Films about theatre, ranked

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Set in the 1880s, chronicles how during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.

A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.

A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.

After many flops, a theatrical producer decides to stage a former hit, "O Mistério de Irma Vap," but he faces many problems to find the right actors and get the necessary permissions.

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.

Unfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes. Noah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.

A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s U.S., focusing on a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.

A man futilely struggles to make his fortune with a frog that sings and dances, but only when it is alone with the owner.

Six tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a traveling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train and a perverse pair of bounty hunters.

Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.

Two underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.

Paulo has a strange relationship with his cousin Sônia, whom he loves since childhood. But she despises him and, being in love with another woman, causes a lot of humiliating situations to him.

During the military regime, a theater director and his group of young actors rehearse a play about cangaceiro Lampião, comparing him to Jesus Christ. Two of the actors, Leo and Bia, fall in love amidst a tense and confusing political/social background.

A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.

The world's greatest-ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas, and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

The Divine Divas are the icons of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists in the 1960's. One of the first stages to host men dressed as women was the Rival Theatre, ran by Américo Leal, the director's grandfather. The film shows the intimacy, the talent and the stories of a generation that revolutionized the sexual behavior and defied the moral of a time.