43 films match Millennium Actress

A documentary filmmaker tracks down a legendary and reclusive actress, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who vanished from the public eye decades earlier. As Chiyoko recounts her life story, her memories of her career—from playing a ninja to a revolutionary—seamlessly merge with the present. The film becomes a thrilling, time-bending journey through cinematic history and a lifelong pursuit of a mysterious man she briefly encountered in her youth.

Millennium after the Millennium is a new documentary focused on Chris Carter's landmark television series Millennium. Set twenty years after the show ended, we look back at what makes Millennium so enduring to fans and critics alike. (imdb)

A screwball romantic comedy about a successful sports writer married to a popular movie star with whom he's madly in love. The problem is everyone in Paris seems to be in love with her too. (Sony Pictures Classics)

A 10-minute film that shows him [Kuchar] at work with one of his actress students... (New York Times)

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub and photographed in a single take; the final sequence covers the marriage of James and Lilith, and Lilith's subsequent execution of her pimp, played by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. (imdb)

When Brandy decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she's carefully created crumbles around her. Actress is both a present tense portrait of a dying relationship and an exploration of a complicated woman, performing the role of herself as she faces the desires that exist outside of her home. (imdb)

Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seaman's spyglass to sell as she heads for New York City. (imdb)

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theater to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent. (imdb)

Ryuji Nagami's script mandates a fairly straightforward comedy of nonconformism and antisocial behavior, and also tends to lean too hard on its comic contrivances. Most of the film is low-key and digressive, and Naruse does some nice, relaxed character work with the supporting players, a few of whom are suspended between comic relief and villainy.... (Dan Sallitt)

In search of her unique voice, an aspiring actress infiltrates cinema history. As she traverses time, space, and gender, she shape-shifts through Hollywood's most iconic roles.

An actress (Alley, playing a version of herself) struggles to lose weight and revive her Hollywood career. (imdb)

A caring guy learns that dating his actress girlfriend is definitely NOT the wisest decision. (imdb)

Mrs. Youngwife has become stage struck. She purchases a book, "How to Become a Great Actress," and soon imagines she is ready for her debut. The husband tries in vain to bring her to her senses and follows her in disguise. He breaks up her first performance, thrashes a too ardent admirer and tells her he will get a divorce. She prefers to sacrifice her "art" to her darling hubby and peace reigns forever. (imdb)

A short for Vogue starring Kate Winslet.

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

The adventures of the three Brad brothers continue when Traian falls in love with Anabelle, a singer. He wants to marry her, not knowing that she is helping someone to rob a bank.

An evil general falls in love with an opera performer during the Chinese Revolution of 1949.

Framed by his enemies, Manbe finds himself imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. His only hope lies with his daughter Yuki who takes it upon herself to clear his name. A Great story, and a marvelous performance (as always!) by screen legend, Misora Hibari. (themoviedb)

The Running Actress is a 2017 South Korean comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring Moon So-ri. The feature consists of three separate short films made in the course of Moon's enrolment at Chung-Ang University. (wikipedia.org)