20 movies like Overnight Sensation, ordered by similarity : My Art(2016), The Disaster Artist(2017), Can You Ever Forgive Me?(2018), In the Soup(1992), Final Portrait(2017), It Came From Kuchar(2009), Mistress(1992), Casting(2017), The Man Who Killed Don Quixote(2018), The Last Shot(2004), The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir(2018), Naked Acts(1996) ...
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
2000
90 Minutes
Sean Dugan Maxwell Caulfield Seth Meier Mark Goddard Harold Perrineau Edie Falco Markus Flanagan Dave Rosenberg Jane DeNoble Dean Garvin Brett Gillen
screenwriter agent director fan producer amusing cheeky creative sundance film festival park city, utah movie theater street film industry artistic struggle aspirations commercialism screenwriting film quest transformation
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.
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.
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.
7.1/10
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.
6.3/10
Comedy, Biography, Drama
UK
2017
90 Minutes
Geoffrey Rush Armie Hammer Clémence Poésy Tony Shalhoub James Faulkner Sylvie Testud Philippe Spall Kerry Shale Attila G. Kerekes
artist writer amusing brooding charming cheeky confident creative fascinating engaging inspiring incredible intense passionate raw united kingdom london artistic struggle art portraiture
The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
6.9/10
Comedy, Documentary
USA
2009
86 Minutes
John Waters B. Ruby Rich Buck Henry Atom Egoyan George Kuchar Mike Kuchar
filmmaker identical twin professor director fan john waters charming creative bronx, n.y. san francisco movie set university family home george kuchar mike kuchar filmmaking outsider cult films rise underdog
The definitive documentary about the zany, underground filmmaking twins, George and Mike Kuchar.
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 »
6.8/10
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 »
6.4/10
Comedy, Adventure
Spain|Belgium|France|UK|Portugal
2018
133 Minutes
Adam Driver Jonathan Pryce Stellan Skarsgård Olga Kurylenko Joana Ribeiro Óscar Jaenada Jason Watkins Sergi López Rossy de Palma Hovik Keuchkerian Jordi Mollá
don quixote director cobbler boss boss' wife escort airy amusing campy charming cheeky confident crafty dreamy engaging hilarious inspiring madcap melodramatic offbeat
Toby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.
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.
6.9/10
Comedy, Adventure, Drama
France|India|Belgium|Singapore|USA
2018
92 Minutes
Dhanush Bérénice Bejo Erin Moriarty Barkhad Abdi Gérard Jugnot Ben Miller Abel Jafri Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse
artist mother young woman indian american magician emotional amusing inspiring creative charming heartwarming mumbai, india paris closet village city home family history death of mother
Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a never-ending adventure.
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.
6.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2009
88 Minutes
Patton Oswalt Kevin Corrigan Marcia Jean Kurtz Michael Rapaport Matt Servitto Gino Cafarelli Serafina Fiore Jonathan Hamm Joe Garden Polly Humphries
blue-collar worker mother fan friend football player radio host amusing cheeky emotional staten island, n.y. parking garage hospital gas station strip club radio station sports fandom friendship idolization accident
A hard-core New York Giants fan struggles to deal with the consequences when he is beaten up by his favorite player.
7.3/10
Comedy
Italy|France|West Germany
1986
126 Minutes
Giulietta Masina Marcello Mastroianni Franco Fabrizi Friedrich Ledebur Martin Blau Toto Mignone Augusto Poderosi Salvatore Billa
impersonator dancer old man old woman dwarf celebrity cheeky amusing tender spectacular italy television studio hotel street stage celebrity television dance impersonation partnership
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
2003
108 Minutes
Helen Mirren Julie Walters John Alderton Linda Bassett Annette Crosbie Philip Glenister Ciarán Hinds Celia Imrie Geraldine James Penelope Wilton George Costigan
wife friend husband photographer director cheeky heartwarming amusing uplifting yorkshire hospital household england hollywood, calif. friendship romance business activism fame quest
A Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation.
7.0/10
Comedy
UK|France|Germany|USA
2007
95 Minutes
Bill Milner Will Poulter Jules Sitruk Jessica Hynes Neil Dudgeon Anna Wing Eric Sykes Ed Westwick Adam Godley Tallulah Evans
schoolboy punk mother director teacher grandmother creative endearing offbeat school film set barn england fantasy bullying religion friendship acceptance filmmaking growing up
During a long English summer in the early 1980s, two schoolboys from differing backgrounds set out to make a film inspired by First Blood (1982).
6.4/10
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.
6.9/10
Comedy
Italy|France
1998
78 Minutes
filmmaker artist father politician wife journalist amusing charming creative emotional melodramatic patriotic italy venice, italy documentary filmmaking political corruption politics art father/child relationship fatherhood
Nanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time. He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections.
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
2017
123 Minutes
Louis C.K. Chloë Grace Moretz John Malkovich Rose Byrne Helen Hunt Edie Falco Pamela Adlon Charlie Day
producer father daughter filmmaker old man cheeky amusing emotional creative witty offbeat hollywood, calif. parent/child relationship father/daughter relationship love family filmmaking love growing up discovery
When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about how to handle the situation.
Comedy, Drama
2007
109 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Jean-Pierre Darroussin Fanny Cottençon Alexia Barlier
painter gardener artist former classmate man friend amusing heartwarming charming uplifting lighthearted melodramatic france paris rural community countryside garden lake friendship relationships
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