20 Best Movies About The Movies Of All Time
3. Cinema Paradiso
No film has ever captured the pure magic of the movies quite like Cinema Paradiso. Toto is a successful filmmaker who recalls his childhood in a small secluded village where he developed a close bond with a theatre projectionist and fell in love with the art of the cinema.
The film is beautiful and sentimental and shows so brilliantly what a movie on the big screen can do to affect a person of any age watching it. Toto's friendship with projectionist Alfredo is sweet and heart-warming and especially well developed. You feel close to these characters as Alfredo teaches Toto about the cinema and about life as he grows up.
Cinema Paradiso explores what falling in love with cinema looks like and does so with a passionate attachment to the artform. Director Giuseppe Tornatore based a lot of the film on his own childhood experiences and that bleeds through onto the screen with the kind of authenticity you can't fake.
While practically every other film on this list is connected to the industry in one way or another, this is simply about ordinary people watching films on the big screen, and wanting to do nothing else.