It's Always Fair Weather (1955), The Barefoot Executive (1971), A Face in the Crowd (1957), The Truman Show (1998), The King of Comedy (1982), The Killing of Sister George (1968), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Scrooged (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Television Industry movies.
Storyline: A talk-show staffer (Cyd Charisse) puts a fight manager (Gene Kelly), adman (Dan Dailey) and cook on TV 10 years after they parted as GIs.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, drama, friendship, new york, reunion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A TV-network page (Kurt Russell) becomes program director by picking hit shows with his girlfriend's pet chimp.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, disney, animals, business, workplace, 1970s ...
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: drama, film noir, social critique, media satire, celebrity culture, american dream, manipulation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Since birth, a big fat lie defines the well-organised but humdrum life of the kind-hearted insurance salesman and ambitious explorer, Truman Burbank. Utterly unaware of the thousands of cleverly hidden cameras watching his every move, for nearly three decades, Truman's entire existence pivots around the will and the wild imagination of the ruthlessly manipulative television producer, Christof--the all-powerful TV-God of an extreme 24/7 reality show: The Truman Show. As a result, Truman's picturesque neighbourhood with the manicured lawns and the uncannily perfect residents is nothing but an elaborate state-of-the-art set, and the only truth he knows is what the worldwide television network and its deep financial interests dictate. Do lab rats know they are forever imprisoned?
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, drama, comedy, satire, psychological, virtual reality, media critique ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rupert Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol, talk show host Jerry Langford, with a plea to perform on the Jerry's show, he is only given the run-around. He does not give up, however, but persists in stalking Jerry until he gets what he wants. Eventually he must team up with his psychotic Langford-obsessed friend Masha to kidnap the talk show host in hopes of finally getting to perform his stand-up routine.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, crime, drama, psychological thriller, satire, celebrity culture, obsession ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: George lives with her lover, Childie and plays a cheerful district nurse in a BBC soap opera. However, her character is to be killed off, and George realises that the only other job she can get is the voice of a cow in a children's tv programme. Her life begins to fall apart as Childie has an affair with a predatory tv producer.—Paul Baker <bakerjp@unix.lancs.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: drama, thriller, crime, psychological, mystery, film noir, lesbian ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
Plot Keywords: biography, comedy, crime, drama, thriller, black comedy, spy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Francis Xavier Cross is a cynical, mean spirited television executive, he treats his loyal assistant with contempt. He just sacked a member of staff on Christmas Eve for simply disagreeing with him, and he's alienated himself from his brother who still insists on inviting Frank to Christmas dinner despite him refusing to go every year. However, Frank is forced to learn the true meaning of Christmas when he's visited by three ghosts.
Plot Keywords: comedy, christmas, fantasy, adaptation, classic, satire, modern adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The ice-cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits the guys she dates. While blackmailing the married Don with a recent one-night-stand, she has a secret affair with Henry, who works as researcher for the weekly authentic TV show "Crime of the Week", which Don writes for. When Henry fails to help her to a role, she insults him deadly... and ends up dead herself. Now Don desperately tries to hide his traces, but Henry sabotages his efforts and suggests he write the unsolved murder case for next week's show...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: suspense, crime, film noir, thriller, drama, murder, conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dark, biting satire of the television industry, focusing on an Ivy League educated black writer at a major network. Frustrated that his ideas for a "Cosby Show"-esque take on the black family have been rejected by network brass, he devises an outlandish scheme: reviving the minstrel show. This is the hook: Instead of white actors in black face, the show stars black actors in even blacker face. The show becomes an instant smash, but with the success also come repercussions for all involved.—N. Cognito <nobody@noplace>
Plot Keywords: satire, race, media, black comedy, social commentary, cultural critique, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An unsettling look at reality T.V. where a disturbing hit game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
Plot Keywords: drama, thriller, social satire, reality show, moral dilemma, media manipulation, dark side of humanity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentarian Rex (David Krumholtz) follows ruthless reality television producer Katy Courbet (Eva Mendes), a woman who will stop at nothing to revive the American Broadcasting Network's failing ratings -- and forward her own career. To the dismay of the government, Courbet approves a reality show that will become network television's first foray into snuff. In the first episode, contestants engage in a deadly game of Russian roulette for the chance at a multi-million-dollar cash prize.
Plot Keywords: reality show, gambling, moral dilemma, media ethics, survival game, social satire, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tony Hall is a student filmmaker. He is hypercritical about everything including his own work, even his own award winning experimental film, with most of his classmates recognizing that he is probably the most talented among them despite many of them not understanding his work. As with most student filmmakers, he relies on his friends - fellow classmates - in front of and behind the camera, those classmates including his current girlfriend, actress Melisse. Tony's arrogant my way or the highway places him at odds with some, especially one of the school's professors, Will Ames, who nonetheless does his job in providing the support that Tony may need to do his schoolwork and promote the work of the school's talent. Will does try to warn Melisse about the dangers of dating Tony, she and Will who used to date themselves. Tony's attitude also places him in the dichotomy of wanting that support but not wanting any of the strings that may go along with it. While Tony potentially may get some work at a studio through word of mouth of his film and on recommendation by Will, Tony embarks on a new project that is more process oriented than structured as he plans to cobble together disconnected footage he finds interesting. In that process, he begins to use what are largely considered unethical practices of filming real life situations without consent, and manipulating real life for his own purposes. The question then becomes if it gets to the point where, despite his talent, he may alienate all those around him upon who he still needs to rely.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, comedy, satire, show business, media, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !