The Best Movies About Becoming Famous
Vote up your favorite movies about a rise to fame; they do not necessarily have to show the fall.
Plenty of people want to be famous, and these movies about a rise to fame (ordered from best to worst by votes from movie fans like you) will show both the light and dark side of being famous. You'll find a lot of biopic films on this list that chronicle the rise and fall of many musicians, athletes, and celebrities. While several of these movies about fame are engrossing dramas, there are quite a few comedies, such as Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Private Parts starring Howard Stern. No matter if the movie makes you laugh or cry, hands down, these are the movies about achieving fame that you want to watch.
Vote up all the films you love and vote down the ones that you wish you never watched. Look for the Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Paramount+, HBO Max, and Netflix streaming buttons below each movie to stream them right now.
- Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin
- Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge
- Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee
- O'Shea Jackson, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell
- Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
- Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Jon Seda