Showbiz Dramas on Netflix
Last updated March 09, 2025
The Day of the Locust
1975 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsHollywood is where starry-eyed dreamers reach for the sun, and it's where many of them are scorched, too. This 1975 film made an impression for its portrayal of desperados who ache to make it big, but fail, in the entertainment industry of the 1930s.
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Me and Orson Welles
2008 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsThe story of a whirlwind week in 1937 NYC when a young aspiring actor (Zac Efron) is thrown into the middle of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the opening of Welles' historic staging of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
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Cold Souls
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsPaul Giamatti stars as himself, an actor in the throes of anxiety over an upcoming performance -- until he gives his soul to a mysterious company that promises to freeze and store it until he wants it again, along with his anxieties. But when his soul goes missing, Giamatti embarks on a journey to track it down. Along the way he learns a thing or two about engaging every human emotion, however difficult. Sophie Barthes directs.
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About Cherry
2012 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsDetermined to escape her past, 18-year-old Angelina moves to San Francisco, where she becomes Cherry, an innocent-but-sexy adult film star. Her provocative new life brings fame, money, and acquaintances who have a variety of motives.
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Dangerous Parking
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsThis drama based on a novel by Stuart Browne recounts the desperate life of film director Noah Arkwright (Peter Howett), a drug addict and alcoholic who's finally inspired to turn things around ... but is it too late? A fellow alcoholic (Rachael Stirling) persuades Noah to give sobriety a try, and his pal Ray (Sean Pertwee) helps him out, but it's Claire (Saffron Burrows), a bewitching cellist, who makes Noah really want to become a better man.
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Something in the Air
2012 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsGrowing up in the wake of France's civil crisis of May 1968, Gilles and his teen friends are determined to sustain the partisan passions of that era. But now it's 1971, and Gilles is also beginning to think more about his other aspirations in life.
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Khoya Khoya Chand
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsNikhat is an ingénue who sees her career leap from that of an extra to a leading lady; Zafar Ali Naqvi is a headstrong writer determined to make it in competitive Bollywood. Sparks fly when the writer steals the young starlet from a rival.
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Saaz
1997 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsAfter moving to Mumbai, two loving sisters with a passion for song let ambition come between them as they try to make it in the music industry. Can they repair their relationship or will rivalry win out?
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Superstar
2012 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsMartin's on his way to work one morning when people begin mobbing him and trying to get his picture. The only trouble is, he doesn't know why. As the media closes in, Martin starts to realize that his fame may come from his very desire to avoid it.
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Abohomaan
2009 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsAniket, a filmmaker, and Deepti, an actress, are happily married. But trouble brews when Aniket auditions a young starlet who bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife when she was younger.
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Live!
2007 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsAcademy Award-winning documentarian Bill Guttentag tries his hand at fiction with this provocative satire, an outrageous indictment of ambition, excess, opportunism and the draw of reality television. Under pressure to come up with a hit, a power-hungry TV executive (Eva Mendes) pitches a deadly game of Russian roulette, where contestants vie for the chance to point a loaded gun at their heads and pull the trigger. And the best part? It's live.
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Crew 2 Crew
2012 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsIn this drama based on true events, Lucas Santoro finally gets his big break and travels the world with a break dancing troupe. But as his star rises, he must choose between his dreams of fame and his hometown girlfriend and family.
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Reality
2012 | NR | 2.5 out of 5 StarsJovial fishmonger and small-time con artist Luciano hopes to enrich his humble family by participating in the Italian version of "Big Brother," but his obsession with appearing to be an ideal contestant soon has his family doubting his sanity.
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Nine
2009 | NR | 2.5 out of 5 StarsFilm director Guido Contini faces a midlife crisis and struggles to complete his latest movie while juggling relationships with several women -- including his wife, his mistress and his mother -- in this musical based on the Broadway smash.
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Corroboree
2007 | NR | 2.2 out of 5 StarsIn his feature film debut, writer-director Ben Hackworth unfurls an experimental tale about an ailing director (Ian Scott) who hires a young actor (Conor O'Hanlon) to play out the most important scenes in his life, all with help from an all-female supporting cast. Each woman takes on the role of a pivotal presence in the director's subconscious, from his mother to a woman he slept with to the doctor who treated his illness.
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