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1. Tootsie (1982)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 114,742 | Gross: $177.20M
2. Seven Psychopaths (2012)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken
Votes: 274,039 | Gross: $15.02M
3. Withnail & I (1987)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1969, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.
Director: Bruce Robinson | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown
Votes: 47,925 | Gross: $1.54M
4. Jimmy Hollywood (1994)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A failing actor living in crime infested Los Angeles, frustrated with his career, decides to take the law into his own hands, and becomes the leader of a mock-vigilante group that videotapes criminals and turns them over to the police.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Joe Pesci, Christian Slater, Victoria Abril, Jason Beghe
Votes: 3,648 | Gross: $3.69M
5. What's Up Doc? (1950)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs' showbiz career is recounted from babyhood to stardom. Bugs and Elmer Fudd perform the title song.
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Dave Barry, Richard Bickenbach
Votes: 1,705
6. Oh Darling Yeh Hai India (1995)
160 min | Comedy
Miss India and an aspiring actor spend a night together roaming the streets of Mumbai and unwittingly clash paths with a megalomaniacal gangster planning to take over India.
Director: Ketan Mehta | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Deepa Sahi, Jaaved Jaaferi, Anupam Kher
Votes: 1,925
7. A Film with Me in It (2008)
89 min | Comedy, Thriller
A broke, jobless actor and a broke, jobless screenwriter set out to make a movie and then find that life starts imitating art.
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon | Stars: Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty, Keith Allen, Amy Huberman
Votes: 3,940
8. Blue Nude (1978)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rocco is a young Italian living in New York. He is desperate for a job and willing to do anything, including being in porn movies, just like his friend Lilly.
Director: Luigi Scattini | Stars: Gerardo Amato, Susan McBain, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Renato Romano
Votes: 104
9. Dudes in the 10th Century (2003)
130 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Bombay City lives in fear of a notorious thief who calls himself Chindi Chor, and steals whenever and whatever he desires without any regard to security, and police protection. When Ghoshal... See full summary »
Director: Imtiaz Punjabi | Stars: Paresh Rawal, Iqbal Khan, Anuj Sawhney, Gulshan Grover
Votes: 1,038
10. Into the Darkness (1986 Video)
91 min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
A bevy of beautiful models arrives on a tropical island for a photo shoot, but soon they are being killed off one by one.
Director: David Kent-Watson | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Ronald Lacey, Polly Jo Pleasence, John Saint Ryan
Votes: 81
11. Bloomers (1979– )
30 min | Comedy
A young actor, struggling with both his career and his neurotic girlfriend, gets a job in a florist's shop.
Stars: Richard Beckinsale, David Swift, Pat Gorman, Anna Calder-Marshall
Votes: 36
12. Das Lächeln der Frauen (2014 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama, Romance
A lector writes a book under a pseudonym and falls in love with the woman he wrote the book about. The book becomes a bestseller.
Director: Gregor Schnitzler | Stars: Melika Foroutan, Benjamin Sadler, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Armin Rohde
Votes: 127
13. Love You Thank You (2017)
27 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Lance relives the good and the bad in his past relationship to decide whether or not to see his ex-boyfriend, Adam, that night.
Director: Chad Hylton | Stars: Donovan Mendelovitz, Michael Nicolo, Tim Torre
Votes: 52
14. The Ellen and Ted Show
Comedy, Romance | Announced
A fringe theatre actress living hand-to-mouth is suddenly thrust into the national media spotlight when she becomes an unlikely hit on a vacuous reality show.
Stars: Sandra Bernhard, Michael Urie, Jeff Bryan Davis, William Miller
15. AppleBox (2011)
20 min | Short, Comedy
James Bronson is a Hollywood Mega Star. He's at the top of his game -- and the top of his box. A full apple box, to be exact. At the height of his stardom, an unfortunate mishap occurs and ... See full summary »
Director: Rick Page | Stars: James Madio, Ron Livingston, Rick Gomez, Frank John Hughes
Votes: 34
16. Hell Is a Place Called Hollywood (1950)
21 min | Short, Drama
A beauty queen called Sheila Anderson wins a part in a Hollywood motion picture. The film turns out to be a cheap nudie film, she is then shunned by the theatrical community and ends up ... See full summary »
Star: Sheila Anderson
Votes: 42
17. Sata lasissa (2013)
50 min | Drama
Stars: Jari Salmi, Toni Harjajärvi, Tommi Raitolehto, Minka Kuustonen
Votes: 23
18. Musíme se sejít (2016)
80 min | Comedy
Director: David Kral | Stars: Varhan Orchestrovich Bauer, Miroslav Bílek, Eva Decastelo, Arnost Frauenberg
Votes: 11
19. Laugh Your Blues Away (1942)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Mrs. Westerly (Isobel Elsom), a once-wealthy dowager, is determined to marry her son Jimmy Westerly (Douglas Drake) to Priscilla Conklin (Phyllis Kennedy), the daughter of wealthy Texas ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Jinx Falkenburg, Bert Gordon, Johnny Mitchell, Isobel Elsom
20. Show Business (1932)
20 min | Comedy, Short
The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Anita Garvin, Monte Collins
Votes: 152
21. Manhattan on the Beach (2000– )
26 min | Reality-TV
Manhattan on the Beach lifts the lid on the New York Hamptons: the US's most exclusive, most talked about and most outrageous holiday resort.
Stars: Daniel Reton, Ivan Wilzig
22. The Wrong Mr. Fox (1917)
Not Rated | 13 min | Comedy, Short
An unemployed actor is mistaken for the new preacher in a small town.
Director: Harry Jackson | Stars: Emma Littlefield, Victor Moore, Florence Slade, William Slade
Votes: 104
23.
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
Episode:
The Clampetts Are Overdrawn
(1963)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The Clampetts receive an overdraft from the bank intended for the deadbeat actor J.D. 'Jake' Clampett, while he gets their statement and starts to spend their money.
Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.
Votes: 123
24.
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
Episode:
The Clampetts Go Hollywood
(1963)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family
When Jake Clampett tells Jed he's his cousin, he's welcomed into the home and soon has everyone but Jed thinking about and dressing for a role in their next movie.
Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.
Votes: 108
25.
Land of the Giants (1968–1970)
Episode:
Comeback
(1969)
TV-G | 50 min | Sci-Fi
Some of them meet a suicidal actor who was once a great horror movie actor. He captures them and plans to offer them to a movie studio to use in a movie. After being turned away by every ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Stefan Arngrim, Don Marshall
Votes: 60
26.
Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode:
Corned Beef and Carnage
(1986)
TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jessica gets involved when her niece Victoria is believed to be connected to the murder of her lecherous boss.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Susan Anton, Warren Berlinger, Jeff Conaway
Votes: 434
27.
A Current Affair (1971– )
Episode:
Protest Pest
(2019)
30 min | News
Eric Serge Herbert is a self-proclaimed "full-time activist". Most people however see him as a pest, disrupting travel and causing commuter chaos. Herbert has been arrested five times for ... See full summary »
Stars: Tracy Grimshaw, Chris Allen
28.
Rebound (1952–1953)
Episode:
One Night Stand
(1952)
30 min | Drama, Mystery
An unemployed actor, stranded in a remote town in the Old West, decides to impersonate Wild Bill Hickok and discovers that Hickok's many enemies are convinced that he really is the notorious gunfighter.
Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Jean Dean, Joe Duval, Larry Johns, William F. Leicester