More movies where the line between movie and reality is blured?

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cthomer — 15 years ago(March 03, 2011 12:52 AM)

Pleasantville is kind of the opposite (real world character entering a show), but probably relevant to whatever you're writing. It's also a really overlooked movie.
Videodrome touches on this sort of thing a bit, but is a pretty dark and relatively abstract movie by comparison. It's also not particularly great IMHO.

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jeevanravi-1 — 14 years ago(July 01, 2011 06:47 PM)

I too opened this thread to recommend pleasantville
the movie is awesome, poignant and deep

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franzkabuki — 14 years ago(July 04, 2011 10:42 PM)

When it comes to blurring reality and make-believe, Inland Empire is the ultimate experience.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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sgilberg-985-557688 — 14 years ago(March 22, 2012 06:49 AM)

Fun fact: In both TPRoC and Pleasantville, Jeff Daniels plays a sweet character from idyllic B&W screen fiction who turns to color with exposure to reality.

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ilpohirvonen — 14 years ago(August 21, 2011 01:36 PM)

Yes blurring reality and make-belief is another topic. Then we could go talking about Truffaut, Godard, Lynch and so on. Even Play It Again, Sam. The French Lieutenant's Woman is another good film. In it reality and fiction get mixed up. Let alone Jean Rouch's sociological documentaries in the 1950's-60's..

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Michael-voorhees — 14 years ago(December 17, 2011 09:46 PM)

Last action hero

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Mrpinkeye — 13 years ago(July 16, 2012 07:56 PM)

"being john malkovich" is amazing
if anyone has a long list of these kinda movies please reply to my comment

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RottenBeauty — 13 years ago(July 29, 2012 08:19 AM)

Stranger Than Fiction, Ruby Sparks are literary characters but there are blurred lines.
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yamachin — 13 years ago(August 16, 2012 04:02 AM)

Adaption

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lynchianlove — 13 years ago(March 07, 2013 07:38 AM)

INLAND EMPIRE by David Lynch

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bingoboss — 10 years ago(April 26, 2015 02:47 PM)

I think David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" might qualify as well.
There is definitely a film-within-a-film happening inside that movie, although how much of that film bleeds into the fantasy/reality blur is up for interpretation. There's too much going on in that movie to say for sure.

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sexy_dancer — 12 years ago(April 09, 2013 02:52 AM)

Lamberto Bava's horror movie Demons features a horror movie within the movie which seems to cause an outbreak of demonic possession in the theatre it's shown in.

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PillowRock — 12 years ago(July 31, 2013 12:40 PM)

Hellzapoppin'
blurs that line in a different way. Characters on screen end up having exchanges with the projectionist who is running the movie at the theater.

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GuineaPig — 12 years ago(September 21, 2013 08:31 PM)

Anguish 1987
Funny Games 1997
The Holy Mountain 1973
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franzkabuki — 10 years ago(May 07, 2015 07:08 AM)

And then there's The Stunt Man from 1980.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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baran_erik — 10 years ago(February 09, 2016 03:18 AM)

There's a John Candy/Mariel Hemingway movie, too. Didn't Wil Farrell do one?

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BQQ — 10 years ago(March 16, 2016 09:43 PM)

The Singing Detective
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CalibMcBolts — 9 years ago(July 07, 2016 02:09 PM)

The Fall, an absolutely beautiful masterpiece by Tarsem Singh
Favorite films of all time list
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sadcafe-still — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 11:35 AM)

The very creative, if very sad "Pennies From Heaven" (1981) has been undervalued for decades. Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters in the tale of a downtrodden Depression-era fella seeking solace in the far brighter worlds of the era's movie musicals.