Andaz Apna Apna (1994), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Captain From Koepenick (1956), Bol Bachchan (2012), Romance on the High Seas (1948), The Inspector General (1949), Paper Mask (1990), Dave (1993) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Impersonation movies.
Storyline: Amar and Prem are two rivals who belonging to middle-class families with no scope of future advancement. Both individually, without the knowledge of the other decide to take matters into their hands and find ways to get rich quickly. Chaos and acrimony result when both find each other at loggerheads when both arrive to win the hand of the daughter of multi-millionaire Ram Gopal Bajaj amidst considerable upheavals when Shyam, the twin brother of Ram, decides to do away with Ram and assume his identity and thus take over the estate of the Bajaj family.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, bollywood, indian cinema, classic, humor, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, crime, drama, mystery, deception, murder, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job he doesn't get a pass; and without a pass, he doesn't get a job. He gets into the net of Prussian bureaucracy, and can't see a solution. Until he enters a small Second-Hand Shop, and sees a Prussian Uniform that fits him like a second skin...—Patrick Dersjant <pdersjan@telebyte.nl>
Plot Keywords: historical, comedy, military, social satire, based on true story, bureaucracy, class conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Abbas breaks open the lock of an ancestral Hindu temple to save a child trapped inside, he faces trouble. He tries to hide his true identity with a fake Hindu name, which leads to a web of lies.
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, family, music, dance, bollywood, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Socialite Elvira Kent suspects her husband of fooling around with other women. When he announces he can't join her on their scheduled ocean voyage, she hires a nightclub singer, Georgia Garrett, to pose as her on the cruise. Elvira stays at a hotel near home so she can spy on her husband. She's unaware, however, that her husband has hired a detective, Peter Virgil, to keep an eye on her at sea. Of course, Peter doesn't realize that Georgia is not Mrs. Kent...—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, musical, song and dance, misunderstanding, 1940s, classic hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, classic, satire, slapstick, misunderstanding, small town ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With the papers of a young doctor who died in a deadly accident, the ambitious male nurse Matthew manages to get hired as a doctor in the casuality department of an hospital in Bristol. Nurse Christine believes it's only his nervousness, which makes him "forget" the most basic procedures. But even her help cannot prevent that his lack of qualification soon has deadly consequences...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, drama, mystery, hospital, british film, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Dave Kovic is a sweet-natured and caring Temp Agency operator, who by a staggering coincidence looks exactly like the President. As such, when Mitchell wants to escape an official luncheon, the Secret Service hires Dave to stand in for him. Unfortunately, Mitchell suffers a severe stroke whilst having sex with one of his aides, and Dave finds himself stuck in the role indefinitely. The corrupt and manipulative Chief of Staff, Bob Alexander, plans to use Dave to elevate himself to the White House - but unfortunately, he doesn't count on Dave enjoying himself in office, using his luck to make the country a better place, and falling in love with the beautiful First Lady...
Plot Keywords: politics, comedy, president, usa, white house, democracy, kindness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, drama, 20th century fox, 1940s, nightclub ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Doug Harris (Josh Gad) is a lovable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting), Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan (Kevin Hart), owner and CEO of Best Man, Inc., a company that provides flattering best men for socially challenged guys in need. What ensues is a hilarious wedding charade as they try to pull off the big con, and an unexpected budding bromance between Doug and his fake best man Jimmy.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, friendship, wedding, humor, american film, kevin hart ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: American GI Ernie Williams (Danny Kaye), admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie (Danny Kaye). Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.—Jerry Milani <jmilani@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, war, spy, military, farce, twins, mistaken identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue. He goes to the theatre, where he sees Amanda rehearsing a song, and the director thinks him an actor suited to play himself in the revue. He takes the part in order to see more of Amanda.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, golden age of hollywood, show business, love triangle, song and dance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two smart marketing people, Mike Frye (Fred MacMurray) and Deborah Patterson (Dorothy McGuire), resurrect some old movies starring cowboy "Smoky" Callaway (Howard Keel) and put them on television. The movies are a big hit and the star is in demand. Unfortunately, no one can find him. When look-a-like "Stretch" Barnes (also Howard Keel) sends in a photo, the marketing team hires him to impersonate Callaway. Things get sticky when the real Callaway eventually shows up.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, western, classic, black and white, hollywood, 1950s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's the ultimate buddy cop movie except for one thing: they're not cops. When two struggling pals dress as police officers for a costume party, they become neighborhood sensations. But when these newly-minted "heroes" get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, bromance, humor, crime, adventure, buddy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a star comedian dies, rather than letting anyone know, his comedy writers decide to find and teach an unknown to fill his shoes for a big show the comedian had been schedeled for. But the man they choose - bellboy, Stanley Belt - can't do anything right, and time's running out.—Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, classic, 1960s, black and white, director, lead actor, paramount ...
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