Highest-Rated Movies about 'Role Reversal'

All About Eve (1950), Persona (1966), The Lady Eve (1941), Le dîner de cons (1998), 102 Not Out (2018), Force majeure (2014), Megamind (2010), On Approval (1944) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Role Reversal movies.

#1. All About Eve (1950)

Storyline: Eve (Anne Baxter) is waiting backstage to meet her idol, aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis). It seems innocent enough as Eve explains that she has seen Margo in EVERY performance of her current play. Only playwright/critic DeWitt (George Sanders) sees through Eve's evil plan, which is to take her parts and her fiancé, Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill). When the fiancé shows no interest, she tries for playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe), but DeWitt stops her. After she accepts her award, she decides to skip the after-party and goes to her room, where a young woman named Phoebe has sneaked into her room and fallen asleep. This is where the "Circle of Life" now comes to fruition as Eve will get played like she played Margo.

Plot Keywords: drama, classic, hollywood, black and white, theater, female lead, fame and fortune ...

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#2. Persona (1966)

Storyline: A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth and finds that her own personality is being submerged into Elisabeth's persona.

Plot Keywords: psychological drama, art film, black and white, existentialism, identity, psychoanalysis, silence ...

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#3. The Lady Eve (1941)

Storyline: Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms. To get back at him, Jean disguises herself as an English lady, and comes back to tease and torment him.

Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, black comedy, classic, 1940s, hollywood, romantic comedy ...

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#4. Le dîner de cons (1998)

Storyline: To amuse themselves at a weekly dinner, a few well-heeled folk each bring a dimwit along who is to talk about his pastime. Each member seeks to introduce a champion dumbbell. Pierre, an avid participant of the game, runs into one problem after another that devilishly compromises his secrets, turning the tables on him and his objective, which diverges as the movie progresses. Firstly, wishing to be certain he has selected a winner, he invited his guest, Mr. Pignon, to meet him at home before setting off; but night of all nights, Pierre has put his back out and it is questionable whether he can manage to get to the dinner. The blundering Mr. Pignon will continually spring forward to help relieve Pierre of his troubles, which have drastically compounded, pointing in the direction of friends, taxes and women, and Pierre's dimwit Pignon accordingly will prove his substance to the end.

Plot Keywords: comedy, french film, humor, satire, social class, dinner party, misunderstanding ...

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#5. 102 Not Out (2018)

Storyline: Dattatraya Vakharia is a 102 year old man living like a youngster.While is 75 year old son Babulal has accepted his old age and lost all excitement in life.Dattatraya wants to break the world record of oldest person living on earth held by Chinese man. But feels that it won't be possible to break the record by living with a boring Babulal.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com

Plot Keywords: comedy, family, drama, indian cinema, bollywood, father-son relationship, aging ...

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#6. Force majeure (2014)

Storyline: A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life... The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and yet the family's world has been shaken to its core, a question mark hanging over their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba's marriage now hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role as family patriarch.—Cannes Film Festival

Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, marriage, family, crisis, avalanche, moral dilemma ...

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#7. Megamind (2010)

Storyline: After super-villain Megamind (Ferrell) kills his good-guy nemesis, Metro Man (Pitt), he becomes bored since there is no one left to fight. He creates a new foe, Tighten (Hill), who, instead of using his powers for good, sets out to destroy the world, positioning Megamind to save the day for the first time in his life.

Plot Keywords: animation, comedy, superhero, villain protagonist, science fiction, family, adventure ...

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#8. On Approval (1944)

Storyline: Victorian London. George, the 10th Duke of Bristol, and his equally upper class friend Richard Halton are both broke. To live, George has had to rent out his London castle to visiting young American socialite Helen Hale. So the only way George has access to his own home is when he is invited to a party hosted by Helen. Much to George's surprise, Richard confesses to him that he is in love from afar with and would like to marry wealthy widowed Maria Wislack, Helen's friend who George considers a haggard, controlling, old (forty-one) shrew of a woman. Richard believes he has no chance with Maria due to the difference in their financial situations. Richard is surprised to find that Maria knows he is in love with her, she in turn attracted to him. However, to test if they will be compatible as husband and wife, Maria proposes they spend one month together in her mansion on an otherwise deserted island off the coast of Scotland, Richard who is to row to the mainland every night and row back the next morning so as to be publicly proper in their courtship. George and Helen decide to tag along to support their respective friend, although each has his/her own ulterior motive, George to live off the creature comforts in Maria's mansion and being waited on hand and foot by her servants, and Helen to be close to George who she believes she loves. Out of circumstance, the four end up living in the island mansion together without any servants. As the month progresses, each of the four learns their true feelings, resulting in each hatching plots and subplots to achieve what he/she wants and/or to show up the others toward who ill feelings have developed.—Huggo

Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, british film, black and white, classic, 1940s, adaptation ...

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#9. Fan (2016)

Storyline: Gaurav a boy from Delhi is a die hard fan of Bollywood superstar Aryan Khanna. He comes to Mumbai to wish his idol on his Birthday, but over there things got worst and Gaurav's obsession turned himself a man who wants to create chaos in Aryan Khanna's life.

Plot Keywords: action, thriller, drama, crime, mystery, psychological, celebrity ...

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#10. Cul-de-sac (1966)

Storyline: A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals. Quickly, however, the relationships between the criminal, the wife, and the Englishman begin to shift in humorous and bizarre fashion.

Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, black comedy, drama, british film, 1960s, absurd ...

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#12. Without a Clue (1988)

Storyline: This is a Sherlock Holmes story with a difference. Here, Dr. Watson is the ace detective and has been using an actor to play the part Holmes. Holmes is a drunken actor and gets on Watson's nerves. When Watson tries to go it alone, he doesn't have much success, so he is forced to let Holmes take all the credit once more.—Rob Hartill

Plot Keywords: comedy, detective, sherlock holmes, dr. watson, england, victorian era, mystery ...

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#13. If You Could Only Cook (1935)

Storyline: Auto magnate James Buchanan has a fiancée who doesn't love him and a board of directors who won't listen to him. Brooding on a park bench, he meets unemployed Joan Hawthorne, a fine cook who needs a partner to apply for a 'couple' butler/cook job with gourmet ex-bootlegger Mike Rossini. Bemused, Buchanan goes along with the gag, taking lessons from his own butler. But there's sure to be a day of reckoning...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, classic, 1930s, american film, black and white, romantic comedy ...

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#14. What About Bob? (1991)

Storyline: Doctor Leo Marvin, an egotistical psychotherapist in New York City, is looking forward to his forthcoming appearance on a "Good Morning America" telecast, during which he plans to brag about "Baby Steps," his new book about emotional disorder theories in which he details his philosophy of treating patients and their phobias. Meanwhile, Bob Wiley is a recluse who is so afraid to leave his own apartment that he has to talk himself out the door. When Bob is pawned off on Leo by a psychotherapist colleague, Bob becomes attached to Leo. Leo finds Bob extremely annoying. When Leo accompanies his wife Fay, his daughter Anna, and his son Siggy to a peaceful New Hampshire lakeside cottage for a month-long vacation, Leo thinks he's been freed from Bob. Leo expects to mesmerize his family with his prowess as a brilliant husband and remarkable father who knows all there is to know about instructing his wife and raising his kids. But Bob isn't going to let Leo enjoy a quiet summer by the lake. By ...

Plot Keywords: comedy, psychological, family, doctor, dependency, humor, healing ...

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#15. Take Me (2017)

Storyline: Ray Moody is a fledgling entrepreneur who is trying to get his company off the ground in Los Angeles. His business: the niche Kidnap Solutions, LLC, specializing in abductions that provide alternative therapy for his clients. When a mysterious caller contracts him for a weekend kidnapping, with a handsome payday at the end, Ray jumps at the opportunity. But the job and his target - business consultant Anna St. Blair - may not be all that they seem.

Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, thriller, kidnapping, dark humor, indie film, american movie ...

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