Seven Psychopaths (2012), La Lectrice (1988), Irma Vep (1996), The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004), The Hero (2017), Madeline's Madeline (2018), Paris When It Sizzles (1964), The Raven (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Life Imitating Art movies.
Storyline: A struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.
Plot Keywords: screenwriter, friend, actor, kidnapper, gangster, cheeky, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Constance and Marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. This structure is further complicated when the lives of Constance's clients become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade's "120 days..."—Michele Wilkinson - University of Cambridge Language Centre
Plot Keywords: young woman, boyfriend, young boy, widow, businessman, maid, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: French filmmaker René Vidal was once a renowned director, but most see his career on a quick downward slide based on his last several films. In Paris, he is just starting to film his latest movie, a remake of Les vampires (1915), and has hired Hong Kong based Chinese actress Maggie Cheung as the title lead, "Irma Vep" (an anagram for "vampire"), despite she knowing no French and she not being an obvious choice to most. Maggie has never worked with Vidal before and knows little about his movies, but many of his primarily French crew are part of his regular stable. As such, Maggie may become isolated among the cast and crew, unless there are those who bring her into their English conversations, they who may have somewhat ulterior motives in doing so. There are also factions within the cast and crew, who, based on their history, have a poisoned sense of what is going on. With Vidal, he is dealing with some personal issues while he tries to regain his film making form. He may transfer his thoughts of Irma Vep to Maggie, who he hired because he too sees her as strong and sexy like the skin-tight latex clad Irma. And Maggie may take her research for the comic bookish character to an extreme.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: director, costume designer, crew member, journalist, actress, witty, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Claudia and Chris share a passion for interpreting the meaning of symbols. After she learns that she has cancer of the larynx, Claudia decides to spend her last days in Venice. Her obsession with Bosch leads the two to make a garden's visions real through sensual close-ups.
Plot Keywords: man, woman, artist, dreamy, creative, emotional, venice, italy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lee Hayden is a veteran actor of Westerns whose career's best years are behind him after his one really great film, "The Hero". Now, scraping by with voice-overs for commercials, Lee learns that he has a terminal prognosis of pancreatic cancer. Unable to bring himself to tell anyone about it, especially his estranged family, Lee can only brood alone as troubling, yet inspiring, dreams haunt him. Things change when he meets Charlotte Dylan, a stand-up comedienne who becomes a lover who inadvertently jump-starts his public profile. Now facing a profound emotional conflict of having a potential career comeback, even as his imminent death is staring him in the face, Lee must finally come to terms with both realities when he finally confesses his situation to the one person he can.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: actor, ex-wife, star, drug dealer, daughter, comedian, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A theatre director's latest project takes on a life of its own when her young star takes her performance too seriously.
Plot Keywords: actor, actress, director, mother, friend, creative, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: screenwriter, producer, assistant, singer, gangster, police detective, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This movie is set in the mid 1800s and involves poet Edgar Allan Poe. A serial killer is on the loose and murdering people using Poe's descriptions from his published stories and poems. Poe teams up with Detective Fields, a Baltimore policeman to try and catch the killer by using his knowledge of the descriptions. Even though the stories are fictional, they start to become reality and the killer is a step ahead of them. Then it takes on a personal note as Poe's lover becomes a target. Will they stop the killer in time?
Plot Keywords: writer, police detective, girlfriend, dark, suspenseful, baltimore, house ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Neil, a self proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur. Will Neil step up and embrace a life full of adventure or retreat back to his comfortable couch?—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: film fan, store clerk, girlfriend, femme fatale, best friend, police officer, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Steven Gaye, a successful New York playwright has passed forty and thinks he has bid farewell to the world of romance. But he falls in love with his secretary, Linda Brown, and suddenly finds himself more madly in love than ever before in his life. Linda reciprocates his feelings but he feels there is a too wide gap in their ages, and he pushes her in the direction of the leading man, Dick Reynolds, in his current Broadway play. Linda becomes engaged to the younger man and finds there is a problem...while Dick is young and romantic, he is also dumb. And the longer Linda is with him, the more she yearns for Steven's comfortable understanding and mature charm. (Despite the site-plot line that says so, she does not marry the son of her boss.)—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: playwright, secretary, fiancée, actor, boss, love interest, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.
Plot Keywords: sound operator, italian, gritty, disturbing, dark, italy, studio ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Virginia works at a used book store. She's really into horror novels and discovers a really good book. It's called "I, Madman" and it's about an insane doctor who cuts off people's noses, ears, and hair and puts them on his face to please a girl he likes. Only Virginia discovers that the book is nonfiction, and every time she picks up the book to read it, she sees him. The insane doctor from the book has escaped the book into our reality.—Jason Mechalek
Plot Keywords: bookseller, boyfriend, mad scientist, novelist, character, suspenseful, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A sci-fi writer (Hutton) is invited to an island for a conference, only to discover that he's been lured into a trap.
Plot Keywords: writer, girlfriend, beautiful woman, mad scientist, friend, creepy, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During Halloween, theater student Jenna Whooly returns to Bell Island to spend the holiday with her family and her boyfriend Alex Martin, a classmate of hers who was also raised on the island. Her younger brother Douglas "Dougie" Whooly is very attached to Jenna and is fascinated with the video game "Satan's Little Helper," and he becomes jealous with the presence of Alex. He leaves home wearing his costume of Satan's little helper, seeking Satan himself on the streets so he can ask him to kill Alex. Dougie meets a serial killer who, coincidently, is wearing a costume of Satan and decides to help him. He brings the insane murderer home, and Jenna and her mother Merrill Whooly believe that the masked killer is Alex acting like Satan to please Dougie. Later, the boy walks with the maniac along the streets, helping him to terrorize the locals.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: young boy, college student, mother, murderer, boyfriend, sister, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Robin, who is married to her girlfriend for half a dozen years, and Lacie, someone who never had a lasting relationship, are both cast to play lesbian lovers in a Los Angeles stage play. Innocently, the stage director, Gabriel runs the actresses through a series of rehearsals designed to "bring out the intimacy" in each performer. Soon the two women find themselves increasingly and undeniably attracted to each other and overcome with desire. They must ask themselves whether this relationship is manufactured, created for the sake of the "girl play", or is it true love?—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: actress, lesbian, director, therapist, mother, lover, witty ...
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