Film containing a film

This article relates to films of fiction - it thus excludes the Documentaire S - in which appear extracts of other films, realities or imaginary.

(NB: in each paragraph, the films are chronologically classified)

General information

It is frequent that a film presents film extracts. That can be a means of evoking facts passed quickly, for example when a character is itself an actor or took part in an event represented with the cinema.

The film inclusion in a film allows effects of flashback S, setting in context and can be used as well for shifted or comic effects (the character of the Rose crimson of Cairo which leaves the screen, that interpreted by Woody Allen in Zelig which is at the sides of celebrities of its time) as to create nostalgia. Thus when Fellini is shown in Intervista returning visit, with Marcello Mastroianni, with Anita Ekberg, the extract of the most famous scene of the Dolce vita , with the Fontaine of Trevi, interpreted formerly by the two actors mixes the homage and nostalgia in front of their ageing.

Images of current events make it possible to quickly draw up the context in which will be held the history of film: in Mad max II , the intrigue is preceded by the account accelerated by a world war related to the oil which locates from the start the account in a future world in ruin. This use of films in a film can be connected with an alternative of the Voice-over.

The scenario writer Jean-Luc Godard abundantly used of the quotation and the Mise in abyme in his films. In very an other style, the animated series Simpson refers many to films or series, each episode referring at least cinematographic (characters, scenes worships, music…).

Films containing of fictitious films

the films telling the turning of a fictitious film will be indexed here only so extracts of fictitious film in question appear there.

Films containing of false fictions

Let us sing under the rain (1952) of Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, which tells a humorous and imaginary version passage of films of the dumb man with speaking, watch several turnings and invented film extracts.
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) of Agnes Varda, contains a short-measuring, been engaged of the Bridge Mac Donald , in which play Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
the Contempt (1963) of Jean-Luc Godard where Fritz Lang (which interprets its own role) carries out a film on Ulysses, written by Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli).
the American Night (1973) of François Truffaut tells the slides and the risks of a turning, that of the film I introduce Pamela to you.
the Cat and the mouse (1975) of Claude Lelouch, Michele Morgan Mercury on the Fields-Elysées will see a fictitious film to the cinema " The Lady Rolls and small the chien"
Passion (1982) of Jean-Luc Godard, tells the history of the realization of a film entitled " Passion".
the ladykiller (1983) of Christian Gion puts in scene a modest actor named Vittorio (played by Aldo Maccione) who wants to become… Aldo Maccione, and will play in a film called… the ladykiller .
the Rose crimson of Cairo (1985) of Woody Allen turns around a film under this title whose character (played by Jeff Daniels) leaves the screen to join a spectator (interpreted by Mia Farrow). At the end of the history, the latter looks at a " vrai" film, the Dancer of the top ( Signal Hat , 1935) in the same cinema.
the City of the fear (1994) of Alain Berbérian (written by Null the) presents a film of horror of series Z, Red Is Dead .
Last Action Hero (1994) of John McTiernan, where Schwarzenegger plays her own part (a short moment) but especially the role of Slater Jack, the hero of the series of films of the Slater Jack, action films known in film. Let us note that one sees also the poster of Terminator but played by Sylvester Stallone.
That turns to Manhattan (1995) of Tom DiCillo tells the turning of an independent film which one sees many extracts.
For Ever Mozart (1996) of Jean-Luc Godard, tells the turning of a film Fatal Boléro .
Scream 2 (1997): one sees there extracts of the film Stab on the murders which make the history of Scream .
Peut-être (1999) of Cédric Klapisch voluntarily begins with a false science fiction film kitsch (in particular interpreted by Lorànt Deutsch).
Futurama (1999-2003) series animated of Matt Groening, included regularly the parody of télénovelas By all my circuits (All My Circuits) and its hero Calculon, entirely interpreted by robots, following the example its preceding series Simpson putting in scene in a recurring way the ultra-violent series Itchy and Scratchy, hardly exaggerated parody of Tom and Jerry.
Couple of stars (2001) of Joe Roth where one sees extracts of fictitious films of the actress interpreted by Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Speaks with it (2001) about Pedro Almodóvar where one discovers Lover which narrows ( Amante menguante of Hilario Muñoz), which is a homage to traditional American cinema of the fantastic, the Man who narrows Jack Arnold.
You Shot, I Shot (2001) of Ho Cheung Ping is a Chinese comedy where a killer makes film his contracts by a student in cinema, and one sees some of films carried out there.
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) of Jay Roach watch in its scene of opening the turning of a fiction derived from the character of Austin Powers carried out by Steven Spielberg.
S1m0ne or Simone (2002) of Andrew Niccol, whose heroin at the side of Al Pacino is a virtual actress, shows the realization of several imaginary films, bringing their numerical star to a world success.
Hollywood Ending (2002) of Woody Allen, tells the turning of a film in Manhattan, where Woody Allen incarnates Val Waxman, a hypochondriac realizer who becomes blind right at the beginning of turning.
CQ (2003) of Romance Coppola, thanks to the turning of film in the film ( Dragonfly ), Roman Coppola pays homage to Barbarella.
Tournage in an English garden (2005) of Michael Winterbottom tells the turning of a fictitious film drawn from the novel of Laurence Sterne, Vie and opinions of Tristram Shandy .
Bamako (2006) of Abderrahmane Sissako proposes with the program of a television Malian a parodic forgery Western spaghetti, " Death in Timbuktu " , putting in scene 5 Cow-boy S, played by Danny Glover (which is Co-producer of film), Abderrahmane Sissako itself (under the name of Dramane Sissako), Elia Suleiman, Jean-Henri Roger and Zeka Laplaine.
the absolute End of the world ( Cigarette Burns ) of John Carpenter is about an experimental and cursed film called in original version the absolute End of the world .
INLAND WORSENS (2007) of David Lynch tells the turning of a film Là-haut in the blue following days ( One High in Blue Tomorrows ) where Laura Dern, (Nikki Grace \ Susan Blue) and Justin Theroux, (Devon Berk \ Billy Side) is the main actors and where Jeremy Irons (Kingsley Stewart) is the realizer.
the Holidays of Mr. Bean (2007) of Steve Bendelack shows at the time of a Cannes festival a realizer, Preston Clay (played by Willem Dafoe), to diffuse a dramatic film being called Playback Time which annoys much the public until Mr. Bean intervenes.

Films containing of fictitious documentary films

Films containing of the fictitious telefilms or televised series

Toy Story 2 (2000) has as a discussion thread televised series of Marionnette S, Western Woody , in which Woody was the hero.
the Russian Headstocks (2005) of Cédric Klapisch contains an extract of a telefilm with success whose Xavier, the main character, is supposed to write the continuation. The film also shows per moment of the extracts of the telefilm whose Xavier tries to write the scenario (let us note however which they are only sequences imagined by Xavier thus not turned a priori by the producers).
KIS KIS Bang Bang (2005) of Shane Black presents an extract of Protocop , a series of which rise from the derivative products as the Protocop toy that the hero must steal at the beginning of film.

Films containing of fictitious advertizing films

Batman (1989) of Tim Burton watch a false pirate publicity diffused by the Joker in the form of comparison between its cosmetic products mortals and the " mark X".
Camp-site Cosmos (1995): Claude Semal, presenter with Radio Cosmos, launches a tasty advertizing diversion on the toothpaste and the beauty creams.
Eternal Sunshine off the Spotless Mind (2004) of Michel Gondry presents a publicity for the false company Lacuna Inc .
Robocop (1987) of Paul Verhoeven presents several publicities intended to give a satirical representation of the company described in this film (systems theft protection devices for car killing the delinquent…).
Starship Troopers (1997) of Paul Verhoeven: one sees there several spots of governmental Propagande to incite the young people to engage in the war against giant insects, probably a satirical wink with the propaganda of the American media during the war of the Gulf.
Total Recall (1990) of Paul Verhoeven presents a publicity for the Recall company, which sells fictitious memories.
Toy Story 2 (2000) contains several false publicities.
Holidays of Mr. Bean (2007) watch Mr. Bean to attend the turning of a publicity being held in old deep France whereas it is made attack by the German army at the time of the Second world war, for the fictitious mark of Yaourt Bruzzi.

Films containing of other fictitious film shapes

Tesis (1996) of Alejandro Amenábar contains a forgery Snuff movie.
Boxing ring (1998) of Hideo Nakata (just like its remakes Ring Virus and the Circle ) whose history is based on a cursed cassette showing strange a experimental Film.
The Truman Show (1998) of Peter Weir is based on an emission of giant TV-reality.
8 mm (film) (1999) of Joel Schumacher contains a Snuff movie on which investigation the main character Tom Welles, interpreted by Nicolas Cage.

Films being contained themselves

the Insane History of space (1987) of Mel Brooks in which abominable Black Casque looks at one time the Insane History of space, and falls at the time that it is in the moment of living, thus creating a Mise in abyme.
the Last Madness of Mel Brooks (1976) of Mel Brooks is a silent film in black and white, which tells the tribulation of a scenario writer trying to convince the studios to produce a silent film in black and white.

Films quoting of real films

It acts here to list films integrating of the plans of preexistent films in its assembly, and not of films where one sees a screen or a television diffusing a preexistent film, except if those have a significant importance in the intrigue.

Boulevard of the twilight (Sunset Boulevard, 1950) of Billy Wilder watch the character of the actress Normalized Desmond, interpreted by Gloria Swanson, looking at one of the films in which it is supposed to have played. For the occasion, in fact extracts of the queen Kelly , of Erich von Stroheim, film of 1929 with Gloria Swanson are shown with the screen. Stroheim plays the servant of Desmond in Boulevard of the twilight
Vivre its life (1962) of just Jean-Luc Godard in his assembly of the images of the Passion of Jeanne d' Arc of Dreyer.
the Last of the giants (1976) ( The Shootist ) of Gift Siegel. Last film of the actor John Wayne, the credits uses former film extracts with the actor in order to brush a rapid portrait of last of John Bernard Books, central figure of film (extracted from Red River , El Dorado of Howard Hawks))
the Corpses do not wear a suit (1982) of Carl Reiner, is an American black film parody of years 40-50 mainly made up of American black film extracts… of the years 40-50.
Gremlins (1984) of Joe Dante, the gremlins are with the cinema and look at a passage of Blanche Snow and the 7 dwarves.
the Revenge on the plumed serpent (1984) of Claude Zidi, in company of Laura (Maruschka Detmers), that which he would like for mistress, in the continuation of a great Parisian hotel, Loulou Dupin (Coluche) looks at and comments on the film the Swimming pool of Jacques Deray with Romy Schneider and Alain Delon.
Intervista (1987) of Federico Fellini takes again a passage of the Dolce vita (1960) of the same author, putting in scene a meeting of its two twenty-seven actors years later.
Palombella rossa (1989) of Nanni Moretti: With the bar of the swimming pool which is used as framework with most of film, a television set diffuses Doctor Jivago of David Lean. The hero (Nanni Moretti) very takes in heart the final scene when Jivago (Omar Sharif), in vain tries to draw the attention of Lara (Julie Christie) and it apostrophizes this one to enjoin to him to be turned over.
the American Class (1993) of Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette is only made up of sequences drawn from old films from the Warner ( Men of the president , Rio Bravo ,…), excluded the soundtrack, redoubled with a humorous aim.
the Sexual life of the Belgians 1950-1978 (1994) contains a scene where one shows an extract of Johnny Guitare : the scene with Joan Crawford where it reproaches her lover his lack of character. The extract in question makes a great impression in small Jan which sat beside his/her aunt in the cinema.
the Soft food (1994) of Bertrand Tavernier: the characters played by Olivier Sitruk and Bruno Putzulu regularly look at the Scarface of Brian de Palma with Al Pacino and know the counterparts of them by heart.
the Army of the twelve monkeys (1995) of Terry Gilliam: the heroes in escape take refuge in a cinema where is played Cold sweats ( Vertigo ) of Alfred Hitchcock. One sees an extract of film where the characters played by James Stewart and Kim Novak evoke the passage of time in front of the cut of a Séquoia, the actress showing “Here I was born… and here, I died”. The extract of Hitchcock thus makes echo at the same time with the Voyage in time and with the Pier , the film of Chris Marker whose the Army of the twelve monkeys is the remake, and in which it was referred to Vertigo in front of the trunk of sequoia of the Botanical garden of Paris.
Austin Powers 2: The spy who drew me (1999), from Jay Roach, Doctor Denfer passes an extract of Independence Day (1996) to the US government to frighten them.
the Green line (1999), of Frank Darabont according to the serial of Stephen King, includes/understands twice extracts of the musical comedy the Dancer of the top ( Top Hat , 1935), with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: the first extract, in the present of the account, starts the flashback which constitutes the history. The second extract, in the past, is the realization of the wish of one condemned to death, which wishes to see for the first time of its life a film.
Donnie Darko (2001), of Richard Kelly contains a passage where the hero and a friend attends two films, Evil Dead and the Last Temptation of Christ .
Stupor and tremors (2003) integrates into its assembly a long sequence of Furyo , during which the character of Amélie (Sylvie Testud) made a comparison between its own life and fate of the character played by David Bowie.
Keep silent yourself! (2003) of Francis Veber: after his missed holdup, Quentin (Gerard Depardieu) hides in a cinema where one plays the Age of ice .
Kung Fu Pow (2004) of Steve Oedekerk is a film parody of Kung Fu where the realizer, actor, scenario writer were integrated numerically in the plans of the film Tiger and Crane Fist (series Z of Hong-Kong, 1977).
Up there, a king above the clouds (2004) is a French film carried out by Pierre Schoendoerffer which includes in its assembly of many extract of its own film the 317e Section (1965).
Hostel (2005) of Eli Roth. One can see a short extract of Pulp Fiction doubled into Slovak, in reference to Quentin Tarantino, executive producer of film. The same effect is used in Hostel: chapter 2
the black Dahlia (2006) of Brian De Palma: the main characters will see to the cinema the Man who laughs - the version of 1928 by Paul Leni. This spectacle will play a part later in the history by providing to the hero a key index.
Hot Fuzz (2007) of Edgar Wright integrates sequences of Point Station-wagon and of Bad Boys II . The two heroes connect these films for " to stop réfléchir". Later in film, the main character finds his motivation thanks to Bad Boys II . That is a reference to the pontifs police film of action, whose Hot Fuzz is a parody.

Films reconstituting the real film turning

It acts in this case of films which are not satisfied to show real film extracts, but which “turn over them”, with other actors that those of original work. (It is not a question of in no case to list examples of Making off).

One finds in particular this case of figure in biographical films related to the cinema: actors, realizers, producers…

Center Training course (1992) of Stanley Kwan telling the life of the Chinese actress Ruan Lingyu, watch the turning of the final scene of its last film, New Women (1932).
Through the olive-trees (1994) of Abbas Kiarostami is a film of which the subject and the decoration are the turning of its preceding film And the life continues (1992).
ED Wood (1994) of Tim Burton tells the life of the realizer of science fiction films and of terror a long time famous like worst ever produced, one sees there in particular the preparation and the turning of Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959).
Citizen Welles ( RKO 281 ) (1999) of Benjamin Ross presents the turning of legendary the Citizen Kane (1941) of Orson Welles.
the Shade of the vampire (2000) of E. Elias Merhige includes in a fantastic version the turning of Nosferatu the Vampire (1922) - but here the main actor proves to be really a Vampire.
Aviator (2004) of Martin Scorsese has as a main character Howard Hugues and his passion for the planes and the cinema.
Me, Peter Sellers ( The Life and Death off Peter Sellers ) (2004) of Stephen Hopkins carries as its name indicates it on the actor Peter Sellers.
Pass , film on the French cinema under the Occupation, includes scenes rebuilding the preparations and/or turnings of the Hand of the devil , With the Happiness of the Ladies , the Cellars of Majestic , Cécile died .

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