Doppelgangers and lookalikes in mystery movies
Includes clones and identical twins. In year of release order from 2024 going back in time to 1919.
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- DirectorMark SchoonmakerStarsJohanna WattsSteve WilcoxGarrett HinesFrom filmmaker Mark Schoonmaker comes a new horror thriller about fear, regret, guilt, and consequences.
- DirectorNeil BreenStarsNeil BreenGwendolyn BrownNicole ButlerAn identical Al twin brother restores an old mysterious mental asylum. He takes it upon himself to mystically train the patients as warriors for humanity and justice.
- DirectorJuel TaylorStarsJohn BoyegaJamie FoxxTeyonah ParrisA series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.
- DirectorVardhan KetkarStarsAditya Roy KapoorMrunal ThakurRonit RoyThe murder investigation of a young man takes an unexpected turn when the cops discover that the prime suspect has a lookalike.
- DirectorKevin Lucero LessStarsKevin Lucero LessA man is unlucky to meet his doppelganger in the workplace.
- DirectorK. SelvaraghavanStarsDhanushPrabhuIndhuja RavichandranPrabhu an average suburban man for whom his family is everything. His life is turned upside down when his daughter Satya is possessed by the ghost of a little boy.
- DirectorJustin P. LangeStarsFinn JonesJessica McNameeThomas Francis MurphyAfter a series of tragedies, Robert moves with his wife back to her childhood home. After he discovers an old portrait of a man who looks like him, he goes down a rabbit hole to discover the identity of this mysterious doppelganger.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsKôkiRiku HagiwaraKeiko HoriuchiIn a so-called "spirit video", Kanon (Kôki) is astonished to see a high-school girl who looks exactly like her.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsNavid MohammadzadehTaraneh AlidoostiAli BagheriA married couple believe they meet their doppelgängers in Tehran.
- DirectorGinanti RonaStarsZulfa MaharaniOmar DanielAghniny HaqueLife at a boarding school descends into chaos when a teacher instructs his students to perform a forbidden ritual that summons their doppelgängers.
- DirectorPeter SullivanStarsBrittany UnderwoodJonathan StoddardTom ArnoldWhen her down on his luck confidential informant in a criminal investigation suddenly goes missing, a desperate young federal agent recruits his doppelganger to play his role.
- DirectorAudie HarrisonStarsFrank WelkerGrey GriffinMatthew LillardWith Coco and kitty in prison, Mystery Inc. thinks that they can finally enjoy a break.
- DirectorMatilde SköldMarcus SvanbergStarsCarla SehnHedda StiernstedtTwo young women move into a new apartment. When they spot their doppelgangers in the house across the street, the situation quickly turns from weird to something much more terrifying.
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- CreatorVanessa GazyStarsMichelle MonaghanMatt BomerKaren RobinsonLeni and Gina are identical twins who have secretly swapped their lives since they were children, culminating in a double life as adults, but one of the sisters goes missing and everything in their perfectly schemed world turns into chaos.
- DirectorMatt HutchinsonStarsKelly RobinsonClementine MillsMorgan PowellIdentical twin mathematicians investigate a mystery hidden within the works of the Surrealist painters, the music of Bach and the physics of Einstein.
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- DirectorOmar KakarStarsBrandon deSpainAbbey DubinKelly FairbrotherA New York City embalmer discovers a renewed sense of life upon the uncovering of a mysterious doppelgänger on his mortuary table.
- DirectorSanjin MalesevicStarsSenad MilanovicBozana BijelicDusko MazalicaA sleep-deprived woman arrives home to find a stranger in the house adamant he is her son.
- DirectorThirumala KishoreStarsRam PothineniNivetha PethurajMalvika SharmaOne pictorial evidence, two lookalike suspects and just 48 hours are all the cops have to solve a murder case.
- StarsTejaswini PanditSachit PatilSonali KhareNaive and beautiful Anuradha, a young woman living in Mumbai, is entangled in a murder case, raising doubts on her innocence.
- DirectorMars FargoStarsMars FargoKennedi HobbsReagan KacmarAn incompetent time traveler must team up with his unpredictable alternate self, to fix a paradox which is now slowly destroying the universe.
- DirectorColin KriselJames KriselStarsZach AveryBrian CoxUdo KierThree years after witnessing the murder of his fiancée, a man finds himself a fearful drifter, until one day at a Parisian cinema he sees an actress who looks a lot like his dead love, and eventually he finds the truth about his fiancée.
- DirectorGian Guido ZurliStarsClelia CiceroGiustiniano AlpiLuca VitaliOctober 16, 1817: a farmer discovers the corpse of Luigia Bacchi, the woman missing a few days before. At the cemetery, the night before, it was stolen the dead body of Victoria Clementi, the suicidal girl alleged murderer of Luigia Bacchi. The investigations are closed hastily. The Inspector Augusto Donati begins a personal investigation that led him to reconnect these two deaths with an infanticide committed few months earlier. Meanwhile,on July 23, 2017, Anna Persico, perfectly lookalike Vittoria Clementi, continues to be haunted by her doppelganger. Police investigates on the disappearance of Angela, the best friend of Anna, and on the kidnapping of Chiara Ferrari, a girl missing for months, found alive and exactly identical to Luigia Bacchi.
- DirectorGian Guido ZurliStarsClelia CiceroPaolo PaoliniJulia RossiIn 2017 Anna continues to be persecuted by her look-a-like dead two hundred years before. In 1818 investigations into the death of Luigi Bacchi and the infanticide Emma Rigoni are assigned to a new detective.
- DirectorLee CroninStarsSeána KerslakeJames Quinn MarkeyKati OutinenA single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house.
- DirectorJohn MurlowskiStarsJoel CourtneyCalum WorthyAndi MatichakThree friends making a web series about their town discover that their neighbors are being killed and replaced by creatures who are perfect copies of their victims.
- DirectorGian Guido ZurliStarsClelia CiceroStefano TorselliIrene MaroneAnna, modern woman living in 2017, is pulled deep into a world of the occult, one in which the past and present collide and Anna discovers a supernatural link between herself and a seemingly identical girl who died in 1817.
- DirectorJordan PeeleStarsLupita Nyong'oWinston DukeElisabeth MossAdelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them.
- DirectorMagizh ThirumeniStarsArun VijayTanya HopeSmruthi VenkatThe murder of a youngster creates confusion among cops when they discover the suspect has a lookalike.
- DirectorMarc SchießerStarsCaroline HartigFarina FlebbeTimur BartelsNew student Emma must find out what happened to her doppelgänger Ann-Sophie before the bloody red countdown is over.
- DirectorJoséphine FlasseurA young boy, isolated on a desert island, fights against his doppelganger under the mysterious influence of two moons ..
- DirectorShaurya ChawlaStarsLivia CoyleA woman becomes suspicious when her lookalike suddenly moves into her neighborhood.
- DirectorKemp LeeStarsOwen ConwaySusan KohlerKemp LeeA sister and brother caring for their mother with dementia hire an actor to pose as a lookalike for the only face she seems to remember. A face from her past that hides a long buried secret.
- DirectorDaniel GoldhaberStarsMadeline BrewerPatch DarraghMelora WaltersAlice, an ambitious camgirl, wakes up one day to discover she's been replaced on her show with an exact replica of herself.
- DirectorHugo ParthonnaudStarsLaure MassardDerek Simon RobinTony SimonneauObsessed with a physical paradox he can't seem to solve, a megalomaniac scientist decides to clone himself, since, according to him, only a brain similar to his can accomplish his work. After some time, the clone's presence becomes problematic.
- DirectorPedro BaronStarsLaurent MalaquaisVerena PuhmA man follows a mysterious woman through a hellscape as an evil doppelganger trails behind.
- CreatorRJ NuevasStarsKris BernalRafael RosellAssunta De RossiNimfa, an ugly street vendor, Jeremy a talented plastic surgeon, in a car accident. He gives her new face through surgery. She later discovers that her face is copied from Jeremy's lover.
- StarsYueming PanLongzheng WangNaigang SongGuan Hongfeng, a nyctophobic former police captain, returns as a consultant in order to discover the culprits behind the framing of his identical twin brother, Guan Hongyu, for familicide.
- StarsYumi AsôNaoto TakenakaKang Ji-youngSara Aoyama (Kang Ji-Young) was an orphan and is now a single mother. She has suffered through poverty, lack of understanding from society and other problems that led to her being separated from her daughter. She believes that if she has money, her life will change. One day, Sara Aoyama sees a woman killing herself by jumping in front of a train. The woman who jumped looks just like her doppelganger. Sara Aoyama is stunned, but takes the woman's bag. Since then, her life takes an unpredictable turn.
- DirectorDiyab BasheerStarsPeter MathewCharmy VoraMuzayin MoiduA college student begins to encounter strange happenings, including the appearance of his doppelgänger and the presence of an inhuman entity.
- DirectorNathan MadlemStarsIan TrippOne night, one man, one doppelgänger, only one outcome.
- DirectorAmitabh Reza ChowdhuryStarsChanchal ChowdhuryMasuma Rahman NabilaPartha BaruaA struggling actor becomes a professional impostor, hired to impersonate people for financial gain, but as he delves deeper into his work he becomes embroiled in trouble that threatens to unravel his life.
- StarsRyôko HirosueYuki UchidaYoh YoshidaKanako suffered domestic violence by her husband. Her friend Naomi wanted to help, and both of them murdered Kanako's husband and buried him in the forest. They found a lookalike to help them. Kanako's husband's sister felt suspicious about her brother's missing, can Naomi and Kanako get away from the murdering?
- DirectorTsubasa TomoriStarsKintarô AoyamaKyle CardCynthia ChestonAmy (Camilla Ståhl), a bitchy former beauty queen, wakes up next to her own unconscious body in the hospital. Death (Cynthia Cheston) comes to her and explains that she had been pushed and temporarily died, but was revived. Amy must now decide to return fully to life and face possible brain damage or choose to die. To help her understand who she really is, Death joins her in reliving her last day. After seeing who she really is, what will Amy decide to do? And there also is the nagging question of who tried to kill her... Was it her angry ex-boyfriend Yosuke (Kintaro Aoyama)? Or was it her fed-up cousin Jo (Maria Papadopoulou )? Could it have been the hot-headed bartender Andy (Kyle Card)? Perhaps it was the prone to hysterics singer Rain (Christopher McCombs).
- DirectorWilliam FrascaStarsWilliam FrascaKristin HollowayDavid PascuaA man who goes to a hypnotist for help but must confront his Doppelganger to stop him from taking over his life.
- DirectorMinju KimAndré MonacoStarsAdéla KoutnáAmáta SkalováA young woman struggles with her perception of reality as she follows her doppelgänger throughout the city.
- DirectorBryan M. FergusonStarsStascia BantouvakisFred BonnerGerard BonnerA doppelgänger with the uncontrollable ability to bodyhop is transported into an intense situation while on the hunt for his lover.
- DirectorJames BobinStarsRicky GervaisTy BurrellTina FeyWhile on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
- DirectorMatt DugganStarsJosh WingateMichelle LawrenceMorlan HigginsA man awakens from his supposed death to discover that he's from a parallel universe. He's fallen in love with his doppelganger's wife here on Earth, which sets off a chain of events that threaten both their lives and mankind.
- DirectorGenaro OchoaStarsRomina CoccioArnoldo PicazzoA man finds a doppelgänger while waiting at a Café. When he decides to follow him, he finds out he made it to his house.
- DirectorKeela BufordStarsMychael VanarsdaleRyan HobbyNikki DailyA young male adult in college has been experiencing the same recurrent dream that showcases him being targeted by a figure unknown. Unknown in origin, not unknown in appearance. The figure is him.
- DirectorJohn Patrick TooleyStarsColtron JamesAngelique O'RourkeAnne WoodsBenjamin, a doppelganger obsessed college student, is intrigued when his own perfect double appears. Soon he is dismayed to learn that his friends prefer the affable double.
- DirectorRichard AyoadeStarsJesse EisenbergMia WasikowskaWallace ShawnThe unenviable life of a government-agency clerk takes a horrific turn with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite otherwise--he's a confident, charismatic ladies' man.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsJake GyllenhaalMélanie LaurentSarah GadonA man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie.
- DirectorArie PosinStarsAnnette BeningEd HarrisRobin WilliamsA widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.
- DirectorIsabel CoixetStarsSophie TurnerClaire ForlaniRhys IfansA teenager finds her perfect life upended when she's stalked by a mysterious doppelganger who has her eyes set on assuming her identity.
- DirectorNitish BharadwajStarsPoorvi BhaveSuhas JoshiSachin KhedekarIn today's urban Indian lifestyle where more relationships seem idealistic and flawless, an archaeologist encounters his look alike and the disturbing past of the look alike's aging mother in rural Maharashtra. But was his father responsible for the plight of this old woman. The film is an emotional story of a romance failed by a cruel twist of fate, a confrontation of shattered family values and rebuilding of human bonds.
- DirectorVikram BhattStarsKarisma KapoorRajneesh DuggalDivya DuttaThree doppelgangers(one girl+ two boys).Two of them loves each other and get together from many lives .And the third one(who can't be killed easily)also wants the girl and he tries to separate them through many lives.
- DirectorMitesh Kumar PatelStarsAndrew RothLiana Werner-GrayDevlin WilderWhile doing research in the woods, four college friends find a cursed Indian burial mound and find themselves trapped in a mysterious maze, followed by a terrifying force.
- CreatorEric C. CharmeloNicole SnyderStarsSarah Michelle GellarKristoffer PolahaIoan GruffuddSix-months-sober Bridget is key witness to a murder but flees, visiting her identical twin, who "suicides". Bridget takes over her rich, glamorous, married life in New York City. Out of the ashes and into the fire?
- CreatorCharles Pratt Jr.StarsAlexandra ChandoAndy BuckleyAllie GoninoIdentical twins meet as teenagers after Sutton was adopted by a rich couple and Emma grew up a foster kid. Sutton investigates their bio mom etc., while Emma takes her place/identity.
- DirectorDiego F. Reyes-CancinoStarsLena SandbergLauren McCullumPaul Easom'REPLANT' follows the story of Tereza Eulen, an undercover journalist who is investigating the production of a new powerful drug. While being infiltrated in Harry Zweiman's warehouse, Tereza starts to experience visions of her double (doppelganger), which will eventually cause her colleague Carmen to suspect her.
- DirectorSin Yaw Mg MgStarsAung ThuraEaindra Kyaw ZinKhin Hnin WaiWhen Kyaw Moe Naing meets a girl who looks like his fiancee who died 20 years ago, he attempts to unveil the mystery. He then gets ever deeper into a swamp of confusion. The answer he finds, is darker than he ever could imagine.
- DirectorPhilip NauckA sinister doppelganger creeps into office worker Jacob's life, and gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his boss and colleagues.
- DirectorChristopher LenkePhilip NauckStarsAnnika ErnstHeide SimonAljoscha StadelmannBased on Dostoyevky's novel, a sinister doppelganger creeps into office-worker Jacob's life, and gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his boss and colleagues. Soon a grotesque struggle for his identity begins...
- DirectorNoel Davis PoynerStarsEric GrapatinMelissa PantojanA voyeur attempts to seduce his twin brother's girlfriend by assuming his identity.
- DirectorJohn FawcettStarsSean BeanMaria BelloSophie StuckeyIn mourning over the tragic drowning of their daughter Sarah, James and Adèle are visited by Ebrill, a young girl who claims she died 60 years ago - and bears a startling resemblance to Sarah.
- DirectorWill DixonStarsAlison EastwoodIris QuinnBo SvensonA young woman must identify the body of her exact double and ends up discovering the details of her father's disappearance.
- StarsPaula BrancatiJonathan MalenAlex House15-year-old twins, Cally and Lance Stone, discover a mysterious comic book called Dark Oracle that can somehow predict their future and whose protagonists, Cally and Lance's doppelgangers, can influence reality itself.
- DirectorAaron Michael LaceyStarsEmile PiscitelliAna YudiskasMarkus AlexanderIn 2069, doctors have developed the technology to create human clones. After governmental legislation, banning human cloning, the doctors at D.B.I. find another way to continue their experimentations on an orbiting space prison, the Maxine-2000. In Washington D.C., Essex is an agent for the National Bio-ethics Advisory Commission who specializes in enforcing the Bio-ethic laws. He is sent to the Maxine-2000 to investigate rumors of illegal experimentation on prisoners. After discovering the terrifying truth, he rushes back to Earth to try to confront the geneticists.
- DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerMichael RapaportTony GoldwynA man meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsMasahiro MotokiRyôYasutaka TsutsuiA successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsSteven SoderberghScott AllenBetsy BrantleyFletcher Munson, the lethargic employee of a pseudo-religious self help company, and his doppelganger, the friendly but dull dentist Dr. Jeffrey Korchek.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsTimothy HuttonAmy MadiganMichael RookerA writer's fictional alter ego wants to take over his life...at any price.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsClaude BrasseurAndréa FerréolAna PadrãoSpino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
- DirectorRobert KnightsStarsKim CattrallGale HansenMacha MérilTwin sisters who are worlds apart in every way become connected by the one man who tears them apart forever.
- DirectorSandor SternStarsGregory HarrisonKim GreistCicely TysonA woman runs into a man who looks exactly like her dead brother. He claims he doesn't know her and leaves. She and her husband decide to investigate. This leads them to the Sandburg Research Institute.
- DirectorJames DeardenStarsMatt DillonSean YoungJames BonfantiA determined student murders his pregnant secret girlfriend and moves onto her twin sister who gradually becomes suspicious of her new lover.
- DirectorGary NelsonStarsMelissa GilbertDiane LaddFrances Lee McCainA mentally disturbed woman is further tormented after discovering a girl who closely resembles her recently deceased daughter.
- DirectorG.S. VijayanStarsRahmanShobanaLizyPhilip is desperate to prove that Raju is not his brother but a lookalike and an imposter. Together with his trusted friends, he repeatedly tries to test him in order to expose him.
- DirectorRowdy HerringtonStarsJames SpaderCynthia GibbJim HaynieA serial killer in Los Angeles celebrates Jack the Ripper's 100th birthday by committing similar murders and only one has a chance of stopping him.
- DirectorP. PadmarajanStarsJayaramShobanaMadhuViswanathan, new in town, soon learns that he is being chased by enemies of his look-alike, who is a con man. Vishwanathan tries to find out Uthaman before its too late, but things don't go as planned.
- DirectorTerrell TannenStarsNed BeattyMia SaraMichael MadsenA married man suffering from midlife crisis obsesses over a girl from his romantic fantasy. He meets her exact duplicate on vacation and helps her get rid of her abusive husband. They run off together but a caller starts blackmailing him.
- DirectorRobert WiemerStarsDina MerrillMartha ByrneMark PattonAnna Hart is one of a series of clones created to uncover the secrets of Anna Zimmerman, who was close to conquering world hunger when she died years ago.
- DirectorRichard T. HeffronStarsArmand AssanteBarbara CarreraLaurene LandonA PI investigates the murder of his one-armed friend, a PI working on a case. Clues lead to a sex clinic. Bodies pile up.
- StarsDiana QuickIan RichardsonJohn ShrapnelIn Victorian England, Laura and her half-sister Marian are entwined in a terrifying web of deceit. Laura's doppelganger, a mysterious woman dressed all in white, may hold the key to unlock the mystery.
- DirectorMichael DarlowStarsPeter UstinovLilli PalmerRoger ReesEllen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him her money, she calls her mysterious lookalike gentlemen friends to her aid.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsRobert SacchiFranco NeroMichelle PhillipsIn contemporary Hollywood, private investigator Sam Marlow gets plastic surgery to look like Humphrey Bogart and solves various cases just like Bogart's silver-screen detective characters from the 1940s.
- DirectorJohn HayesStarsChristopher LeeSue LyonKirk ScottAfter witnessing a man's death in a bizarre accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest.
- DirectorBrian McDuffieStarsGeorge BakerBud BloorLes ClevelandMartyn Tarne a young actress from New Zealand bears an amazing resemblance to the leading man Adam Poole. Rumours amongst the cast are widespread and speculation and murder fuel the intrigue which Ngaio Marsh has set in London at The Vulcan Theatre.
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsKaren BlackGeorge HamiltonRobert F. LyonsA housewife is sick of her normal routine and makes all sorts of odd changes to her appearance. From her hair/wardrobe to her makeup, she creepily soon starts to take on the different personality of a lady who had died five years prior.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsAlain DelonJeanne MoreauFrancine BergéIn German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear his name?
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsCliff RobertsonGeneviève BujoldJohn LithgowA wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsJim HagerJon HagerLillian GishTwo identical twin brothers who own a detective agency hatch a plan to expose a phony group of psychics, but soon find themselves involved in a murder.
- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsUta HagenDiana MuldaurChris UdvarnokyA series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
- DirectorEtienne PérierStarsJean-Claude BrialyStéphane AudranRobert HosseinMurder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
- DirectorSamir GangulyStarsShashi KapoorRakhee GulzarNasir HussainAn army captain falls for an outgoing young woman, but unknowingly weds her shy twin sister.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsRoger MooreHildegard NeilAlastair MackenzieHarold Pelham discovers a doppelganger is meddling with his personal and professional life in the aftermath of a car crash.