The Lives of Others (2006), Rome, Open City (1945), Forushande (2016), Mephisto (1981), Stage Door (1937), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Every Little Step (2008), Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Theatre Director movies.
Storyline: Real life proves to be just as dramatic off-screen as it does on it for aging Hollywood superstar Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) and her much younger lover, Peter Turner (Jamie Bell). As their mismatched romance waxes and wanes over time, events conspire to keep them in each other's lives even when it proves to be difficult and demanding. Ultimately, they find that they must each come to terms with whatever fate they face in the future whether they are together or apart.—AnonymousB
Plot Keywords: female nudity, topless female nudity, based on true story, nudity, sex, year 1979, based on real person ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Despite dissimilarities, two middle-school boys from one-child households (Jake and Tony) form a natural friendship when Jake moves with family into his recently deceased grandfather's Brooklyn apartment above the dress shop business of Tony's mother. Extrovert Tony plays soccer, desires to become an actor (like Jake's father) and is sociable, while introvert Jake likes to draw, build his portfolio and be somewhat reclusive. Their best friend status is challenged by Jake's parents inheriting ownership of the building where Tony's mother runs her dress business, asking for three times the rent she previously paid within the upscaling neighborhood. The boys retaliate with silence, but it will likely not be enough.—statmanjeff
Plot Keywords: best friend, father son relationship, eviction, death of grandfather, friendship, classroom, playing a video game ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: De-Lovely is an original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. In the film, Porter is looking back on his life as if it was one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and action onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits like "Anything Goes," "It's De-Lovely," and "Night and Day," Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated relationship with his wife and muse, Linda Lee Porter.
Plot Keywords: horse, death, death of wife, crying, costume, costume party, coffin ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A woman and three men. Nina, who's come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he's smitten. She also meets Paulot's flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot's jealous dismay, she's willing to sleep with Quentin, and wants Paulot's friendship. After a desperate act by Quentin, Nina and Paulot share a flat, but she still won't take him as a lover; instead, her energy goes into a production of "Romeo and Juliet" directed by a detached, intense man who becomes her father figure. Quentin's ghost taunts her, Paulot wants to end all contact, and the director plans to return to London. The art of the theater may be her only refuge.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: theatre director, female frontal nudity, male nudity, female rear nudity, female pubic hair, female masturbation, lust ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side-the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that day, Camille's mother, Ariane, meets up with her son in the park. The boys appears perturbed. He is leaning against a tree, eyes cast down. He says that now he wants to return to his "real home" and his "real mother."—GMeleJr
Plot Keywords: scantily clad female, seashell, beach, toy, face slap, liar, lie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue. He goes to the theatre, where he sees Amanda rehearsing a song, and the director thinks him an actor suited to play himself in the revue. He takes the part in order to see more of Amanda.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: assumed identity, mime, laughing, tutor, cameo appearance, reference to abraham lincoln, negotiation ...
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: rehearsal, mental illness, character name in title, role playing, play within a film, sweater, computer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there's no accounting for taste...
Plot Keywords: scheme, based on film, based on stage musical, audition, remake, playwright, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lil (Naomi Watts) and Roz (Robin Wright) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
Plot Keywords: female nudity, female star appears nude, forbidden love, extramarital affair, adultery, cowgirl sex position, older woman younger man relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Carmen Lowell is working on the backstage of a play at Yale. When the lead actress, her friend Julia, invites her to Vermont with her to work on a play with a professional cast, she decides to stay with her friends and her pregnant mother. However, she changes her mind after she finds that her friends will all leave for the summer: Lena Kaligaris will travel to a drawing course, Bridget Vreeland, who is in an existential crisis, missing her mother, will travel to an archaeological dig in Turkey, and Tibby Tomko-Rollins is working in a rental and still editing her documentary. Carmen grows a crush on the lead actor Ian, who convinces her to participate in an audition, and she is then invited by the director Bill Kerr to perform the lead female role. Later she finds the truth about the friendship of Julia. The broken-hearted Lena finds that Kostas has just married, and she dates the model of her drawing class. Bridget finds letters addressed to her from her grandmother that her father ...
Plot Keywords: video message, painting, sketching, single father, shakespeare play, full moon, sister sister relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man has the power to see the fate of missing people - with the exception of his own beloved wife.
Plot Keywords: kiss, marriage proposal, prediction, father son relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, shot in the head, gun held to one's head ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Victor, an out of work actor, tries to stop his ex-girlfriend, Sylvia, from marrying another man. When she refuses him, Victor is miraculously given a second chance to go back and correct the mistake which led to their break-up.—Lisa Dowling <redmezzo@earthlink.net>
Plot Keywords: repeated event, adultery, extramarital affair, blindfold, gym, writer, female nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.
Plot Keywords: infidelity, adultery, call girl, actress, crying woman, misunderstanding, police station ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Television director and producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work on their marriage, keep running afoul, and everything's threatened by their difficult male lead, Alan Rosenberg. Michael's best hope, as a husband and producer, is to step into the character that Alan has abandoned.
Plot Keywords: marriage, love, jealousy, husband wife relationship, coworker relationship, competition, casting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Screen luminaries Lauren Bacall, Anjelica Huston and Terence Stamp lead a stellar ensemble cast in this extraordinary, heartwarming rags-to-riches story set in 1930s England. A struggling young actress, a fledgling director and an ambitious playwright become embroiled in an emotional love triangle as they strive for recognition, fame and fortune in a world on the brink of World War II.
Plot Keywords: fainting, 1930s, aspiring actress, reading, book, cousin cousin relationship, band ...
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