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Movies: Best "mistaken identity" Movies


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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties(2006)

2.8/5 (with 953 votes)

Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.

North by Northwest(1959)

13
| 2h 16min | Mystery, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 1,745 votes)

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

The Other Zoey(2023)

3.6/5 (with 85 votes)

Zoey Miller, a super smart computer major uninterested in romantic love, has her life turned upside down when Zack, the school’s soccer star, gets amnesia and mistakes Zoey for his girlfriend.

Directed by Sara Zandieh - With Josephine Langford, Drew Starkey, Archie Renaux, Patrick Fabian, Heather Graham, Andie MacDowell, ...

She's the Man(2006)

3.4/5 (with 1,325 votes)

Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola's twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus.

The Man from Toronto(2022)

1h 50min | Action, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 59 votes)

In a case of mistaken identity, the world’s deadliest assassin, known as the Man from Toronto, and a New York City screw-up are forced to team up after being confused for each other at a rental cabin.

Directed by Patrick Hughes - With Kevin Hart, Woody Harrelson, Kaley Cuoco, Pierson Fodé, Ellen Barkin, Lela Loren, ...

Top Hat(1935)

3.7/5 (with 128 votes)

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde(1995)

1h 30min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 20 votes)

In New York in 1995 Dr. Richard Jacks is a creator of perfumes. Thus he spends his days inventing new colorful and well smelling potions and certainly caring for his girlfriend Sarah Carver. But when he discovers that his greatgrandfather, called Dr. Jekyll, was a scientist with revoluntionary discoveries, he tries to follow the footsteps of his ancestor and creates more and more delicate potions until one of them converts him into a spectacular superwoman: Helen Hyde. Knowing that Richard has no clue of her existence Helen enforces a professional career at the back of her "creator".

Maid in Manhattan(2002)

3.0/5 (with 838 votes)

Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. Can two people from very different worlds overcome their differences and live happily ever after?

A History of Violence(2005)

1h 36min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.6/5 (with 1,424 votes)

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

Trinity Is Still My Name(1971)

1h 57min | Comedy, Western
3.7/5 (with 385 votes)

The two brothers Trinity and Bambino are exchanged by two federal agents and take advantage of the situation to steal a huge booty hidden in a monastery by a gang of outlaws.

Twin Dragons(1992)

1h 44min | Comedy, Action
3.3/5 (with 151 votes)

Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the two inevitably get mistaken for each other.

Monte Carlo(2011)

3.3/5 (with 959 votes)

Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress.

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The Majestic(2001)

PG
| 2h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 309 votes)

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Bad Company(2002)

2.7/5 (with 324 votes)

When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.

The Wrong Missy(2020)

3.1/5 (with 508 votes)

A guy meets the woman of his dreams and invites her to his company's corporate retreat, but realizes he sent the invite to the wrong person.

Directed by Tyler Spindel - With David Spade, Lauren Lapkus, Roman Reigns, Geoff Pierson, Sarah Chalke, Molly Sims, ...

Date Night(2010)

1h 37min | Comedy, Action, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 1,275 votes)

Phil and Claire Foster fear that their mild-mannered relationship may be falling into a stale rut. During their weekly date night, their dinner reservation leads to their being mistaken for a couple of thieves—and now a number of unsavoury characters want Phil and Claire killed.

Femme Fatale(2002)

3.1/5 (with 247 votes)

A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.

El Mariachi(1992)

1h 21min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 472 votes)

El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez - With Roberto Martínez, Carlos Gallardo, Peter Marquardt

Mrs. Winterbourne(1996)

1h 45min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.4/5 (with 65 votes)

Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hospital to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.

Stir Crazy(1980)

1h 51min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 186 votes)

New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.

Everyone Says I Love You(1996)

3.2/5 (with 294 votes)

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.

Kill Your Darlings(2013)

3.6/5 (with 616 votes)

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Bringing Down the House(2003)

13
| 1h 45min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 315 votes)

Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. He tries online dating and lucks out when he starts chatting with a fellow lawyer. The two agree to meet in the flesh, but the woman he meets -- an escaped African-American convict named Charlene -- is not what he expected. Peter is freaked out, but Charlene tries to convinces him to take her case and prove her innocence. Along the way she wreaks havoc on his middle-class life as he gets a lesson in learning to lighten up.

The Man Who Knew Too Little(1997)

1h 37min | Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Action
3.2/5 (with 200 votes)

An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.

The Man(2005)

13
| 1h 23min | Action, Comedy, Crime
2.9/5 (with 234 votes)

A case of mistaken identity forces a Federal agent and a dental supply salesman to team up as they speed through the streets of Detroit to pull off a sting operation and solve the murder of the agent's former partner.

Man Up(2015)

3.3/5 (with 421 votes)

A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget.

Tallulah(2016)

1h 51min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 328 votes)

Desperate to be rid of her toddler, a dissatisfied Beverly Hills housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for.

The Assignment(1997)

1h 59min | Thriller, Action, Crime
3.2/5 (with 57 votes)

Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.

Laura(1944)

1h 28min | Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 337 votes)

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Vehicle 19(2013)

1h 25min | Thriller, Action
2.7/5 (with 227 votes)

A parolee becomes the target of a massive police manhunt after inadvertently picking up a rental car with a female whistleblower tied up in the trunk. Now, as the police attempt to silence the woman before she can testify about the city's rampant corruption, the ex-con who just regained his freedom must defend her life, and clear his own name.

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