Ramiro A. Fernandez has an interesting technique of taking multiple instances of a movie file (he uses flames) and offsetting them in time and 3D space. It’s a lovely effect and he doesn’t use any 3rd party plug-ins.
I’m thinking that this could be automated with a plug-in that can replicate and/or work with multiple layers of the same file in 3D space.
Download free demos of all three plug-ins at Toolfarm and try them out.