Pretending to be someone else movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant pretending to be someone else movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, humorous, light, entertaining, feel good and psychological films and TV shows about / with pretending to be someone else, deception, fall in love, family relations, lie, pretense, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, relationships and male female relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, South Korea and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as pretending to be someone else: The Apartment (1996), Name Me (2014), Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018), A Double Identity (2010), My Girl (2005), Cam (2018), Farewell Mr. Kringle (2010), Mr. Stein Goes Online (2017), High School King of Savvy (2014), Some Like It Veiled (2017).

List of pretending to be someone else movies

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 7.3
 16K
The Apartment (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A stylish suspense thriller that confounds the audience while presenting them with an extraordinary and elusive mystery. Max is a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, during a business trip, ...
Style: sexy, psychological, tense, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: obsession, cafe, mistaken identity, manipulation, infidelity, voyeur, relationships, twists and turns, love triangle, female nudity, flirting, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, paris france, tokyo, montmartre paris, new york
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 6.3
 783
Name Me (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A practical joke ends up very wrong in Nigina Sayfullaevas curious youth drama. Two seventeen year old Moscow girls, Olya and Sasha, are visiting Olya's long lost father who lives in Crimea, when they decide to switch places and pretend to be ...
Style: serious, emotional, captivating, social, sentimental ...
Plot: teenage girl, friends, father daughter relationship, deception, friendship between girls, teenager, father and daughter, family relations, pretending to be someone else, pretense, brawl, jealousy ...
Place: soviet union, black sea, crimea
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Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school and the biggest loser must come together to win over their crushes.
Style: sweet, entertaining, teen, controversial, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, bullying, fall in love, popular girl, pretending to be someone else, happy ending, coming of age, teenage girl, teenager, physical appearance, popularity, fat girl ...
Time: 2010s, future
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A Double Identity (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Niña de mi Corazón is a teen Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Telefe adapted from Pedro Damian's 1997 Mi Pequeña Traviesa, that premiered on March 8, 2010 and ended on July 9, 2010. Damian was also the producer of this telenovela.
Style: entertaining, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
Plot: gender disguise, employer employee relationship, con trick, double life, hotshot lawyer, pretending to be someone else, law firm, sexism, male female relationship, female lawyer, gender issues, cross dressing ...
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 7.8
 2K
My Girl (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Gong Chan is the wealthy, unattached heir to a large company. Having lost both his parents, he is devoted to what remains of his family, particularly his ailing grandfather. After deciding to cut off his only daughter after disapproving of her ...
Style: dorama, romantic, light, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: heir, lie, pretending to be someone else, love triangle, love and romance, pretense, life turned upside down, job offer, financial problem, con trick, romantic triangle, money problems ...
Place: korea
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 5.9
 36K
Cam (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young camgirl discovers that she’s inexplicably been replaced on her site with an exact replica of herself.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: sex work, suicide, sex worker, stolen identity, doppelganger, erotica, social media, ambition, shame, terror, rivalry, young girl ...
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself ...
Style: suspense, sexy, captivating, enigmatic, tense ...
Plot: female objectification, murder, amnesia, impersonation, seductive behavior, secretary, sexual attraction, car theft, car, bare breasts, identity crisis, thunderstorm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: marseille, paris france
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Farewell Mr. Kringle (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A skeptical journalist is assigned to chronicle the 50th anniversary of Kris Kringle, a Santa Claus in the town of Mistletoe. As her involvement in the town grows, she begins to open up to the enchantment of Christmas and some other wonders of the ...
Style: light, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining
Plot: christmas, journalist, christmas eve, assignment, blog, magazine editor, small town, female protagonist, single woman, santa claus, pretending to be someone else, fall in love ...
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Mr. Stein Goes Online (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Pierre, widowed and retired, has not been out of his house for two years. He discovers the joys of the internet thanks to Alex, a young man hired by his daughter to teach him the basics of computer science. On a meeting place, a charming young ...
Style: light, sincere, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Plot: online dating, dating, dating show, pretending to be someone else, internet, widower, father daughter relationship, loneliness, romantic triangle, fall in love, internet dating, love story ...
Time: year 2017
Place: france
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High School King of Savvy (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Lee Min Suk is just a normal high school hockey player - until he's forced to take his brother's place as the director for a major company. Now he's forced to balance school work, hockey practice, and making multi-million dollar ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: boss and employee, dual identity, ice hockey, pretending to be someone else, switching roles, hockey player, double life, fish out of water, romantic triangle, employer employee relationship, workplace situations, deception ...
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Some Like It Veiled (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Armand and Leila, students at Science Po, are a young couple. They plan to go to New York to do their internship at the United Nations. But when Mahmoud, Leila's big brother, returns from a long stay in Yemen, which radically transformed him, ...
Style: light, humorous, satirical, funny, semi serious
Plot: male to female cross dressing, misfit partners, love, pretending to be someone else, religion, stereotypes, mistaken identity, culture clash, friends, disorder, activist, brother sister conflict ...
Time: year 2017, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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That Winter, the Wind Blows (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Circumstances condemn Oh Soo and Oh Young to loveless lives. After the untimely death of his first love, Oh Soo turns to an ambitionless life as a derelict gambler. The gorgeous Oh Young should be leading the perfect life as an heiress, but when her ...
Style: dorama, captivating, disturbing, psychological, romantic drama ...
Plot: gambler, heiress, living alone, first love, deaf, pretending to be someone else, blind man, blind woman, pretense, rich woman, deception, financial problem ...
Place: thailand
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People You May Know (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An introvert realizes he can be whomever he wants to be on the Internet.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, psychological, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: introvert, social network, social media, instagram, deception, liar, internet, pretending to be someone else, social problems, duplicity, new identity, secret identity ...
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Holiday Engagement (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thirty-something Hillary Burns has spent her life trying to get the approval of her parents, most specifically her judgmental mother, Meredith Burns, thus far without success. Part of that approval for Hillary is to marry the right man. That's ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, pretend relationship, thanksgiving, wedding, family gatherings, fall in love, deception, couples, fake relationship, disorder, unlikely couple, cons and scams ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Strange Ones (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Mysterious events surround the travels of two brothers as they make their way across a remote American landscape. On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets. This is ...
Style: road movie, rough, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: boy, motel, man boy relationship, pedophile, road trip, sibling relationship, gay, child abuse, pretending to be someone else, psychopath, investigation, on the run ...
Time: year 2017
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Rich Boy, Rich Girl (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Andy is a front desk clerk with a little ambition until he finds his muse. Hayley is a beautiful shampoo girl chasing big dreams in NYC. When their worlds collide in a hapless run-in, the starstruck lovers assume false identities and follow the ...
Style: captivating, humorous, psychological, sincere
Plot: love, hotel, actor, pretending to be someone else, life turned upside down, lie, acquittal, dating show, male female relationship, love affair, love story, relationships ...
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Persian Lessons (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Belarus
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles ...
Style: captivating, suspense, independent film
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, german soldier, military, lie, pretending to be someone else, labor camp, wartime life, holocaust, german officer, soldier, con trick ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1945, 20th century
Place: germany
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Orphan: First Kill (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After escaping from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Leena Klammer travels to America by impersonating Esther, the missing daughter of a wealthy family. But when her mask starts to slip, she is put against a mother who will protect her family from ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, slasher, bloody ...
Plot: killer child, psycho killer, female protagonist, brutality, stolen identity, personality change, pretending to be someone else, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, family problems, dysfunctional family, new identity ...
Time: 2020s, 2000s, year 2007
Place: estonia, moscow russia, russia
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The Birdcatcher (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.
Style: suspense, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful, heartbreaking ...
Plot: world war two, gender disguise, nazi occupation, woman dressed as man, holocaust, holocaust survivor, pretending to be someone else, cross dressing, false identity, fascism, war violence, world war ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s
Place: scandinavia
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 6.1
 9K
Madame (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Adding a little spice to a waning marriage, Anne and Bob, a wealthy and well-connected American couple, move into a manor house in romantic Paris. While preparing a particularly luxurious dinner for sophisticated international friends, our hostess ...
Style: funny, light, romantic, emotional, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: high society, love and romance, servant, maid, couple relations, social differences, stepmother stepson relationship, love affair, master servant relationship, domestic servant, impersonating, nude women ...
Place: france, paris france
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 7.8
 93K
Paddington 2 (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, China, Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
Style: feel good, funny, exciting, touching, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, toddlers, adult
Plot: friendship, animal, bear, pretending to be someone else, teenager, family relations, trust, jail, deception, disguise, prisoner, chase ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
Place: london, england, south america, big ben london, peru
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 7.4
 22K
Tomboy (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gender, childhood, transsexual, youth, child protagonist, children, summer, friendship, lgbt, tomboy, sexual identity, society ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, indiana, paris france, europe
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 7.4
 6K
Jett (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Fresh out of prison, world-class thief Daisy ”Jett” Kowalski is forced back into doing what she does best by dangerous and eccentric criminals determined to exploit her skills for their own ends.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, bleak, detective, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, femme fatale, gangster, female protagonist, single mother, escapades, police, dialogue, storytelling, sex scene, master thief, apocalypse ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The Big Bad Fox recounts the misadventures of a young clumsy Fox and a feisty little red Hen. The Fox, both a little stupid and naïve, tries daily to devour the little Hen, without success. Tired of the repeated humiliation, the Fox is persuaded ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: anthropomorphic animal, fox, duck, talking animal, rabbit, chicken, christmas, manipulation, father daughter relationship, mistaken identity, friendship, psychological manipulation ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france, europe
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A Very Bad Friend (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mika, a little crook, took a quick tour of the prison, where he got to know "Putin", a crazy and unpredictable detainee. As soon as his sentence has been served, he decides to start from scratch and start his life over again. As he ...
Style: buddy comedy, exciting, sincere, captivating, funny ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: bride and groom, suspicious man, hidden truth, fiance fiancee relationship, troubled past, friendship between men, deception, couple relations, past coming back to haunt, male female relationship, haunted by the past, pretending to be someone else ...
Place: france
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 8.0
 26
Two Hearts (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A story about two lookalikes, Ramona, Mona for short and Lisa. Lisa is a rich, strict and hardworking woman while Mona survives as a bet collector in cockfights. While Lisa is stylish and couth, Mona is tomboyish and rustic with a kind and loving ...
Style: thrilling, satirical, romantic, captivating, psychological
Plot: romantic relationship, family relations, pretense, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, in love, con trick, pretending to be someone else, relationship problems, family secret ...
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 7.5
 460
Mask (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Ji-Sook goes through a difficult period, due to her father's private loan. She begins living as Eun-Ha. Eun-Ha is from a wealthy family and looks like Ji-Sook. When Min-Woo was only seven years old, he became the successor of a large ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: hidden identity, pretending to be someone else, relationship problems, love affair, personality change, unlikely couple, fall in love, relationships, love story, male female relationship, pretense, in love ...
Place: korea
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 8.0
 6K
Affection (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: When the crown prince is killed, his twin sister assumes the throne while trying to keep her identity and affection for her first love a royal secret.
Style: dorama, disturbing, psychological, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot: joseon dynasty, hidden identity, cross dressing, twins, royalty, teacher, royal family, palace, prince, secret, medieval, strong female character ...
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Suits on the Loose (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their breakout from a desert survival camp. When two naive Mormon missionaries, Elder Talbot and Elder Johnson, run into a restroom at a remote rest stop, Justin steals ...
Style: funny, satirical, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: missionary, mormon, pretending to be someone else, rebellious youth, satire, troubled youth, deception, stealing a car, teenager, youth, white lie, runaway ...
Place: mojave desert
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Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: FBI agent Malcolm Turner and his 17-year-old son, Trent, go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and Charmaine, they must find the murderer before he finds them.
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, feel good, action comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: cross dressing, male to female cross dressing, disguise, hidden identity, working undercover, investigation, law enforcement, parents and children, teenage life, fbi, family relations, college life ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
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