Films like The Dresser
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage effo...
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The Dresser
Film · 2015 · also dramaOne fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sire...
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Film · 1994 · also dramaDorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
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The Country Girl
Film · 1954 · also dramaAn actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.
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The Boys in the Band
Film · 2020 · also dramaAt a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
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The Boys in the Band
Film · 1970 · also dramaHarold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, an unexpected guest show...
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Rocketman
Film · 2019 · also dramaThe story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
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Factory Girl
Film · 2006 · also dramaIn the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie...
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A Love Song for Bobby Long
Film · 2004 · also dramaA headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
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Sunset Boulevard
Film · 1950 · also dramaA hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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Requiem for a Heavyweight
Film · 1962 · also dramaAfter suffering a brutal defeat and being told he can no longer fight, 37-year-old, scar-ridden prizefighter Louis 'Mountain' Rivera struggles to find a new direction in...
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