SimilarScreen
The Last Movie Star

The Last Movie Star

The best is yet to come.

20186.51h 44m

Overview

An aging screen icon gets lured into accepting an award at a rinky-dink film festival in Nashville, Tenn., sending him on a hilarious fish-out-of-water adventure and an unexpectedly poignant journey into his past.

Directed by Adam Rifkin
Written by Adam Rifkin
Produced by Neil Mandt, Gordon Whitener, Brian Cavallaro
0

Top Cast

Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds

Vic Edwards

Ariel Winter

Ariel Winter

Lil McDougal

Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase

Sonny

Clark Duke

Clark Duke

Doug McDougal

Ellar Coltrane

Ellar Coltrane

Shane McAvoy

Nikki Blonsky

Nikki Blonsky

Faith Cole

Kathleen Nolan

Kathleen Nolan

Claudia

Juston Street

Juston Street

Bjorn

Al-Jaleel Knox

Al-Jaleel Knox

Stuart Muckler

Will Buie Jr.

Will Buie Jr.

8 Yr Old Vic (uncredited)

Themes & Keywords

nostalgiaold manhollywoodnashville, tennessee

About The Last Movie Star

The Last Movie Star is a drama film released in 2018 exploring themes of nostalgia, old man, hollywood, nashville, tennessee. Directed by Adam Rifkin, it stars Burt Reynolds, Ariel Winter, Chevy Chase. An aging screen icon gets lured into accepting an award at a rinky-dink film festival in Nashville, Tenn., sending him on a hilarious fish-out-of-water adventure and an unexpectedly poignant journey into his past.

Movies Similar to The Last Movie Star

Discover titles like The Last Movie Star — ranked by similarity and community votes

We found 15 movies similar to The Last Movie Star

If you enjoyed The Last Movie Star, you'll love these handpicked recommendations. Each title below shares similar themes, tone, and storytelling style. Our algorithm analyzes genres, keywords, director filmography, and cast connections to find the closest matches. Whether you're looking for the same emotional depth, narrative structure, or visual style, these picks are curated to deliver the best viewing experience for fans of The Last Movie Star.

The Father
29% Match

The Father(2020)

Movie8.1/10

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

Gran Torino
28% Match

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

The Long Day Closes
27% Match

Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another day as he deals with his oppressive school environment and his burgeoning homosexuality.

The Day of the Locust
27% Match

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.

All About Eve
26% Match

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

Student Services
25% Match

Nineteen-year-old Laura is stressed by her first year at college when money worries distract her from her studies and so, desperate for cash, she answers an online advertisement for intimate companionship that leads her down a dangerous path.

Mank
25% Match

Mank(2020)

Movie6.7/10

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.

Babylon
24% Match

Babylon(2022)

Movie7.4/10

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

She Said
24% Match

She Said(2022)

Movie7.2/10

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

Past Lives
24% Match

Past Lives(2023)

Movie7.7/10

After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

I Saw the TV Glow
24% Match

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

Sight
24% Match

Sight(2024)

Movie6.2/10

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan in India, who was blinded by her stepmother, Wang must confront the trauma of living through the violent uprising in his youth, the Cultural Revolution.

The Majestic
23% Match

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.