Best Movies about Movies

A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.

After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one?

Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.

An idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

The filming of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.

Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.

Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.

When a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, he enlists the help of a burnt out private investigator to prove his innocence.

As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp.

A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952).

After being mistaken for an actor, a New York thief is sent to Hollywood to train under a private eye for a potential movie role, but the duo are thrown together with a struggling actress into a murder mystery.

A director struggles to film a difficult, intimate sex scene between two actors who happen to hate each other.

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interactions between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.

The last days of Frankenstein (1931) director James Whale are explored.

When Sebastian, a pianist, and Mia, an actress, follow their passion and achieve success in their respective fields, they find themselves torn between their love for each other and their careers.

In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.