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Drive My Car(2021)

NR
| 2h 49min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 458 votes)

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi - With Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima, Tōko Miura, Sonia Yuan, Park Yu-rim, ...

Marriage Story(2019)

R
| 2h 17min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 3,113 votes)

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

Rushmore(1998)

R
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,065 votes)

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.

Synecdoche, New York(2008)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 598 votes)

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Forever Young(2022)

2h 6min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 44 votes)

At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.

Cookie's Fortune(1999)

1h 58min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 71 votes)

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

Actresses(2007)

1h 47min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 11 votes)

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev's A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he'll make her happy on stage - she will shine. But things don't go to plan. Denis introduces Marcelline to his assistant, Nathalie. The two women were at drama school together twenty years earlier. Nathalie tells her she had to give up acting: she has a husband and children. Marcelline and Nathalie look at each other as if in a mirror, each seeing in the other the life she doesn't have, the dreams she cannot bear to abandon. Their meeting is the first in a series of tremors that will turn Marcelline's life upside down.

Dancing Lady(1933)

NR
| 1h 32min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.

Bathtubs Over Broadway(2018)

1h 27min | Documentary, Comedy, Music
4.0/5 (with 11 votes)

When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.

Directed by Dava Whisenant - With Steve Young

The Girl from the Third Row(1949)

1h 28min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.

One-way to Moscow(2020)

1h 39min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

30 years ago, Switzerland was shaken by a scandal that seems to have already been forgotten: more than 900,000 people were surveilled because of their political convictions. Against the backdrop of this "secret files scandal," Micha Lewinsky sets his film. Conscientious policeman Viktor Schuler is tasked by his superior to infiltrate the Schauspielhaus, a renowned Zurich theatre, in order to keep an eye on its leftist scene. However, Viktor finds himself quite taken with the artist's life and falls in love with the subversive actress Odile Lehmann.

The Great Pretender(2018)

2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect dramatically.

Directed by Nathan Silver
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The Fragrance of Wild Flowers(1977)

1h 46min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with condition at home and at the theater, suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes to Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a settlement of poor people to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reasons for the actor’s odd behavior and to hear when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that only known what he does not want! The young director, who earlier started work on filming a portrait of the actor, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.

Last Summer in the Hamptons(1995)

R
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Before she completes the sale, she wants to have one last gathering of family and friends, with dramatic performances. Bringing everyone together, though, creates rivalries and tension, especially for Oona, a temperamental but successful movie actress who seeks the approval of her creative peers.

Directed by Henry Jaglom - With Victoria Foyt

Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude(1996)

1h 17min | Music, Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard Marie Koltès with Pascal Greggory and Chéreau himself. From the first reading around the table through the first contact with the performance space, rehearsals and lighting to opening night, the entire creative process unfurls in front of our eyes. The film shows us the evolving and ongoing dialogue between Greggory and Chéreau, a dialogue full of crises and magical moments of harmony and insight via which the truth, intensity, complexity, mystery and depth of Koltès’ text gradually emerge to form an implicit bond between these two men. The film also shows Chéreau directing rehearsals for Mozart’s "Don Giovanni" in Salzburg, revealing both the unity of and profound differences between his opera and theater work.

Murder in a Small Town(1999)

1h 32min | Mystery
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A widowed theatre director moves to a small Connecticut town where he gets involved in solving the murder of a millionaire, who was the most despised man in town.

Por Trás do Pano(1999)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A famous actor believes he has totally mastered his craft. A young and talented actress is open to new challenges. They meet, and confront each other; on, and off the stage. From his personal and artistic lethargy, he sees the possibilities of a new beginning, new opportunities, after starting to see her. The story unravels, as the title states, "behind the curtain.".

Directed by Luiz Villaça - With Denise Fraga

Peas at 5:30(2004)

1h 47min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.

The Last Call(2013)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's “Caligula” for an influential upcoming international theater festival.

Directed by Francisco Franco Alba - With Silvia Pinal, Fernando Luján, Ricardo Blume, Anabel Ferreira, Karina Gidi, Alfonso Dosal, ...

Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres(2016)

53min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Serbia, Year Zero(2001)

1h 20min | Documentary, History

Documentary that follows events after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, while looking back on the previous fifteen years, tracing his rise to power. Personal testimony alternates with analysis of a disintegrating society.

Directed by Goran Marković - With Goran Marković, Veran Matić, Sophie Duez, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Dragana Martinović, Olivera Marković, ...

The Den(2023)

15min | Thriller, Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A struggling actress becomes entangled in an abusive relationship with her idol at a cult-like New York theatre company.

Et Tu(2023)

1h 41min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A dark comedy thriller about a director driven to madness during a regional production of Julius Caesar.

Daddy's Son(2000)

1h 31min | Adventure, Comedy

The Odyssey of director Radomir Belacevic who leaves his native village on his faithful horse named Knight and sets out to the capital trying to put his drama on the National Theatre's program, allegedly backed by foreign investors, too. Seduced by flashy lights of the city and beauty of metropolitan women, his Don Quixotean mission takes a different route and he becomes a modern Ulysses who forgets his roots and assimilates with the urban jungle.

Ocean Blues(2013)

1h 33min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Isabel is an Actress. Xavier wants to be a Director. Isabel is looking for Love. Xavier is looking for the Love of his Life. Isabel is stuck on a bad relationship. Xavier is looking for one. Isabel sings while Xavier watches. Will love rule the Ocean? Or will the waves strike hard on both of them?