Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "mise-en-abyme"

1. Inception (2010)

PG-13 | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe

Votes: 2,560,686 | Gross: $292.58M

2. Twin Peaks (1990–1991)

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.

Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook

Votes: 216,368

3. Twin Peaks (2017)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.

Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Michael Horse, Chrysta Bell

Votes: 76,331

4. Mulholland Drive (2001)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates

Votes: 385,090 | Gross: $7.22M

5. Scream 2 (1997)

R | 120 min | Horror, Mystery

Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jada Pinkett Smith

Votes: 210,418 | Gross: $101.36M

6. Shakespeare in Love (1998)

R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, History

The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

Director: John Madden | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson

Votes: 234,739 | Gross: $100.32M

7. Scream 4 (2011)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott, who has put herself back together thanks in part to her writing, is visited by the Ghostface Killer.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Lucy Hale

Votes: 171,702 | Gross: $38.18M

8. Adaptation. (2002)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton

Votes: 203,560 | Gross: $22.25M

9. Synecdoche, New York (2008)

R | 124 min | Drama

A theatre 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.

Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener

Votes: 98,569 | Gross: $3.08M

10. High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)

G | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

As seniors in high school, Troy and Gabriella struggle with the idea of being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.

Director: Kenny Ortega | Stars: Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel

Votes: 67,726 | Gross: $90.56M

11. One Cut of the Dead (2017)

Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.

Director: Shin'ichirô Ueda | Stars: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya

Votes: 29,955

12. Close Your Eyes (2023)

169 min | Drama

A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.

Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez

Votes: 2,864

13. The Stunt Man (1980)

R | 131 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.

Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield

Votes: 10,534 | Gross: $7.06M

14. Yannick (2023)

67 min | Comedy, Drama

In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard comedy, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.

Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin, Sébastien Chassagne

Votes: 4,762

15. Day for Night (1973)

PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut, Valentina Cortese

Votes: 24,851 | Gross: $0.02M

16. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)

82 min | Drama, Comedy

On a dark, wet night a historic and regal Chinese cinema sees its final film. Together with a small handful of souls they bid "Goodbye, Dragon Inn".

Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Chun Shih

Votes: 6,225 | Gross: $0.03M

17. The Magnus Archives (2016 Podcast Series)

Drama, Horror, Mystery

The Magnus Archives is a weekly horror fiction anthology examining the mysteries within the archives of London based The Magnus Institute, an organization dedicated to documenting and ... See full summary »

Stars: Jonathan Sims, Alexander J. Newall, Frank Voss, Lydia Nicholas

Votes: 458

18. The State of Things (1982)

121 min | Drama

The crew is running out of money to finish their film.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly

Votes: 3,634 | Gross: $6.00M

19. 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: 3,197 | Gross: $0.11M

20. Platane (2011– )

33 min | Comedy

Well known comedian in France, Éric is about to start a new TV show with his long-time friend Ramzy. One night, drunk, he drives his car into a tree and falls in a 2 year-long coma. When he... See full summary »

Stars: Eric Judor, Hafid F. Benamar, Arnaud Henriet, Romain Berger

Votes: 685

21. 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

22. 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: 1,681 | Gross: $0.02M

23. Lazare (2020)

108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.

Director: Philippe Chalem | Stars: Emine Meyrem, Milena Straube, Lionel Rousselot, Stanislas Siwiorek

Votes: 11

24. Lady Blue Shanghai (2010)

16 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

A nameless woman enters her Shanghai hotel room to find a vintage record playing and a blue Dior purse that seems to come from nowhere.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Clark Gong, Emily Stofle, Cheng Hong

Votes: 1,975

25. À la Chaleur des Années Froides (2022)

82 min | Documentary

This film shows the post-revolutionary dynamics which, for ten years, will make cinema in Cuba an extraordinary cultural event. A film in memory of these pioneers.

Directors: Darius Kaufmann, Eytan Jan | Stars: Mirta Ibarra, Enrique Pineda Barnet, Adela Legrá, Eduardo Manet

26. Vortex (2017)

9 min | Short

A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in the infinite fall through the "mise en abyme": it's a pure ... See full summary »

Director: Alexandre Alagôa

Votes: 7

27. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode: Extreme Measures (1999)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Dr. Bashir and Chief O'Brien go to some pretty extreme measures to try and track down a cure for Odo.

Director: Stephen L. Posey | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Nicole de Boer, Michael Dorn

Votes: 1,827

28. Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Episode: Wormhole X-Treme! (2001)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A strange ship is headed towards Earth, and the SGC suspects that Martin Lloyd and his companions may have something to do with it. O'Neill is sent to speak to Martin and is assigned as a ... See full summary »

Director: Peter DeLuise | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge

Votes: 1,464

29. I May Destroy You (2020)
Episode: Ego Death (2020)

TV-MA | 34 min | Drama

When Arabella's memory of her assault comes rushing back to her, she drags the last of her demons out from under the bed - once and for all.

Directors: Michaela Coel, Sam Miller | Stars: Weruche Opia, Michaela Coel, Lewis Reeves, Chin Nyenwe

Votes: 850