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Ready Player One(2018)

PG-13
| 2h 20min | Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 7,275 votes)

When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

Piranha 3D(2010)

R
| 1h 28min | Comedy, Horror
2.7/5 (with 948 votes)

Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and complaints from locals, a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.

Last Action Hero(1993)

3.2/5 (with 1,196 votes)

Following the death of his father, young Danny Madigan takes comfort in watching action movies featuring the indestructible Los Angeles cop Jack Slater. After being given a magic ticket by theater manager Nick, Danny is sucked into the screen and bonds with Slater. When evil fictional villain Benedict gets his hands on the ticket and enters the real world, Danny and Jack must follow and stop him.

Entourage(2015)

R
| 1h 44min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 443 votes)

Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle and Johnny, are back…and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold. Some of their ambitions have changed, but the bond between them remains strong as they navigate the capricious and often cutthroat world of Hollywood.

Body Double(1984)

R
| 1h 54min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 349 votes)

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

Singin' in the Rain(1952)

4.1/5 (with 1,350 votes)

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Southland Tales(2007)

2.6/5 (with 228 votes)

Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Hail, Caesar!(2016)

PG-13
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 1,731 votes)

When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

Teen Beach Movie(2013)

PG
| 1h 36min | Kids & Family, Music, TV Movie, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 412 votes)

Life's a beach for surfers Brady and McKenzie – until a rogue wave magically transports them inside the classic '60s beach party flick, "Wet Side Story," where a full-blown rivalry between bikers and surfers threatens to erupt. There, amidst a sea of surfing, singing and dancing, Brady and Mack accidentally change the storyline, and the film’s dreamy hero and heroine fall for them instead of for each other!

The Final Girls(2015)

PG-13
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Horror
3.2/5 (with 547 votes)

A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things(2020)

R
| 2h 15min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 805 votes)

Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

One Cut of the Dead(2017)

1h 36min | Comedy, Horror
3.8/5 (with 356 votes)

Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie in an abandoned Japanese World War II facility, when they are attacked by real zombies. Or, that's what it says on the tin, but this is the story of how it really happened.

Directed by Shinichiro Ueda - With Yuzuki Akiyama, Shin'ichirō Ōsawa, Kazuaki Nagaya, Takayuki Hamatsu, Mao, Yoshiko Takehara, ...
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The Bubble(2022)

R
| 1h 45min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 164 votes)

Sneaking out. Hooking up. Melting down. The cast and crew of a blockbuster action franchise attempt to shoot a sequel while quarantining at a posh hotel.

Son of Rambow(2007)

PG-13
| 1h 36min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 192 votes)

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

The Hills Run Red(2009)

R
| 1h 21min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 117 votes)

A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.

Duck Butter(2018)

2.7/5 (with 97 votes)

Dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating, strangers Naima and Sergio make a pact to spend 24 straight hours together in an attempt to fast forward their relationship.

Daisy Diamond(2007)

1h 34min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 20 votes)

A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has something else in store for her. Though she struggles to give her 4-month-old daughter a good start in life, she ultimately fails to unite her dream of acting with a safe and loving environment for her child, culminating in a desperate act that has fatal consequences for Anna and her daughter.

Thesis(1996)

2h 5min | Horror, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 348 votes)

While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student at her college...

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy(1994)

1h 33min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 534 votes)

A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.

All That Jazz(1979)

R
| 2h 3min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 190 votes)

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

Censor(2021)

NR
| 1h 24min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 143 votes)

Film censor Enid takes pride in her meticulous work, guarding unsuspecting audiences from the deleterious effects of watching the gore-filled movies she pores over. Her sense of duty to protect is amplified by guilt over her inability to recall details of the long-ago disappearance of her sister. When Enid is assigned to review a disturbing film from the archive that echoes her hazy childhood memories, she begins to unravel how this eerie work might be tied to her past.

Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond - With Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin

The Other Side of the Wind(2018)

R
| 2h 2min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 85 votes)

Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles lifetime.

Matinee(1993)

PG
| 1h 39min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 117 votes)

A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalises on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.

Living in Oblivion(1995)

R
| 1h 29min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 114 votes)

Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography, and lousy catering.

Bergman Island(2021)

R
| 1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 65 votes)

An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.

Cobweb(2023)

2h 15min | Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?

State and Main(2000)

1h 42min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 87 votes)

A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.

A Cock and Bull Story(2005)

R
| 1h 34min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 57 votes)

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.

HollyBlood(2022)

2.8/5 (with 30 votes)

Javi is a teenage student so shy and clumsy that he does not know how to attract the attention of his classmate Sara, a geeky girl who is only interested in a literary saga about vampires.

Directed by Jesús Font i Urgell - With Óscar Casas, Isa Montalbán, Jordi Sánchez, Piero Méndez

The Souvenir: Part II(2021)

R
| 1h 46min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.

Directed by Joanna Hogg - With Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton, Ariane Labed, Jaygann Ayeh
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