Movies and TvShows featuring "aspiring-director" theme.

RKO 281 is a biographical drama that tells the story of the making of Orson Welles' iconic film 'Citizen Kane'. Set in the 1940s, the movie explores the challenges and controversies faced by Welles as he tries to make his mark in the film industry, while battling against media tycoon William Randolph Hearst.

Jigarthanda is a dark comedy film that revolves around a filmmaker, who is tasked with making a movie about a real-life gangster. As he delves deeper into the world of crime, he becomes entangled in a dangerous web of deceit and violence.

In 1975, a filmmaker agrees to collaborate on a film with a gangster who wishes to become a famous actor.

In the midst of their own personal struggles, a ghost-writer and an aspiring director navigate their way through life's uncertainties.

Kannaiyan, a struggling actor, steals a script written by Saravanan and gains fame. Saravanan decides to make another movie but faces a lot of challenges when he is forced to cast Kannaiyan.

Eusebio José Fernández López Reboredo Bergamín is a teenager in the 1960s whose dream is to be a movie director, but General Francisco Franco prohibited in 1964 all types of art. A coincidental encounter with another artist, named Antonio Mínguez, will change his life.

A wannabe film director becomes embroiled in a battle against the laws of time and space when his attempts to recreate the iconic black and white, photograph-only, time travel film, La Jetée, spiral out of control.

"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his movies for the next years. The movie shows rehearsals for his play "The Coffehouse" which also became a television-movie, and you can watch unique footage from the 19th Film-Festival in Berlin (1969) where "Love is Colder Than Death" were shown. As told in this documentary, his first feature-movie were given a cold shoulder by many of the journalists and visitors at the festival. You can in "End of the Commune" watch Fassbinder and actor Ulli Lommel walk out on stage after the opening of "Love is Colder than Death", while a man in the audience is shouting "Out with the director!". In this interesting documentary Fassbinder also talks a lot about his father which was a respectable doctor.