Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "amateur-filmmaker"

1. The Fabelmans (2022)

PG-13 | 151 min | Drama

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch

Votes: 117,135

2. Super 8 (2011)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

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

Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Elle Fanning, AJ Michalka, Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney

Votes: 367,709 | Gross: $127.00M

3. Love (2016–2018)

TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A program that follows a couple who must navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, and other things they were hoping to avoid.

Stars: Gillian Jacobs, Paul Rust, Claudia O'Doherty, Mike Mitchell

Votes: 46,045

4. Pink Flamingos (1972)

NC-17 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole

Votes: 27,929 | Gross: $0.18M

5. May (2002)

R | 93 min | Drama, Horror

A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.

Director: Lucky McKee | Stars: Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris, James Duval

Votes: 40,538 | Gross: $0.15M

6. Into the Storm (2014)

PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Storm trackers, thrill-seekers, and everyday townspeople document an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes touching down in the town of Silverton.

Director: Steven Quale | Stars: Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Matt Walsh, Max Deacon

Votes: 71,528 | Gross: $47.60M

7. Neon Maniacs (1986)

R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A group of teenagers in San Francisco discover a nest of homicidal monsters living in a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, but when they try to tell authorities, no one believes them.

Director: Joseph Mangine | Stars: Clyde Hayes, Leilani Sarelle, Donna Locke, Victor Brandt

Votes: 3,017

8. LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha (2010)

Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A video camcorder, a store security camera, and concealed cameras candidly expose lives in three loosely-linked tales.

Director: Dibakar Banerjee | Stars: Nushrratt Bharuccha, Anshuman Jha, Neha Chauhan, Rajkummar Rao

Votes: 6,123

9. A Quiet Place to Kill (I) (1970)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A troubled race-car driver plots to kill her ex-husband at the behest of his new wife, but their scheme quickly goes awry.

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Carroll Baker, Jean Sorel, Luis Dávila, Alberto Dalbés

Votes: 1,395

10. Arrebato (1979)

Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.

Director: Iván Zulueta | Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro

Votes: 3,397

11. The Last Movie Ever Made (2023)

95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

With the world about to end, Marshall convinces a group of friends and strangers to help finish the sci-fi movie he abandoned in high school.

Director: Nathan Blackwell | Stars: Adam Rini, Megan Hughes Rini, Craig Curtis, Dallas Teat

Votes: 34

12. Total Frat Movie (2016)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy

Three years after getting his fraternity revoked, Charlie and the remaining brothers must throw the greatest rush event to recruit a new pledge class and reinstate their frat.

Director: Warren P. Sonoda | Stars: Justin Deeley, Jamie Johnston, Steven Yaffee, Alex House

Votes: 931

13. Camera Buff (1979)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An ordinary factory worker buys a camera on the occasion of the birth of his child. The authorities order him to make documentaries about the factory's success. But his endeavor to be truthful leads him to opposition against censorship.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas, Stefan Czyzewski

Votes: 8,286

14. West Beirut (1998)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: ... See full summary »

Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Rami Doueiri, Naamar Sahli, Mohamad Chamas, Rola Al Amin

Votes: 4,861 | Gross: $0.34M

15. The Woman Chaser (1999)

R | 90 min | Comedy

Richard Hudson, an inveterate woman-chaser and gifted used car salesman, possesses a pimp's understanding of the ways in which women (and men) are most vulnerable - and justifies his seductions with a highly perverse logic.

Director: Robinson Devor | Stars: Patrick Warburton, Eugene Roche, Ron Morgan, Emily Newman

Votes: 714 | Gross: $0.11M

16. Love at First Hiccup (2009)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

A high school romantic comedy about freshman Victor who has contracted a case of Anya-itis, (acute and incurable love passion for high school senior Anja.) And why shouldn't he?

Director: Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg | Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Devon Werkheiser, Tania Verafield, Ken Luckey

Votes: 3,226

17. Watch Movie Free Online (2019)

45 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The local TV director present new low budget projects for help TV channel. But these projects are very strange and crazy.

Director: Sergey A. | Stars: Sergey A., Mykola Yeriomin, Ustarkhan Bekmurzaev

Votes: 163

18. A Lego Brickumentary (2014)

G | 93 min | Documentary

A look at the global culture and appeal of the LEGO building-block toys.

Directors: Kief Davidson, Daniel Junge | Stars: Jason Bateman, Jamie Berard, Bryan Bonahoom, Corey Burton

Votes: 2,226 | Gross: $0.10M

19. The Callback Queen (2013)

88 min | Comedy, Romance

In the cut-throat London film industry a vivacious actress chasing her big break struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of the director's advances.

Director: Graham Cantwell | Stars: Amy-Joyce Hastings, Mark Killeen, Seán T. Ó Meallaigh, Kate Braithwaite

Votes: 281

20. Promise Her Anything (1966)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

A young lady has been widowed and left with a baby son to bring up alone. She decides that the baby needs a father figure and decides to marry a psychologist. She hides her son with an ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Robert Cummings, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 621

21. Mistaken for Strangers (2013)

Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music

Tom Berninger chronicles his time spent on the road as a member of the tour crew for The National, the rock & roll band fronted by his brother, Matt.

Director: Tom Berninger | Stars: Tom Berninger, Matt Berninger, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf

Votes: 4,607 | Gross: $0.14M

22. Chasing Ghosts (I) (2014)

Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Lucas Simons, an 11 year-old filmmaker, is obsessed with death after the loss of his brother. When Lucas accidentally captures a mysterious presence in one of his films, he inadvertently ... See full summary »

Director: Joshua Shreve | Stars: Toby Nichols, Tim Meadows, Robyn Lively, W. Earl Brown

Votes: 418

23. To See the Sea (2014)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Tomas (12) gets a camera and begins making a film about his family. His enigmatic father (Ondrej Vetchý) works from home. By hiding a camera in his office, Tomas discovers that on Tuesdays ... See full summary »

Director: Jirí Mádl | Stars: Petr Simcák, Jan Marsál, Ondrej Vetchý, Lucie Trmíková

Votes: 328

24. Eclipse (1994)

95 min | Drama, Romance

A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.

Director: Jeremy Podeswa | Stars: Von Flores, John Gilbert, Pascale Montpetit, Manuel Aranguiz

Votes: 213 | Gross: $0.09M

25. Camping Fun (2020)

Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Crime, Horror

Four friends set out to a remote getaway in Texas, unaware that they are being trailed by a sinister cult.

Directors: Thomas Burke, David Eimer | Stars: Hailey Marmolejo, Bonnie Sturdivant, Thomas Burke, David Eimer

Votes: 56

26. Some Awesome Action Movies (Unas Buenas Peliculas de Acción) (2023)

90 min | Comedy

A comedic look at corruption, hypocrisy and greed in the film industry by two not very talented filmmakers.

Director: Luis Antonio Rodriguez | Stars: Héctor Soberón, Juan Carlos Casasola, Óscar Burgos, Juan Espinosa

27. Who Killed Mary Whats'ername? (1971)

PG | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of interest shown in the case by the police or ... See full summary »

Director: Ernest Pintoff | Stars: Red Buttons, Sylvia Miles, Alice Playten, Conrad Bain

Votes: 210

28. The Shells (2015)

Horror, Sci-Fi

Led by a madly enthusiastic director, a team of amateur filmmakers hole up in a former undercover DOD research facility to make a film about a dream researcher who disappeared while in the midst of a secret neurological experiment.

Director: Max Finneran | Stars: Anna Andresen, Sara Chase, Nick Fondulis, Nadia Gan

Votes: 35

29. Creepy As Fuck (2017–2021)

Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Online web series made up of independent chapters with horror stories.

Stars: Jac López, Daniel Lorenzo Herrera, Asier Tro, Eva Núñez Briasco

30. That One Summer (2005 Video)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

During a bittersweet reunion with his father Otis, Ted Garner recounts how he bonded with his own son by helping him make a film about the classic Native American legend, The Sleeping Bear. A heartwarming film for all ages.

Director: Richard Brauer | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Mike Sullivan, Debra Rich, Kevin Bulmann

Votes: 38

31. Un 4to. de Josué (2018)

TV-14 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

Josué, an eccentric high-school boy, sets out to win the heart of his classmate Martina before graduation.

Director: Gabriel Valencia | Stars: Ivan Aybar, Luis Felipe Fernandez, Criestela Gómez, Jeyson Gómez

Votes: 53

32. The Filmmaker (2010)

17 min | Short, Biography, Comedy

Mark is a filmmaker. He's head over heels in love with Jess but she thinks he's an idiot. She might be right. The Filmmaker follows Mark's laughable exploits in romance and moviemaking, ... See full summary »

Director: Marcello Fabrizi | Stars: James Barrow, Julia Billington, Steven Convery, Ande Cunningham

Votes: 9

33. Thus spoke Zarathustra (2019)

17 min | Short, Drama

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Director: Paul Miloslavsky | Stars: Roman Antonov, Vladimir Gorin, Evgeniy Kashtanov, Anastasiya Maltseva

Votes: 34

34. Te amo (made in Chile) (2001)

102 min | Drama

Sam returns to Chile from the USA after his parents divorce. Left with a sexually-abusive nanny, he makes friends with some other neglected kids: Isabel, whose mother suffers from ... See full summary »

Director: Sergio M. Castilla | Stars: Adrian Moskowicz, Daniela Ropert, Joshua Walker, Emiliana Araya

Votes: 219

35. Have You Forgotten What We Used to Play? (2010)

32 min | Short

Have You Forgotten What We Used to Play? tells the story of a childhood, of a friendship and of growing up. A young man returns to the village where he grew up and discovers that both he ... See full summary »

Director: Dmitriy Mayorov | Stars: Anvar Khalilulaev, Vladimir Balashov, Arseny Perov, Konstantin Nikitin

Votes: 46

36. The Magicians (2005)

90 min | Documentary

La doble vida del faquir (The magicians) returns to the scene of a school in the Catalan town of Sant Julià de Vilatorta where, in 1937, in the midst of civil war, a film-maker in hiding ... See full synopsis »

Directors: Elisabet Cabeza, Esteve Riambau | Stars: Joan Altamira, Xavier Bagué Bonfill, Jordi Bertran, Joaquim Jordà

Votes: 31

37. Film político (1974)

4 min | Short, Comedy

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Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Star: Pedro Almodóvar

Votes: 53

38. A Shadow on My Path (2004)

3 min | Short, Drama, Music

Proignant story of a father-daughter relationship, filmed in Super 8.

Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Nausicaa Bonnín, Sergi Rubió, Aida Ten, Irina Ten

Votes: 14

39. Knock (II) (2019)

4 min | Short, Horror, Thriller

Man in room hears the mysteriously knock.

Director: Nikita Kuznetsov | Stars: Denis Gazaryan, Nikita Kuznetsov

Votes: 22

40. Real to Reel: South Australians Turning the Camera on Themselves (2005)

55 min | Documentary, History

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Director: Martin Manning | Star: Jane Doyle

41. This movie was filmed accidentally (2020)

63 min | Documentary

In the period from 2013 to 2015, I accidentally shot this film, and now you will see this accident.

Director: Sergey A. | Stars: Sergey A., Anastasiya Punsh, Georgy Rashoev, Veta Veselova

Votes: 26

42. This Splendid Hobby of Ours: Amateur Filmmaking in South Australia (2007)

50 min | Documentary, Animation, History

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Director: Carly Turner | Stars: Lionel Williams, C.J. Mack, Rob McDade

43. Torrella, una vida pel cinema (1997)

110 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A brief and revealing account of the life and work of Catalonian filmmaker Josep Torrella. It examines his career as a filmmaker and writer, and also his personal life as a friend, husband, confidant and patriarch.

Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Josep Torrella, Josep Ache, Victorio Aguado, Juan Ainaud de Lasarte

44. Ghost Tour (2015 TV Short)

5 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy

Somewhere between superstition and science, there is another realm.The realm of Michael Mills.

Director: James Challis | Stars: Al Dales, Artin John, Teagan Mann

45. Zpívající pudrenka (1960)

77 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

Engineer Sodoma (Vladimír Hrubý) and his colleague Vera (Jana Stepánková) are busy making the last tests of their invention - a miniature radio-telephone which is built into a ... See full summary »

Director: Milan Vosmik | Stars: Václav Venhoda, Frantisek Maxián, Milan Livora, Martin Vackár

Votes: 25

46. Moscow we will lose (2019)

51 min | Documentary

2 days the author of the film spent in Moscow. He has filmed almost everything that happened on camera. How long every thing will live in real life?

Director: Sergey A. | Star: Sergey A.

Votes: 142

47. My Self Absorbed Documentary Project (2022)

11 min | Documentary, Short

After being tasked with creating a piece of work summarizing their filmmaking journey, 18 year old Lewis Bedford reflects on their history in film and video. Told using a mix of archive ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Bedford | Stars: Lewis Bedford, Cerys Jones, Arianne Robbins, Ben Spooner

48. CBS Summer Playhouse (1987–1989)
Episode: Curse of the Corn People (1989)

44 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

In Kansas, a group of friends in their 20s undertakes the making of a horror movie called Curse of the Corn People about a feminist zombie who stalks farmers, but things don't go as planned.

Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: John Terlesky, Danielle von Zerneck, Darren Dalton, Catherine Keener

Votes: 21

49. Generation Porn (2019)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2019)

46 min | Documentary

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Director: Charlie Slade | Stars: Anthony, Darrieal, Errol, Cindy Gallop

Votes: 6