Tropic Thunder/Zoolander/The Heartbreak Kid

Trio of comedies starring Ben Stiller. Stiller writes, directs and stars in the film-within-a-film action comedy 'Tropic Thunder' (2008).

During the filming of a big-budget Vietnam epic, the self-absorbed stars signed up to the project behave unreasonably, resulting in a four million dollar explosion going off with no cameras shooting - and rendering the whole project unviable before it has even begun.

The director of the film, Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan), decides to leave the spoiled actors in the middle of the jungle - and, in an attempt to salvage some footage from the wreckage of the doomed project, installs hidden cameras to follow their escape.

In 'Zoolander' (2001), Stiller stars as Derek Zoolander, former winner of the coveted Male Model of the Year award, who goes to work for up-and-coming fashion designer Mugatu (Will Ferrell) - with no idea that he is walking into a complex web of political intrigue and murder.

Mugatu is planning the assassination of a Malaysian politician whose campaign against exploitative child labour looks set to cut into the fashion industry's profit margin, and he sees Zoolander as the perfect person to pull the trigger.

The Farrelly brothers direct the romantic comedy 'The Heartbreak Kid' (2007) in which Stiller plays Eddie, a single (and very indecisive) 30-something who begins dating the incredibly sexy and seemingly fabulous Lila (Malin Akerman).

Upon the urging of his father and his best friend, Eddie proposes to her after only a week, fearing this may be his last chance at love, marriage, and happiness.

However, while on their honeymoon in sunny Mexico, Lila reveals her true, beyond-awful nature - and Eddie meets Miranda (Michelle Monaghan), the woman he realises to be his actual soulmate.

Eddie must now attempt to keep his new, increasingly horrible wife at bay as he attempts to woo the girl of his dreams.