Looking for something else?
India
Looking for something else?
The Dresser backdrop
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 81 ratings · 6 Dec 1983 · English · 1h 58m · Released
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Not available to stream on subscription platforms.
Rent on
Apple TV Store
Amazon VideoBuy on
Apple TV StoreCast
The Dresser
Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 31 Oct 2015 · English
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? The Dresser is a wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty as Sir reflects on his lifelong accomplishments and seeks to reconcile his turbulent friendships with those in his employ before the final curtain.
54
Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 28 Aug 1998 · English
When the mastermind behind New York's infamous Studio 54 disco plucks young Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, he not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar — and a front-row ticket to the most legendary party on the planet!
Rocketman
Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 17 May 2019 · English
The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
Factory Girl
Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 29 Dec 2006 · English
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic musician, who pushes her to seek independence from the artist and the milieu.
The Boys in the Band
Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 30 Sept 2020 · English
At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 7 Sept 1994 · English
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 2 Sept 2004 · English
A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
Valentino
Movie · 5.8 / 10 · 7 Sept 1977 · English
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.
Sunset Boulevard
Movie · 8.3 / 10 · 10 Aug 1950 · English
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
The Riot Club
Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 19 Sept 2014 · English
Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.
The Master
Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 14 Sept 2012 · English
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 19 Oct 1977 · English
A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.
