Highest-Rated Movies about 'Director-star'

College (1927), The Naked Prey (1966), Sherlock Jr. (1924), The General (1926), The Navigator (1924), High Plains Drifter (1973), Mr. Arkadin (1955), A New Leaf (1971) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Director-star movies.

#16. Funny People (2009)

Storyline: George is a very successful stand up comedian who learns that he has an untreatable blood disorder and is given less than a year to live. Ira is a struggling up-and-coming stand up comedian who works at a deli and has yet to figure out his onstage persona. One night, these two perform at the same club and George takes notice of Ira. George hires Ira to be his semi-personal assistant as well as his friend.

Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, humor, celebrity, friendship, life crisis, self-discovery ...

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#17. Tightrope (1984)

Storyline: Wes Block (Clint Eastwood) is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women, that he rapes and murders. The killings are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, film noir, police, serial killer, new orleans ...

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#19. Panhandle (1948)

Storyline: John Sands (Rod Cameron), formerly a Texas marshal whose talents with guns caused the law to turn against him,is a fugitive in Mexico, when he learns from "Dusty" Stewart (Cathy Downs)that his brother in the Texas panhandle, Billy Sands (John C. Champion), her fiancé and crusading newspaperman, his been mysteriously murdered in Sentinel, Texas. Despite the price on his head, Sands comes north to the panhandle to find his brother's killer.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: western, black and white, 1940s, american film, gunfight, revenge, texas ...

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#20. Life Stinks (1991)

Storyline: Sticking to great comedy in a way no one else can, Mel Brooks plays a wealthy business man who finds himself getting suckered into a bet with a rival business over the worst slum area of L.A. They both want to develop on it and both own half. Mel agrees to living as a homeless person in this neighborhood. If he can make it 30 days without his wallet or anything else, then the rival will sign over his half of the property. It's full of visual gags, one liners and even some heart warming scenes. Mel's character learns a lot along the way.—Michelle Scaturro

Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, social class, wealth gap, homelessness, human nature, morality ...

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#21. Ordinary World (2016)

Storyline: The mid-life crisis of a husband and father who, on his 40th birthday, decides to revisit his punk-rock past by throwing an extravagant party in the presidential suite of the Drake Hotel - where he encounters his beautiful ex-girlfriend and former bandmates who have since moved on to bigger and better things.

Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, music, family, coming of age, midlife crisis, new york ...

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#22. Psycho III (1986)

Storyline: Norman Bates is back again running his "quiet" little motel a month after the events in Psycho II. Norman meets three new people, one being a beautiful young nun with whom his budding relationship is beginning to make his "Mother" jealous. He also hires a young man in need of a job to take care of the motel. A snooping reporter is showing interest in Norman's case. What will these new friends do for Norman?

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, crime, psychological, slasher, sequel ...

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#23. I Hate Valentine's Day (2009)

Storyline: In Manhattan, Genevieve Gernier owns a flower shop and has a personal dating rule: a limit of five dates with a man to avoid a relationship. When Greg Gatlin buys a restaurant nearby her shop, they decide to date. However, after five dates, Genevieve is not happy with her rule and does not know how to meet Greg again.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, romantic comedy, dating, relationships, indie film, new york ...

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#25. The Ladies' Man (1961)

Storyline: Upon losing his lover, Herbert (Jerry Lewis) gives up women for good and seeks a fresh start by taking a maintenance position at what appears to be an ordinary Los Angeles boarding house. To Herbert's surprise, however, the building caters specifically to single women. He immediately resolves to quit, but landlady Miss Wellenmellon (Helen Traubel) and sweet tenant Fay (Pat Stanley) talk him into keeping the job. In no time at all, Herbert is mired in one comic disaster after another.

Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, love, humor, lighthearted, slapstick ...

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