Halls of Mirrors and Mirror Mazes in Movies
by Satantangoandcash | created - 21 Dec 2017 | updated - 10 hours ago | Public
These are movies with scenes that show multiple reflections. Many have scenes in carnival attractions in a room with lots of mirrors called a Hall of Mirrors, a House of Mirrors, a Mirror Maze, or a Mirror Labyrinth, but some just have scenes with two or more mirrors or other reflective surfaces that create multiple reflections. A chase scene in a mirror maze has become a cliché in horror movies and thrillers, but directors seem to love them.
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1. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Votes: 33,319 | Gross: $0.01M
In the classic sequence at the end of the movie, Rita Hayworth takes Orson Welles into the Magic Mirror Maze in a funhouse to talk about a murder for money plot, but her husband finds them. They shoot at each other, again and again, breaking mirror after mirror, until they finally hit each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6OsQV4og00
2. Enter the Dragon (1973)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Shaolin martial artist travels to an island fortress to spy on an opium lord - who is also a former monk from his temple - under the guise of attending a fighting tournament.
Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri
Votes: 113,013 | Gross: $25.00M
Bruce Lee fights a man with four large knives on an artificial hand. Trying to kill Lee, the man stabs a spear into a wall panel which turns out to be the revolving entrance into a hall of mirrors. He spins the wall around and enters the hall. Lee follows him and the fight continues with Lee getting confused until he smashes a lot of the mirrors with his feet and his fists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88G_p971A50
3. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Mystery
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen
Votes: 46,828 | Gross: $11.29M
As the maze of mirrors scene in the movie The Lady From Shanghai plays in an old movie theater, showing a shootout between a man and a woman, we see a real shootout taking place behind the movie screen in a room that is filled with mirrors that reflect the movie, the real man and woman who are shooting at each other, and Woody Allen's character who is sneaking through the room to rescue his wife.
4. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin, while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams
Votes: 113,096 | Gross: $20.97M
On his secret Chinese Island, the villain Scaramanga has a fun house with a small hall of mirrors where we see two chases and gunfights, including one with James Bond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOlWLyrqoD0
5. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life.
Director: Chad Stahelski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane, Ruby Rose
Votes: 511,859 | Gross: $92.03M
John Wick engages in a chase, gunfight, and climactic knife fight in a multi-floor modern art museum exhibit called "Reflections of the Soul" made of halls, rooms, and stairways lined with mirrors with lights and video screens reflected in them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-TZCEyok_o
6. Conan the Destroyer (1984)
PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Olivia d'Abo, Wilt Chamberlain
Votes: 85,359 | Gross: $31.04M
Conan breaks into a wizard's island castle to rescue a kidnapped princess. He walks into a large room with walls covered in curtains. When the curtains are raised we see that the walls are made of mirrors. Several figures in orange robes walk out of the walls then they merge into a large monster that fights Conan. Conan's sword can't injure the monster until he accidentally smashes the monster's reflection in one of the mirrors. Conan then starts smashing all of the mirrors until the monster falls to the floor dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLr1f84fj8U
7. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
PG | 95 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Mary Grace Canfield, Richard Davalos, Jake Dengel, Jack Dodson
Votes: 10,617 | Gross: $8.40M
Mr. Dark uses his Pandemonium Carnival with its haunted carousel and Mirror Maze to control a town and damn its inhabitants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF2dv_vocYo
8. Zardoz (1974)
R | 105 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In the late 23rd century, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton
Votes: 24,563 | Gross: $0.07M
Sean Connery fights The Vortex in a mirror maze where he shoots at images projected in the mirrors.
9. Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
R | 104 min | Mystery, Thriller
A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Rene Auberjonois
Votes: 12,089 | Gross: $20.00M
Laura Mars has several mirrors on the walls of her bedroom. An ice pick wielding psycho killer stabs his own reflection before coming after her.
10. Densen uta (2007)
128 min | Horror, Mystery
A thriller centered on an urban legend about a song that fatally affects its listeners.
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Ryûhei Matsuda, Yûko Ôshima, Sayaka Akimoto, Haruna Kojima
Votes: 346
We see a girl in a hall of mirrors with a ghostly woman in white then later she and two others chase the same ghost in a hall of mirrors until the mirrors break.
11. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
R | 130 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins' guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of hit men and women everywhere.
Director: Chad Stahelski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne
Votes: 425,931 | Gross: $171.02M
Wick fights assassins in a room with glass walls and windows and glass things throughout which reflect what's around them like mirrors.
12. Us (II) (2019)
R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Adelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them.
Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker
Votes: 341,232 | Gross: $175.08M
A young girl enters an amusement park park attraction called "Vision Quest" where she walks through a dark room full of mirrors and sees another girl who looks exactly like herself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYvxbtiGvrk
13. Tommy (1975)
PG | 111 min | Drama, Musical
A psychosomatically blind, deaf, and mute boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John
Votes: 22,635 | Gross: $34.25M
When he's a young boy, Tommy's widowed mother meets a man called Uncle Frank. In a musical montage we see a young Tommy and his mother and Frank at an amusement park on the rides and playing games in the arcade. Then we see Tommy dancing in a hall of mirrors, joined by his weeping mother and Frank. Later in the movie his mother throws him through a mirror and he is no longer deaf and blind.
14. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson
Votes: 130,701 | Gross: $51.27M
During a masked ball at the Paris opera house, the Phantom drops through a round trapdoor in a flash of smoke and Raoul jumps down after him, landing in a room full of mirrors which makes it impossible for him to find the Phantom and fight him.
15. Birds of Prey (2020)
R | 109 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroines Black Canary, Huntress, and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
Director: Cathy Yan | Stars: Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett
Votes: 264,752 | Gross: $84.16M
Harley Quinn and her girl gang fight off an army of masked men in an abandoned amusement park fun house full of mirrors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNGn1pUz6yI
16. My Name Is Nobody (1973)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
A young, easy-going gunman worships and competes with a famed gunfighter, insisting that he must face down a gang of 150 outlaws before he can retire.
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin, R.G. Armstrong
Votes: 29,574 | Gross: $0.39M
In a town hosting a carnival, Nessuno, aka Nobody, lures some gunfighters into the "Mirror House," a building full of mirrors, where he taunts them into shooting his many reflections instead of himself.
17. High-Rise (2015)
R | 119 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans
Votes: 45,179 | Gross: $0.34M
The private elevator to the 40th floor penthouse of Mr. Royal, the high-rise building's rich architect, is lined with mirrors so that the occupants experience a hall of mirrors effect.
18. Skyfall (2012)
PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench
Votes: 731,216 | Gross: $304.36M
James Bond shoots at his reflection in a hall of mirrors during the opening credits song sequence. Also, when he is inside a Shanghai skyscraper Bond stalks an assassin in an office space with so many glass walls that the reflections resemble a hall of mirrors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4gdhsVKTcs
19. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
PG-13 | 147 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg
Votes: 378,225 | Gross: $220.16M
After a huge fight in a nightclub we see people walking down a hallway lined with mirrors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W70CRKtm1do
20. All About Eve (1950)
Passed | 138 min | Drama
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Votes: 138,782 | Gross: $0.01M
The last scene in this Best Picture Oscar-winner shows Phoebe, a young fan of Eve and a would-be actress alone in Eve's apartment. She puts on an elegant cloak that Eve wore to an awards ceremony that night and holds the award Eve won. She stands in front of floor-length mirrors that reflect her image into infinity in a hall of mirrors effect, bowing and pretending to accept the award, foreshadowing that Phoebe will displace Eve as Eve displaced Margo.
21. Don't Worry Darling (I) (2022)
R | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
While her husband leaves home everyday to work in a top secret facility, a young 1950s housewife begins to question her life when she notices strange behavior from the other wives in the neighborhood.
Director: Olivia Wilde | Stars: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde
Votes: 146,932 | Gross: $45.31M
We see Florence Pugh's character Alice through many looking glasses in this movie including multiple images of her in several mirrors behind her bathtub at home and in a nightclub restroom that is lined with mirrors on the walls.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LoDT33VQlS0 - bad quality youtube short
22. Elvis (2022)
PG-13 | 159 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Tom Hanks, Austin Butler, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson
Votes: 234,711 | Gross: $151.04M
Elvis and his band members go into a hall of mirrors at a carnival. Colonel Tom Parker follows him inside and when Elvis gets confused by all the reflections, Parker says Elvis is lost but he can help him find his way, meaning he can help him deal with all of the fortune and fame he's going to experience. Parker then opens a door and they walk outside where Parker asks Elvis to let him represent him exclusively.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h1wIJfXLYc
23. It Chapter Two (2019)
R | 169 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.
Director: Andy Muschietti | Stars: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa
Votes: 302,086 | Gross: $211.59M
James McAvoy's character follows a boy into a funhouse at a carnival then walks through a hall of mirrors with flashing lights and finds the boy but he is trapped behind the glass and can't be reached. Then we see Pennywise behind the boy, rubbing his tongue on the glass then smashing the glass with his head to get at the boy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAEp9IiU59c
24. Divergent (2014)
PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
Director: Neil Burger | Stars: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney
Votes: 489,109 | Gross: $150.95M
In a future dystopian Chicago, society is divided into six social groups - five factions plus the outcasts who belong to no faction. Beatrice is a young woman born into the Abnegation faction, whose members prize selflessness and restrain from looking into mirrors because they reject vanity. At age 16 she takes a placement test to find out which of the five factions she belongs in. She drinks some liquid then finds herself in a simulation in a large space full of mirrors with thousands of reflections of herself. She learns that she is Divergent - belonging to no single group - which is not allowed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBEPD_AJUbA
25. X: First Class (2011)
PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In the 1960s, superpowered humans Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr work together to find others like them, but Erik's vengeful pursuit of an ambitious mutant who ruined his life causes a schism to divide them.
Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon
Votes: 723,827 | Gross: $146.41M
The nuclear reactor in Sebastian Shaw's submarine is inside a large room lined with mirrors that help to shield his mind from being read by telepath Charles Xavier. When Shaw fights Magneto in the reactor room, the glass breaks and Shaw's mind becomes readable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoxDz0cvwCA
26. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Passed | 93 min | Horror
A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
Directors: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe
Votes: 20,113 | Gross: $3.75M
After the Phantom abducts Christine and takes her to his underground lair, two men trying to rescue her fall into a room lined with mirrors that the title card calls "...the room of many mirrors - - the old torture chamber!" When the Phantom discovers them, he turns up the heat.
27. Zazie in the Metro (1960)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy
With her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike under her uncle's not-so-watchful eye. But can a little girl cause so much chaos in the city centre?
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Carla Marlier
Votes: 6,753
We see Zazie and others on stairs in a doorway with mirrors on each side that produce a hall of mirrors effect.
28. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
PG-13 | 152 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Rey develops her abilities with the help of Luke Skywalker, as the Resistance prepares for battle against the First Order.
Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher
Votes: 672,102 | Gross: $620.18M
On the sacred Jedi planet of Ahch-To, Rey swims up to a mirror cave that is strong with the energy of the Force, hoping to learn more about her identity and her abilities. Inside the cave she sees herself reflected into infinity, but she believes the line of images can't go on forever and must be leading somewhere and at the end will show her what she came to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdSIngO0ivk
29. Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
PG-13 | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.
Director: Jon Watts | Stars: Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei
Votes: 556,950 | Gross: $390.53M
Spider-man is punched by a giant fist that sends him crashing through a mirror into another dimension. Large jagged pieces of broken mirror fall all around him, becoming imbedded in the ground and putting him in a hall of mirrors full of reflections of himself. He reaches out to touch one of the images, but it and all of the images start fighting him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW1KYa0B3Mc
30. Citizen Kane (1941)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 466,045 | Gross: $1.59M
At the end of the movie we see a reporter who has been trying and failing to find out the meaning of "rosebud," Kane's last word before he died. He interviews the man in charge of Kane's estate who tells him he heard the word one other time, after Kane's wife left him. We see a flashback of Kane smashing up his wife's bedroom then finding a snow globe of a cabin in the snow and saying the word "rosebud." Then Kane puts the glass ball in his pocket and walks away slowly though his enormous mansion full of servants into a hall with large mirrors in ornate frames on each wall that make multiple reflections of him. After he walks past the mirror and out of the frame, the camera lingers on the empty mirror, then zooms in slowly as it fades out and cuts back to the interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSj-BCOlGPY
31. The Holy Mountain (1973)
16+ | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara
Votes: 48,063 | Gross: $0.06M
In this movie full of surreal visual symbolism, we see two men wearing tall hats and a nude woman with a movie camera in a room with mirrors on the walls, floor, and ceiling. The men walk around a stone pyramid then break it with an axe.
32. Tango & Cash (1989)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Framed by their ruthless arch-nemesis, a pair of mismatched LAPD officers must put their differences aside to get even with the brutal crime baron who sent them to rot in a maximum-security prison.
Directors: Andrey Konchalovskiy, Albert Magnoli | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance
Votes: 113,611 | Gross: $63.41M
Tango and Cash fight their way into Yves Perret's hideout. Automatic doors slide open to reveal a hall of mirrors with Perret holding Tango's kidnapped sister Kiki at gunpoint. Tango and Cash stand dumbfounded for a bit until they both figure out which Perret is the real one, count to three, then both shoot him between the eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD1LsuTgV-c
33. The Haunting (1999)
PG-13 | 113 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Dr Marrow enlists Theo, Luke and Nell for a study of sleep disorders at the Hill House. As soon as the terrifying truth about the mansion is revealed, everyone is found fighting for their lives.
Director: Jan de Bont | Stars: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor
Votes: 80,498 | Gross: $91.41M
Inside a haunted mansion, Nell sees her reflection in a mirror but the person she sees is not herself. She runs terrified into a room full of mirrors with a round floor turning like a carousel where she sees a reflection of herself with a growing belly as if she is becoming more and more pregnant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyPF-BmNQjQ
34. Skyscraper (2018)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A security expert must infiltrate a burning skyscraper, 225 stories above ground, when his family is trapped inside by criminals.
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller
Votes: 134,159 | Gross: $68.42M
Billionaire Zhao Long Ji (Chin Han) built the world's tallest building in Hong Kong with a giant sphere on top. He gives Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) a tour of the sphere, demonstrating the 317 motion-sensitive projection panels that rise from the floor to create the effect of a maze of mirrors. After bad guys set fire to the skyscraper to rob Zhao, he and Sawyer lure them inside the sphere and activate the mirror maze for a climactic gunfight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PoW8y_3rzU
35. Give 'em Hell Malone (2009)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A tough as nails private investigator (Malone) squares off with gangsters and their thugs to protect a valuable secret. Malone goes through hell to protect the information but he dishes some hell as well.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Thomas Jane, Ving Rhames, Elsa Pataky, French Stewart
Votes: 6,633
Malone and Evelyn follow a knife-wielding assassin called the Mauler into a hall of mirrors at an amusement park. In the confusion caused by all the reflections, Malone fires his gun at her but his bullets only hit a few mirrors.
36. The Guest (I) (2014)
R | 100 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.
Director: Adam Wingard | Stars: Dan Stevens, Sheila Kelley, Maika Monroe, Joel David Moore
Votes: 106,942 | Gross: $0.32M
A psycho super soldier on a killing spree chases four people into the hall of mirrors in a Halloween maze. He makes use of the confusion inside to kill more people.
37. 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: 2,551,458 | Gross: $292.58M
Dom Cobb is a corporate espionage outlaw who steals secrets from the subconscious of his victims in shared dreams, but this time he plans to plant an idea into the mind of a man in the dream. He can't create it himself, so he hires a college student named Ariadne to design the architecture of a shared dream. When he is first teaching her how to build a realistic dream world with him as the subject whose subconscious is projected in the dream, they are both wired up and dreaming that they're walking around in Paris. Still learning what she is capable of doing in the dream, she decides to have a little fun and messes with the physics of the dream world by bending the streets and buildings overhead, defying gravity, then closing two large mirrored doors in the middle of a bike path so they face each other and line up into a hall of mirrors. Then she puts the palm of hand on one of the doors to smash the glass.
38. Key and Peele (2012–2015)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
Project sees Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele in front of a live studio audience bantering about a topic weaved between filmed shorts and sketches.
Stars: Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Metta World Peace, Brendan Hunt
Votes: 25,821
(This is not a movie, but it's a great hall of mirrors movie parody.) In a Season 4, Episode 6 television sketch titled "Hall of Mirrors", Key and Peele make fun of the movie cliche of a chase in a hall of mirrors. We see a detective who has tracked a serial killer into a hall of mirrors, but he has trouble telling what's real and what's a reflection. Even after the detective finds him and shoots him, the serial killer tries to convince him that he's still looking at a reflection in a mirror and not a real person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoEzrwZFWHU&t=2s
39. Argylle (2024)
PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
A reclusive author who writes espionage novels about a secret agent and a global spy syndicate realizes the plot of the new book she's writing starts to mirror real-world events, in real time.
Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston
Votes: 64,969
Spy fiction author Elly Conway travels to the Arabian Peninsula to see a woman known as The Keeper of Secrets to retrieve something left with her for safekeeping. The Keeper's office has mirrored safe boxes on two walls that produce a hall of mirrors effect.
40. Ballerina (III) (2023)
TV-MA | 92 min | Action, Thriller
Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldn't protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friend's last wish: sweet revenge.
Director: Chung-Hyun Lee | Stars: Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Ji-hoon, Park Yu-rim, Shin Se-hwi
Votes: 12,124
Okju is a troubled corporate security consultant who kicks ass like she's in a stylish Korean violent revenge movie. She rides her motorcycle to a store to buy bottles of gin and juice to take to her stressed-out Ballerina girlfriend, stopping first at a public restroom with mirrors on two walls where she gets reflective for a few seconds.
41. Raw Nerve (1991)
R | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A race car driver has visions of the victims of a serial killer before their demise and tries to get a skeptic police detective and an ambitious reporter to help him find the killer.
Director: David A. Prior | Stars: Glenn Ford, Sandahl Bergman, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Ted Prior
Votes: 460
The movie opens with two young women in a funhouse mirror maze stalked and murdered by a serial killer.
42. Nightmare (1956)
Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A New Orleans musician has a nightmare about killing a man in a strange house but he suspects that it really happened.
Director: Maxwell Shane | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell, Virginia Christine
Votes: 1,000
This film-noir is a remake of Fear in the Night (1947) by the same director and screenwriter. It begins with Stan, a New Orleans musician, describing a nightmare that we see on screen. He's in a mirrored room with a woman and a man who fights with him until Stan kills him. When he wakes up, he suspects that the dream really happened.
We see the mirrored room two more times, first after Stan goes on a picnic in the country with his girlfriend, his sister, and her husband Rene, a police detective. When it starts pouring rain, they go inside a mansion to get dry. Stan knew the mansion was there, but didn't remember why he knew it. He goes upstairs and finds the mirrored room and some dried blood and Rene suspects he murdered the man. We see the room a third time after Rene brings Stan there to confront the actual murderer.
43. Night Game (1989)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A Texas police detective ties pitcher's strikes to a serial throat slasher.
Director: Peter Masterson | Stars: Roy Scheider, Karen Young, Lane Smith, Richard Bradford
Votes: 1,220 | Gross: $0.34M
Two young women convince a carnie to let them go after hours into a carnival Crazy House with a hall of mirrors. A throat-slashing serial killer they meet inside makes sure they don't get out.
44. Warlock: The Armageddon (1993)
R | 98 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
An order of Druids train their children to battle an evil Warlock determined to unleash Satan upon the world by bringing a collection of five mystic rune stones together.
Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: Julian Sands, Chris Young, Paula Marshall, Joanna Pacula
Votes: 6,863 | Gross: $3.90M
Trying to escape an evil Warlock, a circus sideshow boss runs into the House of Wonders mirror maze. He runs around but can't find the way out, all the while hearing the Warlock's ominous voice telling him he can't escape. Finally he steps right through one of the mirrors into what the Warlock calls "the other side of reality," a terrible nightmare realm where he will be trapped for eternity.
45. The Circus (1928)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Al Ernest Garcia, Harry Crocker
Votes: 36,060
A pickpocket hides a stolen wallet in Chaplin's pocket then he and Chaplin are chased by policemen through the circus grounds. Chaplin runs into a mirror maze to hide. He gets confused and keeps bumping into mirrors but eventually he finds the way outside only to run back inside again followed by the pickpocket demanding the wallet. He tries to grab Chaplin but gets confused by the mirrors and misses. Chaplin gets away and runs outside, but he turns around and runs back inside the maze once again chased by a policeman. The policeman also gets confused by the mirrors and can't capture Chaplin. Chaplin uses the confusion to escape once again.
46. The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
PG | 84 min | Family, Horror, Mystery
When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past.
Directors: John Hough, Vincent McEveety | Stars: Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Carroll Baker
Votes: 7,067 | Gross: $5.00M
An American family rents an isolated house in the English countryside. The teenage daughter Jan looks in a mirror and sees the image of Karen, a teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared 30 years earlier while blindfolded. Later Jan goes to an amusement park on a date with a boy where she walks into a hall of mirrors. At first she has fun looking at all the images of herself, but then she sees an image of Karen in the mirrors blindfolded and begging for help, and she gets scared and runs outside. Jan decides that Karen must be telling her to try to find out what really happened the night she disappeared.
47. Dr. Giggles (1992)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A madman who believes he's a doctor comes to the town where his crazy father was killed, and soon begins murdering people and becoming infatuated with a teenage girl who has a heart condition.
Director: Manny Coto | Stars: Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff De Young, Glenn Quinn
Votes: 7,213 | Gross: $8.40M
Jennifer finds her high school boyfriend Max making out with a girl named Coreen so she tells him off and walks around a carnival. She sees her father who she wants to avoid so she ducks into "Lyla's Labyrinth" which has a mirror maze. Max sees her and follows her inside, and Coreen follows Max. A psycho-killer nicknamed Doctor Giggles has been hunting for Jennifer, and he also follows her into the mirror maze. Max calls out to Jennifer but she tells him to leave her alone. Dr. Giggles kills Coreen then pursues Jennifer. She is startled to see him which causes her to crash through one of the mirrors allowing her to escape.
48. The Visitor (1979)
R | 108 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers and her mother become the prize in a battle between good ETs and evil ETs.
Director: Giulio Paradisi | Stars: Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, John Huston
Votes: 4,545
Katy, an 8-year-old girl with demonic psychic powers, is threatened by an alien visitor in the form of an old man who is fighting against her and the evil group that wants to use her and her mother. She chases the old man around town using her psychic powers to try to kill him but he gets away. He goes into an entertainment theater with a hall of mirrors. She follows him inside, screaming "Come out you bastard!" and smashing the mirrors with her fists and then with her psychic powers, but she doesn't catch him.
49. Fear (1990 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller
Psychic Cayce Bridges helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent - who wants to share the fear of his victims with ... See full summary »
Director: Rockne S. O'Bannon | Stars: Ally Sheedy, Lauren Hutton, Michael O'Keefe, Stan Shaw
Votes: 1,376
A woman who helps police solve murders by making a psychic connection with the murderer connects with another psychic who is also a serial-killing slasher who feeds on his victims' fears. He lets her know that he plans to make her his next victim. When they are connected and she knows he is chasing her she leads him to a traveling carnival where he follows her into a mirror maze called the Chamber of Fear. He laughs telling her he is glad to finally meet her face to face to face in the chamber of fear. She starts smashing his image in the mirrors with a large fireman's flashlight and then hits him directly, making him drop his knife and rush out of the mirror room.
50. Ella Enchanted (2004)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Ella is under a spell to be constantly obedient, a fact she must hide from her new stepfamily in order to protect the prince of the land, her friend for whom she's falling.
Director: Tommy O'Haver | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley
Votes: 74,835 | Gross: $22.92M
A spell was cast on Ella when she was a baby that makes her do anything she is told to do. When the uncle of a prince she loves orders her to kill the prince with a dagger in the Hall of Mirrors at midnight, she fears she can't refuse. But when midnight strikes, she is able to drop the dagger and break the spell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l24yOwR9saU
51. Cursed (2005)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Horror
A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill it in order to avoid becoming werewolves themselves.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg, Portia de Rossi, Mya
Votes: 35,003 | Gross: $19.30M
Ellie's estranged boyfriend Jake is opening a nightclub on the Sunset Strip with statues of monsters and divas. (The divas are scarier.) We see him setting up a mirror maze for the club and talking to her brother Jimmy. During the opening night party Jimmy and his friend run into the smoke-filled mirror maze to hide from Jake, and Ellie follows. Jake catches up with Ellie and tries to make up with her but a werewolf crashes through the glass and chases them all then destroys the club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmxmxQH2ZN0
52. Riding the Bullet (2004)
R | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
When a man finds out his mother is dying and tries to hitchhike his way to the hospital, he is picked up by a stranger with a deadly secret.
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, Barbara Hershey, Cliff Robertson
Votes: 10,771 | Gross: $0.10M
A man harassed by a mysterious stranger goes into the Thrill Village amusement park which is closed. He runs into Spooky's Haunted House! of Mirrors where he gets lost in the maze of mirrors. When he sees the stranger next to him he freaks out and runs out of the mirror house screaming.
53. The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
PG | 104 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick.
Director: Chris McKay | Stars: Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, Ralph Fiennes
Votes: 172,585 | Gross: $175.75M
Batman's nemesis the Joker takes over Bruce Wayne's island mansion and turns it into an amusement park. Batman chases him into a funhouse mirror room where the Joker uses the mirrors to confuse Batman as he chastises him, telling him to look in the mirror and see that he is selfishly pushing his friends away. Batman smashes mirrors where he thinks the Joker could be but keeps missing him until he smashes a mirror on the floor and falls out of the room.
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