The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (2009), Hear My Song (1991), ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2005), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), Bird (1988), Broadway: The Golden Age (2004), All About Eve (1950), A Face in the Crowd (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Show Business movies.
Storyline: Music video director Emmett Malloy shadows guitarist and singer Jack White and drummer Meg White on their 2007 Canadian tour. Alongside traditional concerts, the film shows the duo performing in unusual spaces like a Winnipeg city bus, an Ontario flour mill and a gathering of Native American tribal elders. Also included are intimate backstage moments between Jack and Meg, a formerly married couple whose time as a band was nearing its end during this tour, which proved to be their last.
Plot Keywords: musician, guitarist, drummer, rock star, native american, music lover, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An outcast Liverpool nightclub manager (Adrian Dunbar) tries to win back his sweetheart by booking a long-lost Irish tenor (Ned Beatty).
Plot Keywords: nightclub owner, irishman, impostor, cabaret performer, hilarious, witty, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Filmmaker Dori Berinstein charts the evolution of four Broadway shows from inception to Tony Awards during the 2003-2004 season: "Wicked," "Taboo," "Avenue Q" and "Caroline, or Change." Featured cast members and producers include Idina Menzel, Rosie O'Donnell, Boy George, Alan Cumming and Euan Morton.
Plot Keywords: director, actor, actress, producer, critic, amusing, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Members of a troubled German film crew spend most of their time drinking, talking and waiting in a hotel.
Plot Keywords: director, star, actor, actress, cinematographer, producer, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker (Forest Whitaker) lives fast and self-destructs, dead at 34 in 1955.
Plot Keywords: saxophonist, wife, musician, wealthy woman, doctor, cool, sultry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Filmmaker Rick McKay directs this oral history about the golden age of live theater in New York City during the 1940s and '50s. The film includes interviews with the actors, singers, dancers, authors, directors and producers of some of Broadway's greatest shows, as well as reminiscences from younger actors inspired by the greats of this era. Over 100 interviews are included, from stars such as Bea Arthur, Angela Lansbury, Charles Nelson Reilly and Elaine Stritch.
Plot Keywords: actor, actress, singer, dancer, writer, theatrical producer, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eve (Anne Baxter) is waiting backstage to meet her idol, aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis). It seems innocent enough as Eve explains that she has seen Margo in EVERY performance of her current play. Only playwright/critic DeWitt (George Sanders) sees through Eve's evil plan, which is to take her parts and her fiancé, Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill). When the fiancé shows no interest, she tries for playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe), but DeWitt stops her. After she accepts her award, she decides to skip the after-party and goes to her room, where a young woman named Phoebe has sneaked into her room and fallen asleep. This is where the "Circle of Life" now comes to fruition as Eve will get played like she played Margo.
Plot Keywords: actress, critic, producer, writer, director, witty, crafty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "A Face in the Crowd" charts the rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
Plot Keywords: star, producer, writer, advertiser, senator, wife, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
Plot Keywords: reporter, girlfriend, heiress, actress, friend, engaging, hedonistic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would want to date him, and thus subconsciously pushing those women away. Alvy not only reviews the many ups and many downs of their relationship, but also reviews the many facets of his makeup that led to him starting to date Annie. Those facets include growing up next to Coney Island in Brooklyn, being attracted to the opposite sex for as long as he can remember, and enduring years of Jewish guilt with his constantly arguing parents.
Plot Keywords: comedian, singer, rock star, actor, calm, moving, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant musical scene which includes traditional Turkish music plus rock and hip-hop.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: musician, singer, music lover, musicologist, powerful, inspiring, istanbul ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Adult film director Jack Horner is always on the lookout for new talent and it's only by chance that he meets Eddie Adams who is working as a busboy in a restaurant. Eddie is young, good looking and plenty of libido to spare. Using the screen name Dirk Diggler, he quickly rises to the top of his industry winning awards year after year. Drugs and ego however come between Dirk and those around him and he soon finds that fame is fleeting.
Plot Keywords: porn star, filmmaker, mother, husband, wife, creative, unrestrained ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joe Gideon is a Broadway director, choreographer and filmmaker, he in the process of casting the chorus and staging the dance numbers for his latest Broadway show, starring his ex-wife Audrey Paris in what is largely a vanity project for her in playing a role several years younger than her real age, and editing a film he directed on the life of stand-up comic Davis Newman. Joe's professional and personal lives are intertwined, he a chronic philanderer, having slept with and had relationships with a series of dancers in his shows, Victoria Porter, who he hired for the current show despite she not being the best dancer, in the former category, and Kate Jagger, his current girlfriend, in the latter category. That philandering has led to relationship problems, with Audrey during their marriage, and potentially now with Kate who wants a committed relationship with Joe largely in not wanting the alternative of entering the dating world again. Joe also lives a hard and fast life, he chain smoking, drinking heavily, listening to hard driving classical music and popping uppers to keep going. In addition to pressures from investors and meeting film deadlines above and beyond his own self-induced hard life, he is teetering on the brink physically and emotionally. With Kate, Audrey, and his and Audrey's teenage daughter Michelle looking over him as best they can, Joe flirts with "Angelique" in the process, he potentially succumbing to her if he doesn't listen to them or what his body is telling him.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: director, dancer, dark, wild, creative, stage, hospital ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.
Plot Keywords: singer, songwriter, brooding, passionate, austin, texas, stage, country music ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Manuela is a hard-working single mom who has raised her son Esteban by herself since the time he was born. On his 17th birthday they go to the theater and after the show, he tries to get the main actress' autograph but is run down on the street and dies. She quits her job and journeys to Barcelona, where she hopes to find her son's father, Lola, a transvestite she kept secret from her son, just as she never told Lola they had a son. In Barcelona, Manuela reunites with her old friend Agrado, a warm and witty transvestite prostitute. She also meets and becomes deeply involved with several characters: Rosa, a young nun who works in a shelter for battered prostitutes, but is pregnant by Lola and is HIV positive; Huma Rojo, the actress her son had admired; and the drug-addicted Nina Cruz, Huma's co-star and lover. Her life becomes entwined with theirs as she cares for Rosa during her pregnancy and works for Huma as her personal assistant and even acts in the play as an understudy for Nina ...
Plot Keywords: single mother, transvestite, actress, nun, lesbian, witty, emotional ...
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