Theater Movies, Movies about Theater

Here we've displayed a list of the best Theater films : Inglourious Basterds(2009), An Evening With the Royal Ballet(1964), Taxi Driver(1976), The Life of Reilly(2006), Limelight(1952), Opening Night(1977), Annie Hall(1977), Hannah and Her Sisters(1986), All About My Mother(1999), My Dinner With Andre(1981), Mephisto(1981), The Salesman(2016) ... ...

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Inglourious Basterds

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.

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An Evening With the Royal Ballet

Documentary about the Royal Ballet. Includes selections from "Les Sylphides" and "The Sleeping Beauty".

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Taxi Driver

A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute.

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The Life of Reilly

If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block, what do you think the odds would be that you'd end up a Tony ... See full summary »

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Limelight

A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.

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Opening Night

A renowned actress teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.

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Annie Hall

Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.

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Hannah and Her Sisters

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

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All About My Mother

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.

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My Dinner With Andre

Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

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Mephisto

In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor finds himself before a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?

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The Salesman

While both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.

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The Purple Rose of Cairo

In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.

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Coraline

An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.

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Stage Door

A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.

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Yankee Doodle Dandy

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.

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This Filthy World

Jeff Garlin's documentary on the work of John Waters.

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Roma

A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

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Lightning in a Bottle

Antoine Fuqua's documentary on the blues, shot at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

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Rushmore

The extracurricular king of Rushmore Preparatory School is put on academic probation.

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The Producers

A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.

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Moulin Rouge

A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.

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Show People

A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.

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Finding Neverland

The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.

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Every Little Step

Follows the plight of real-life dancers as they struggle through auditions for the Broadway revival of "A Chorus Line". Also investigates the history of the show and the creative minds behind the original and current incarnations.

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The Lady From Shanghai

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

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Synecdoche, New York

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.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

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Cyrano de Bergerac

The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play.

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