The Fall is a 2006 film by Tarsem Singh, starring Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, and Justine Waddell.

Roy Walker (Lee Pace), an early 20th century Hollywood stuntman, lands in the hospital after performing a dangerous stunt to impress his girlfriend. Distraught and suicidal after losing her, the bedridden Roy befriends a fellow patient, a young girl named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru). He enchants her with vivid, fantastical tales about five heroes — an Indian, an ex-slave, an Italian explosives expert, a masked bandit, and Charles Darwin — who unite to fight a common enemy, Governor Odious. Although Roy has genuine affection for Alexandria, he also has an ulterior motive: by telling tales and gaining her trust, he tricks her into stealing morphine from the hospital pharmacy so he can commit suicide.

As the line between fact and fantasy blurs, real-life people begin to populate Roy's fictitious stories. A hospital nurse (Justine Waddell) becomes the center of a romantic feud between Governor Odious and the masked bandit, who turns out to be Roy. Mesmerized by the epic, ever-changing story, Alexandria returns to the pharmacy to pilfer another bottle of morphine for Roy. While climbing on a ladder to reach the pills high on a shelf, she loses her footing and falls, injuring herself.

After surgery (depicted in an animated sequence like a similar surgery scene in Frida), Alexandria is visited by Roy in the recovery room, where he consoles her and confesses his stories were a ruse to obtain morphine. Once they are fully recovered, Roy returns to work as a Hollywood stunt man and Alexandria returns to picking fruit with her family in the orange groves.

The Fall premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. For its wide theatrical release in 2008, the film is presented by David Fincher and Spike Jonze.

The film received mixed reviews from critics. As of June 6, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 52% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 64 reviews, which classifies the film as "Rotten". However, Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 64 out of 100, based on 23 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Roger Ebert gave the movie a perfect 4 out of 4, and wrote, "You might want to see for no other reason than because it exists. There will never be another like it." Nathan Lee of The New York Times, however, wrote that the film "is a genuine labor of love — and a real bore."