Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "film-director-as-protagonist"

1. 8½ (1963)

Not Rated | 138 min | Drama

8.0

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93 Metascore

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo

Votes: 125,096 | Gross: $0.05M

2. American Movie (1999)

R | 107 min | Documentary, Comedy

7.8

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84 Metascore

Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.

Director: Chris Smith | Stars: Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Tom Schimmels, Monica Borchardt

Votes: 19,308 | Gross: $1.16M

3. Godard Mon Amour (2017)

R | 107 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

6.6

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55 Metascore

In 1967, during the making of "La Chinoise," film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Micha Lescot

Votes: 5,994 | Gross: $0.08M

4. Arrebato (1979)

Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

6.8

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80 Metascore

A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.

Director: Iván Zulueta | Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro

Votes: 3,386

5. Eskimo Nell (1975)

85 min | Comedy

4.4

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Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch, an exotic movie producer. He wants to make a new erotic movie starring a big woman - the "Eskimo... See full summary »

Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Michael Armstrong, Terence Edmond, Christopher Timothy, Roy Kinnear

Votes: 433

6. Striptease (II) (1977)

108 min | Drama

4.6

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A disillusioned, depressed film director is forced to confront his lack of humanity through his involvement in the death of a young actress and the suicide of her husband.

Director: Germán Lorente | Stars: Terence Stamp, Corinne Cléry, Pilar Velázquez, Alberto de Mendoza

Votes: 79

7. The Auteur (2008)

Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy

5.7

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A sweet comedy about the world's greatest living porn director.

Director: James Westby | Stars: Melik Malkasian, Denise Chanterelle DuBois, Loren Hoskins, John Breen

Votes: 638

8. Promise Her Anything (1966)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

5.2

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A young lady has been widowed and left with a baby son to bring up alone. She decides that the baby needs a father figure and decides to marry a psychologist. She hides her son with an ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Robert Cummings, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 621

9. Room 999 (2023)

86 min | Documentary

6.1

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In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks a new generation of filmmakers similar questions.

Director: Lubna Playoust | Stars: Wim Wenders, Audrey Diwan, David Cronenberg, Joachim Trier

Votes: 76

10. Chambre 666 (1982 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary

6.6

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During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, ... See full summary »

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni, Maroun Bagdadi, Ana Carolina

Votes: 1,478

11. Dívka za zrcadlem (2018 TV Movie)

104 min | Drama

5.9

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Renata is the happy mother of a seven-year-old daughter and she and her partner, journalist Ivan, live in a First Republic wooden cabin on the bank of a flooded quarry. The place is idyllic... See full summary »

Director: Andrea Sedlácková | Stars: Tatiana Dyková, Oldrich Kaiser, Vojtech Dyk, Eva Podzimková

Votes: 32

12. Far, Far Away (2017)

10 min | Short, Drama

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George Lucas and his producer, Gary Kurtz, have to convince the studios to green light their new space film. They seek out help from artist Ralph McQuarrie to create concept artwork, who also helps them explain their film from the heart.

Director: Christian Hawkins | Stars: David Buckley, Guillermo Canba, John Eisen, Bernard Galane

13. The Auteur (2002)

5 min | Comedy, Short

7.3

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THE AUTEUR chronicles porno director Arturo Domingo as he records the commentary track for DVD release, 'Requiem for a Wet Dream.' Filmed entirely in a Los Angeles sound studio, this is a ... See full summary »

Director: James Westby | Star: Melik Malkasian

Votes: 42

14. Parole de cinéaste (2013–2017)

60 min | Documentary, Biography

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Stars: Danièle Heymann, Christiane Graziani, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Yves Boisset

15. Suuret pienet elokuvat (2021– )

Documentary

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"Big Small Movies" is a documentary series where we follow story behind feature film Kontakti and reasons how the project became to be a decade-long journey.

Star: Jermu Mäkinen