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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
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92 films tagged showbiz, showing 50
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2000 · Drama
A fifteen-year-old talks a music magazine into sending him on tour with a rising rock band in 1973, without mentioning how old he is. Warm and funny, and most of it happens on the bus.
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2025 · Comedy
On the opening night of Oklahoma! in 1943, the lyricist Lorenz Hart slips away to a Broadway bar and holds court, sore about the hit his old partner wrote without him. One room, and almost all talk.
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2025 · Comedy
A couple in New York end their marriage amicably and start working out how to live apart, and he begins turning up at open mic nights. Two people circling each other while trying to move on.
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2025 · Thriller
A pop star sunk in depression loses his voice on stage and walks off, then spends the night with a fan who has just set a house on fire. Loud, and it moves between concert stages and one long night.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
An improv teacher and two of her students are recruited by a London detective to play parts in small undercover stings, and turn out to be good enough to be sent further in. Broad comedy, and the tension is whether one of them breaks character.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Musical
The Jonas Brothers finish a European tour wanting to get home for Christmas, and Santa Claus curses them so they cannot until they sort out their differences. Songs, cameos and a long way round.
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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 · Drama
Sagar's whole life is organised around his devotion to a Telugu movie star, whose hundredth film is falling apart for want of money. Long and loud, and built around what fans do for the people they love.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Musical
Two rappers from Dundee cannot get anyone in the record industry to take them seriously, so they put on American accents and spend three years pretending to be from California. Based on what the pair actually did.
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2025 · Drama
An aspiring actress works at a military role-play site that stands in for a made-up country called Atropia, where soldiers rehearse a war. It is a satire, and it all happens inside the fake war.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Documentary
Four boys grow up in post-war Britain, find American blues and rock and roll, and end up in the same band. Archive footage and their own voices, and it stops after the first year.
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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 · Comedy
A viral brawl outside a boxer's house drags a washed-up actress back into the public eye, and a businesswoman challenges a Muay Thai champion to a fight. A Hong Kong comedy with a big cast and several stories at once.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
A webtoon artist whose spy series was panned is accused by the intelligence service when a real terrorist attack copies its plot. A broad Korean action comedy that moves fast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary about the singer Jeff Buckley, built from home footage, his own voice messages and interviews with his mother, his exes and the musicians who knew him. Mostly people remembering him.
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2025 · Science fiction
In a near-future America run by a television network, a blacklisted worker joins the show where runners are hunted for thirty days and have to film themselves daily. It moves at a sprint from there.
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2025 · Drama
In 1981 Bruce Springsteen comes off a sold-out tour, holes up in a rented house near his home town and records a demo album on a four-track in the bedroom. Mostly quiet: one man, a tape machine, and his father.
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2025 · Musical
Two Wisconsin performers meet as neighbours in the late 1980s, start a Neil Diamond tribute act together and fall in love while doing it. Based on a true story, and full of the songs.
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2025 · Comedy
An American actor stuck in Tokyo taking whatever work he can get joins an agency that hires people out to play family members and friends for strangers. It is a run of separate jobs, each a small story about someone else.
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2014 · Comedy
An actor known for playing a superhero two decades ago is directing and starring in a Broadway play, days from opening night. It is shot to look like one unbroken take and barely leaves the theatre.
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2025 · Comedy
Short of money for art school in Paris, a Texan signs up for a dating show she is told films there, and lands in Paris, Texas. She sets out to get eliminated fast, which goes about as well as you would expect.
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2025 · Comedy
Forty years on, the man who filmed Spinal Tap finds the band scattered into cheese shops and glue museums, and bound by an old contract to play one last show. A mockumentary, straight-faced throughout.
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2025 · Comedy
A film star trying to get his career back is abducted along with two others by a group who believe that sacrificing three people will save humanity. Played for laughs, with a big cast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Horror
A young journalist is one of six people invited to a reclusive pop star's Utah compound to hear his first album in thirty years, where the staff all belong to his following. The unease starts early and builds.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
A shop assistant in Los Angeles gets talking to a rising pop star who comes into the store, and within weeks he has quit his job to film the star's album campaign from inside his circle. It is tense rather than loud.
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2018 · Drama
The rise of Queen from a pub band to Live Aid, following Freddie Mercury from his first audition to the stadiums. Built around the songs, with the concerts staged at full length.
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2025 · Comedy
A Hollywood action star, typecast and out of work, flies to England expecting the West End and is cast as Buttons in a small-town panto of Cinderella. It is a Christmas comedy, and most of it is him stuck in a village theatre.
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2025 · Drama
The life of Brazilian singer Ney Matogrosso, from humble beginnings and a difficult father to the years when he was one of the most famous performers in the country. It moves through his career in stages, with the songs and the love affairs.
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2026 · Musical
Michael Jackson's life from the Jackson 5 rehearsing under their father in Gary, Indiana to the Bad tour twenty years later. It moves through the records and the tours, with the family arguments in between.
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2026 · Drama
A pop star three days from a comeback show drives to the English countryside to ask the designer she once cut out of her life to make her a dress. Mostly two people in a barn, working and arguing.
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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 · Comedy
An A-list actor back from five years of getting sober learns someone has a damaging video of him, and he has no idea what is on it. He goes round making amends with everyone he has wronged, one awkward visit at a time.
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2026 · Musical
A Dublin wedding singer plays a visiting pop star one of his own songs over a late night of drinking, then hears it everywhere six months later under somebody else's name. He sets out to prove he wrote it.
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2026 · Comedy
Two weeks before her wedding, a Kansas hairdresser catches her fiance with the celebrity off his free pass and leaves for a hairdressing convention in Los Angeles. She picks up the wrong briefcase there.
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2026 · Comedy
Three former male models, well past their modelling years, decide to start a band aimed at grown women, and go off to singing and dancing lessons to get there. Shot as a mockumentary, with the three of them playing versions of themselves.
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2026 · Drama
Garance is a French actress whose drinking is running her life, and the film follows the eight years she spends trying to change that. It stays with her the whole way.
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2026 · Documentary
Questlove's documentary on Earth, Wind & Fire, built around the band's founder Maurice White. It goes through the career and the mark the music left.
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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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2023 · Comedy
A mild biology professor finds he has started turning up in the dreams of strangers all over the world, doing nothing in particular. It plays as a comedy about sudden fame and gets darker as it goes.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2022 · Drama
The life of Elvis Presley, from a Memphis boyhood to the Las Vegas years, told by the manager who ran his career. Loud, fast-cut and packed with songs from start to finish.
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2019 · Drama
A young television actor lives in a motel with the father who manages him, a former rodeo clown out on parole. Written by the actor it is based on, and it cuts between him as a boy and as a wrecked adult.
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2013 · Drama
A folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village sleeps on other people's sofas, plays a set most nights, and cannot get a record to sell. A week of his life, mostly cold streets and a cat he cannot shake off.
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2019 · Drama
A clown-for-hire in a filthy 1980s city looks after his mother, takes seven kinds of pills and wants to do stand-up. The camera never leaves him, and it turns grim very early.
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2019 · Drama
Judy Garland arrives in London in 1968 for a run of sold-out shows, broke, worn out and thirty years past The Wizard of Oz. Mostly hotel rooms, dressing rooms and the stage.
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2025 · Animation
A K-pop girl group sell out arenas by day and hunt demons at night, until a rival boy band turns up with a suspiciously good debut. Animated, fast, and packed with full-length songs.
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2016 · Musical
A jazz pianist and an actress who keeps failing auditions meet in Los Angeles and push each other toward what they want. People sing and dance, and it runs across a year in the city.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Horror
A struggling late-night host books a Halloween special in 1977 with a parapsychologist and the girl she says came out of a satanic cult. Presented as the tape of that broadcast, near enough in real time.
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2021 · Comedy
A fifteen-year-old child actor in 1973 Los Angeles decides he is going to be with a woman ten years older, and the two of them drift in and out of each other's schemes. Loose and wandering, a run of episodes rather than a plot.
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2023 · Drama
The conductor Leonard Bernstein and the actress Felicia Montealegre meet at a party and stay married for decades while he keeps a separate life going. Long scenes of the two of them talking, with whole years skipped between.
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