Movies and TvShows featuring "play-director" theme.

Smash is a drama TV show that follows the journey of a diverse group of people involved in the production of a new Broadway musical. It explores the challenges they face in their personal and professional lives, as well as the competitiveness and rivalries that arise in the theater industry.

A woman tries to uncover the mysteries of an abandoned hospital while suffering from insomnia and hallucinations.

Venus in Fur is a drama film based on the play by David Ives. The story revolves around a playwright-director who is searching for an actress to play the lead role in his adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs. As he auditions actresses, he becomes intrigued by a mysterious and seductive woman who seems to embody the character perfectly. The audition quickly turns into a power game of seduction and dominance, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.

Noises Off... is a hilarious comedy about a theater troupe attempting to rehearse and perform a play. As they struggle with forgotten lines, backstage romances, and personal conflicts, chaos ensues and the performance becomes an absolute disaster.

After a man becomes increasingly disturbed, he takes hostages in a house and ends up murdering his own mother. As the police investigate, they discover the man's strange obsession with a sword and his involvement in a surreal play. Based on a true story.

Stage Fright is set in a summer camp for performing arts where a slasher masked killer hunts down the cast of a musical play. The story unfolds as the mystery killer terrorizes the camp and the characters try to survive. Comedy, horror, and musical elements are blended together to create an entertaining and thrilling experience.

The Barkleys of Broadway tells the story of a dance team who face challenges in their marriage and professional lives. When the wife wants to pursue a career as a serious stage actress, the husband struggles with their separation. As they navigate the world of Broadway, they must reconcile their differences and find a way to come back together as a husband-wife team.

A theater play director is haunted by childhood trauma, including matricide and a tragic incident on a stormy night, leading to a series of nightmares. As he prepares for opening night, he becomes increasingly paranoid and suspects that someone is out to get him. The film features gore, suspenseful chase scenes, and brutal murders.

Cloaca is a dark comedy drama that revolves around four college friends who reunite after many years and confront their past. The story explores themes of friendship, betrayal, and redemption as the characters navigate through their conflicting emotions and hidden secrets.

A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.

Unicorn City is a comedy and romance movie about a socially awkward geek named Voss who dreams of creating his own fantasy city called Unicorn City. Voss is obsessed with a card game called Unicorn City and spends most of his time playing and recruiting his friends to join him. In order to prove himself to his potential employer, Voss pretends to have a girlfriend and creates an imaginary Unicorn City. As things start getting out of hand, Voss has to find a way to keep his fantasy world a secret while also balancing his real and imaginary worlds.

Four beauty pageant contestants, who are vying for the coveted title of "Miss Manila Sunshine", set sail on a yacht. They ended up stranded on a deserted island after their vessel got caught up on fire. Together with an attractive young man, a maid and the gay pageant director, the four ladies found life "anything but dull".

A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.

Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.

Norman Lloyd directed this televised production of Jean Renoir's World War II-era play. Taking place backstage at a theatrical performance in Nazi-occupied France, Carola is a tale of passion and intrigue that involves a beautiful stage actress and her emotional and psychological struggles over a Nazi officer, whom she is entangled in an affair with, and a Resistance leader whom she is hiding. Featuring Leslie Caron as Carola, the play also stars Mel Ferrer, Albert Paulsen, Michael Sacks, Carmen Zapata, and Anthony Zerbe.

A Spanish theatre company is rehearsing Shakespeare in the original style using young men to play the women's roles. Complicating their endeavors is the previously straight director's infatuation the new young man whose charming everyone except the slightly older young man who he's replacing. When the young man on the way out decides to settle the score with the young man on the way up, he draws on what he's learned in the theatre. Enter Iago.