creative emotional new york city office park bookstore street writing creative process unemployment forgery celebrities pop culture transformation
When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
7.0/10
Comedy, Drama
France|Portugal
2001
90 Minutes
Michel Piccoli Antoine Chappey Catherine Deneuve John Malkovich Leonor Baldaque Leonor Silveira
actor director grandson actress agent nanny sad profound emotional tender paris theater café film set house france tragic death aging retirement mourning
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.
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.
6.4/10
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.
7.0/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
104 Minutes
Ronald Colman Signe Hasso Shelley Winters Edmond O'Brien Ray Collins Philip Loeb Millard Mitchell Joe Sawyer Charles La Torre Whit Bissell John Drew Colt
actor actress mistress striking dark chilling broadway theater new york city insanity actors murder transformation fall mystery 1940s
A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.
6.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1928
66 Minutes
Bessie Love Johnny Walker Ernest Hilliard Lionel Belmore David Mir Sidney D'Albrook
broadway star aspiring actress father producer manager charming amusing emotional small town broadway theater new york city backstage unlikely romance deception secret identity humiliation fame acting love discovery
A Broadway matinee idol famous for his black-face portrayals anonymously joins an amateur acting troupe and falls in love with the leading lady.
6.4/10
Drama
USA
1933
74 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Adolphe Menjou C. Aubrey Smith Mary Duncan Don Alvarado Richard Carle Tyler Brooke Geneva Mitchell
actress theatrical producer diva uplifting moving manhattan small town theater stage fame aspirations theater production broadway performance transformation rise 1930s
When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.
6.5/10
Biography, Drama, History
USA|Russia|UK
2019
101 Minutes
Benedict Cumberbatch Michael Shannon Nicholas Hoult Katherine Waterston Tuppence Middleton Tom Holland Matthew Macfadyen Conor MacNeill Tom Fisher
thomas edison inventor millionaire rival businessman scientist tense gripping creative passionate new york city house laboratory field street wall street electricity inventions power rivalry
The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.
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