Highest-Rated Movies about 'Movie Star', Sort by Popularity

The Truth (2019), The Nights of Cabiria (1957), No Maps for These Territories (2000), The Artist (2011), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Lost in Translation (2003), Quitting (2001), That's Entertainment! III (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Movie Star movies.

#16. Lady Killer (1933)

Storyline: When a movie theater usher is fired, he takes up with criminals and finds himself quite adept at various illegal activities. Eventually though, the police catch up with him, and he runs to hide out in Los Angeles. There he stumbles into the movie business and soon rises to stardom. He has gone straight, but his newfound success arouses the interest of his old criminal associates, who are not above blackmail...—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>

Plot Keywords: usher, police detective, criminal, gangster, actor, movie star, confident ...

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#17. Shakespeare Wallah (1965)

Storyline: The story of a family troupe of English actors in India. They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bolliwood movies. Based on the travels of Geoffrey Kendal with his daughter Felicity Kendal.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>

Plot Keywords: actor, wife, playboy, daughter, movie star, emotional, striking ...

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#18. Redbelt (2008)

Storyline: Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman sideswipes Mike's car and then, after an odd sequence of events, shoots out the studio's window. Later that evening, Mike rescues an action movie star in a fistfight at a bar. In return, the actor befriends Mike, gives him a gift, offers him work on his newest film, and introduces Mike's wife to his own - the women initiate business dealings. Then, things go sour all at once, Mike's debts mount, and going into the ring may be his only option.

Plot Keywords: instructor, movie star, wife, police officer, rival, lawyer, suspenseful ...

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#19. Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

Storyline: Reworking of Preston Sturges' original story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Clayton Poole's a small town TV repairman in a small town, who's still in love with his former hometown sweetheart, Carla Naples - who's now a famous movie star. When Carla becomes pregnant after a hasty marriage, the studio tells her a baby will ruin her career. She turns to the only peraon she can trust; Clayton,who sagrees to care for the baby—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: movie star, sister, agent, father, repairman, baby, amusing ...

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#20. The Goddess (1958)

Storyline: Loosely based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, the story of a young woman destined from childhood on to be adored by millions but unhappy in her own life. Patty Duke plays Emily Ann Faulkner as a young, friendless, fatherless rural southern girl whose mother is indifferent to her. As a teenager, Emily Ann, played by Kim Stanley, remains a loner but with one small exception - boys dote on her, drawn by her beauty and her powerful aura of feminine sexuality. Emily Ann marries young but leaves her first husband when she meets young prizefighter Dutch Seymour (Lloyd Bridges). She becomes an actress and her star rises rapidly until she hits the heights of fame - and the depths of anguish.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: movie star, promoter, soldier, mother, dark, somber, sad ...

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#21. Caught in the Draft (1941)

Storyline: Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: movie star, coward, love interest, colonel, father, assistant, madcap ...

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#22. State and Main (2000)

Storyline: Having left New Hampshire over excessive demands by the locals, the cast and crew of "The Old Mill" moves their movie shoot to a small town in Vermont. However, they soon discover that The Old Mill burned down in 1960, the star can't keep his pants zipped, the starlet won't take her top off, and the locals aren't quite as easily conned as they appear.

Plot Keywords: teen girl, movie star, actor, playwright, director, producer, cheeky ...

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#23. Entourage (2015)

Storyline: This movie picks up where the TV show ended. Vincent Chase is offered a role by his former agent now Studio boss Ari Gold in a movie he is developing. Vincent agrees on the condition that he be allowed to direct the movie also. Nearly a year later, Vince is uncertain if the movie is ready, so he asks Ari for money to finish the movie. But Vincent has asked for money more than once already and Ari's bosses are not happy of how much they're spending. But he goes to their backer to ask for more money and he wants to see what Vince has shot so far but Vince won't let anyone see it yet. But he's planning a screening, and asks the backer to come to L.A. with him but he can't so he sends his son instead. At the screening Vince decides not to show it. But gives out DVDS. The son after watching the movie, says he has issues with Drama, Vince's brother who has a small role in the movie. Vince is unwilling to drop him. When they appease the son, he then says he has issues with Vince. So as they ...

Plot Keywords: movie star, friend, agent, studio head, actor, director, charming ...

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#24. This Is the End (2013)

Storyline: All Jay Baruchel expected coming to LA was a fun time with Seth Rogen with all the wild partying to have both by themselves and at James Franco's housewarming party. Suddenly, the Rapture hits and the Biblical Apocalypse has begun. Now, Jay and Seth are desperately sheltering in James' house for rescue along with a few other friends. Together, they must band together to attempt to survive the end of the world, only for Jay to find that they are all too dumb and superficial to do it until they discover the only way out.

Plot Keywords: actor, movie star, best friend, celebrity, stoner, madcap, quirky ...

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#25. Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)

Storyline: Tasting the fruit of his labour with his wife Jane, the maladroit and now retired Police Squad Lieutenant, Frank Drebin, secretly dreams of getting back in action. Before long, his old partners, Ed and Nordberg, will have to enlist the help of their loose-cannon friend, when Rocco, the deranged terrorist, intends on blowing to smithereens the annual Academy Awards ceremony. Once more, Drebin goes undercover, interrogating dangerous blonde bombshells, and putting in jeopardy his precious but fragile marriage. Are this year's Oscars doomed to disaster?

Plot Keywords: police detective, wife, terrorist, movie star, partner, captain, campy ...

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#26. After the Fox (1966)

Storyline: Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world and master of disguise. After Aldo escapes from the Italian prison he was held in, he meets again with his friends and plans to retrieve the "gold of Cairo", a large shipment of gold that waits to be unloaded somewhere in Italy. Aldo devises the perfect plan- posing as a famous director, he finds the ideal coastal village to unload the shipment, and persuades the entire population that he has chosen their village as the set for his new movie. Everybody, including the idiot chief of the local police is so excited, that they can't even imagine that in fact they are helping the Fox to get the "gold of Cairo"...—Chris Makrozahopoulos <makzax@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: director, criminal, fan, movie star, police chief, sister, amusing ...

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#29. Merton of the Movies (1947)

Storyline: In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: usher, stuntwoman, movie star, actress, actor, hero, charming ...

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#30. Sailor Beware (1952)

Storyline: Because of a misunderstanding Melvin Jones is inducted into the Navy despite his numerous allergies. When appearing on a TV show sponsored by a lipstick manufacturer, fluke circumstances cause him to be perceived as an irresistibly great kisser by viewers, and he is undeservedly hyped in the media as "Mr. Temptation." His shipmates bet their pay that he can get Corinne Calvet, a sexy French chanteuse, to kiss him. Despite his allergy toward kissing girls, he tries not to let them down even though it threatens his relationship with girlfriend Hilda.—duke1029

Plot Keywords: bumbler, singer, nurse, chief petty officer, movie star, recruit, madcap ...

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