20 movies like Shadow of the Vampire, ordered by similarity : White Hunter, Black Heart(1990), Counsellor-at-Law(1933), Black Legion(1937), The Dirty Picture(2011), Madeline's Madeline(2018), Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood(2019), Casting(2017), Day for Night(1973), Irma Vep(1996), Millennium Actress(2001), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)(2014), Two Weeks in Another Town(1962) ...
Drama
UK|USA|Luxembourg
2000
93 Minutes
John Malkovich Willem Dafoe Cary Elwes Aden Gillett Eddie Izzard Udo Kier Catherine McCormack Ronan Vibert
director vampire actor actress cameraman dark campy eastern europe castle island movie set nosferatu filmmaking obsession secret method acting discovery fall 1920s
The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.
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.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
78 Minutes
John Barrymore Bebe Daniels Doris Kenyon Isabel Jewell Melvyn Douglas Onslow Stevens Thelma Todd Clara Langsner
attorney rival wife lover secretary emotional dark family home new york city law office social standing infidelity scandal dark secrets class distinctions jewish identity fall transformation discovery 1930s
Successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful.
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
83 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Dick Foran Erin O'Brien-Moore Ann Sheridan Robert Barrat Helen Flint Joe Sawyer Addison Richards Eddie Acuff Clifford Soubier Paul Harvey
factory director immigrant wife best friend factory worker disturbing disheartening intense midwest factory hate group xenophobia immigration lynching secret plans fall wretched excess revenge 1930s
A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Musical, Drama
India
2011
Minutes
Vidya Balan Emraan Hashmi Imran Hasnee Tusshar Kapoor Anju Mahendru Naseeruddin Shah
young woman mother aspiring actress actor director producer emotional endearing disheartening gripping sad moving india city mumbai movie set movie premiere village chasing dreams career aspirations
The love story between an actress and a director, inspired by the life of the late south Indian actress Silk Smitha.
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.
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.
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 »
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
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.
Anime, Fantasy, Drama
Japan
2001
87 Minutes
actress director love interest mother emotional profound japan movie set household acting romance search aging filmmaking love pursuit 1970s
A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories and career.
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.
Drama
1962
106 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Edward G. Robinson Cyd Charisse George Hamilton Claire Trevor Daliah Lavi Rosanna Schiaffino
director wife actor woman leading man doctor emotional frenetic inspiring amusing mental institution hollywood, calif. new england rome movie set apartment alcoholism mental breakdown failing career hollywood
An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to make a comeback in Rome.
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.
Drama, Action
USA|Sweden|Norway
2011
114 Minutes
Donnie Yen Takeshi Kaneshiro Wei Tang Jia-Min Li Wei Zheng Kang Yu Chun-Yuan Wang Zhusheng Yin
chinese man man demon killer investigator wife thrilling suspenseful intense gory brooding patriotic china shop village murder robbery survival past crimes secret
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.
Drama
West Germany
1982
105 Minutes
Rosel Zech Hilmar Thate Annemarie Düringer Cornelia Froboess Doris Schade Erik Schumann Peter Berling Günther Kaufmann
actress sports reporter girlfriend neurologist ex-husband director dark offbeat munich film set newsroom apartment building woods drug addiction filmmaking world war ii investigation love triangle fame love
Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports journalist.
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.
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 »
Drama
USA
1932
88 Minutes
Constance Bennett Lowell Sherman Neil Hamilton Gregory Ratoff Brooks Benedict Louise Beavers Eddie Anderson Bryant Washburn Florence Roberts Gordon De Main Heinie Conklin
actress movie star director producer husband engaging melodramatic hollywood, calif. restaurant movie set france fame movies marital problems alcoholism scandal rise transformation fall 1930s
The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA
1923
80 Minutes
Eleanor Boardman Mae Busch Barbara La Marr Richard Dix Frank Mayo Lew Cody
minister serial killer wife director actress charles chaplin hilarious frenetic suspenseful small town train hollywood, calif. movie set desert hollywood acting love triangle stalking serial murders stardom
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Crime, Drama
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Warren William Lili Damita Glenda Farrell Harold Huber John Wray Hardie Albright
immigrant street sweeper entrepreneur actress girlfriend uncle melodramatic dark solemn chicago sweden europe factory small town illinois rags to riches business scheme arrogance success doomed romance
Unscrupulous Paul Kroll, starting as a Chicago janitor, uses graft to finance a trip to Sweden where by trickery he gains control of his uncle's small match factory. By expert manipulation ... See full summary »