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, light, entertaining, humorous, feel good and romantic films and TV shows about / with pretending to be someone else, deception, pretense, teenager, family relations, fall in love, female protagonist, lie, love and romance and boyfriend girlfriend relationship plots mostly in Comedy, Drama 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), Deadly Sibling Rivalry (2011), Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018), High School King of Savvy (2014), Some Like It Veiled (2017), Sinister Minister (2017), People You May Know (2017), A Double Identity (2010), Madame (2017), That Winter, the Wind Blows (2013).
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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, infidelity, mistaken identity, manipulation, crazy love, relationships, twists and turns, lost love, love triangle, flirting, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, montmartre paris, paris france, tokyo, new york
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two twins lead separate lives since one of them blamed the other for the accidental death of his father. Years later, one carries a conventional family life while the other has a life of excess. When the first has an accident and is in a coma, the ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, horrifying, detective
Plot:
evil twin, stolen identity, identity theft, twins, coma, pretense, sister, deception, pretending to be someone else, sisters, family problems, life is a bitch ...
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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, tear jerker, controversial ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, coming of age, high school, popular girl, fall in love, teenage girl, popularity, happy ending, fat girl, cheerleader, physical appearance, loser ...
Time:
future, 2010s
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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, switching roles, pretending to be someone else, double life, hockey player, businessman, dual identity, ice hockey, office romance, fish out of water, employer employee relationship, romantic triangle ...
Place:
korea
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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, semi serious, funny, satirical
Plot:
male to female cross dressing, misfit partners, pretending to be someone else, love, religion, stereotypes, mistaken identity, activist, culture clash, disorder, friends, man pretending to be a woman ...
Time:
year 2017, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A serial killer masquerades as a preacher in order to prey on women. His last wife may have committed suicide and his current wife is sick. Single mom Trish and her daughter move to town and are in jeopardy of becoming his next victims.
Style:
suspense, dark, sinister, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, minister, murder, mother daughter relationship, drug, seduction, church, preacher, murderer, pretending to be someone else, criminal ...
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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:
romantic drama, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
introvert, social network, social media, deception, instagram, liar, pretending to be someone else, internet, social problems, duplicity, new identity, lifestyle ...
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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:
disturbing, entertaining, captivating, telenovela
Plot:
gender disguise, employer employee relationship, con trick, double life, pretending to be someone else, hotshot lawyer, gender roles, workplace, ruse, lawyer, lifestyle change, sexism ...
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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, romantic, laugh out loud, offbeat, action adventure ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
love and romance, high society, couple relations, servant, love affair, maid, social differences, domestic servant, master servant relationship, impersonating, spaniard, infidelity ...
Place:
paris france, france
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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, romantic drama, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
gambler, living alone, heiress, first love, pretending to be someone else, blind man, blind woman, deaf, pretense, lifestyle change, money problems, lie ...
Place:
thailand, korea
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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, captivating, light, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
christmas, wedding, pretend relationship, fake relationship, thanksgiving, deception, family gatherings, fall in love, couples, disorder, unlikely couple, cons and scams ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Finley Tremaine, a small-town farm girl, longs to spread her wings and soar as an aspiring performer. When a Hollywood film crew arrives in her sleepy town, she is determined to land a role in the production and capture the attention of handsome ...
Style:
feel good, colorful, romantic, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
cinderella story, cinderella, happy ending, kindness, destiny, farm, female protagonist, fall in love, transformation, hopes, rags to riches, pretending to be someone else ...
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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:
humorous, sincere, psychological, captivating
Plot:
love, hotel, actor, love affair, male female relationship, love story, dating show, acquittal, life turned upside down, lie, pretending to be someone else, couple relations ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Unlucky lawyer pretends to be a disabled to get a job in the top corporation, which decides to dispossess the Disabled club of its building. Now the lawyer needs to choose between career and a girl from the Disabled club
Style:
emotional, romantic, touching, sweet, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
pretending to be someone else, new job, gain trust, love and romance, frame up, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret, meaning of life, empathy, ethical dilemma, heartwarming, corporate greed ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: France, UK
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, exciting, touching, atmospheric, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, toddlers, adult
Plot:
friendship, chase, bear cub, bear, pretending to be someone else, animal, circus, prison, family relations, talking animal, disguise, gift ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
london, peru, big ben london, england, south america ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
When Hotaru moves into a new apartment alone, there's a mysterious man standing nearby the apartment. Hotaru decides to confront the man, who turns out to live in the neighboring apartment. The next day at school, Hotaru's best friend ...
Style:
anime, captivating, semi serious, psychological, shounen ...
Plot:
cross dressing, tournament, teenager, adolescence, gender roles, ambition, japanese schoolgirl, school, teenage life, pretending to be someone else, teenage protagonist, secret ...
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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, crying, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood, gender, child protagonist, children, transsexual, friendship, youth, coming of age, society, child, sexual identity, soccer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, indiana, europe
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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, life turned upside down, pretense, job offer, love and romance, couple relations, money problems, family relations, love interest ...
Place:
korea
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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:
bloody, psychological, disturbing, captivating, slasher ...
Plot:
mental disorder, killer child, brutality, psycho killer, female protagonist, stolen identity, personality change, life is a bitch, family problems, dysfunctional family, missing daughter, evil girl ...
Time:
2000s, 2020s, year 2007
Place:
estonia, moscow russia, russia
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death in this horror-thriller. He is after her money and must try several times before he finally succeeds. Because she is mentally exhausted from being frightened all the time, ...
Style:
suspense, noir, independent film, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
conservatory, pretending to be someone else, notary, suicide, last will and testament, girl, american horror, old dark house, ghost, danger, rivalry, mind game ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, year 1977
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a ...
Style:
period piece, serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, serial killer, murder, gangster, robbery, prison, investigation, police investigation, law enforcement, police corruption, psychopath, police station ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1947, 50s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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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, sexy, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
suicide, doppelganger, sex work, sex worker, erotica, shame, stolen identity, social media, ambition, sex, terror, hacking ...
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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, entertaining, captivating
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, santa claus, holiday, blog, assignment, magazine editor, small town, female protagonist, single woman, pretending to be someone else, couples ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Ah Lei is the younger brother of Stone, a guitarist of Mayday. He is also the administrator of Mayday's fansite, in charge of replying to fan letters and emails. One day, he befriended a girl named Zhao Xuan through a chatroom. He told her that ...
Style:
romantic, light, captivating, entertaining, emotional ...
Plot:
love and romance, pretending to be someone else, love story, love affair, relationships, romantic relationship, couple relations, male female relationship, lie, deception, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, in love ...
Place:
taiwan
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Aspiring actors in New York try to keep the death of one's aunt a secret so they can stay in her cheap apartment.
Style:
semi serious, disturbing, captivating, entertaining, satirical
Plot:
apartment building, tenant, neighbor neighbor relationship, pretending to be someone else, hidden corpse, pretense, lifestyle, satire, desire for fame, couple relations, nosy neighbor, escapades ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Made for TV movie based on a true story, an aspiring New York City sportscaster's life is on the slow track until he serendipitously gets the old cell phone number of a basketball superstar. Will the number be his ticket to success or a path to ...
Style:
satirical, entertaining, semi serious, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
nightclub, cell phone, celebrity, escapades, sports star, pretending to be someone else, deception, pretense, humour, mistaken identity, new identity, basketball player ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story:
18-year-old Kang Gyung-Joon's spirit suddenly becomes transplanted in the body of 30-year-old Seo Yoon Jae. Seo-Yon-Jae is a successful doctor and engaged to high school teacher Gil Da-Ran. Gil Da-Ran just so happens to be the teacher of ...
Style:
dorama, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, novela
Plot:
teacher, body swapping, accident, pretense, male female relationship, fish out of water, pretending to be someone else, husband wife relationship, switching bodies, relationships, secret identity, relationship problems ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman -- an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
pretending to be someone else, escapades, actor, criminal gang, pretense, gang, con trick, organized crime, killer, bandit, deception, humour ...
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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:
satirical, feel good, entertaining, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
missionary, mormon, pretending to be someone else, deception, teenager, white lie, satire, escapades, rebellious youth, silly humor, runaway, pretense ...
Place:
mojave desert
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
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:
male to female cross dressing, cross dressing, disguise, hidden identity, working undercover, law enforcement, investigation, parents and children, teenage life, fbi, family relations, college life ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
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