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Metamovies

by Imdbidia • Created 14 years ago • Modified 3 months ago
This list does include movies whose main subject is the filming of a movie or making of a theatre production within the movie. Movie within a movie!

It does not include stories on Hollywood actors biopics, or movies whose main characters/subject are actors/the movies.


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  • Nicolas Cage in Adaptation. (2002)

    1. Adaptation.

    20021h 55mR83Metascore
    7.7 (209K)
    A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
    DirectorSpike JonzeStarsNicolas CageMeryl StreepChris Cooper
  • Tristram Shandy (2005)

    2. Tristram Shandy

    20051h 34mR80Metascore
    6.7 (13K)
    Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."
    DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsSteve CooganJeremy NorthamRob Brydon
  • De zee die denkt (2000)

    3. De zee die denkt

    20001h 40m
    7.0 (581)
    Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.
    DirectorGert de GraaffStarsBart KleverDevika StrookerRick de Leeuw
  • 8½ (1963)

    4. 8½

    19632h 18mNot Rated93Metascore
    8.0 (129K)
    A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
    DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia Cardinale
  • Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

    5. The French Lieutenant's Woman

    19812h 4mR64Metascore
    6.9 (16K)
    Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.
    DirectorKarel ReiszStarsMeryl StreepJeremy IronsHilton McRae
  • Patricia Arquette, Johnny Depp, Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones, Sarah Jessica Parker, Martin Landau, Lisa Marie, and George 'The Animal' Steele in Ed Wood (1994)

    6. Ed Wood

    19942h 7mR71Metascore
    7.8 (188K)
    Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.
    DirectorTim BurtonStarsJohnny DeppMartin LandauSarah Jessica Parker
  • Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (2009)

    7. Broken Embraces

    20092h 7mR76Metascore
    7.2 (44K)
    Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
    DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsPenélope CruzLluís HomarBlanca Portillo
  • Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor in Singin' in the Rain (1952)

    8. Singin' in the Rain

    19521h 43mG99Metascore
    8.3 (273K)
    A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
    DirectorsStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie Reynolds
  • Yasiin Bey and Jack Black in Be Kind Rewind (2008)

    9. Be Kind Rewind

    20081h 42mPG-1352Metascore
    6.4 (95K)
    Two bumbling store clerks inadvertently erase the footage from all of the tapes in their video rental store. In order to keep the business running, they re-shoot every film in the store with their own camera, with a budget of zero dollars.
    DirectorMichel GondryStarsJack BlackYasiin BeyDanny Glover
  • Day for Night (1973)

    10. Day for Night

    19731h 56mPG
    8.0 (26K)
    A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
    DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJacqueline BissetJean-Pierre LéaudFrançois Truffaut
  • Mario Van Peebles in Baadasssss! (2003)

    11. Baadasssss!

    20031h 49mR75Metascore
    7.3 (5.3K)
    Mario Van Peebles' half-documentary/half-homage to his father Melvin Van Peebles' movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971).
    DirectorMario Van PeeblesStarsMario Van PeeblesNia LongJoy Bryant
  • Synecdoche, New York (2008)

    12. Synecdoche, New York

    20082h 4mR67Metascore
    7.5 (102K)
    A theater director struggles with his work and the women in his life as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
    DirectorCharlie KaufmanStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanSamantha MortonMichelle Williams
  • Corroboree (2007)

    13. Corroboree

    20071h 35mUnrated
    4.4 (133)
    A beautiful young man has been summoned to an eerie meditation retreat by a dying theatre director. The young man has been given a tape of instructions; over a weekend he must perform scenes from the director's life. He visits different rooms encountering five actresses who all portray key women in the director's life. They rehearse the boy to play the lead role in an as yet 'unmade film'. The dying director watches young boy's progress as he searches to inhabit the director's identity. It's an Alice in Wonderland tale and an unpredictable journey of self discovery for all concerned...
    DirectorBen HackworthStarsConor O'HanlonRebecca FrithNatasha Herbert
  • CQ (2001)

    14. CQ

    20011h 28mR56Metascore
    6.2 (5.2K)
    A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and realizing that he's infatuated with the sci-fi film's starlet.
    DirectorRoman CoppolaStarsJeremy DaviesAngela LindvallÉlodie Bouchez
  • Offscreen (2006)

    15. Offscreen

    20061h 33m
    6.4 (727)
    Actor Nicolas Bro reigns supreme in the role of Nicolas Bro # a man intent on making a film about himself. After his director friend Christoffer Boe lends him a camera, his selfmonitoring is so hair-raisingly private that it becomes impossible to separate fact from fiction.
    DirectorChristoffer BoeStarsNicolas BroLene Maria ChristensenKaren Margrethe Bjerre
  • Ararat (2002)

    16. Ararat

    20021h 55mR62Metascore
    6.3 (15K)
    Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
    DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsCharles AznavourBrent CarverEric Bogosian
  • Julianne Moore in Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

    17. Vanya on 42nd Street

    19941h 59mPG
    7.3 (5.5K)
    New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre.
    DirectorLouis MalleStarsWallace ShawnPhoebe BrandGeorge Gaynes
  • Kevin Bacon in The Big Picture (1989)

    18. The Big Picture

    19891h 40mPG-1364Metascore
    6.2 (6.4K)
    Film school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems.
    DirectorChristopher GuestStarsKevin BaconJennifer Jason LeighEmily Longstreth
  • Jim Broadbent and Allan Corduner in Topsy-Turvy (1999)

    19. Topsy-Turvy

    19992h 40mR90Metascore
    7.3 (14K)
    Set in the 1880s, chronicles how during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.
    DirectorMike LeighStarsJim BroadbentAllan CordunerDexter Fletcher
  • S.O.B. (1981)

    20. S.O.B.

    19812h 2mR62Metascore
    6.4 (6.7K)
    A successful movie director makes the most expensive film in his career and it becomes a huge flop. He tries to salvage his career by reshooting the film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
    DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsJulie AndrewsWilliam HoldenMarisa Berenson
  • Clint Eastwood in White Hunter Black Heart (1990)

    21. White Hunter Black Heart

    19901h 52mPG66Metascore
    6.5 (14K)
    A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
    DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodJeff FaheyCharlotte Cornwell
  • V.O.S. (2009)

    22. V.O.S.

    20091h 27m
    5.8 (221)
    A game between four characters. A comedy about love and friendship. A film about the great lie of story telling that moves between reality and fiction.
    DirectorCesc GayStarsÀgata RocaVicenta N'DongoAndrés Herrera
  • Mel Brooks and Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles (1974)

    23. Blazing Saddles

    19741h 33mR73Metascore
    7.7 (159K)
    In order to ruin a western town and steal their land, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
    DirectorMel BrooksStarsCleavon LittleGene WilderSlim Pickens
  • Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller, and Jack Black in Tropic Thunder (2008)

    24. Tropic Thunder

    20081h 47mR71Metascore
    7.1 (469K)
    Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
    DirectorBen StillerStarsBen StillerJack BlackRobert Downey Jr.
  • Jim Carrey in The Truman Show (1998)

    25. The Truman Show

    19981h 43mPG90Metascore
    8.2 (1.3M)
    An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show.
    DirectorPeter WeirStarsJim CarreyEd HarrisLaura Linney

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