Pretense movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant pretense movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, serious, feel good, funny and entertaining films and TV shows about / with pretense, dishonesty, deception, disorder, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, love, cons and scams and hidden identity plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as pretense: Just Go with It (2011), Revenge (2011), The Invention of Lying (2009), The Joneses (2009), The Act (2019), She's the Man (2006), We're the Millers (2013), Faking It (2014), Revenge (2013), Love Is In The Air (2020).

List of pretense movies

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 6.4
 264K
Just Go with It (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot: fall in love, pretense, couples, couple relations, love and romance, pretend relationship, single mother, love story, happy ending, dating, wedding, beach ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 1992, year 1988, 80s ...
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania, los angeles
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 7.8
 125K
Revenge (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay.
Style: captivating, serious, soap opera, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: high society, vengeance, pretense, hidden identity, strong female character, twists and turns, revenge, enemy, half sister, suspicion, haunted by the past, victim ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Invention of Lying (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
Style: philosophical, funny, humorous, romantic, satirical ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: atheism, society, alternate reality, rags to riches, love and romance, misfit, truth, love triangle, satire, life after death, life philosophy, existentialism ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 13th century, 21st century
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 6.4
 42K
The Joneses (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
Style: romantic, melancholic, satirical, cynical, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: materialism, advertising, envy, suburban life, dysfunctional family, stereotypes, manipulation, business, marketing, suburbs, twists and turns, pretense ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
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 7.9
 37K
The Act (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 425 min.
TV show
Story: Dee Dee Blanchard is overprotective of her daughter, Gypsy, who is trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her mother. Gypsy's quest for independence opens up a Pandora's box of secrets, which ultimately leads to murder. The ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, rough, anthology, thought provoking ...
Plot: overprotective parent, true crime, treatment, pretense, fake illness, mother daughter relationship, murder of mother, manipulation, mental illness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, murder investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa, syria
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 6.4
 174K
She's the Man (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Viola Johnson 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 ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, teen, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: high school, teenager, soccer, cross dressing, tomboy, roommate, teenage love, teen romance, high school life, teenage life, hidden identity, gender disguise ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, london
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We're the Millers (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.
Style: road movie, humorous, hilarious, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, adult
Plot: road trip, on the road, journey, nothing goes right, parenthood, pretense, adolescence, robbery, marijuana, drug smuggling, homeless teenager, drug dealing ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, arizona, tucson arizona, new mexico ...
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 7.3
 15K
Faking It (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: A romantic comedy about two best friends who love each other -- in slightly different ways. After numerous failed attempts to become popular, the girls are mistakenly outed as lesbians, which launches them to instant celebrity status. Seduced by ...
Style: humorous, realistic, teen, sitcom, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, high school, high school life, youth, teenage life, popularity, lesbian relationship, homosexual, gossip and rumors, pretense, sexual identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, austin texas, usa
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 5.9
 2K
Revenge (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Ä°ntikam is a Turkish series broadcast on Kanal D. It is a licensed adaptation of Revenge and is jointly produced by Disney and In D house Productions, the production wing of Kanal D.
Style: captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious
Plot: strong female character, high society, female protagonist, vengeance, deception, haunted by the past, hidden identity, pretense, twists and turns, husband wife relationship, family secret, impersonating ...
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Love Is In The Air (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Connecting all her hopes in her life to her education, Eda comes face to face with Serkan Bolat, who unknowingly cuts her scholarship abroad and caused her to remain a high school graduate. Serkan Bolat offers to give Eda her scholarship back if she ...
Style: light, humorous, sexy, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: pretend relationship, love hate relationship, opposites attract, engaged couple, fall in love, wedding, pretense, male female relationship, passion, groom, fiance fiancee relationship, florist ...
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 6.7
 26K
Albert Nobbs (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape ...
Style: sad, touching, sincere, period piece, stylized ...
Plot: gender, cross dressing, lesbian, loneliness, master and servant, woman dressed as man, maid, hotel, servant, gender disguise, death, relationships ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 1800s, year 2011
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, england, britain, europe
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 6.3
 85K
The Uninvited (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns ...
Style: twist ending, scary, surprise ending, slasher, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, mental illness, ghost, family problems, woman in danger, parents and children, uncover truth, family in danger, siblings relations, pretense, sisters, blood ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2000, year 1986, 80s ...
Place: maine, new england
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 7.1
 155K
Bad Santa (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.
Style: dark comedy, hilarious, funny, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: dark humor, profanity, christmas, heist, robbery, bully, alcohol abuse, christmas eve, holiday, misfit, bullying, anti hero ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, arizona, miami, milwaukee wisconsin, phoenix arizona
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Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While ...
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental, tragicomedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, nazi, human spirit, life & death, life philosophy, self sacrifice, nazism, fascism, war, courage ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 90s, 1930s ...
Place: italy, europe, tuscany
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, dramatic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, insanity, freedom, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, psychopath, society, nurse, escaped mental patient ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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 8.2
 1.2M
The Truman Show (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: self discovery, simulated reality, alternate reality, freedom, video surveillance, small town, fictional reality show, hidden camera, utopia, dystopia, paranoia, god complex ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, future
Place: florida, persia, america, usa
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In the Beginning (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, clever, contemplative
Plot: mayor, pretense, fall in love, self discovery, power of love, small time, disorder, love and romance, dishonesty, cons and scams, bribery, working class ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, flanders
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The Wild Hunt (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, exciting, dark fantasy ...
Plot: role playing, pretense, woman in danger, danger, escapades, mind game, woods, viking, game, attempted rape, trippy, folk horror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Just Another Love Story (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jonas is a Copenhagen homicide scene photographer, happily married, with two kids. One day, his car stalls, another car slams into him, runs head on into a third car and flips into the ditch. The other driver, Julia, is critically injured. He visits ...
Style: melancholic, emotional, neo noir, psychological, serious ...
Plot: memory loss, mistaken identity, relationships, existentialism, pretense, dangerous attraction, danger, amnesia, obsession, hospital, politics, coma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: copenhagen, denmark, europe
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 6.6
 11K
The Valet (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, witty, sweet ...
Audience: date night
Plot: comedy of errors, farce, supermodel, nothing goes right, pretense, dishonesty, paparazzi, unfulfilled love, fashion, adultery, couples, infidelity ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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 8.4
 122K
Banshee (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own ...
Style: exciting, sexy, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ex convict, sheriff, tough heroes, female nudity, organized crime, shooting, social relations, gory, cop, double life, sexual activity, small town ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, pittsburgh
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The Little Gangster (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Rik Boskamp is tired of being bullied all the time. After he sees a maffia movie, he decides to pretend that his dad is an important - and dangerous! - mob boss.
Style: entertaining, light, captivating, funny, feel good ...
Plot: bully, bullying, pretense, mafia, boy, father son relationship, prank, teenage life, satire, crime boss, criminal, deception ...
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Andy Barker, P.I. (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Certified public accountant Andy Barker reluctantly becomes a private investigator after he is mistaken for the former office tenant, who was a private eye.
Style: humorous, captivating, detective, sitcom, entertaining ...
Plot: investigation, private detective, accountant, mistaken identity, amateur detective, career change, pretense, disorder, dishonesty, escapades, rivalry, outside help ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, funny, inspirational ...
Plot: hospital, mistaken identity, medical school, impersonating, starting over, parents and children, hidden identity, family disapproval, love and romance, pretense, lifestyle, ambition ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: mumbai india, middle east, asia, india
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Futurama: Bender's Game (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Leela is insulted by a group of space-rednecks (like regular rednecks, but in space) she enters the Planet Express ship in a demolition derby. She emerges victorious, but when she brings the damaged ship home and the Professor sees the fuel ...
Style: parody, witty, not serious, exciting, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: spacecraft, cyclops, heroic mission, partner, rescue, rivalry, escapades, good versus evil, danger, parallel world, pretense, dystopian future ...
Time: future, 20th century, middle ages
Place: alaska, new york
Is relevant ?
 5.9
 2K
The Actors (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, offbeat
Plot: disguise, debt, debt collector, hidden identity, unlikely criminals, disorder, cons and scams, dishonesty, gangster, pretense, aging, caper ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, london, england
Is relevant ?
 8.4
 22K
The Lizard (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Reza is a petty thief who escapes jail by posing as a mullah. When he has to stay in disguise longer than he expected, he accidentally becomes the revered leader of a small-town mosque, bringing people flooding in with his on the hoof sermons ...
Style: serious, rough, humorous, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: prison escape, prison, village, criminal heroes, hidden identity, fugitives, society, pretense, religions or cults, warden, small town life, iranian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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 5.7
 140K
Identity Thief (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
Style: road movie, funny, hilarious, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: road trip, identity, stupidity, stolen identity, nothing goes right, escapades, women's prison, foul language, bounty hunter, cons and scams, female criminal, male female friendship ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: florida, usa, colorado, miami, missouri ...
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 7.4
 60K
Buffalo '66 (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
Style: black comedy, psychological, dark comedy, art house, cult classic ...
Plot: alienation, prison, kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, bowling, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, gambling, relationships, blackmail, debt, strip club ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york state, new york, usa
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 7.6
 71K
Cell 211 (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, intense, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, survival, prison life, confined, prison guard, prison riot, hidden identity, hostage, manipulation, pretense, protest, warden ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe
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