Intimate Strangers (2004), The Party (1968), Bachelor Mother (1939), Easy Living (1937), Cluny Brown (1946), The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), Battling Butler (1926), Monkey Business (1952) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Identity Mix-up movies.
Storyline: When a beautiful woman named Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire) mistakes a psychiatrist's office for that of tax attorney William (Fabrice Luchini), she unwittingly confesses her deepest and darkest secrets to a perfect stranger. Sexually repressed and lonely, William doesn't have the courage to reveal his true identity to Anna. Maintaining the deception, William begins to enjoy the fake therapy sessions. Every week, the pair meet, and they forge an odd and erotic relationship.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, mystery, psychological, french film, emotional, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While trying to tie his shoe, bumbling extra Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) unwittingly triggers explosives that destroy the set of an epic war film. The furious director tells executive Fred Clutterbuck (J. Edward McKinley) to fire him. Because of a misunderstanding, Bakshi instead mistakenly receives an invitation to an exclusive party at Clutterbuck's Hollywood mansion, where he proceeds to wreak havoc on partygoers as he stumbles through what will become the wildest night he's ever seen.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, british film, black and white, 1960s, absurd, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, christmas, misunderstanding, single mother, 1930s, classic hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it off the roof, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, classic, 1930s, american film, romantic comedy, wealth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. While there, she becomes friendly with Adam Belinski, a charming Czech refugee. She also becomes interested in a dull shopkeeper named Mr. Wilson. Belinski soon falls in love with Cluny and tries to keep her from marrying Wilson.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, classic, black comedy, british film, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, black and white, school, misunderstanding, education, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alfred's father wants him to make of a man of himself so sends him off on a hunting and fishing trip. He doesn't catch or shoot anything, but he does fall in love with a mountain girl. When her father and brothers laugh at this they are informed that he is Alfred "Battling" Butler, the championship fighter. From there on the masquerade must be maintained.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, silent film, boxing, romance, misunderstanding, slapstick, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the water cooler and believes his potion is what is working. The mixture temporarily causes him to feel and act like a teenager, including correcting his vision. When his wife gets a dose that is even larger, she regresses even further into her childhood. When an old boyfriend meets her in this state, he believes that her never wanting to see him again means a divorce and a chance for him.
Plot Keywords: comedy, farce, marriage, misunderstanding, scientist, chaos, prank ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don?—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, silent film, hollywood, 1920s, black and white, theater ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Laurence Olivier plays Logan, a barrister who falls in love with Leslie (played by Merle Oberon), the woman he thinks his client will soon be divorcing.—H. A. Lakatos <lakatos@mail.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, misunderstanding, marriage, divorce, courtroom, london ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After fleeing an arranged marriage, a feisty Indian woman finds herself stranded in Pakistan where the ex-governor's son helps reunite her with her boyfriend.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, bollywood, cross-cultural, marriage, misunderstanding, pakistan ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Because of a misunderstanding Melvin Jones is inducted into the Navy despite his numerous allergies. When appearing on a TV show sponsored by a lipstick manufacturer, fluke circumstances cause him to be perceived as an irresistibly great kisser by viewers, and he is undeservedly hyped in the media as "Mr. Temptation." His shipmates bet their pay that he can get Corinne Calvet, a sexy French chanteuse, to kiss him. Despite his allergy toward kissing girls, he tries not to let them down even though it threatens his relationship with girlfriend Hilda.—duke1029
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, navy, military, marriage, misunderstanding, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In one of those spur-of-the-moment decisions, Danielle "Dany" Lang, a meek English secretary with an international advertising agency in Paris, drives to sun-kissed French Riviera to blow off steam, after seeing her boss, Michael Caldwell, and his wife, Anita, off at the airport. The plan was to drop them off and drive Michael's car back to the house; however, as soon as Dany sets foot on the picturesque resort for the first time in her life, a series of chance encounters with perfect strangers, who claim that they recognise her, begin to mar her ideal weekend. Now, there's a strange noise coming from the boot of the car. Is the lady in the car going mad?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, american film, 1960s, misunderstanding, humor, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts.—Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, absurd, satire, class conflict, inheritance dispute, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two Puerto Rican NYPD detectives head to Paris to track down a stolen handbag.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, crime, new york, paris, detective, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !