Struggling Artist Movies

Emmelyn, an aspiring actress living in East Los Angeles arrives at the crossroads of her morality while struggling to pay her dues...and her rent.

An art student faces an art block while deadlines are getting closer. Through her frustration, she's going to dive into the psychological issues that...

A passionate youngster who dreams of making it in the music industry is on the verge of losing his love. What will happen to his career and romance?

Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los...

In the last days of their tumultuous relationship Julian and Lara are confronted with a life changing event and now must bear the consequences.

A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.

A street painter meets a woman and asks to paint her. Two years later, the two are now a couple living together but struggle to get by. When the...

A struggling writer dumps a pregnant dancer for a well-off socialite. Later, he realizes his true feelings and opts to make amends.

For all intents and purposes, 2015 was seemingly a banner year for singer/songwriter Bobby Choy (aka Big Phony). His melodic and quiet songs had...

After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his...

Shifting market trends force the hand of a career artist into adopting a new style.

A comic and melancholic take on the struggling artist, shot on 35mm.

After she enters the United States illegally, 15-year-old Polish singer Katri Walenska finds herself under the wing of aspiring singer Terry Brennan....

A woman from rural Japan marries a struggling cartoonist in Tokyo. Their life is difficult before he finds success, but at least they're together.

Let's Make a Movie is the story of Cassie Thompson (Played by Hallie York), a college dropout and ex-film student who is tired of being disrespected...

A documentary film about cult director José María Zabalza. How he made pictures with very little money and was granted little...

Unsatisfied with her prospects following graduation, struggling artist Eleanor "Nell" Ross reflects on her life with her boyfriend over a game of...

A queer female artist struggles with her first major painting and its impending deadline. Concealing herself in her cluttered bedsit, she begins to...

A promising artist and a singer fall in love in college and get married against their families' wishes. The singer soon begins performing to support...

Julian has agreed to help Henry make his first film--but, on the day of shooting, Julian shows up having taken four tabs of LSD. Across the streets...