Metafiction movies

A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence.

An aspiring novelist receives a charge that will change his life completely.

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

After a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down as he begins to question if it might really be a concealed conspiracy to destroy him.

A bored photographer recovering from a broken leg passes the time by watching his neighbors and begins to suspect one of them of murder.

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.

Martin Frost writes a story featuring a mysterious woman, Claire Martin, who appears in his life; their fates intertwine with the tale he writes, blurring reality and fiction in an intriguing mystery exploring the artistic process.

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.

A group of friends have a screenplay ready for filming, and they only need financing. After trying in vain to find someone who will give money for their production, they plan to rob a bank in order to obtain the money for their picture.

A soap opera actor wants to finish Bolivar's dream of a "Great Colombia": a super-state of 5 Latin-American countries to stop institutional chaos, lack of opportunity and ignite the rebuilding of the region after 160 years of internal war.

A French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.

A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.

While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.

Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."

A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.

A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale.

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.

In 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.

A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.