Movies and TvShows featuring "acting-troupe" theme.

After their parents' death, three children are entrusted to their greedy cousin, Count Olaf, who plots to steal their fortune. The children escape his attempts to harm them and are sent to live with various guardians, but Olaf continues to pursue them.

The German innkeeper Susan, now leading an acting troupe, travels to Italy and uses feminine wiles to undo an assassination plot against Napoleon, and rescue a local count (a great romancer) from his own enemies.

In 18th-century France, a group of actors embarks on a journey to a lost castle while encountering various challenges and swashbuckling adventures. Their mission is to restore the ruined castle and please the powerful Baron, all while evading the pursuit of King Louis XIII.

In 17th-century France, a swordsman seeks revenge for his father's murder and disguises himself as a hunchbacked bookkeeper to infiltrate the Duke's chateau. Along the way, he encounters an acting troupe, befriends a street-child, and uncovers a clandestine marriage. As he gets closer to his target, he discovers a plot of betrayal and must engage in thrilling sword fights to achieve his revenge.

Set during the Greek Civil War, The Travelling Players follows a theater troupe as they navigate the complexities of love, betrayal, and political unrest in their performances. With historical events serving as a backdrop, the film delves into the personal lives of the characters, highlighting their struggles and desires. Through their art, the players defy the fascist regime and bring hope to the people.

Molly and Me is a delightful movie set in 1930s England. The story revolves around a young actress who joins an acting troupe and finds love and friendship along the way. With her father-son relationship, a step-mother-step-son relationship, and the challenges of being in a dog movie, Molly embarks on a journey of self-discovery and creates lifelong memories.

The Perils of Pauline follows the story of a young actress who overcomes obstacles and risks her life to become a famous movie star in Hollywood. She navigates through a tough garment industry, works in a sweatshop, and eventually joins an acting troupe. Along the way, she finds herself in perilous situations such as being bound and gagged and tied to railroad tracks. The movie also features a silent film star and includes a movie within a movie. It is a captivating drama filled with romance and comedy.

Captain Fracasse tells the story of a brave baron who joins an acting troupe and embarks on a swashbuckling adventure in 17th century France. Along the way, he encounters sword fights, swaps roles, and becomes entangled in the court of Louis XIII. Based on a novel, this movie combines action, adventure, and the thrill of the bourgeoisie.

In this stylish and offbeat black comedy, Benito ( Jerry Calà) keeps a diary of his sexual fantasies and cravings. As a result of his on-again, off-again relationship with the beautiful and insatiable Luigia (Sabrina Ferilli), his thoughts along these lines have grown increasingly bizarre. For his own part, he is driven to pick up and bed women at almost every opportunity. As the fantasies recorded in his diary consume more and more of his life, and grow darker and darker, his ordinary waking life becomes flatter and duller, until he disappears altogether.

In 'Family', a group of actors pretends to be a family in order to claim an inheritance. Chaos ensues as they struggle to keep up the charade.

The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in Venice and traveling in Europe, learning about commedia dell'arte and collecting the experiences that would become the Shakespeare plays. Shot in Venice, Verona, Mantua, Padua, and Brenta, the film ventures to actual sites De Vere visited in 1575-76, including the settings for THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, OTHELLO, ROMEO & JULIET, and TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. The film features renowned Shakespeare scholars, actors, and directors, including Sir Derek Jacobi, Mark Rylance, Tina Packer, and Diane Paulus, and argues that De Vere's bisexuality is the reason for the pseudonym Shake-speare.

When a local acting company decides to stage an updated version of an Egyptian ritual involving human sacrifice they inadvertently unleash a dark and evil force. A vengeful and gorgeous satanic priestess uses the unsuspecting acting troupe to recall the spirit of a fanatical cult leader who led his people to mass suicide. Suddenly the play becomes too real as the actors begin disappearing one by one and turning up again dead. Can one of them stop the hideous killings before they all become the victims of The Ritual of Death?

The son of an ailing nobleman returns to France to clear his name and prove where the true guilt lies.

Literary history's greatest mystery? Who created the greatest works of iambic thunder in the English language, and who lived the courtly life that is written about in the works of Shakespeare. An uneducated tradesman from Stratford?