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37 films tagged filmmaking
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2025 · Comedy
Four childhood friends with disappointing lives buy the rights to a film they loved and go to the Amazon to remake it cheaply themselves. Then a much bigger snake than the one they hired turns up.
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2025 · Drama
An American film director comes to Paris to work during Fashion Week, and is diagnosed with breast cancer while she is there. The film follows her through it.
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2012 · Thriller
With six US diplomats hiding in Tehran in 1979, a CIA man proposes to walk them out as the crew of a fake science fiction film. Half Hollywood comedy, half thriller that keeps tightening.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary about John Candy, from the Toronto sketch show that made him to the comedies that made him famous, told through home video and outtakes. Friends and family do most of the talking.
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2025 · Thriller
Egypt's most popular actor is pressured by the government into starring in a propaganda film about the president, and saying no costs him work straight away. It moves through meetings and quiet threats.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary written as a letter to David Cunio, an Israeli actor taken hostage on 7 October 2023. The director had once cast him in a film about a kidnapping, and builds this out of that old footage.
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2025 · Drama
An Italian director's film about the actor Carmelo Bene falls apart, and a friend puts everyone involved through a mock inquiry into what went wrong. It is a film about its own making, and mostly talk.
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2025 · Drama
A film director in Hong Kong, stuck with her script and arguing with her girlfriend, looks back on the women she loved at seventeen and at twenty-two. Three relationships, told in turn.
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2025 · Drama
On the set of a German film about the racist attacks of the nineties, a Quran is burned and every trace of it disappears. The assistant director asks what happened, and everyone tells her a different version.
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2025 · Drama
A single mother making a documentary about the lack of affection in her Barcelona neighbourhood ends up in a wheelchair after an accident, and old friends gather round. Adapted from a play, and it is mostly talk.
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2025 · Science fiction
In a future where people gave up dreaming in exchange for long life, a woman finds a creature who still dreams and gives him a projector to relive a century of past lives. Long segments, each its own world, and no straight line through it.
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2025 · Fantasy
A runaway teenager takes refuge in a 1970s film studio where an actress is shooting The Snow Queen, and cannot stop watching her. The two circle each other, and it moves slowly.
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2026 · Horror
A queer filmmaker hired to reboot the eighties slasher franchise she grew up on goes looking for the actress who played the original final girl. She finds her living on the abandoned campground where it was shot.
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2026 · Comedy
A pop star at the peak of her fame is pushed by her label into brand deals she cannot stand, and a director she did not choose takes over the film of her tour. It is shot as a fake documentary about the music business.
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2026 · Thriller
An actress comes back to her family's suite in a tower hotel as a strange mist swallows the city, bringing with it a killer in diamond gloves. Mostly the hotel, the film set, and her father's circle.
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2026 · Horror
A camera crew is sent back to a remote reservoir to reshoot footage that came out wrong, and the new recordings hold figures none of them remember seeing. The place turns out to have a past nobody will discuss.
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2026 · Drama
A celebrated director with a bad history offers the lead in his next film to the daughter he has not seen in thirteen years. Shooting in the desert puts them together all day, and the old wounds come up.
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2026 · Comedy
In 1982, a French actress close to collapse arrives in Rome to shoot a science-fiction film that may be her last. It is a film about making one, built as a tribute to old Italian cinema.
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2001 · Mystery
A woman with no memory after a crash on a Los Angeles road, and a bright new arrival in town who decides to help her find out who she is. It does not run on normal rules and does not explain itself.
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2022 · Horror
A brother and sister running their late father's horse ranch notice something in the sky above the valley and decide that filming it is the way out of their money troubles. Wide open country, long quiet stretches, then bursts of chaos.
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2019 · Drama
A fading television cowboy and his stunt double drive around Los Angeles in 1969 while the actress next door goes about her week. Long and loose, with very little plot for most of its length.
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2019 · Drama
An ageing Spanish director in constant pain stops working and goes back through the people he left behind: his mother, a first love, an actor he fell out with. Slow and warm, and built out of memories.
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1952 · Musical
A silent-film star has to make his first talking picture opposite a leading lady whose voice will not do, so the studio quietly dubs her. Made in 1952 about 1927, and it stops for a song often.
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2011 · Science fiction
A group of kids shooting a zombie movie on Super 8 film are filming at a railway station when a train comes off the tracks, and soldiers fill their town soon after. A summer-of-1979 adventure with the kids doing most of the work.
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2022 · Drama
A boy in postwar Arizona gets a camera and starts making films with his sisters and friends, while his mother and his father start wanting different lives. Long, warm and family-sized.
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2008 · Comedy
A war film shooting in Southeast Asia runs so far over budget that the director drops his spoiled cast in the jungle to shoot it guerrilla-style. Loud, rude, and stuffed with actors playing awful actors.
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2022 · Horror
A small crew drive out to a farm in 1979 Texas to shoot a dirty film in the barn, without telling the elderly couple who own the place what they are doing. Slow for a while, and then not.
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2002 · Comedy
A screenwriter hired to adapt a book about orchids cannot find the story in it, and writes himself into the script instead. It folds back on itself and keeps going.
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1988 · Drama
A film director remembers the Sicilian village where he grew up in a projection booth, taught by the man who ran the cinema. Warm, long and openly sentimental.
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2011 · Family
An orphan living in the walls of a Paris railway station keeps the clocks running and tries to finish the automaton his father left him. Turns into a history of early cinema.
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2001 · Animation
A documentary crew interviews a retired film star, and the interview keeps falling into her own films with the interviewers inside them. Cuts between eras without warning.
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2025 · Drama
The making of Breathless in Paris in 1959, with a director who has no script and a crew who cannot tell whether he is serious. Black and white, and light on its feet.
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1996 · Horror
A killer in a mask starts working through a California high school, and the victims all know the rules of horror films. Funny and frightening in the same scene.
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2025 · Drama
A film director comes back into his adult daughters' lives with a script about their grandmother and an American star already attached. Warm, funny and full of old grievances.
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2012 · Comedy
A blocked screenwriter's friends kidnap a gangster's dog, and his script about psychopaths starts happening around him. Very talkative and very violent.
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2012 · Documentary
Men who carried out mass killings in 1960s Indonesia, and were never punished, are invited to restage them as film scenes. They are pleased to be asked.
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2019 · Drama
A film student in early-eighties London begins a relationship with an older man who works, he says, at the Foreign Office. Slow, elliptical and told in fragments.
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