Movies Like Lost in the Spotlight (2025)

Lost in the Spotlight is a 2025 comedy, drama film from Ernest Prakasa with a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Jay Kelly and I Love You, Daddy.

Comedy Drama

Jay Kelly

2025

Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting both his past and present, accompanied by his devoted manager, Ron.

6.1

MagicScore

I Love You, Daddy

2017

When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about how to handle the situation.

5.7

MagicScore

Falling in Love Like in Movies

2023

Bagus, a screenwriter, reunites with his high school friend and crush, Hana, who is still grieving from the loss of her husband. He wants to convince her to fall in love once again, just like in the movies.

8.6

MagicScore

In the Soup

1992

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

6.5

MagicScore

Benjamin

2019

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces him to a mesmeric French musician called Noah.

6.2

MagicScore

The Wild Party

1975

An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.

4.7

MagicScore

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

1957

To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.

6.7

MagicScore

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

The Loved One

1965

Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.

6.2

MagicScore

#10

Magical Nights

2018

Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.

6.1

MagicScore

#11

Two Weeks in Another Town

1962

After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.

5.9

MagicScore

#12

Meet Wally Sparks

1997

Wally Sparks is a tabloid TV show reporter who's trying to boost ratings on his show. He goes to the governor's mansion to uncover a sex scandal.

4.7

MagicScore

#13

Close-Up

1990

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

8.0

MagicScore

#14

My First Film

2024

A young filmmaker, Vita, revisits her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking 15 years prior. Shooting a semi-autobiographical film starring her friend Dina, Vita’s eager but inexperienced approach causes the production to spiral into chaos, leading to significant disruptions and a near-fatal accident.

7.1

MagicScore

#15

Tape

2001

Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support Jon on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping, it appears that there is an undercurrent of tension in the air.

6.9

MagicScore

#16

Rotting in the Sun

2023

A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him.

6.7

MagicScore

#17

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

2026

Handed the reins to resurrect a dying slasher franchise, an enthusiastic young director visits the original film's reclusive star, only to be dragged into a blood-soaked world of obsession, desire, and delirium.

6.7

MagicScore

#18

Being Maria

2024

A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as her big breakthrough quickly turns into a living hell.

6.4

MagicScore

#19

Oh, Canada

2024

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

5.8

MagicScore

#20

When the Screaming Starts

2021

When Norman Graysmith is invited into the home of an aspiring serial killer, Aidan Mendle, he believes he has the subject for the documentary that will make his career.

5.0

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Lost in the Spotlight?

The top films similar to Lost in the Spotlight by MovieMagicScore are Jay Kelly (6.1), I Love You, Daddy (5.7), Falling in Love Like in Movies (8.6). Each shares comedy/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Lost in the Spotlight worth watching?

Lost in the Spotlight holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10 from 6 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Lost in the Spotlight?

Lost in the Spotlight (2025) is a comedy, drama film directed by Ernest Prakasa, starring Vino G. Bastian, Dea Panendra, Agus Kuncoro.

Where can I find more recommendations like Lost in the Spotlight?

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About movies like Lost in the Spotlight

This ranked list pairs Lost in the Spotlight (2025), a comedy and drama film from Ernest Prakasa, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Vino G. Bastian 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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