mistaken-identity movies

Bad Boys (1983)

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lawrence, Martin | Smith, Will | Leoni, Téa | Karyo, Tchéky | Pantoliano, Joe | Randle, Theresa | Helgenberger, Marg | Serrano, Nestor | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Guerra, Saverio | Imperioli, Michael | Levine, Anna | Manni, Vic | Hughes, Frank John | Kirton, Mike
Directors: Bay, Michael
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Chicago crime kid Mick O’Brien has been sent to a juvenile prison for vehicular manslaughter. Most unfortunately, the person he kills is the kid brother of his nemesis Paco Moreno, who vows revenge by raping Mick’s girlfriend. Paco is caught and sent to the same prison where he re-works his revenge plan, and Mick has no choice but to defend himself.

Net, The (1995)

Monday, December 7th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bullock, Sandra | Northam, Jeremy | Miller, Dennis | Diane Baker | Gazelle, Wendy | Howard, Ken | McKinnon, Ray | Schorr, Daniel | Caldwell, L. Scott | Gossett, Robert | Krofft, Kristina | García, Juan | Perez, Tony | Winkler, Margo | Kirkwood, Gene
Directors: Winkler, Irwin
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Angela Bennett’s a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years she becomes embroiled in a web (sic) of computer espionage.

Vertigo (1958)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Novak, Kim | Bel Geddes, Barbara | Helmore, Tom | Jones, Henry | Bailey, Raymond | Corby, Ellen | Shayne, Konstantin | Patrick, Lee | Ano, Jack | Benson, John | Bryar, Paul | Della Santina, Bruno | Dotto, Carlo
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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John “Scottie” Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.

He Was a Quiet Man (2007)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Slater, Christian | Gulager, John | Jones, Jamison | DeLuise, Michael | Ramsey, K.C. | Wells, David | Mantooth, Randolph | Whitney, Sewell | Macy, William H. | Baker, Greg | Lohmann, Brian | Roberts, Paul D. | Hardy, Bobby | Rothbard, Bill | Hall, Stanley C.
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A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he’s screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?

Flightplan (2005)

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Sarsgaard, Peter | Bean, Sean | Beahan, Kate | Irby, Michael | Cohen, Assaf | Christensen, Erika | Edelman, Shane | Gallagher, Mary | Ramm, Haley | Landis, Forrest | Kolesarova, Jana | Sexton, Brent | Lawston, Marlene | Scott, Judith
Directors: Schwentke, Robert
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In this modern retelling of a classic urban legend, a mother finds herself at odds with a unremitting flight crew and her own sanity when her daughter vanishes in the middle of a flight, with only a few clues left behind. She must now challenge the boundaries of her will and her mind in her desperate search.

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Hoskins, Bob | Tucci, Stanley | Fiennes, Ralph | Richardson, Natasha
Directors: Wang, Wayne
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Marisa Ventura (Lopez) is a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City, who works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, Marisa meets Christopher Marshall (Fiennes), a handsome heir to a political dynasty, who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. Fate steps in and throws the unlikely pair together for one night. When Marisa’s true identity is revealed, the two find that they are worlds apart, even though the distance separating them is just a subway ride between Manhattan and the Bronx.

Fawlty Towers (1975)

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Available seasons: 1, 2

A hotel by the sea is run by a stressed and moronic lunatic who can’t seem to please his guest, has a shaky marriage with a cruel and self-centered woman, and a Spanish porter who can barely speak English. Fortunately he has an intelligent and attractive maid to help him out of the various situations he gets into.

Little Mermaid, The (1989)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Auberjonois, Rene | Barnes, Christopher Daniel | Benson, Jodi | Carroll, Pat | Edwards, Paddi | Hackett, Buddy | Marin, Jason | Mars, Kenneth | McClurg, Edie | Ryan, Will | Wright, Ben | Wright, Samuel E.
Directors: Clements, Ron | Musker, John
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Loosely based upon the story by Hans Christian Andersen. Ariel, youngest daughter of King Triton, is dissatisfied with life in the sea. She longs to be with the humans above the surface, and is often caught in arguments with her father over those “barbaric fish-eaters”. She goes to meet Ursula, the Sea Witch, to strike a deal, but Ursula has bigger plans for this mermaid and her father.

Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper (2004)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Sheridan, Kelly | Lyons, Melissa | Stevens, Julie | Hildreth, Mark | Luna, Mark | Juliani, Alessandro | Short, Martin | Barr, Kathleen | Corlett, Ian James | Kennedy, Ellen | Hyatt, Pam | Drummond, Brian
Directors: Lau, William
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In her first animated musical featuring seven original songs, Barbie comes to life in this modern re-telling of a classic tale of mistaken identity and the power of friendship. Based on the story by Mark Twain, Barbie as The Princess and The Pauper features Barbie in an exciting dual role as a princess and a poor village girl – two girls who look amazingly alike. The girls’ paths are fated to cross when Princess Anneliese is captured and Erika, her look-alike, must try to save her. Can Erika pretend to be the Princess and foil her captor, the evil Preminger? And what of the handsome King Dominick, who falls in love with Erika, mistaking her for Princess Anneliese? In this magical musical performance, two beautiful, adventurous girls dare to follow their dreams and discover that destiny is written in a very special place: your heart.

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Sharif, Omar | Christie, Julie | Chaplin, Geraldine | Steiger, Rod | Guinness, Alec | Courtenay, Tom | McKenna, Siobhan | Richardson, Ralph | Tushingham, Rita | Rockland, Jeffrey | Sharif, Tarek | Kay, Bernard | Kinski, Klaus | Tichy, Gérard | Willman, Noel
Directors: Lean, David
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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.