Best "producer" Movies of All Time

39 movies found (page 1/2):

Get Shorty(1995)

3.2/5 (with 422 votes)

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld - With John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, ...

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk(2016)

1h 53min | Drama, War

3.0/5 (with 252 votes)

19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.

Directed by Ang Lee - With Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, Vin Diesel, Steve Martin, Ben Platt, ...

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Swingers(1996)

1h 36min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 305 votes)

After 6 years together, Mike's girlfriend leaves him, so he travels to LA to be a star. Six months on, he's still not doing very well— so a few of his friends try to reconnect him to the social scene and hopefully help him forget his failed relationship.

Directed by Doug Liman - With Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston, Alex Désert, Heather Graham, Patrick Van Horn, ...

The Great Ziegfeld(1936)

2h 56min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 46 votes)

Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard - With Luise Rainer, Myrna Loy, William Powell, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice, Virginia Bruce, ...

The Producers(2005)

2h 14min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 204 votes)

After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.

Directed by Susan Stroman - With Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach, Roger Bart, ...

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Rock'n Roll(2017)

2h 3min | Comedy, Drama

2.6/5 (with 347 votes)

Guillaume Canet is told by a young co-star that he's no longer Rock'n' Roll and can't sell films anymore. He then tries to prove her wrong and gets help from his girlfriend, Marion Cotillard.

Directed by Guillaume Canet - With Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche, Fanny Ardant, Yvan Attal, Johnny Hallyday, ...

The Last Tycoon(1976)

2h 3min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 59 votes)

Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.

Directed by Elia Kazan - With Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau, ...

Footlight Parade(1933)

1h 44min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 33 votes)

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon - With James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, ...

The Bad and the Beautiful(1952)

1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 97 votes)

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

Directed by Vincente Minnelli - With Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, ...

The Kid Stays in the Picture(2002)

1h 33min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 39 votes)

Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.

Directed by Nanette Burstein

Whatever You Say(2002)

1h 50min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, Comedy

2.8/5 (with 35 votes)

Bastien, an ambitious young production assistant, catches the attention of Jean-Louis, a producer of high regard, and is granted a shot at his own television show.

Directed by Guillaume Canet - With François Berléand, Guillaume Canet, Diane Kruger, Alexandra Mercouroff, Andrée Damant, Anne Marivin, ...

Stage Door(1937)

1h 32min | Comedy, Drama

3.5/5 (with 41 votes)

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.

Directed by Gregory La Cava - With Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, ...

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Till the Clouds Roll By(1946)

2h 12min | Music

2.8/5 (with 9 votes)

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.

Directed by Richard Whorf - With Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Van Johnson, ...

Full Tilt Boogie(1997)

1h 37min | Documentary

3.2/5 (with 24 votes)

A documentary about the production of From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and the people who made it.

Directed by Sarah Kelly - With Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Lawrence Bender, George Clooney, Juliette Lewis, Harvey Keitel, ...

El Extra(1962)

1h 50min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Yolanda Cianí, Enrique Lucero, Chabelo, Valentin Trujillo, Magda Donato, ...

High Voltage(2018)

1h 32min | Horror, Thriller

2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

An emerging rock band, managed by industry vet Jimmy Kleen, strike a deal with record executive Rick Roland. Things take a sinister turn when the band's lead singer, Rachel, and her mother Barb are struck by lightning and killed. Rachel is brought back to life, but she is different than before. Lightning courses through her veins and she uses her new strange electrical powers to drain the life from men, turning it into electrifying stage performances, but just how far are the band willing to go to make it.

With David Arquette

Prey for Rock & Roll(2003)

1h 44min | Drama, Music

2.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Prey for Rock & Roll is set in the Los Angeles club scene of the late 1980s and follows the story of Jacki (Gershon) and her all-girl punk rock band, Clam Dandy. On the verge of turning 40, Jacki decides that if the band's one last shot at the big time is unsuccessful, she will give up her dreams of stardom. Along the way, the women are rocked by personal tragedies that threaten to break up the band before they can get their last shot at success.

Directed by Alex Steyermark - With Drea de Matteo, Lori Petty, Shelly Cole, Gina Gershon, Benjamín Benítez, Marc Blucas, ...

All in Good Taste(1983)

1h 25min | Comedy

1.9/5 (with 4 votes)

A filmmaker is upset to find out that his wholesome script about an orphan and his dog has been warped into a film about strippers.

Directed by Anthony Kramreither - With Jim Carrey, Jonathan Welsh, Harvey Atkin

The Dying Gaul(2005)

1h 35min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.

Directed by Craig Lucas - With Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaardd, Campbell Scott, Elizabeth Marvel, Ryan Miller, Robin Bartlett, ...

Adam Sandler: Funny Guy(2020)

1h | Documentary, Comedy

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Adam remains a consistent favorite among fans who are comforted that they will always have a good time. Get the inside story on this fascinating actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, husband, father, and forever FUNNY GUY.

Directed by Danielle Winter

The Goldwyn Follies(1938)

1h 55min | Romance / Love, Music, Comedy

2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.

Directed by George Marshall - With Adolphe Menjou, Kenny Baker, Andrea Leeds, Edgar Bergen, Ritz Brothers, Vera Zorina, ...

Nee Ko Njaa Cha(2013)

1h 54min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Roshan (Sunny Wayne) is a cosmetic surgeon and a Casanova by nature. Abu (Sanju), a budding filmmaker and Joe (Praveen), a TV show producer, are his friends. Joe has just been ditched by his girl friend Ann (Poojitha Menon). A devastated Joe heads over to Goa along with his friends to get over the tragedy that has befell him.

Directed by Gireesh Mano - With Sunny Wayne, Sija Rose

Cinema Company(2012)

2h 32min | Comedy

2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Four intimate friends who dream to make a film. Plot The film traces the journey of four friends as they strive to give life to their dream cinema. And how their lives are upturned as the cinema becomes their life.

Directed by Mamas Ramachandran - With Lalu Alex, Lakshmi Devy, Kochu Preman, Sanam Shetty, Baburaj, Saikumar, ...

People Are Funny(1946)

1h 33min | Comedy, Music

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again.".

Directed by Sam White

American Dream/American Knightmare(2018)

1h 25min | Documentary, Music

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Documentary that delves deep into the life and storied exploits of the iconic Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight, as well as the volatile and highly influential era in gangsta rap he presided over. Through a series of interviewers face to face with director Antoine Fuqua, Knight reveals exactly how it all happened and why it all fell apart. Knight is currently in jail pending trial on murder, attempted-murder and hit-and-run charges.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua

The Untameable Kirk Douglas(2017)

54min | Documentary, TV Movie

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

The story of actor Kirk Douglas, the man and the legend, one of the last stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. An epic journey through the 20th century and the entire history of Hollywood. A testimony of the huge scope of his life and the scale of the myth. The untameable Kirk Douglas, the ragman's son.

You Can't Have Everything(1937)

1h 40min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger, Gypsy Rose Lee, Tony Martin, Louis Prima, ...

Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema(2021)

52min | Documentary

Documentary on the life of legendary filmmaker Roger Corman, often referred to as the "Pope of Pop Cinema".

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood(1999)

1h 26min | Documentary

3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Paying homage to two of Hollywood's central icons, the film creates an unparalleled portrait of two very different personalities amidst the demise of the studio system.

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies(2001)

1h 58min | Documentary

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this classy documentary created for the PBS American Masters series. Based on A. Scott Berg's acclaimed biography, the film includes new interviews with Goldwyn's surviving family members as well as vintage interviews with such luminaries as Bette Davis, John Huston, Laurence Olivier and others.

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