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8.4/10
Drama, History
Germany|France
2006
137 Minutes
Martina Gedeck Ulrich Mühe Sebastian Koch Ulrich Tukur Thomas Thieme Hans-Uwe Bauer Herbert Knaup Volkmar Kleinert Matthias Brenner Charly Hübner
spy playwright actress lover officer dark tense emotional east berlin apartment communism espionage loyalty love sympathy surveillance quest rivalry love 1980s
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
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.
7.9/10
Drama
USA
1959
125 Minutes
Lana Turner John Gavin Sandra Dee Dan O'Herlihy Susan Kohner Robert Alda Juanita Moore Mahalia Jackson Troy Donahue
actress caretaker daughter playwright detective engaging moving melodramatic new york city california beach house ambition career fame identity mother/daughter relationship race relations pursuit rise
An aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
7.8/10
Comedy
USA
1981
110 Minutes
Wallace Shawn Andre Gregory Jean Lenauer
director playwright waiter witty offbeat intense new york city restaurant street cab friendship theater philosophy transformation rivalry 1980s
Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
7.7/10
Drama
UK|USA
1991
116 Minutes
John Turturro John Goodman Judy Davis Michael Lerner John Mahoney Tony Shalhoub Jon Polito Steve Buscemi David Warrilow Richard Portnow Christopher Murney
playwright neighbor insurance salesman producer drunk detective dark quirky intricate new york city hollywood, calif. hotel elevator movie studio writer's block death show business daunting task dance curse
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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.
7.6/10
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.
7.5/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1952
110 Minutes
Joan Crawford Jack Palance Gloria Grahame Herman Brix Virginia Huston Michael Connors
playwright heiress actor lover lawyer friend dark melodramatic suspenseful new york city broadway theater train san francisco mansion marriage murder plot inheritance adultery deception acting
After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.
7.5/10
Romance
USA
1933
90 Minutes
Fredric March Gary Cooper Miriam Hopkins Edward Everett Horton Franklin Pangborn Isabel Jewell Wyndham Standing Harry Dunkinson Helena Phillips Evans James Donlan Vernon Steele
artist playwright american boss husband love interest cheeky madcap playful paris apartment london new york city office roommates jealousy romantic dilemma love triangle sex competition
A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
7.4/10
Comedy, Drama
France|Belgium
2018
110 Minutes
Thomas Solivéres Olivier Gourmet Mathilde Seigner Tom Leeb Lucie Boujenah Alice De Lencquesaing Clémentine Célarié Igor Gotesman Dominique Pinon Simon Abkarian Marc Andréoni
playwright actress wife friend engaging inspiring passionate amusing charming winsome paris theater career aspirations success rise 1890s
December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties. He has not written anything for two years. In desperation, he offers the great ... See full summary »
7.3/10
Drama
USA|UK|Canada
1981
195 Minutes
Warren Beatty Diane Keaton Jack Nicholson Maureen Stapleton Edward Herrmann Jerzy Kosinski Paul Sorvino Nicolas Coster Ian Wolfe Bessie Love MacIntyre Dixon
communist journalist activist playwright politician fascinating intricate moving russia chicago greenwich village portland, ore. communism world war i love revolution discovery fall 1910s
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
7.3/10
Drama
UK|USA
1999
160 Minutes
Jim Broadbent Allan Corduner Lesley Manville Eleanor David Ron Cook Timothy Spall Kevin McKidd Martin Savage Shirley Henderson Wendy Nottingham
playwright friend manager associate old man witty theater paris house show business risk deception opera drugs friendship rise sacrifice 1880s
Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.
7.3/10
Gay & Lesbian, Biography
UK
1987
108 Minutes
Gary Oldman Alfred Molina Vanessa Redgrave Wallace Shawn Julie Walters James Grant Frances Barber Lindsay Duncan Janet Dale Dave Atkins
playwright lover agent psychiatrist joe orton dark intense england london brighton, england sussex, england bathhouse love homosexuality obsession jealousy writing forbidden love fall 1960s
Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.
7.3/10
Drama
UK
2010
94 Minutes
Manjinder Virk Christine Bottomley Neil Dudgeon Natalie Gavin Robert Emms Parvani Lingiah Danny Webb Liam Price
playwright daughter son drug addict mother bleak dark shocking housing project bradford, england street estate poverty drug addiction tragedy writing andrea dunbar family dysfunction wretched excess escape
Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
7.2/10
Adventure, Fantasy, Action
New Zealand|USA|Germany
2005
187 Minutes
Naomi Watts Jack Black Adrien Brody Andy Serkis Jamie Bell Kyle Chandler Lobo Chan Thomas Kretschmann Colin Hanks John Sumner David Dengelo
king kong director actress playwright incredible spectacular new york city ship skull island survival movie making abduction rescue killer animals unrequited love adventure quest 1930s
A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.
7.2/10
Sci-Fi
USA
1980
103 Minutes
Christopher Reeve Jane Seymour Christopher Plummer Teresa Wright Bill Erwin George Voskovec Susan French John Alvin Eddra Gale Sean Hayden Audrey Bennett
playwright elderly woman professor manager actress love interest dreamy emotional heartwarming hotel mackinac island michigan obsession time travel hypnosis love triangle unlikely romance love pursuit quest
A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
7.1/10
Drama
USA
1955
107 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Robert Stack Kipp Hamilton Robert Douglas Peggy Knudsen Marshall Thompson Chuck Connors Biff Elliot Jerry Paris Mary Wickes
schoolteacher doctor police officer playwright banker convict melodramatic endearing small town school hospital school love respect memory illness growing up sacrifice 1950s
After her admission to the hospital, town-famous stern teacher Miss Dove nostalgically reminisces about her youth and about the pupils she taught over the years.
7.1/10
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
2004
94 Minutes
Anthony Mackie Roger Robinson Larry Gilliard Jr. Aunjanue Ellis Duane Boutte Daniel Sunjata Alex Burns Ray Ford Bradley Cole Michael Duvert
painter poet author playwright father uplifting endearing new york city homeless shelter studio harlem renaissance homosexuality homophobia art mentorship historical events underdog growing up discovery 2000s
A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
7.1/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2007
113 Minutes
Laura Linney Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Bosco Peter Friedman Gbenga Akinnagbe David Zayas Cara Seymour Tonye Patano
sister playwright brother professor author father emotional somber amusing sun city, ariz. funeral buffalo, n.y. nursing home siblings dementia family death dysfunction aging discovery
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
7.0/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1956
103 Minutes
Van Johnson Vera Miles Cecil Parker Patricia Laffan Maurice Denham Estelle Winwood
playwright blind person police officer kidnapper secretary ex-wife suspenseful thrilling london bar street river phone booth blindness unlikely hero vigilantism investigation kidnapping mystery underdog
A blind American writer living in London stumbles upon a criminal conspiracy involving kidnapping and extortion.
6.9/10
Romance
USA
1931
90 Minutes
Jean Harlow Robert Williams Loretta Young Louise Closser Hale Don Dillaway Walter Catlett
journalist socialite colleague mother father playwright amusing emotional mansion office ballroom city journalism independence wealth loyalty class conflict love transformation discovery
A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.
6.9/10
Drama, History
UK|Germany|USA
2011
130 Minutes
Rhys Ifans Vanessa Redgrave Joely Richardson David Thewlis Xavier Samuel Sebastian Armesto Rafe Spall Edward Hogg Sam Reid Jamie Campbell Bower Derek Jacobi
queen elizabeth i edward de vere playwright earl suspenseful intricate globe theatre london royal court theater authorship political intrigue william shakespeare rivalry love 16th century
The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.
6.7/10
Comedy
USA
1938
79 Minutes
Groucho Marx Chico Marx Harpo Marx Lucille Ball Ann Miller Frank Albertson Donald MacBride Cliff Dunstan Philip Loeb Philip Wood Alexander Asro
theatrical producer director manager playwright hotel manager detective unrestrained witty hotel new york city ballroom show business broadway theater production debt deception quest pursuit 1930s
A penniless theatrical producer must outwit the hotel efficiency expert trying to evict him from his room, while securing a backer for his new play.
6.7/10
Comedy
UK
1962
106 Minutes
Peter Sellers Mai Zetterling Virginia Maskell Richard Attenborough Kenneth Griffith Maudie Edwards Frederick Piper Graham Stark John Arnatt Sheila Manahan John Le Mesurier
librarian wife playwright councilor designer best friend amusing passionate uneasy wales small town library apartment household adultery unhappy marriage friendship career betrayal secret plans
John Lewis is bored by his librarian's job and henpecked at home. Then Liz, wife of a local counciller, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and ... See full summary »
6.7/10
Romance
USA
1941
85 Minutes
Fredric March Loretta Young Robert Benchley Allyn Joslyn Eve Arden Helen Westley Joyce Compton Tim Ryan Olaf Hytten Dorothy Adams Clarence Kolb
playwright actress banker husband wife bellhop amusing witty endearing new york city broadway theater hotel hotel room reno, nev. divorce remarriage jealousy work-life balance romance love triangle
A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.
6.7/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
2015
104 Minutes
Maggie Smith Alex Jennings Roger Allam Deborah Findlay Frances de la Tour Gwen Taylor Jim Broadbent David Calder James Corden Dominic Cooper Russell Tovey
playwright homeless person amusing hysterical positive inspiring london friendship homelessness living arrangements living together love sacrifice discovery 1970s
A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.
6.6/10
Documentary
USA
2020
95 Minutes
father son playwright political consultant political candidate charming confident creative heartwarming inspiring positive new york city broadway theater puerto rico father/son relationship playwright broadway political activism political campaign politics
An immigrant from Puerto Rico is determined to bring the musical 'Hamilton' to his island home.
6.5/10
Crime, Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA|West Germany
1980
106 Minutes
Al Pacino Paul Sorvino Karen Allen Richard Cox Don Scardino Joe Spinell Jay Acovone Barton Heyman Sonny Grosso Larry Atlas James Remar
police detective girlfriend police captain playwright homosexual killer hedonistic shocking outlandish brutal new york city nightclub apartment park street working undercover serial murders sadomasochism homophobia sexual awakening
A police detective goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.
6.5/10
Drama
UK|USA
1988
89 Minutes
playwright actor prostitute love interest young man amusing frenetic wild sultry brothel stage oscar wilde theater censorship sexual taboo story within a story homosexuality forbidden love adventure temptation
Guy Fawkes Day, 1892. Oscar Wilde goes to a performance of his controversial, banned play 'Salome'. The 'theatre's a brothel and the performers... prostitutes.
6.5/10
Biography
USA
1968
122 Minutes
Julie Andrews Richard Crenna Michael Craig Daniel Massey Robert Reed Bruce Forsyth Beryl Reid John Collin
singer playwright husband actor spirited melodramatic engaging theater england new york city entertainment fame marital problems debt rise transformation love 1940s
A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.
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