Movies Like The Player (1992)

The Player is a 1992 comedy, drama, mystery, thriller film from Robert Altman with a MovieMagicScore of 7.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Day of the Locust and Sunset Boulevard.

Comedy Drama Mystery Thriller

The Day of the Locust

1975

Hollywood, 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 that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

6.4

MagicScore

Sunset Boulevard

1950

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

8.3

MagicScore

Trumbo

2015

The 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.

7.2

MagicScore

Mank

2020

1930s 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.

6.7

MagicScore

Swimming with Sharks

1994

Guy is a young film executive who's willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn, has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides to exact revenge on Buddy by kidnapping him and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment.

6.6

MagicScore

Contempt

1963

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

7.1

MagicScore

Curtiz

2019

Hollywood, 1942. The US government pressures Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who is about to finish shooting Casablanca, to accentuate the film's propaganda message in order to sway public opinion in favor of the country's intervention in the European war.

5.8

MagicScore

Alex in Wonderland

1970

Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, Alex seemingly has his choice of what his next project will be. As he makes the rounds both in the Hollywood community and European movie centers for ideas, he fantasizes about movie scenarios of those everyday situations he is in.

5.5

MagicScore

Behind the Screen

1916

During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio. Things get messy when the stagehands decide to go on strike.

6.5

MagicScore

#10

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

1955

Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.

6.1

MagicScore

#11

Barton Fink

1991

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

7.5

MagicScore

#12

Memory: The Origins of Alien

2019

The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious.

6.3

MagicScore

#13

The Front

1976

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

7.0

MagicScore

#14

In a Lonely Place

1950

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

7.6

MagicScore

#15

Film, Film, Film

1968

The trials and tribulations of putting a feature film together.

7.6

MagicScore

#16

Insomnia

2002

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

7.0

MagicScore

#17

Leaving Las Vegas

1995

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

7.3

MagicScore

#18

Love Lies Bleeding

2024

Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

6.6

MagicScore

#19

The Confession

1999

After his young son dies from the negligence at a hospital, Harry Fertig takes matters into his own hands and kills the doctor, nurse and clerk responsible. Slick lawyer Roy Bleakie, looking only to win a case and not caring of the matters involved, is asked by Fertig's boss to defend him. Shocked to hear that his client wants to plead guilty, the case causes Bleakie to question his own morals by defending an honorable man.

5.7

MagicScore

#20

Return to Horror High

1987

A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself...

5.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Player?

The top films similar to The Player by MovieMagicScore are The Day of the Locust (6.4), Sunset Boulevard (8.3), Trumbo (7.2). Each shares comedy/drama/mystery/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Player worth watching?

The Player holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.2/10 from 889 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is The Player?

The Player (1992) is a comedy, drama, mystery, thriller film directed by Robert Altman, starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Player?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more comedy recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Player

This ranked list pairs The Player (1992), a comedy and drama and mystery and thriller film from Robert Altman, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Tim Robbins take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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