Movies Like Billy & Bobby: The Hollywood Years
If you liked Billy & Bobby: The Hollywood Years (1998), a movie directed by Park Borchert, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Mank (2020)
★ 6.7/101930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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Lucy and Desi (2022)
★ 7.1/10Explore the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples in entertainment history. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz risked everything to be together.
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Show People (1928)
★ 7.1/10Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
★ 7.3/10Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star…
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Barton Fink (1991)
★ 7.5/10A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
★ 6.7/10At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what…
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Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
★ 7/10The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
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Bowfinger (1999)
★ 6.2/10On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a…
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Nickelodeon (1976)
★ 6/10In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business…
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The Day of the Locust (1975)
★ 6.4/10Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life…
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Punching Henry (2017)
★ 5.9/10Comedian Henry Phillips is lured to LA by a renowned TV producer who wants to bring his story of failure to the screen. But when a major network gets involved, Henry must decide whether he wants to make jokes for a…
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
★ 7.3/10Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try…
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Trumbo (2015)
★ 7.2/10The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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Babylon (2022)
★ 7.3/10A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the…
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That's What I Am (2011)
★ 6.8/10A coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol, a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior…
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The Invention of Lying (2009)
★ 6.2/10Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
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How to Irritate People (1969)
★ 6.6/10A pre-Monty Python mockumentary, written by and presented by John Cleese, that provides tips on learning how to irritate people.