backstage movies

A Chorus Line (1985)
6.2 / 10

Drama, Music

A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach. After the initial...

This Is It (2009)
7.175 / 10

Music, Documentary

A compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.

Noises Off... (1992)
7.1 / 10

Comedy

Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to control an eccentric group of stage actors. With a...

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
6.317 / 10

Drama, Comedy, Music

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country...

Her Smell (2019)
5.776 / 10

Drama, Music

A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.

Jenny Lamour (1947)
7.479 / 10

Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the...

The Country Girl (1954)
6.89 / 10

Drama

An ex-theater actor is given one more chance to star in a musical yet his alcoholism may prevent it from happening.

Movie Movie (1978)
6 / 10

Comedy

Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.

The Dresser (1983)
6.651 / 10

Drama

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He...

Exit Smiling (1926)
8 / 10

Comedy

The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's...

If the Shoe Fits (1990)
5.6 / 10

Comedy, Romance, TV Movie

A modern Cinderella in Paris: While the plain Kelly Carter works as a dresser for the famous fashion designer Francesco, she dreams of designing...

The Play House (1921)
6.821 / 10

Comedy, Fantasy

After waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.

The Last Call (2013)
5.4 / 10

Comedy, Drama

Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's “Caligula”...

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)
6.3 / 10

Drama

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling...

The Property Man (1914)
5.6 / 10

Comedy

Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is...

The Farmer's Daughter (1940)
5 / 10

Comedy

Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend,...

The Making of 'One from the Heart' (1982)
8 / 10

Documentary

A short documentary on the Francis Ford Coppola musical One From the Heart.

The Making of a Man (1911)
6.3 / 10

Drama

A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father...

Rainbow Over Broadway (1933)
4 / 10

Drama

Ex-vaudeville performer Trixie makes a come-back, and threatens to thwart the ambitions of her song-writing step-children, Bob and Judy.

Public Telephone (1980)
6.2 / 10

Music, Documentary