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The Congress (2013)
, 2h2Directed by Ari Folman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Animation
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about drugs, Films about television, Vieillesse, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Paul Giamatti, Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm, Frances Fisher, Danny Huston
Robin Wright plays a fictional version of herself, an aging actress with a reputation for being fickle and unreliable, so much so that nobody is willing to offer her roles. Her son, Aaron, suffers from Usher syndrome that is slowly destroying his sight and hearing. With the help of Dr. Barker (Paul Giamatti), Robin is barely able to stave off the worst effects of her son's decline. Robin agrees to sell the film rights to her digital image to Miramount Studios (a portmanteau of Miramax and Paramount) in exchange for a hefty sum and the promise to never act again. After her body is digitally scanned, the studio will be able to make films starring her, using only computer-generated characters.
The Den (2013)
, 1h21Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about films, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television
Actors Melanie Papalia, Bill Oberst Jr., Katija Pevec, Ron Bottitta, Kirk Bovill
The movie begins with Elizabeth logging into a social media site known as "The Den". It is revealed that she is doing this for a project and her goal is to chat with as many strangers as possible. However, things become grim when she starts a chat with someone whose webcam appears to be broken. After having random chats with her, the webcam somehow turns on and a woman is seen being murdered. Throughout this time, Elizabeth's account has also been continuously hacked however she does not realize this. Her friends try to convince her it is a hoax but she remains unconvinced. She asks a friend of hers to hack the account and find out where it is being operated from, but it ultimately doesn't work since the signal is coming from too many locations to be found. Though Elizabeth had contacted the police about the murder, they do not believe her and she remains helpless. Once her boyfriend mysteriously disappears, she panics and calls the police once again. They check his apartment but find it completely empty. Another one of Elizabeth's friends is then shown getting a message from Elizabeth (though it is obviously not actually Elizabeth, as she is with the police). The message tells her friend to come over and she is then shown to be abducted just like Elizabeth's boyfriend. Elizabeth becomes more and more frantic after receiving a message showing a close up of her sister's home and an unknown figure entering it. She calls her sister and tells her to leave, but is too late and her sister and her unborn baby's life is threatened. The attacker then leaves but later returns posing as a police officer. Elizabeth leaves with an officer and contacts her sister once she reaches her apartment to tell her that she will be back with her soon. As Elizabeth is packing she receives another message showing the head detective getting murdered and then another one of her and the inside of her apartment. She goes to open her closet where a hooded figure is, she stabs him repeatedly and flees from her apartment. To her dismay, she is attacked yet again. She later awakens in an unknown building and is chained to a wall. There is a computer in her room on which she receives a video of her boyfriend. He informs her that there are more of them and then is murdered. After overpowering another hooded man in her room she attempts to escape and realizes there are multiple attackers. After finally getting out of the building, she steals a car from one of the attackers but then crashes. Another woman is then seen on the same site Elizabeth was on. She comes across Elizabeth's account where she witnesses Elizabeth being murdered. The scene then cuts to a man putting his credit card number into a site to watch more videos of murders like Elizabeth's but quickly closes the browser when he is interrupted by his young son.
Real Life (1979)
, 1h39Directed by Albert Brooks
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about families, Films about television
Actors Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin, Dick Haynes, Frances Lee McCain, J. A. Preston, Dick Haymes
Ordinary family man Warren Yeager and his wife Jeannette are delighted to have a documentary filmmaker, Albert Brooks, choose them for a new cinematic and "scientific" experiment—he intends to capture every waking moment of their daily life on film. It is a project Brooks confidently announces to a large gathering, even greeting them with a song.
TerrorVision (1986)
, 1h25Directed by Ted Nicolaou
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about television, Comedy science fiction films, Comedy horror films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Chad Allen, Diane Franklin, Mary Woronov, Gerrit Graham, Bert Remsen, Jon Gries
On an alien planet named Pluton, an alien garbage disposal converts a monstrous mutant called a Hungry Beast into energy and beams it into space. Meanwhile on Earth, the Putterman family is getting satellite television, courtesy of a temperamental DIY antenna. The reception is poor at first, but suddenly strengthens when a bolt of the alien energy hits the dish.
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Elaine Stritch, Tina Fey, Cherry Jones, Nathan Lane, James Gandolfini, Alec Baldwin
The Last of Robin Hood (2013)
, 1h28Directed by Richard Glatzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors Dakota Fanning, Susan Sarandon, Kevin Kline, Patrick St. Esprit, Bryan Batt, Sean Flynn
Le célèbre acteur Errol Flynn entretient une liaison avec une mineure du nom de Beverly Aadland.
JCVD (2008)
, 1h36Directed by Mabrouk el Mechri
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Themes Films about television, Heist films
Actors Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-François Wolff, Anne Paulicevich
The film establishes Jean-Claude Van Damme playing himself as an out-of-luck actor. He is out of money; his agent cannot find him a decent production; and the judge in a custody battle is inclined to give custody of his daughter over to his ex-wife. His own daughter rejects him as a father, much to his chagrin. He returns to his childhood home of Schaarbeek in the Brussels capitol region, Belgium, where he is still considered a national icon.
The TV Set (2006)
, 1h28Directed by Jake Kasdan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about television
Actors David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer, Fran Kranz, Lindsay Sloane
Idealistic scriptwriter Mike Klein (Duchovny) tries to navigate his TV pilot through the mine-laden path of casting, production, and the madness of prime-time scheduling—all while trying to stay true to his vision. Along the way he has to juggle the agendas of headstrong network president Lenny (Weaver), volatile young stars, his pregnant wife Natalie (Bateman), and an ever-optimistic personal manager Alice (Greer), while suffering very serious back pain.
My Date with Drew (2005)
, 1h30Directed by Brian Herzlinger, Jon Gunn
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about television, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Brian Herzlinger, Drew Barrymore, Eric Roberts, Corey Feldman, Griffin Dunne, Samuel L. Jackson
Since he first saw E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as a child, he has had a crush on its star Drew Barrymore. Now, more than 20 years later, Herzlinger combines his passions for filmmaking and Drew Barrymore to document his quest for a date with the actress. With $1,100 he won at a game show (The winning answer being "Drew Barrymore") and a digital video camera, he has 30 days to complete his documentary before he has to return the camera under Circuit City's 30-Day Return Policy.
The Signal (2008)
, 1h43Directed by Jacob Gentry
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror comedy, Action, Horror
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films about television, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Political films, Comedy horror films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors A. J. Bowen, Justin Welborn, Anessa Ramsey, Sahr Ngaujah, Michael Wade
The film opens, showing that Mya is cheating on her husband Lewis with a man named Ben. Ben attempts to convince Mya to leave the city with him, but she remains noncommittal. As Mya exits, Ben turns the television on and watches a bizarre, psychedelic sequence of images. Mya begins to listen to a compact disc given to her by Ben, but she is menaced by men who are acting strangely in a parking garage. When she reaches her apartment building, she finds more people behaving strangely. Unknown to Mya, the Signal, a static-like interference that is coming through the television, radio and telephone amplifies each person's negative emotional traits, causing them to act irrationally and, in most cases, violently.
The Romancing Star II (1988)
, 1h42Directed by Wong Jing
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors Andy Lau, Eric Tsang, Stanley Fung, Natalis Chan, Lo Hoi-pang, Wong Jing
As a low-ranking director in Channel 9, Lau Pei's (Andy Lau) uncle, Ken Lau (Stanley Fung) owns a motor company with two employees Mocking Face (Eric Tsang) and Traffic Light (Natalis Chan), who have been yearning very much to become TV actors. With his wit and inborn gag talent, Pei turns the station's programmes tremendously vivid and colorful, bringing more and more audience turning to Channel 9. However this makes the boss of Channel 8 very angry, he orders to get back the audience by hooks or by crooks.
Man Bites Dog (1992)
, 1h35Directed by Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Gangster films
Actors Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Mariage
Ben is a witty, charismatic serial killer who holds forth at length about whatever comes to mind, be it the "craft" of murder, the failings of architecture, his own poetry, or classical music, which he plays with his girlfriend. A film crew joins him on his sadistic adventures, recording them for a fly on the wall documentary. Ben takes them to meet his family and friends while boasting of murdering many people at random and dumping their bodies in canals and quarries. The viewer witnesses these grisly killings in graphic detail.
, 1h20Directed by Jeff Garlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors Sarah Silverman, Bonnie Hunt, Jeff Garlin, Amy Sedaris, David Pasquesi, Phyllis Smith
Overweight, depressed improv actor James (Garlin) is a Second City cast member in Chicago. He lives with his mother and cheats on his diet. He quits his acting job on a sleazy television prank show, his girlfriend, Andrea, breaks up with him, and his agent, Herb, dumps him. When he visits his friend's daughter's elementary school for Career Day, he rambles about his problems, boring the kids, and embarrassing himself in front of the teacher, Stella (Hunt).
Pass the Ammo (1988)
, 1h33Directed by David Beaird
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Films about television
Actors Bill Paxton, Annie Potts, Tim Curry, Linda Kozlowski, Dennis Burkley, Anthony Geary
Curry is the Rev. Ray Porter, who runs a Pentecostal faith healing and televangelism empire based in Arkansas. A small group of stereotypical rednecks, one of whom was bilked out of her inheritance by Rev. Porter's ministry and another of whom just got out of prison, try to rob Porter's ministry. A series of wrong turns inside the church during the robbery leads the robbers onstage right in the middle of a broadcast, and the three robbers turn what was supposed to have been "just" a robbery into a hostage situation. During the hostage negotiations, a series of snowballing scandals involving the ministry come to light. The robbery, hostage taking, and scandal revelations are all broadcast live over satellite television as locals gather in bars to watch. Rev. Porter and the robbers develop a rapport during the hostage situation that resembles shop talk among thieves, as they discuss the best ways of investing stolen money. One comic subplot involves the Christian network's producer, a drug-addled electronics wizard named Stonewall who decorates his workspace with Pink Floyd posters, but was hired by the network because "he has found the Lord...he told us so himself." Another subplot involves a local sheriff, himself also an archetypal redneck whose duck hunting trip was interrupted by the incident, who seems to sympathize with the would-be robbers. The film is partly about his moral struggle in trying to enforce the law when his sympathies lie elsewhere. He just wants to see the situation end with nobody getting hurt, and butts heads with the network's owner and federal agents who demand harsher action. The owner of the satellite network, whose character is based on Jerry Falwell, demands that the National Guard be called in leading to a siege and climactic ending.
Seed (2006)
, 1h30Directed by Uwe Boll
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about films, Prison films, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, Serial killer films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Will Sanderson, Michael Paré, Ralf Moeller, Jodelle Ferland, Thea Gill, Don S. Davis
As a boy, a reclusive and antisocial Sufferton resident, Max Seed, was disfigured in a school bus crash that killed everyone else involved in it. In 1973, Seed began torturing and murdering people, filming some of his victims starving to death in his locked basement, and ultimately racking up a bodycount of 666. In 1979, Seed is arrested by Detective Matt Bishop in a siege that claims the lives of five of Bishop's fellow officers. Seed is sentenced to death by electric chair, and incarcerated on an island prison, where he is a model inmate, only acting out when he kills three guards who try to rape him.