Movies like The Last Lear
If The Last Lear's mix of movie business and movie star stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Last Lear's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 · Directed by Robert Zemeckis · 104 min7.5
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Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her.
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The Artist
2011 · Directed by Michel Hazanavicius · 100 min7.4
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Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
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Babylon
2022 · Directed by Damien Chazelle · 189 min7.3
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A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the…
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Trumbo
2015 · Directed by Jay Roach · 124 min7.2
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The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
2019 · Directed by Xavier Dolan · 123 min6.9
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A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
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Mank
2020 · Directed by David Fincher · 132 min6.7
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1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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Hitchcock
2012 · Directed by Sacha Gervasi · 98 min6.6
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Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel "Psycho." When the studio refuses to back the picture,…