The Singing Detective (1986)
Rating: ★★★★★
Meta-Fiction/Detective Story Daydreams
Director: Jon Amiel
Actors: Michael Gambon, Joanne Whalley, Patrick Malahide, Bill Paterson, …
Category: Fantasy
Skeleton Crew (2009)
Rating: ★★
Disturbed Film Director Recreates Snuff Movies
Director: Tommi Lepola, Tero Molin
Category: Horror
Snowflake (2017)
Rating: ★★★★
Meta-Fiction/Hitmen Discover They Are Characters in a Screenplay
Director: Adolfo J. Kolmerer
Actors: Reza Brojerdi, Erkan Acar, Xenia Assenza, David Masterson, …
Category: Fantasy
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle (2005)
Rating: ★★★
Arthur Conan Doyle Biopic-Mystery/Meta-Fiction
Director: Cilla Ware
Actors: Douglas Henshall, Tim McInnerny, Brian Cox, Allan Corduner, …
Category: Fantasy
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Rating: ★★★½
Man Discovers He is a Fictional Character
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, …
Category: Fantasy
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Rating: ★★★★
Meta-Fiction and Surrealism
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener, Tom Noonan, …
Category: Fantasy
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Animation/Comic-Book Superhero Team
Director: Aaron Horvath, Peter Rida Michail
Actors: Scott Menville, Greg Cipes, Khary Payton, Tara Strong, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Rating: ★★★★
French Existentialism/Meta-Fictional Autobiography
Director: Jean Cocteau
Actors: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Maria Casares, Henri Cremieux, …
Category: Fantasy
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Modern-Day Copycat of The Phantom Killer
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Actors: Addison Timlin, Veronica Cartwright, Travis Tope, Anthony Anderson, …
Category: Horror
The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II (1988)
Rating: ★★
Vampire Actor
Director: Gerard Ciccoritti
Actors: Wendy Gazelle, Silvio Oliviero, Lesley Kelly
Category: Horror
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
Director: John Ottman
Actors: Jennifer Morrison, Hart Bochner, Loretta Devine, Eva Mendes, …
Category: Horror
Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains (2018)
Rating: ★★
Horror Film on a Horror Film Set
Director: Paulo Biscaia Filho
Category: Horror
The Visit (2015)
Rating: ★★★½
Found Footage/Weird Grandparents
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Actors: Ed Oxenbould, Olivia DeJonge, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, …
Category: Horror
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
Rating: ★★★★
Meta-Fictional A Nightmare on Elm Street Sequel
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes, David Newsome, …
Category: Horror
Winnie the Pooh (2011)
Rating: ★★★
Disney Animation/Talking Animals
Director: Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall
Actors: Jim Cummings, Bud Luckey, John Cleese, Craig Ferguson, …
Category: Fantasy
The Wizard of Gore (1970)
Rating: ★★★
Splatter Magician
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Actors: Ray Sager, Judy Cler, Wayne Ratay
Category: Horror
A Writer’s Odyssey (2021)
Rating: ★★
Meta-Fiction
Director: Lu Yang
Actors: Lei Jiayin, Yang Mi, Dong Zijian, Hewei Yu, …
Category: Fantasy
Written By (2009)
Rating: ★★★½
Meta-Fiction
Director: Wai Ka Fai
Actors: Lau Ching Wan, Kelly Lin
Category: Fantasy
Zoom (2015)
Rating: ★★★★
Series of Nested Meta-Fictional Tales
Director: Pedro Morelli
Actors: Alison Pill, Gael Garcia Bernal, Tyler Labine, Michael Eklund, …
Category: Fantasy