Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream"

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: 2,550,134 | Gross: $292.58M

2. Perfect Blue (1997)

R | 81 min | Animation, Crime, Drama

A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.

Director: Satoshi Kon | Stars: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura

Votes: 95,408 | Gross: $0.78M

3. Beast (I) (2022)

R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A father and his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the Savanna has but one apex predator.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Liyabuya Gongo, Martin Munro, Daniel Hadebe, Thapelo Sebogodi

Votes: 40,815 | Gross: $31.85M

4. Hugo (2011)

PG | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 336,795 | Gross: $73.86M

5. Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)

R | 77 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical

Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to a condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.

Director: Deborah Brock | Stars: Crystal Bernard, Jennifer Rhodes, Kimberly McArthur, Patrick Lowe

Votes: 7,411

6. Shattered Image (1998)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Jessie, a cool assassin on a mission, dreams she is a traumatized, paranoid rape victim on her honeymoon. This Jessie dreams that she is a cool assassin on a mission.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Anne Parillaud, William Baldwin, Lisanne Falk, Graham Greene

Votes: 745 | Gross: $0.10M

7. The Death of Salvador Dali (2005)

18 min | Short

"The Death of Salvador Dali" brings the paranoiac, flamboyant Dali into the office and head-space of an unsuspecting Sigmund Freud. When Salvador seeks Freud's assistance to inject madness ... See full summary »

Director: Delaney Bishop | Stars: Salvador Benavides, Robert Cesario, Dita Von Teese, Mary Burton

Votes: 216

8. Live Life Dearest

36 min | Short, Drama

A nostalgic journey through childhood, innocence, and hope formed from the memories of a dreamer who comes to the realization that they aren't the dreamer at all; they are just being dreamed.

Director: Juan Diego Escobar Alzate | Stars: Tom O'Bedlam, Saray Pavon, Saray Pavon, Nicholas Bueno Davis

9. Live Life Dearest (2010)

7 min | Short, Drama

A man finds he is incapable of feeling anything but nostalgia as he discovers he is nothing but a young womens dream and he is recreating her thoughts.

Director: Juan Diego Escobar Alzate | Star: Nicholas Bueno Davis

Votes: 5

10. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Lisa's Rival (1994)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Lisa is jealous when a new girl in class is smarter than she is; Homer obtains a giant mound of sugar.

Director: Mark Kirkland | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 3,286

11. The Twilight Zone (2002–2003)
Episode: The Pool Guy (2002)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Pool-cleaner Ritchie Almares is approached by a slightly-familiar man who orders him to awaken just before shooting him - and finds himself in bed so recognizes the experience as a dream ... See full summary »

Directors: Paul Shapiro, Brad Turner | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Lou Diamond Phillips, Erik King, Mackenzie Gray

Votes: 373

12. Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode: Dream Cruise (2007)

TV-MA | 87 min | Horror

Absolutely terrified of the sea, an American lawyer reluctantly goes on an ocean cruise to be near the wife of a client, with no idea of the grim situation that awaits them all.

Director: Norio Tsuruta | Stars: Daniel Gillies, Thom Irvine, Ethan Amis, Maky Soler

Votes: 1,765

13. Medium (2005–2011)
Episode: Be Kind, Rewind (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Allison keeps having the same dream, or is it day, and the clues she gets may help her prevent a tragedy.

Director: Aaron Lipstadt | Stars: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, David Cubitt, Sofia Vassilieva

Votes: 289

14. Sherlock (2010–2017)
Episode: The Abominable Bride (2016)

TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this Christmas special.

Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves

Votes: 35,876

15. Angie Tribeca (2016–2018)
Episode: Organ Trail (2016)

TV-14 | 20 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Atkins assigns Geils and Tribeca a romance novelist to help in their attempt to bust an organ thief at a local hospital.

Director: Dan Beers | Stars: Rashida Jones, Hayes MacArthur, Jere Burns, Deon Cole

Votes: 175

16. Vedro (2013– )
Episode: Explosion of the Modern Architecture (2018)

35 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

While Richard Syutkin deals with sudden repairs in his house, Local Television Director works for two.

Directors: Mykola Yeriomin, Sergey A. | Stars: Yaroslav Kozak, Kirill Mieliekiestsev, Mikhail Bondarev, Leonid Syplyi

Votes: 18

17. Weird City (2019)
Episode: Below (2019)

TV-14 | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Best friends Glail and Charlotta, the protagonists of a hit show called "Below" about two tough female criminals, become self-aware and realize they're trapped in their own show.

Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Awkwafina, Yvette Nicole Brown, LeVar Burton, Charlie Sanders

Votes: 161