Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "film-school"

1. The Doors (1991)

R | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley

Votes: 99,263 | Gross: $35.18M

2. Scream 2 (1997)

R | 120 min | Horror, Mystery

Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jada Pinkett Smith

Votes: 210,104 | Gross: $101.36M

3. Step Up 3D (2010)

PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown.

Director: Jon M. Chu | Stars: Sharni Vinson, Rick Malambri, Adam Sevani, Alyson Stoner

Votes: 60,282 | Gross: $42.40M

4. Thesis (1996)

R | 125 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...

Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Xabier Elorriaga

Votes: 42,558

5. The Freshman (1990)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Crime

An N.Y.C. film school student accepts a job with a local mobster who resembles a famous cinema godfather and who takes the young man under his wing, after demanding total loyalty.

Director: Andrew Bergman | Stars: Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller

Votes: 22,066 | Gross: $21.46M

6. Vamps (2012)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance

Bloodsucking party girls (Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter) find their destinies at stake when one falls for the son of a vampire hunter and the other encounters a long-ago love.

Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter, Larry Wilmore, Bettina Bresnan

Votes: 11,150 | Gross: $0.00M

7. The Souvenir (2019)

R | 120 min | Drama, Romance

A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.

Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Neil Young, Tosin Cole, Jack McMullen, Frankie Wilson

Votes: 14,513 | Gross: $1.04M

8. Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery

A film school is the center of a fresh spate of killings based on urban legends.

Director: John Ottman | Stars: Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner, Loretta Devine

Votes: 18,979 | Gross: $21.47M

9. George Lucas in Love (1999)

8 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

1967 film student George Lucas has writer's block trying to finish his "Space Wheat" script, until a beautiful fellow student with a familiar hairstyle teaches him that the best stories are in plain sight.

Director: Joe Nussbaum | Stars: Martin Hynes, Lisa Jakub, Jason Peck, Jeff Wiens

Votes: 4,411

10. The Souvenir: Part II (2021)

R | 107 min | Drama, Romance

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.

Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Honor Swinton Byrne, James Spencer Ashworth, Alice McMillan

Votes: 4,315

11. Le divorce (2003)

PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her sister and French brother-in-law and niece in Paris.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Stockard Channing, Jean-Marie Lhomme

Votes: 12,095 | Gross: $9.07M

12. 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: 6,130

13. I Want Candy (2007)

R | 87 min | Comedy

Two film students with no experience nor money want to make a film. They can only get financing for a porn film with porn star Candy.

Director: Stephen Surjik | Stars: Tom Riley, Tom Burke, Carmen Electra, Eddie Marsan

Votes: 7,688

14. Better Call Saul: Filmmaker Training (2022)

TV-14 | Animation, Short, Comedy

The trio of brilliant craftspeople behind the famous Saul Goodman Productions advertisements is back to teach you some of the fundamentals of filmmaking.

Stars: Josh Fadem, Hayley Holmes, Julian Bonfiglio, Rhea Seehorn

Votes: 135

15. Stoker Hills (2020)

91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Three college students filming a horror movie find themselves trapped in their own worst nightmare. Their only hope for survival is two detectives who find the camera they left behind.

Director: Benjamin Louis | Stars: Tony Todd, Steffani Brass, David Gridley, Vince Hill-Bedford

Votes: 2,273

16. I Love Your Work (2003)

R | 111 min | Drama, Mystery

The film follows fictional movie star Gray Evans through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds... See full summary »

Director: Adam Goldberg | Stars: Marisa Coughlan, Judy Greer, Shalom Harlow, Jared Harris

Votes: 1,996 | Gross: $0.00M

17. Cut (I) (2000)

R | 82 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Years after the original director was killed during the filming of a low-budget thriller, a crew of film students set out to finish where she left off. When the filming begins, so too do the killings.

Director: Kimble Rendall | Stars: Molly Ringwald, Frank Roberts, Kylie Minogue, Geoff Revell

Votes: 3,769

18. Jacquot of Nantes (1991)

PG | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix

Votes: 2,007 | Gross: $0.15M

19. Man of Marble (1977)

160 min | Drama

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.

Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki

Votes: 4,789

20. Mama's Boy (2022)

TV-14 | 102 min | Documentary, Biography

Centers around the upbringing of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and how his close relationship with his mother led to and inspired his activism.

Director: Laurent Bouzereau | Stars: Paris Barclay, Dustin Lance Black, Tom Daley, Troy Williams

Votes: 496

21. De unge år: Erik Nietzsche sagaen del 1 (2007)

Not Rated | 91 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Erik wants to make films. He starts 1979 at the Danish Film School. The many written and unwritten rules give him difficulty fitting in.

Director: Jacob Thuesen | Stars: Jonatan Spang, David Dencik, Carl Martin Norén, Therese Damsgaard

Votes: 738

22. I Am a Sex Addict (2005)

Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Comedy, Romance

Autobiographical comedy about a recovering sex addict, about his obsession with prostitutes, and how that affected his relationships and his life altogether.

Director: Caveh Zahedi | Stars: Caveh Zahedi, Christoff Colas, Rebecca Lord, Lindsey Tjian

Votes: 3,372 | Gross: $0.11M

23. Bobby's Intermission (2023)

112 min | Comedy

A lone teenager's only hope of getting accepted into his dream film school is by seeking help from some unexpected new friends at the Vali-Hi Drive-In Theatre.

Director: Justin Atkinson | Stars: David Griffith, Paul S. Vang, Adriana Tokin, Rommy Romero

24. Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)

R | 78 min | Comedy, Romance

A day in the life of two film-school students trying to find love and another house-mate.

Director: Emma-Kate Croghan | Stars: Frances O'Connor, Alice Garner, Matt Day, Matthew Dyktynski

Votes: 2,075 | Gross: $0.21M

25. Reel 2 (2020)

104 min | Horror

After being convinced his first movie REEL wasn't a blockbuster success because it starred a man, director SlasherVictim666 makes it his personal mission to find the perfect woman to star in REEL 2.

Director: Chris Good Goodwin | Stars: Stephanie Jaskot, Octavia Kaliszak, Michael Lake, Tylan Essery

Votes: 59

26. Road Kill (1999)

R | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Film student, Alex and his roommate, art student, Lars, meet a young woman, named Blue, who's recently become a tenant in their building, with a niche profession; she's a hired assasin. ... See full summary »

Director: Matthew Leutwyler | Stars: Jennifer Rubin, Erik Palladino, Billy Jayne, Tony Denison

Votes: 293

27. Chhupam Chhaai (2016)

94 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

In a small town in the heart of India, six teenage friends who secretly run "Friends Private Detective Agency," encounter their most challenging case; a murder mystery.

Director: Pratik Mittal | Stars: Akshat Jain, Sanket Chauhan, Anshu Khatri, Purva Bhawsar

Votes: 94

28. Oh Crappy Day (2021)

83 min | Comedy, Romance

A young filmmaker hopes to find love through online dating -- if he can just keep his OCD on the down low.

Director: Jon Lance Bacon | Stars: Ashton Leigh, Rhys, Matt Gulbranson, Kayla Gibson

Votes: 84

29. The Auteur Theory (1999)

77 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

At an absurdly self-indulgent student film festival, the directors of the (mostly terrible) short films start getting killed off one by one and a budding British documentary filmmaker decides to investigate.

Director: Evan Oppenheimer | Stars: Alan Cox, Sean Gunn, Daniel Cantor, Armin Shimerman

Votes: 329

30. A Paris Education (2018)

137 min | Drama

Etienne comes to Paris from Lyon to study cinema, meets many new friends and falls under the thrall of the mysterious Mathias.

Director: Jean-Paul Civeyrac | Stars: Andranic Manet, Diane Rouxel, Jenna Thiam, Gonzague Van Bervesseles

Votes: 696 | Gross: $0.02M

31. 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

32. After Sunset, Dawn Arrives (2022)

Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama, Romance

A coming of age story about a Chinese man finds peace and self-acceptance at declining years.

Director: Andy Yi Li | Stars: Jesse Wang, Todd Lien, Austin Klopfenstein, Katie Chan

Votes: 25

33. The Lens Within Me

Drama | Announced

Plot kept under wraps; An original feature-length coming-of-age drama film with semi-autobiographical elements that's currently in the early screenwriting stages.

34. The Competition (2016)

Not Rated | 121 min | Documentary

An all-access tour behind the scenes at France's premiere film school, La Fémis.

Director: Claire Simon | Stars: Alain Bergala, Xanaë Bove, Emmanuel Chaumet, Claire Childeric

Votes: 361 | Gross: $0.02M

35. Madeline & Cooper (2018)

Not Rated | 56 min | Drama

Madeline and Cooper are college students living in the same building, but met outside a party house mile away. After an awkward attempt at sex, Madeline asks Cooper to stay over leading them to become friends over next 2 days.

Director: Cooper Raiff | Stars: Madeline Hill, Cooper Raiff, Will Youmans

Votes: 37

36. Artifact (2013)

Action, Adventure, Drama

Human's struggle to obtain ancient Artifacts that have been scattered throughout space.

Stars: Cesar D' La Torre, Rich Finley, Ksenia Valenti, Daniel Begus

Votes: 56

37. Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business (2020)

98 min | Documentary

Following five years in the life and career of an independent filmmaker, supported by dozens of interviews, posing one question: how does an indie filmmaker survive in the current film business?

Director: Justin McConnell | Stars: Chris Alexander, Dave Alexander, Chad Archibald, Charles Band

Votes: 239

38. Jane Campion, la femme cinéma (2022)

98 min | Documentary, Biography

Follows the story of Jane Campion, the first-ever woman to win the Palme d'Or in 1993.

Director: Julie Bertuccelli | Stars: Jane Campion, Kerry Fox, Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 53

39. Imago mortis (2009)

96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A series of strange murders take place in an European school of cinema and nobody, except the professors, seems to understand what's happening.

Director: Stefano Bessoni | Stars: Alberto Amarilla, Oona Chaplin, Leticia Dolera, Geraldine Chaplin

Votes: 895

40. Burning Soul (2016)

14 min | Short, Drama, History

Australia, June 1727, a ship from the Dutch East India Company wrecked on the hostile coast. Pieter and Hendrick are friends like brothers - they grew up together, sailed together, survived... See full summary »

Director: Cedric Desenfants | Stars: Teo Falck, Rasmus Hansen, Rasmus Callmer, Mal Bailey

Votes: 42

41. Life! Camera Action... (2012)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Family

A young girl in pursuit of her dreams of becoming a filmmaker against all odds.

Director: Rohit Gupta | Stars: Dipti Mehta, Shaheed K. Woods, Noor Naghmi, John Crann

Votes: 126

42. And the Wind Returneth (1992)

133 min | Biography, Drama

The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before leaving for Israel in 1971. The film intertwines chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of films by Mikhail Kalik.

Director: Mikhail Kalik | Stars: Alla Balter, Borislav Brondukov, Vladimir Valov, Emmanuil Vitorgan

Votes: 46

43. Diary for My Lovers (1987)

141 min | Biography, Drama

A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.

Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Ágnes Csere, Anna Polony, Mária Ronyecz

Votes: 324

44. The Money Shot (2007)

78 min | Comedy

Carmen has just graduated from her filmmaking course at university. Unable to find an outlet for her talents she decides to make a porno. After all, how hard can it be?

Directors: Anna Brownfield, Lance Petrie | Stars: Elizabeth Anderson, Fiv Antoniou, James Bridekirk, Sarah Brownfield

Votes: 25

45. Arise! The SubGenius Video (1992 Video)

80 min | Comedy, Documentary

A brain-crushing collage of music and video presented in the form of a religious recruitment video. The topics covered (in deadpan narration) are basic psychology, the origin of the human ... See full summary »

Directors: Cordt Holland, Douglass Smith | Stars: Seth Deitch, J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs, Juan Fava, Janor Hypercleats

Votes: 240

46. School of Horror (2007 Video)

Not Rated | 98 min | Horror, Thriller

How far would you go to become a movie star? Would you do anything? ...anything?

Director: Daniel Cayarga | Stars: Bobby Baldassari, George Yeager, Stephanie Bombara, Rich Colozzi

Votes: 86

47. The Robert Rodriguez Ten Minute Film School (1998 Video)

15 min | Documentary, Short

A masterclass on how to make a film on $7,000.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Robert Rodriguez, Carlos Gallardo, Juan Suarez

Votes: 438

48. Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1992)

Unrated | 48 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

In the year 1000, aliens from the planet Quetzalcoatl flee their dying planet and take refuge under the Earth's surface. Disturbed by 1950s American atomic testing, the aliens strike back ... See full summary »

Director: Craig Baldwin | Stars: Maurice Bishop, Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, John Foster Dulles

Votes: 373

49. How to Make a Film (2012)

Not Rated | 83 min | Thriller

Featuring the greatest array of film-making experts ever assembled; internationally acclaimed talent responsible for 33 Oscars, over $11 billion in Box Office, thousands of Film Festival awards and even a Nobel Peace Prize

Director: Alan Smithee | Stars: Chris Adams, Alki David, W. Paterson Ferns, Syd Field

50. Ein Mädchen! (2024)

14 min | Short, Comedy

On what is probably the worst Christmas Eve of her life, Christina finally wants to tell her dusty family that she has a steady girlfriend. She can already guess what is going to happen. And yet, she must make a momentous decision.

Directors: Lisanne Leuders, Luisa Teruel Delgado | Stars: Milena Arne Schedle, Doris Plenert, Silvana Synovia, Judith Jakob