Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "acting-audition"

51. The Night My Mother Killed My Father (2016)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Thriller

An actress ready for anything to recover her former glory. A crazy night where all is possible.

Director: Inés París | Stars: Belén Rueda, Diego Peretti, Eduard Fernández, María Pujalte

Votes: 1,571

52. Bangin' Vengeance! (2011)

Not Rated | 80 min | Horror, Romance, Thriller

Amber Rain would do anything to be a star but when her botched, bust-enhanced boobs start talking, she learns that the road to success is paved in blood.

Director: Richard Mogg | Stars: Paula Burrows, Laura Hope, Brian Steel, Victor Van Der Merwe

Votes: 46

53. Manuel (II) (2017)

95 min | Drama

Manuel, who is now eighteen years old, leaves the education center where he was placed five years before when his mother Veronica was jailed. Happy to feel free again, he has just one ... See full summary »

Director: Dario Albertini | Stars: Andrea Lattanzi, Francesca Antonelli, Giulia Gorietti, Raffaella Rea

Votes: 294

54. Audition (2005)

111 min | Drama

Forty-year old Louis is a loud-mouthed repo-man who has nurtured a lifelong dream of becoming a successful actor. Fortunately for Louis his cousin is a casting agent, and he soon learns ... See full summary »

Director: Luc Picard | Stars: Luc Picard, Suzanne Clément, Denis Bernard, Alexis Martin

Votes: 1,252

55. Shot List (2009)

69 min | Comedy, Drama

Doc is having a rough time, despite completing a new film; his cast has served drinks, and expect to celebrate in their hotel suite but he isn't talking; he's avoiding his girlfriend, Jane:... See full summary »

Director: Joe LiTrenta | Stars: Kate Dalton, Tom LiTrenta, Michael Nathanson, Samantha Jane Gurewitz

Votes: 57

56. Looo (2005)

6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A 3D Animated Short which gracefully mocks the 3D Italian world and it's subjection to the fully developed American Technology.

Director: Bruno Bozzetto | Star: Pietro Ghislandi

Votes: 34

57. Special Actors (2019)

119 min | Comedy

Kazuto has a lifelong dream of becoming an actor, but has been suffering from a special medical condition where he faints and collapses when he gets nervous.

Director: Shin'ichirô Ueda | Stars: Nozomi de Lencquesaing, Aver Hamilton II, Hiroki Kono, Hayate Masao

Votes: 489

58. The Mad Kings (2015)

100 min | Comedy, Drama

In Casteljaloux, a town in southwestern France, friendship, drunken nights, heat and tall tales set the pace of daily life. And here, men are Kings of the World. But when Jeannot gets out ... See full summary »

Director: Laurent Laffargue | Stars: Sergi López, Eric Cantona, Céline Sallette, Romane Bohringer

Votes: 119

59. My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves (2008)

136 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Riya lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Mumbai and works as an Assistant Director for a movie producer, Bharucha. After the passing of her mother, she is consoled by a young man, Anthony ... See full summary »

Director: Eeshwar Nivas | Stars: Nikhil Dwivedi, Amrita Rao, Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher

Votes: 518

60. Robo-G (2012)

111 min | Comedy, Drama

When some technicians with no knowledge of robotics are ordered to quickly design an advanced robot, they concoct a madcap plan to save their jobs.

Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Mickey Curtis, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Gaku Hamada, Chan Kawai

Votes: 800

61. The Invisible Woman (2009)

90 min | Comedy, Fantasy

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Director: Agathe Teyssier | Stars: Julie Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling, Micheline Dax, Éric Naggar

Votes: 159

62. Callback (I) (2016)

80 min | Drama, Thriller

Larry is an ardent evangelical Christian, lives in New York, works as a mover, and dreams of breaking into the world of commercial acting. As he seeks his big break, he argues with his boss... See full summary »

Director: Carles Torras | Stars: Martin Bacigalupo, Kathryn Kuhn, Alex Crow Reimers, Rigoberto Garcia

Votes: 219

63. Rebekah (1996)

Comedy

Rebecca is a struggling actress who ends up working as an assistant to a high class female pimp called Mandy. Shehas feelings for Rebecca, but has a secret that she cannot tell her.

Directors: Tin Yiu Ma, Wai-Chu Lee | Stars: Cammy Choi, Suet-Man Lee, Gwan Chin, Yuk Yin Siu

Votes: 49

64. Yours to Keep (1989)

72 min | Documentary

Follows the life of John Taylor, a young man with Down Syndrome, from graduating high school, his dream of being a disc jockey, to landing a major movie role.

Directors: Laurie Taylor-Williams, Merce Williams | Stars: Michael Biehn, Demi Moore, Bridgid Taylor, John Taylor

Votes: 30

65. Avanak Kuzenler (2008)

104 min | Comedy

Tankut, Serkan, Neco.. They are three ninny and saviors Melike.

Director: Oguzhan Tercan | Stars: Alp Kirsan, Yagmur Atacan, Pashan Yilmazel, Fatma Toptas

Votes: 901

66. Attente (I) (2005)

90 min | Drama

Before leaving to settle abroad, Ahmad accepts one last job. He must audition actors for the new National Palestinian Theatre. On the road with interviewer Bissan and her cameraman Loumir, ... See full summary »

Director: Rashid Masharawi | Stars: Areen Omari, Youssef Baroud, Abderrahman Abou El Qassem, Fouad Al Shomali

Votes: 196

67. Oldies But Goldies (2012)

Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Everybody needs to find some kind of motivation, a feeling that there is sense to his life. It is much harder to find this basic value when one gets older. Ota's (Radoslav Brzobohatý) act ... See full summary »

Director: Jirí Strach | Stars: Jirina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Ivan Trojan, Lenka Vlasáková

Votes: 112

68. Palomilla brava (1973)

60 min | Documentary

A documentary on casting the lead role of Ruiz's film Little White Dove (1992) which focuses on the actresses' attempts to conform to the stereotypes of the novel on which that film is based.

Director: Raúl Ruiz

69. Let asfaltoveho holuba (1991)

90 min | Drama

The story features two army buddies profiling two very different attitudes to life.

Director: Vlado Balco | Stars: Ondrej Vetchý, Roman Luknár, György Cserhalmi, Alena Procházková

Votes: 24

70. Gina, an Actress, Age 29 (2001)

22 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

A struggling young actress lands her first job...only to discover that her "part" is to lie to an assembly of factory workers to keep them from unionizing.

Director: Paul Harrill | Stars: Amy Leigh Hubbard, Frankie Faison, David Dwyer, Bonnie Gould

Votes: 100

71. Dianne Crittenden on 'the Thin Red Line' (2010 Video)

18 min | Documentary, Short

A look at the casting for Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line (1998).

Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Ben Chaplin, Dianne Crittenden, Crispin Glover

Votes: 15

72. Henry Rollins: Up for It (2001 Video)

60 min | Documentary, Comedy

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Director: John Cook | Star: Henry Rollins

Votes: 191

73. Audition (III) (2015)

5 min | Short, Drama

Being an aspiring actor isn't as glamorous as it seems.

Director: Adam Tyree | Stars: Bret Green, David Beier, Jake Brown

Votes: 41

74. A piedi nudi sul palco (2007)

Short, Comedy

This story is about an audition, those few minutes where an actor should show his attitudes for the role to a director. But quite often it's not a matter of attitudes or skill, more often the dynamics are unpredictables.

Director: Andrea Rovetta | Stars: Vanni Bramati, Cecilia Dazzi, Claudia Pastorelli

Votes: 12

75. Broadway Blogspot (2010– )

10 min | Documentary

Broadway Backstage Video Series (featuring interviews of people who work on Broadway on-stage or Behind-the-scenes on Broadway), The Glamorous Life Series Video Series (Videos Series for ... See full summary »

Stars: Marcus Conerly, Kimberly Faye Greenberg, Barry Livingston, Stanley Livingston

76. The Audition (VI) (2019)

9 min | Short, Drama | Completed

A female director sets up an audition for a film adaptation of 'the Tempest', to force the man who raped her in high school to confess.

Director: Joe Chen | Stars: Irina Kompa, Colette Bowen, Tim Shelton

77. Tommy's Extreme Decision (2018)

14 min | Short, Comedy

Tommy Domino is an outcast in his family. As he is about to graduate from high school, he has yet to choose a sport, even though he comes from a family of extreme sports enthusiasts and his... See full summary »

Director: Jeffery Bryant Moffitt | Stars: Alex Dean, Andrea Parton, Jason Carter, Wesley Huff

78. The Audition & the Competition (1998 Video)

35 min | Short, Adventure

Andrea is concerned that Eve might get a movie role she covets, so, at the audition, she grabs the buxom red-head and leaves her bound and gagged in the dressing room. Eve manages to ... See full summary »

Director: Chelsea Pfeiffer | Stars: Eve Ellis, Andrea Neal

79. My 89 Generation (2014)

63 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

This crowdsourcing documentary project tells the stories of 7 young Poles, all born after 1989, being on the threshhold of adulthood.

Director: Pawel Józwiak-Rodan | Stars: Jola Cora, Lukasz Czerniawski, Lukasz Grubski, Wojciech Jakubczyk

80. 1-800-Choices (2011)

20 min | Short, Comedy, Mystery

After being manipulated and degraded by a casting director, Tess is given dangerous advice by a fellow actor.

Director: Adam Goldhammer | Stars: Diana Bentley, John Gordon, Kristina Pesic, Bronwyn Szabo

81. Hollywood Photos of Katie Mills (2006)

13 min | Short, Drama

A young actress seeking movie fame considers a Faustian bargain with a photographer. Will she hold to her convictions or do whatever it takes to land the perfect role?

Director: Paul Tompkins | Stars: Sara Rae Foster, Shane Fuller

Votes: 15

82. Friends (1994–2004)
Episode: The One with Joey's Bag (1999)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Phoebe's grandmother dies, and Phoebe is shocked when her father turns up at the funeral. Meanwhile, Rachel gives Joey a "man's bag" for an audition, and Chandler is scared to tell Monica he doesn't like her massages.

Director: Gail Mancuso | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 4,801

83. Friends (1994–2004)
Episode: The One with the Fake Monica (1995)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Monica befriends the woman who stole her credit card. Ross is forced to give away Marcel. Joey tries to come up with a less ethnic-sounding stage name.

Director: Gail Mancuso | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 6,070

84. Goodnight Sweetheart (1993–2016)
Episode: Would You Like to Swing on a Star (1995)

Not Rated | 29 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Since Ron is unable to pay him for his fictional sales job, Gary finds an alternate way to earn some quick money. Gary decides to enter a talent contest in the hope of winning a gramophone for Phoebe.

Director: Robin Nash | Stars: Nicholas Lyndhurst, Dervla Kirwan, Michelle Holmes, Victor McGuire

Votes: 57

85. Johnny Bravo (1997–2004)
Episode: Auteur! Auteur!/Runaway Train/A Reject Runs Through It (2001)

TV-Y7 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Johnny directs a movie; Johnny gets on the wrong train; Johnny goes fishing.

Directors: Milkshake, Nathan Chew, Kirk Tingblad | Stars: Jeff Bennett, Robert Cait, Grey Griffin, Larry Drake

Votes: 87

86. Rude Awakening (1998–2001)
Episode: Star 80 Proof (2000)

TV-MA | Comedy

Billie gets a chance to get back into acting with an Emerald Bluff reunion movie but it's not easy when she gets coaxed into having a drink with her co-star. Dave becomes involved with Juanita, Milt's hot-headed boss.

Director: Ellen Gittelsohn | Stars: Sherilyn Fenn, Jonathan Penner, Roger E. Mosley, Lynn Redgrave

Votes: 11

87. That Girl (1966–1971)
Episode: When in Rome (1967)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Ann gets a part in an Italian movie and is thrilled until she finds out about her nude scene.

Director: Hal Cooper | Stars: Marlo Thomas, Ted Bessell, Francis Lederer, Carolan Daniels

Votes: 56

88. Friends (1994–2004)
Episode: The One with Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E. (2000)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Chandler forgets to write down a message for Joey when the time of his audition for the lead in a TV show is changed.

Director: Kevin Bright | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 4,949

89. Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (1998–2000)
Episode: Off-Off Broadway (1999)

Not Rated | 49 min | Documentary

Chronicles the struggles of actors trying to "break in" to the business in New York City.

Director: Geoffrey O'Connor | Stars: Louis Theroux, Erin Foley, Lisa Gold, Nicole Greenwood

Votes: 221

90. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959–1963)
Episode: Dobie Gillis, Boy Actor (1959)

TV-Y7 | 26 min | Comedy, Family

Dobie and Maynard conspire to get leading man Milton out of the way by opening night so his understudy Dobie can star opposite the lovely Annabelle in the school play, "Magnolias at Manassas: a Drama of the Civil War."

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, Warren Beatty, Anita Sands

Votes: 52

91. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.2847 (2004)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Michael Owen Morris | Stars: Kim Medcalf, Stephen Churchett, Michael Higgs, Leslie Grantham

92. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Homer the Whopper (2009)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

A Hollywood studio makes a movie based on Comic Book Guy's comic book character "Everyman," and Homer is cast in the lead. However, Homer's weight fluctuations cause problems for the production.

Directors: Mike B. Anderson, Lance Kramer | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 1,665

93. Skavlan (2009–2021)
Episode: Avsnitt 9 (2021)

61 min | Talk-Show

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Directors: Andreas J. Riiser, Daniel Jelinek | Stars: David Dencik, Nadia Nadim, Renate Reinsve, Fredrik Skavlan

94. Lip Service (2010–2012)
Episode: Episode #1.6 (2010)

TV-MA | 54 min | Drama

Following his exposure at the party Jay gets dumped by Becky but there is good news for Ed, who gets his first novel published and for Tess, who wins a lead role in a stage play and gets a ... See full summary »

Director: Julian Holmes | Stars: Ruta Gedmintas, Fiona Button, Heather Peace, Laura Fraser

Votes: 70

95. Big Time Rush (2009–2013)
Episode: Big Time School of Rocque (2010)

TV-G | 24 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Kendall, Carlos, James, and Logan are required to attend four hours at school. However, instead of going to school at the Palmwoods Hotel, which they all have their own fantasies about, ... See full summary »

Director: Savage Steve Holland | Stars: Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Carlos PenaVega, Logan Henderson

Votes: 197

96. Lip Service (2010–2012)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2010)

TV-MA | 54 min | Drama

Gay photographer Frankie Alan returns to her native Glasgow after a two year absence to be met by straight best friend Jay. Carol, the aunt who brought her up on her parents' deaths, has ... See full summary »

Director: John McKay | Stars: Ruta Gedmintas, India Wadsworth, Emun Elliott, Laura Fraser

Votes: 105

97. How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life) (2013)
Episode: How to Help the Needy (2013)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy

With Elaine feeling a bit uninteresting, Polly gets her an audition for a movie.

Director: Michael McDonald | Stars: Sarah Chalke, Elizabeth Perkins, Jon Dore, Rachel Eggleston

Votes: 38

98. Skoda lásky (2013– )
Episode: Prirozený talent (2014)

Comedy

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Director: Vít Karas | Stars: Jirí Langmajer, Eliska Krenková, Lucie Zednícková, Boris Hybner

Votes: 9

99. Marta a Vera (2014– )
Episode: Konkurz (2014)

29 min | Comedy

Imagine that you're presented with an opportunity to switch from a boring job to an interesting one. How will you cope?

Director: Jaroslav Fuit | Stars: Barbora Poláková, Sabina Remundová, Pavel Liska

100. Almost Royal (2014–2016)
Episode: Los Angeles (2014)

TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy

A very unconventional royal tour of America continues in Los Angeles. Distant heirs to the throne, siblings Georgie and Poppy Carlton are the latest Brits on the scene. After a bicycle ride... See full summary »

Director: Chris Faith | Stars: Ed Gamble, Amy Hoggart, Gemma Whelan, Christy Dooley

Votes: 46