20 movies like A Bunch of Amateurs, ordered by similarity : Curtain Up(1952), I'm Going Home(2001), Irma Vep(1996), The Dresser(1983), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)(2014), The Disaster Artist(2017), To Be or Not to Be(1983), The Producers(1968), Please Don't Eat the Daisies(1960), Dancing in the Dark(1949), The Taste of Others(2000), Let's Make Love(1960) ...
6.1/10
Comedy
UK
2008
96 Minutes
Burt Reynolds Camilla Arfwedson Ty Davies Charles Durning Peter Gunn Derek Jacobi Tony Jayawardena Gemma Lawrence Alistair Petrie Kelly Price Michael Wildman
movie star agent client actor actress landlady amusing witty england countryside bed and breakfast theater barn culture clash arrogance life lessons theater production failing career show business fall
A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England.
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 »
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.
7.0/10
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.
Comedy, Drama
1983
118 Minutes
Albert Finney Tom Courtenay Edward Fox Zena Walker Eileen Atkins Michael Gough Cathryn Harrison Betty Marsden Sheila Reid Lockwood West Donald Eccles
set dresser leading man actress elderly person actor touching somber england theater backstage acting aging failing career loyalty alcoholism devotion fall quest 1940s
Rattled by World War II, an English actor (Albert Finney) could not go on without his fussy valet (Tom Courtenay).
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.
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.
6.9/10
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy
USA
1983
108 Minutes
Mel Brooks Anne Bancroft Charles Durning Tim Matheson Jose Ferrer Christopher Lloyd George Gaynes George Wyner Jack Riley Lewis J. Stadlen Ronny Graham
actor actress pilot secret agent tailor nazi collaborator madcap hilarious cheeky engaging warsaw, poland theater backstage stage england show business musicals world war ii nazi occupation william shakespeare
At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.
7.6/10
Comedy
USA
1968
88 Minutes
Zero Mostel Gene Wilder Dick Shawn Kenneth Mars Estelle Winwood Christopher Hewett Andreas Voutsinas Lee Meredith Renee Taylor Frank Campanella
producer accountant playwright actor director hippie hilarious cheeky charming office theater courtroom prison broadway theater theater production nazism scams shady dealings quest fall
A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
6.5/10
Comedy
USA
1960
111 Minutes
Doris Day David Niven Janis Paige Spring Byington Richard Haydn Patsy Kelly Jack Weston Margaret Lindsay
critic housewife singer friend son amusing emotional new york city apartment country house theater street marriage career success jealousy theater love rise rivalry
Drama critic Larry McKay, his wife Kate, and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, ... See full summary »
5.4/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1949
92 Minutes
William Powell Betsy Drake Mark Stevens Adolphe Menjou Randy Stuart Lloyd Corrigan Hope Emerson Walter Catlett Don Beddoe
actor actress studio head assistant publicist airy lighthearted los angeles hollywood, calif. new york city theater movie studio grauman's chinese theatre fame redemption reconciliation filmmaking comeback theater production fall
Conceited actor Emery Slade, on a mission to recruit a Broadway star for Fox, picks unknown Julie Clarke instead.
7.2/10
Comedy
France
2000
112 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Bacri Anne Alvaro Agnès Jaoui Gérard Lanvin Alain Chabat Brigitte Catillon Christiane Millet Wladimir Yordanoff Xavier De Guillebon Raphaël Dufour Bob Zaremba
businessman wife actress husband teacher niece hilarious emotional endearing france theater classroom provincial town countryside language performance infidelity obsession boredom marriage
The lives of 6 people over 35 in Rouen, France, and their relationship to each other.
6.5/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1960
118 Minutes
Marilyn Monroe Yves Montand Tony Randall Frankie Vaughan Wilfrid Hyde-White David Burns Michael David Mara Lynn Dennis King Jr. Joe Besser Madge Kennedy
billionaire actress beautiful woman publicist amusing playful theater new york city mistaken identity deception romance song and dance wealth theater production love transformation 1960s
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
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.
7.8/10
Comedy, Drama
Spain|France
1999
99 Minutes
Cecilia Roth Eloy Azorín Marisa Paredes Penélope Cruz Candela Peña Antonia San Juan Rosa María Sardá Toni Canto
single mother transvestite actress nun lesbian witty emotional melodramatic madrid street apartment cemetery theater death depression redemption drug addiction friendship show business discovery
Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela.
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
1930
82 Minutes
Fredric March Ina Claire Mary Brian Henrietta Crosman Charles Starrett Arnold Korff Frank Conroy
family matriarch actor actress manager daughter brother melodramatic amusing lighthearted new york city broadway theater family home family acting love retirement theater relationships transformation sacrifice
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her ... See full summary »
6.2/10
Comedy
UK
1971
90 Minutes
Sidney James Kenneth Williams Joan Sims Charles Hawtrey Hattie Jacques Bernard Bresslaw Kenneth Cope Patsy Rowlands Jacki Piper Richard O'Callaghan Bill Maynard
business owner daughter son husband wife bird amusing cheeky melodramatic quirky spirited witty warehouse factory city house business struggle money relationships
This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up ... See full summary »
7.1/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1953
109 Minutes
Kathryn Grayson Howard Keel Ann Miller Bobby Van Keenan Wynn James Whitmore Bob Fosse Tommy Rall Kurt Kaszner Ron Randell Carol Haney
actor actress songwriter producer mobster fiancé airy charming theater apartment backstage show business love triangle mistaken identity gambling marriage transformation quest 1950s
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.
7.6/10
Comedy
USA
1928
82 Minutes
Marion Davies William Haines Dell Henderson Paul Ralli Tenen Holtz Harry Gribbon Sidney Bracey Polly Moran Albert Conti John Gilbert Mae Murray
actress actor studio head director father emotional charming studio hollywood, calif. theater ambition fame filmmaking love triangle love rise transformation 1920s
A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.
7.4/10
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy
USA
1982
111 Minutes
Dustin Hoffman Jessica Lange Teri Garr Dabney Coleman Charles Durning Bill Murray Sydney Pollack George Gaynes Geena Davis Doris Belack Ellen Foley
actor actress agent director roommate girlfriend amusing charming new york city television studio apartment restaurant family home love triangle deception cross-dressing actors transformation love 1980s
Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
5.8/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1929
103 Minutes
Betty Compson Sally O'Neil Arthur Lake Joe E. Brown Louise Fazenda William Bakewell Sam Hardy Harry Gribbon
star ingénue comedian actor producer understudy charming lighthearted amusing new jersey theater stage backstage relationships performance music romance show business financial troubles love
A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.
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