THEME EXPLORATION

failed actors

12 films · 3 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Whisky
Whisky
2004 · Juan Pablo Rebella
It's Not the Time of My Life
It's Not the Time of My Life
2016 · Szabolcs Hajdu
A Dedicated Machine
A Dedicated Machine
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
After Liverpool
After Liverpool
1974 · Michael Haneke
Geuk-jang-jeon
Geuk-jang-jeon
2005 · Hong Sang-soo
Il Grido
Il Grido
1957 · Michelangelo Antonioni
Manhattan Cocktail
Manhattan Cocktail
1928 · Dorothy Arzner
Miracle of Flight
Miracle of Flight
1974 · Terry Gilliam
The End of the Day
The End of the Day
1939 · Julien Duvivier
Going! Going! Gosh!
Going! Going! Gosh!
1952 · Chuck Jones
Una confusión cotidiana
Una confusión cotidiana
1950 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
La vida inútil de Pito Pérez/The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
La vida inútil de Pito Pérez/The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
1970 · Roberto Gavaldón
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Billy Wilder Austria/USA

Sunset Boulevard is the definitive exploration of a failed silent film actress's psychological unraveling and delusion in Hollywood.

 Leigh Whannell United Kingdom

His films like Naked and Career Girls examine struggling performers and the emotional toll of failed ambitions with raw authenticity.

 François Truffaut France

Day for Night dissects the lives of failed and struggling actors within the microcosm of a film production with both humor and melancholy.