Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "film-in-film"

51. Merci La Vie (1991)

117 min | Drama

A lonely teenage girl studying her exams meets a homeless woman and befriend with her.

Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Michel Blanc, Jean Carmet

Votes: 1,374

52. Two Friends (2015)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two best friends have their relationship tested when Abel tries to help his friend Clement with the latter's love interest Mona.

Director: Louis Garrel | Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Vincent Macaigne, Louis Garrel, Mahaut Adam

Votes: 2,154

53. Babs (2017 TV Movie)

90 min | Biography, Drama

A drama about the life and career of actress Barbara Windsor.

Director: Dominic Leclerc | Stars: Samantha Spiro, Charlie Archer, Nick Moran, Honor Kneafsey

Votes: 666

54. Memories of My Father (2020)

136 min | Drama, History

An author recalls life with his father, a university professor who fought against oppression and social inequality in Colombia in the seventies.

Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Javier Cámara, Nicolás Reyes Cano, Juan Pablo Urrego, Patricia Tamayo

Votes: 2,635

55. Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995 TV Movie)

210 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Elizabeth Taylor's rise to stardom, beginning in Los Angeles 1942. Growing up, Elizabeth has several love-affairs - and several divorces, since her husbands can't accept being married to a Hollywood icon.

Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Sherilyn Fenn, Nigel Havers, Katherine Helmond, Angus Macfadyen

Votes: 539

56. Tel Aviv on Fire (2018)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Salam is a consultant on a popular Palestinian TV series filmed in Ramallah who rather stupidly runs afoul of an Israeli checkpoint commander who uses his military influence to begin to manipulate Salam and the writing of the show.

Director: Sameh Zoabi | Stars: Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton, Nadim Sawalha

Votes: 2,595 | Gross: $0.45M

57. How to Make a Monster (1958)

Unrated | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.

Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke

Votes: 1,524

58. Den gula bilen (1963)

95 min | Mystery, Thriller

On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when ... See full summary »

Director: Arne Mattsson | Stars: Karl-Arne Holmsten, Ulla Strömstedt, Nils Hallberg, Barbro Kollberg

Votes: 141

59. Skeleton Crew (2009 Video)

R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller

The production of a horror movie based on the true story of a doctor's sadistic snuff films takes a terrifying turn when the director gets carried away with his subject.

Directors: Tommi Lepola, Tero Molin | Stars: Rita Suomalainen, Steve Porter, Anna Alkiomaa, Jonathan Rankle

Votes: 1,149

60. Three Men and a Leg (1997)

100 min | Comedy

Three friends cross Italy by car in order to deliver their boss his dog and a wooden leg.

Directors: Aldo Baglio, Giacomo Poretti, Giovanni Storti, Massimo Venier | Stars: Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti, Marina Massironi

Votes: 10,209

61. Un + Une (2015)

Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

French famous film score composer goes to India to compose the score for an Indian adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. There he meets the wife of the French ambassador to India, and a complicated relationship ensues.

Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Christopher Lambert, Alice Pol

Votes: 2,484

62. Intervista (1987)

105 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Federico Fellini accepts the request of a television crew to be interviewed about his career, narrating memories, dreams, realities and fantasies.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Sergio Rubini, Antonella Ponziani, Maurizio Mein, Paola Liguori

Votes: 3,195 | Gross: $0.11M

63. All About Actresses (2009)

105 min | Comedy, Drama

A director shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses falls for one of them.

Director: Maïwenn | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Romane Bohringer, Julie Depardieu, Mélanie Doutey

Votes: 1,281

64. Tango (1998)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Musical

Mario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.

Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Narova, Mía Maestro, Juan Carlos Copes

Votes: 3,075 | Gross: $1.69M

65. Arabian Nights: Volume 1 - The Restless One (2015)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama

Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.

Director: Miguel Gomes | Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Miguel Gomes, Martinho Cerqueira, Miguel Cerqueira

Votes: 2,422 | Gross: $0.01M

66. Cet été-là (2022)

99 min | Comedy, Drama

Chronicles the passage from childhood to adolescence through the story of pre-teens who meet each summer as a family and share all the questions of entering adolescence.

Director: Éric Lartigau | Stars: Rose Pou-Pellicer, Juliette Havelange, Marina Foïs, Gael García Bernal

Votes: 219

67. Stunt Rock (1978)

PG | 91 min | Action, Drama, Music

While working on a TV show in Los Angeles, famed Australian stuntman Grant Page helps an up-and-coming fantasy-themed rock band develop special effects and dangerous stunts for their act.

Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith | Stars: Grant Page, Monique van de Ven, Margaret Gerard, Sorcery

Votes: 617

68. Casanova's Return (2023)

90 min | Drama

The Venetian libertine has trouble facing the fact that he's over 60.

Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Toni Servillo, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Sara Serraiocco, Natalino Balasso

Votes: 429

69. Slogan (1969)

GP | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

In Venice, forty-old-year old Serge Fabergé has just been given the best advertisement director award. While taking a walk on the Piazza San Marco, Serge meets Evelyn Nicholson, a ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Grimblat | Stars: Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Andréa Parisy, Daniel Gélin

Votes: 479

70. More About the Language of Love (1970)

90 min | Documentary

While LANGUAGE OF LOVE illustrated general sex behaviour, MORE ABOUT THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE shows minority group attitudes towards sex. As in the first film, there is an expert panel of ... See full summary »

Director: Torgny Wickman | Stars: Inge Hegeler, Sten Hegeler, Maj-Brith Bergström-Walan, Ove Alström

Votes: 158

71. Student Affairs (1987)

R | 92 min | Comedy

The story of a group of people who are making a film about life in high school in the 1950's.

Director: Chuck Vincent | Stars: Louie Bonanno, Jim Abele, Tracey Adams, Alan Fisler

Votes: 84

72. Rented Lips (1987)

R | 82 min | Comedy

A documentary filmmaker who has spent the last 15 years making films like "Aluminum: Our Shiny Friend," is finally given the chance to make the documentary on Indian farming he has always ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Downey Sr. | Stars: Martin Mull, Dick Shawn, Jennifer Tilly, Edy Williams

Votes: 390

73. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)

120 min | Documentary, History

The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.

Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Frank Barrett

Votes: 2,156 | Gross: $0.13M

74. Lobster Man from Mars (1989)

PG | 82 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A movie mogul in search of a tax shelter screens a space parody about a young woman, a mad scientist and a space monster.

Director: Stanley Sheff | Stars: Deborah Foreman, S.D. Nemeth, Anthony Hickox, Dean Jacobson

Votes: 709

75. Sexy Cat (1973)

87 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A Spanish television crew shooting a pilot for a show about the hit female comic-book character Sexy Cat finds itself stalked by a serial killer dressed as the character.

Director: Julio Pérez Tabernero | Stars: Germán Cobos, Dyanik Zurakowska, Lone Fleming, María Villa

Votes: 162

76. Mary (I) (2005)

Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Thriller

The Virgin Mary delivers a message to an 11-year-old girl.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Modine, Marion Cotillard

Votes: 2,115

77. Love Is a Funny Thing (1969)

R | 110 min | Drama, Romance

Filming in the USA, Henri and Françoise meet and fall in love with each other.

Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Annie Girardot, Maria Pia Conte, Marcel Bozzuffi

Votes: 751

78. Last Words (II) (2020)

126 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

It is 2085. A young man, one of the few survivors of the human community of old, embarks on a long voyage to find others.

Director: Jonathan Nossiter | Stars: Nick Nolte, Kalipha Touray, Charlotte Rampling, Alba Rohrwacher

Votes: 369

79. Don Quixote (1992)

Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Drama

The story of a Spanish gentlemen gone mad and his dim-witted squire Sancho Panza, who set forth on a journey to right wrongs and accomplish good deeds in the name of chivalry.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Francisco Reiguera, Akim Tamiroff, Pepe Mediavilla, Juan Carlos Ordóñez

Votes: 907

80. Zingo (1998)

92 min | Comedy

A comedy about a young man with a tendency to screw things up. After years of unhealthy living he is looking for calm and rest. But first he has to deal with a drug-dealing debt. He teams ... See full summary »

Director: Christjan Wegner | Stars: Björn Kjellman, Helena Af Sandeberg, Per Morberg, Thomas Hellberg

Votes: 987

81. The House of Seven Corpses (1974)

PG | 88 min | Horror

A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Harrison | Stars: John Ireland, Faith Domergue, John Carradine, Carole Wells

Votes: 1,594

82. Pompo: The Cinéphile (2021)

94 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

A famous movie producer gives her young production assistant a chance to direct his first film.

Director: Takayuki Hirao | Stars: Hiroya Shimizu, Konomi Kohara, Ai Kakuma, Akio Ôtsuka

Votes: 1,177

83. French film

90 min | Drama, Romance | Post-production

Sam and Léna, two actors, are in love. Sam wants to completely possess Léna. She gives herself entirely to him. Yet their relationship deteriorates to the point of disaster.

Director: Claude Chamis | Stars: Luca Colucci, Pauline Miocekovitz, Augustin De Winter, Nathan Moreira

84. Prix de beauté (Miss Europe) (1930)

93 min | Drama, Romance

Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently ... See full summary »

Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini, André Nicolle

Votes: 670

85. Nina Wu (2019)

Unrated | 102 min | Drama

Nina Wu, a girl who leaves small theatre company in the country for the big city in pursuit of her actress dream. The wait seems to be endless, as she lives a lonely and repressed life ... See full summary »

Director: Midi Z | Stars: Ke-Xi Wu, Vivian Sung, Kimi Hsia, Li-Ang Chang

Votes: 1,326

86. Yoyo (1965)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A man has everything: dozens of servants, a palace, vast woods, gardens, a lake, mechanical toys, private entertainment troupes of musicians and dancers. He has it all - but love. When ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Étaix | Stars: Pierre Étaix, Claudine Auger, Philippe Dionnet, Luce Klein

Votes: 1,692

87. Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2018)

TV-14 | 80 min | Animation, Biography, Drama

The true story of how Luis Buñuel made his third movie.

Director: Salvador Simó | Stars: Jorge Usón, Fernando Ramos, Luis Enrique de Tomás, Cyril Corral

Votes: 2,451 | Gross: $0.03M

88. In Praise of Love (2001)

PG | 97 min | Drama

An author works on a project on the subject of love, and, in the process, crosses paths with a former love in his life.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny

Votes: 3,028 | Gross: $0.25M

89. The Truck (1977)

76 min | Drama, Romance

In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the ... See full summary »

Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu

Votes: 457

90. Barbara (I) (2017)

Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A director wants to make a biopic about the female singer Barbara.

Director: Mathieu Amalric | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Peirani, Aurore Clément

Votes: 1,199

91. Jackie Chan Presents: Wushu (2008)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Drama, Family

Ten years ago, five students joined a martial arts school and learned the disciplines of Wushu and the bonds of friendship. Today, both will be put to the test after they and a former student stumble into a child kidnapping ring.

Director: Antony Szeto | Stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Fengchao Liu, Wenjie Wang, Phoebe Wang

Votes: 780

92. Afstiros katallilo (2008)

110 min | Comedy

Two young Greek filmmakers seeking financing for their film "The End of the Passion" and end up with "Panourgias" a former porn-king of the 70s. He agrees to shoot the film but he also has another secret plan.

Directors: Thanasis Papathanasiou, Michalis Reppas | Stars: Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Penelope Pitsouli, Dimitris Tzoumakis

Votes: 2,171

93. Rum Runners (1971)

Not Rated | 135 min | Adventure, Comedy

In the prohibition years, the 'rumrunners' travel through the Caribbean Sea with the forbidden liquor barely escaping the ship patrols. While on the run, one of the bootleggers falls in love with an actress on a movie set.

Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Lino Ventura, Brigitte Bardot, Bill Travers, Clive Revill

Votes: 605

94. Dutch Wife in the Desert (1967)

NC-17 | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A private detective is hired to find a woman who has apparently been murdered in a snuff film. It turns out the woman's not dead, but very much alive, and he gets sucked into a torrid ... See full summary »

Director: Atsushi Yamatoya | Stars: Miki Watari, Yûichi Minato, Shôhei Yamamoto, Masayoshi Nogami

Votes: 539

95. Dark Reel (2008)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Based on rare crime scene footage of the (unpublicized) 1958 murder of Actress Scarlett May. A supernatural Horror/Mystery based on actual events.

Director: Josh Eisenstadt | Stars: Daniel Wisler, Alexandra Holden, Kevin Ryder, Edward Furlong

Votes: 1,170

96. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)

Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the... See full summary »

Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Noël Brouté

Votes: 1,680 | Gross: $0.02M

97. Hell Bound (1957)

Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After World War II, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.

Director: William J. Hole Jr. | Stars: John Russell, June Blair, Stuart Whitman, Margo Woode

Votes: 727

98. Lily in Love (1984)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy

Broadway star Fitzroy Wynn (Christopher Plummer) is thrilled when his wife Lily (Dame Maggie Smith) writes a new script with a brilliant lead role. While egocentric Fitz thinks himself ... See full summary »

Director: Károly Makk | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Maggie Smith, Elke Sommer, Adolph Green

Votes: 260 | Gross: $0.38M

99. Che ora è? (1989)

97 min | Comedy, Drama

The visit of a lawer to his military son is an opportunity to recall the past, discuss the future and find a meeting point between two diametrically opposite personalities.

Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Anne Parillaud, Renato Moretti

Votes: 1,308

100. The Caiman (2006)

112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca, Michele Placido

Votes: 5,292