Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.

Alex in Wonderland

1970

English

5.4

♡ 5

33%

Paul Mazursky Director

Ellen Burstyn as Beth Morrison

Angelo Rossitto as Fellini #1

Paul Mazursky as Hal Stern

Federico Fellini as Self

Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, Alex seemingly has his choice of what his next project will be. As he makes the rounds both in the Hollywood community and European movie centers for ideas, he fantasizes about movie scenarios of those everyday situations he is in.

Hollywood Ending

2002

English

6.5

♡ 12

47%

48%

blindness and impaired vision

Woody Allen Director

Marian Seldes as Alexandra

Neal Huff as Commercial A.D.

Téa Leoni as Ellie

Peter Gerety as Psychiatrist

Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val blinded by love when he opts for the reconnect? Is love blind when it comes to Ellie's staunch support? Literally and figuratively, the proof is the picture.

Pain and Glory

2019

Spanish

7.5

♡ 77

96%

Pedro Almodóvar Director

Penélope Cruz as Jacinta

Antonio Banderas as Salvador Mallo

Natalie Wood as Wilma Dean Loomis

Cecilia Roth as Zulema

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

Knight of Cups

2015

English

5.6

♡ 52

47%

Terrence Malick Director

Imogen Poots as Della

Natalie Portman as Elizabeth

Jason Clarke as Johnny

Christian Bale as Rick

Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily pain, and every encounter brings him closer to finding his place in the world.

Based on a True Story

2017

French

5.7

♡ 33

50%

35%

Action

based on novel or book

Roman Polanski Director

Emmanuelle Seigner as Delphine Dayrieux

Eva Green as Elle

Vincent Perez as François

Édith Le Merdy as La voisine

Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place, paralyzed by the idea of having to start writing again, she meets Elle, a young, attractive, intelligent, intuitive woman who seems to understand her better than anyone.

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