10 Movies Within Movies Everyone Wanted To See

10. Angels With Filthy Souls - Home Alone

Is there any better testament to a film-within-a-film's quality than most people believing it to be an actual, real movie?

For younger viewers in particular, this was certainly the case with Home Alone's Angels with Filthy Souls - an apparently decades-old black-and-white gangster film memorably watched by Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) while left to his own devices during the movie.

There isn't a person alive who's seen Home Alone and doesn't remember Johnny (Ralph Foody) pumping Snakes (Michael Guido) with a hail of lead before savagely quipping, "Keep the change, ya filthy animal!" It just isn't possible.

But of course, the scene was shot specifically for Home Alone, as a parody of the 1938 crime film Angels with Dirty Faces, with director Chris Columbus even going to the trouble of shooting it on black-and-white negative film that would help give it a period-accurate look.

It certainly looks like an absolute blast, enough that Home Alone 2 rehashed the gag to still-amusing effect with the sequel, Angels with Even Filthier Souls.

Between the deliciously hard-boiled dialogue and Ralph Foody's gloriously scenery-chewing performance as Johnny, what's not to like?