20 movies like Bamboozled, ordered by similarity : My Art(2016), Network(1976), The Truman Show(1998), Late Show(1999), No Pay, Nudity(2016), 24 Hour Party People(2002), Non-Fiction(2018), The 24-Hour Woman(1999), The Front(1976), The Science of Sleep(2006), Adaptation(2002), Please Give(2010) ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
2000
135 Minutes
Damon Wayans Savion Glover Jada Pinkett Smith Tommy Davidson Michael Rapaport Thomas Jefferson Byrd Paul Mooney Sarah Jones Gillian White Susan Batson Yasiin Bey
writer television producer television star assistant brother cheeky creative hysterical quirky gutsy studio new york city office apartment race relations television performance stereotypes unexpected success underdog
A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.
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
USA
1976
121 Minutes
Faye Dunaway Peter Finch William Holden Robert Duvall Beatrice Straight Wesley Addy Ned Beatty Arthur Burghardt Bill Burrows John Carpenter Jordan Charney
news reporter television producer terrorist emotional striking witty gutsy television studio new york city meaning of life ambition disillusionment fame television discovery transformation 1970s
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1998
102 Minutes
Jim Carrey Laura Linney Noah Emmerich Natascha McElhone Holland Taylor Ed Harris Brian Delate Una Damon Paul Giamatti Philip Baker Hall Peter Krause
good guy producer actress ex-girlfriend uplifting endearing quirky alternate reality florida small town television studio manipulation media deception television discovery transformation underdog 1980s
An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.
Comedy
Germany
1999
107 Minutes
Thomas Gottschalk Harald Schmidt Veronica Ferres Jasmin Tabatabai Olli Dittrich Sabine Orléans Dieter Pfaff Andrea Sawatzki Karl Markovics Otto Schenk Jürgen Tarrach
television producer radio operator radio personality star celebrity audience amusing engaging creative witty heartwarming lighthearted germany tv station television television studio television commercials television personalities television ratings radio show
The program director of a German TV station desperately looks for a new talk master for the Late Show.
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.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2002
117 Minutes
Steve Coogan Lennie James Shirley Henderson Paddy Considine Andy Serkis Sean Harris John Simm Ralf Little Danny Cunningham Chris Coghill Paul Popplewell
reporter musician rock star love interest gritty quirky manchester, england office concert stage bar performance music drugs television social event self-destruction rise fall 1970s
In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
2018
108 Minutes
Guillaume Canet Juliette Binoche Vincent Macaigne Christa Théret Nora Hamzawi Nicolas Bouchaud Pascal Greggory Violaine Gillibert Laurent Poitrenaux Sigrid Bouaziz
publisher bohemian writer television star assistant friend lighthearted charming emotional quirky apartment office kitchen bookstore street coast friendship book publishing couples business ethics
A controversial Parisian writer blurs the line between fact and fiction when he starts to use real-life love affairs as fodder for his explosive new novel.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1999
95 Minutes
Rosie Perez Marianne Jean-Baptiste Patti LuPone Karen Duffy Diego Serrano Wendell Pierce Melissa Leo Aida Turturro Rosanna DeSoto Alicia Renee Washington Reno
mother television producer assistant husband baby boss amusing emotional madcap new york city tv station hospital apartment motherhood career family working woman marriage television love
Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both.
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.
Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
France|Italy|USA
2006
105 Minutes
Gael García Bernal Charlotte Gainsbourg Alain Chabat Miou-Miou Pierre Vaneck Emma de Caunes Aurélia Petit Sacha Bourdo Stéphane Metzger Inigo Lezzi Yvette Petit
designer neighbor coworker boss creative crafty emotional france apartment office fantasy world imagination inventions dreams television schizophrenia love love discovery 2000s
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is love-struck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
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.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2010
90 Minutes
Catherine Keener Amanda Peet Oliver Platt Rebecca Hall Ann Morgan Guilbert Sarah Steele Lois Smith Thomas Ian Nicholas
husband wife teen girl young woman sister grandmother quirky hysterical melodramatic new york city apartment antique shop conflict of interest infidelity teen angst business husband/wife relationship guilt transformation wretched excess
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Comedy, Biography, Drama, Music
UK|France
2016
110 Minutes
Meryl Streep Hugh Grant Simon Helberg Rebecca Ferguson Nina Arianda David Haig John Kavanagh Christian McKay John Sessions Mark Arnold Neve Gachev
socialite husband opera singer teacher record label owner family member charming emotional uplifting new york city recording studio carnegie hall mansion apartment car ambition singing reality determination performance
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Drama
USA
2000
107 Minutes
Nicole Parker Isaiah Washington Vicellous Shannon Malinda Williams Jay Underwood Michael Cavanaugh Mel Jackson Jenifer Lewis Marcia Cross Estelle Harris Juanita Jennings
television producer screenwriter actor network executive actress girlfriend lighthearted witty hollywood, calif. television studio office household street television show business workplace romance egoism workplace politics racial issues transformation
A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.
Comedy
USA
1949
72 Minutes
host television producer technician police officer dentist golfer cheery amusing television studio theater recording studio office movies comedy television advertising actors singing quest discovery
This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2019
102 Minutes
Emma Thompson Mindy Kaling John Lithgow Hugh Dancy Reid Scott Denis O'Hare Max Casella Paul Walter Hauser John Early Luke Slattery Ike Barinholtz
talk show host writer co-worker friend amusing hilarious cheeky inspiring uplifting new york city television studio office stage women comedy unlikely allies unlikely friendship friendship working woman transformation
A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.
Comedy
USA
1964
101 Minutes
Jerry Lewis Ina Balin Everett Sloane Phil Harris Keenan Wynn Peter Lorre John Carradine Neil Hamilton Nancy Kulp
comedian bellhop writer press agent assistant producer hilarious frenetic heartwarming hotel office television studio comedy hollywood celebrity rags to riches performance teamwork underdog rise
An incompetent bellhop is recruited to fill in for a deceased comedian.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1957
105 Minutes
Charles Chaplin Dawn Addams Oliver Johnston Maxine Audley Jerry Desmonde Sidney James Joan Ingram Michael Chaplin John McLaren Phil Brown
king young boy communist queen revolutionary amusing witty new york city paris television studio television communism social commentary royalty mccarthyism rivalry rescue 1950s
A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2008
90 Minutes
John Malkovich Colin Hanks Emily Blunt Steve Zahn Tom Hanks B.J. Hendricks Jacquie Barnbrook Griffin Dunne Ricky Jay Patrick Fischler Wallace Langham
writer father magician publicist mentor offbeat amusing los angeles cincinnati television studio comeback magic law school writing performance life lessons quest transformation rise 2000s
A young man, much to the chagrin of his father, becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline.
Crime, Drama, Comedy
Brazil
2003
112 Minutes
Murilo Benício Cláudia Abreu Natália Lage Jorge Dória José Wilker Agildo Ribeiro Perfeito Fortuna André Gonçalves Amir Haddad Moska André Barros
vigilante hairdresser thug teen girl friend cop gritty gutsy amusing bleak slum brazil bar salon apartment unexpected success vigilantism love triangle marriage pregnancy
Maiquel has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This little event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw--all in 24 hours.