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Movies: Best "struggling artist" Movies


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tick, tick... BOOM!(2021)

1h 55min | Drama, Music
3.9/5 (with 854 votes)

On the cusp of his 30th birthday, Jonathon Larson, a promising young theater composer, navigates love, friendship, and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City.

Loving Vincent(2017)

4.0/5 (with 1,105 votes)

A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

The Magician(1958)

1h 41min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 90 votes)

When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.

Final Portrait(2017)

1h 27min | History, Drama
3.0/5 (with 74 votes)

Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him that it will take no longer than two or three hours, an afternoon at the most.

La Vie de Bohème(1992)

3.8/5 (with 47 votes)

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.

Sugar Daddy(2021)

1h 40min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

When a struggling musician can't afford her rent, she signs up for a website where rich older men pay to date younger women. Her new money-making venture sends her down a dark rabbit hole that forces her to grow up fast, shaping her music, and how she sees the world.

Directed by Wendy Morgan

Pyaasa(1957)

2h 26min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 26 votes)

Vijay, a destitute poet, searches for true love while attempting to get his work published. With the assistance of two women in his life, his dream comes true - but at a cost that causes Vijay to rethink his worldview.

Carnival of Sinners(1943)

1h 18min | Fantasy, Horror
3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.

Meesaya Murukku(2017)

3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

A passionate youngster who dreams of making it in the music industry is on the verge of losing his love. What will happen to his career and romance?

Directed by Hiphop Tamizha

Live, Love and Learn(1937)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.

Cold Case Hammarskjöld(2019)

2h 9min | Documentary, History
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case looking for a definitive closure.

Directed by Mads Brügger - With Mads Brügger

Let's Make a Movie(2012)

1h 26min
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Let's Make a Movie is the story of Cassie Thompson (Played by Hallie York), a college dropout and ex-film student who is tired of being disrespected and downtrodden, has decided that she's had enough. In a subconscious effort to turn her life around, she decides to make a movie with a rag-tag group of friends. The only problem is the movie is impossible for her to film without a $100 million budget, and her cast and crew are neurotic and inexperienced, to say the least. Will Cassie prevail and finish her movie, or will this become another mark on her long list of failures?

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Living on Love(1937)

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".

The Stars Are Singing(1953)

1h 39min | Music
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

After she enters the United States illegally, 15-year-old Polish singer Katri Walenska (Anna Maria Alberghetti) finds herself under the wing of aspiring singer Terry Brennan (Rosemary Clooney). Soon Terry has Katri booked on a TV talent show -- but her immigration status may cause a problem. This musical classic boasts a host of famous performers, including Metropolitan Opera star Lauritz Melchior. [netflix].

Paul Sharits(2015)

1h 25min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering, pulsating, colourful mosaics. The many interviews and testimonies are also a portrait of a generation of leading voices in experimental filmmaking.

Directed by François Miron

Bilambita Loy(1970)

1h 49min | Drama

A promising artist and a singer fall in love in college and get married against their families' wishes. The singer soon begins performing to support her husband and becomes nationally renowned. On the other hand, the artist fails to earn a livelihood and becomes alcoholic.

Merrily We Roll Along(2013)

2h 16min | Music
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Triple Olivier Award-winner Maria Friedman makes an extraordinary directorial debut with a flawless cast. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, Merrily We Roll Along starts in 1980 and travels backwards in time. This powerful and moving story features some of Sondheim’s most beautiful songs including "Good Thing Going", "Not a Day Goes by" and "Old Friends".