Movies Similar to Dressed to Kill: An Appreciation by Keith Gordon

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder(2017)

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb mind who had ten commandments, of which the first nine were: “Thou shalt not bore.”

7.3

Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer(2006)

Documentary about the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), and particularly focusing on the many edits and cut scenes that were made before the film's release.

0.0

Blow Up of 'Blow-Up'(2016)

Documentary about Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film.

6.0

Sexo en el plató(2007)

How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk about the most intimate side of acting, about the tricks and work methods when narrating exposed sex. In Spain the general rule is that there are no rules. Each film, each interpreter, faces it in very different ways.

5.8

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse(1991)

A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

7.9

Salò: Yesterday and Today(2002)

A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Ninetto Davoli.

5.0

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The Lost Body of Alibech(2005)

Documentary about a lost sequence from Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1971 film "The Decameron".

0.0

Kieslowski: Dialogue(1991)

Documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieślowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from the set of The Double Life of Véronique

7.0

The Movie That Wouldn't Die! – The 'Carnival of Souls' Story(1998)

Documentary about the making of the 1962 cult film "Carnival of Souls".

0.0

Moving Through Time: Fire Walk With Me Memories(2014)

Documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

0.0

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On Life On-screen: Miseries and Splendour of a Monarch(2010)

A documentary on the collaboration of filmmaker Sacha Guitry and actor Michel Simon focusing on the film "La Poison" (1951).

0.0

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'(2001)

A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

6.8

Souvenirs d'Othello(1995)

Actress Suzanne Cloutier is interviewed about "Othello", Orson Welles' masterpiece, in which she played Desdemona.

0.0

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Comrades in Dreams(2006)

Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional love for their cinemas, somewhere at the end of the world. Comrades in Dreams brings together six cinema makers from North Korea, America, India and Africa and follows their efforts to make their audiences dream every night.

7.2

Ciné regards: Jacques Tourneur(1978)

Interview with film director Jacques Tourneur which first appeared on the French television series "Ciné regards".

5.2

Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of(2012)

Documentary about the work of film director Michael Curtiz.

6.7

Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer(1990)

Documentary about the life and work of film director Preston Sturges.

6.0

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Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte(2008)

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

6.3

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn(2007)

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in front of the camera - either making movies or filling the newsreels and gossip magazines. Tragically he was dead from the effects of drugs and alcohol by the time he was only 50 & the myths live on. But there is another side of Flynn that is less well known - his ambitions to be a serious writer and newspaper correspondent, his documentary films and his interest in the Spanish Civil War and Castro's Cuba

9.0

Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing(2004)

A comprehensive 12-part documentary on the making of "Spider-Man 2," covering everything from pre-production to premiere.

6.7