Here we've displayed a list of the best Impostor films : Where Eagles Dare(1969), Lolita(1962), Spellbound(1945), Mulan(1998), The China Lake Murders(1990), The Stranger Within(1990), The Importance of Being Earnest(1952), The Return of Martin Guerre(1982), Anastasia(1997), Just Another Love Story(2007), The Captive Heart(1946), Mrs. Doubtfire(1993) ... ...
War, Adventure, Action
UK|USA
1969
158 Minutes
Richard Burton Clint Eastwood Mary Ure Patrick Wymark Michael Hordern Donald Houston Peter Barkworth Robert Beatty William Squire Derren Nesbitt Anton Diffring
commando soldier spy traitor nazi impostor suspenseful rousing gripping castle alps military base germany world war ii prison break rescue betrayal mission disguise rescue
Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
1962
152 Minutes
James Mason Shelley Winters Sue Lyon Peter Sellers Marianne Stone Diana Decker Gary Cockrell Jerry Stovin
professor teen girl widow impostor witty uneasy disturbing suburbia new hampshire ohio hotel car obsessive love sexual taboo jealousy betrayal murder road trip forbidden love wretched excess
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
111 Minutes
Ingrid Bergman Gregory Peck Michael Chekhov Leo G. Carroll Rhonda Fleming John Emery Norman Lloyd Bill Goodwin Steven Geray Donald Curtis Wallace Ford
doctor impostor detective psychoanalyst dense gripping suspenseful intricate vermont new york city mental institution ski resort amnesia psychoanalysis murder love deception quest love mystery
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
Musical, Animation, Kids & Family
USA|China
1998
88 Minutes
Tony Bancroft
impostor friend hun emperor father dragon engaging inspiring thrilling china castle mountain duty family bravery honor love adventure transformation underdog
To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
Mystery & Thriller
Ireland|UK|USA
1990
97 Minutes
Tom Skerritt Michael Parks Lauren Tewes Nancy Everhard Bill McKinney Lonny Chapman
detective murderer impostor captain woman tense dark thrilling desert small town police work small-town life investigation friendship suspicion mystery pursuit 1990s
Jimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.
Mystery & Thriller
Czechoslovakia
1990
96 Minutes
mother fiancé impostor police officer chilling dark shocking lake hospital minnesota small town reunion manipulation dark secrets mother/son relationship kidnapping murder mystery rivalry 1990s
This movie tells a story of the dark side of communism, corruption in everyday life through the eyes of an ordinary man working as a new engineer in a factory.
Comedy
UK
1952
95 Minutes
Michael Redgrave Michael Denison Edith Evans Richard Wattis Margaret Rutherford Joan Greenwood Dorothy Tutin Walter Hudd Miles Malleson Aubrey Mather
impostor wealthy man woman governess aunt priest witty hilarious emotional england london country house apartment identity wealth marriage social standing deception family love
When Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever increasing confusion.
Drama, History
France
1982
122 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Nathalie Baye Roger Planchon André Chaumeau Maurice Barrier Stéphane Pean Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu Sylvie Meda
wife husband villager magistrate veteran impostor fascinating gripping emotional suspenseful france countryside village courtroom family home impersonation court battles husband/wife relationship con game war aftermath
In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.
Musical, Animation, Kids & Family
USA
1997
94 Minutes
rasputin princess grandmother russian hero impostor positive thrilling heartwarming st. petersburg, russia orphanage royal palace paris boat underworld curse separation unlikely romance journey daunting task
The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Denmark
2007
100 Minutes
Anders W. Berthelsen Rebecka Hemse Nikolaj Lie Kaas Charlotte Fich Dejan Cukic Karsten Jansfort Flemming Enevold Bent Mejding Ewa Fröling Josephine Raahauge Timm Vladimir
husband crime scene photographer impostor heiress comatose patient boyfriend engaging thrilling tense suburbia family home hospital copenhagen, denmark amnesia assumed identity mistaken identity accident boredom adventure temptation
Life in the suburbs as a father of two has worn down Jonas. When a victim of a car crash mistakes him for her boyfriend Sebastian, things take a very dramatic turn as the line between truth and deception is erased.
Drama
UK
1946
108 Minutes
Michael Redgrave Rachel Kempson Jack Warner Frederick Leister Mervyn Johns Rachel Thomas Gladys Henson Gordon Jackson Elliott Mason Robert Wyndham Basil Radford
soldier prisoner of war czech wife impostor nazi gripping touching dark prison camp germany great britain assumed identity world war ii prisoners of war deception on the run marriage escape love
In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.
Comedy, Kids & Family
USA
1993
125 Minutes
Robin Williams Sally Field Pierce Brosnan Harvey Fierstein Polly Holliday Lisa Jakub Matthew Lawrence Mara Wilson Robert Prosky Anne Haney Scott Capurro
impostor divorcée nanny mother child boyfriend hilarious heartwarming unrestrained san francisco household restaurant studio parenthood family disguise loss custody secret identity love
After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.
Comedy
USA
1991
102 Minutes
Anjelica Huston Raul Julia Christopher Lloyd Dan Hedaya Elizabeth Wilson Judith Malina Carel Struycken Dana Ivey Paul Benedict Christina Ricci Jimmy Workman
father wife impostor child lawyer loan shark amusing endearing spirited dark family home mansion family impersonation schemes theft unemployment rescue discovery 1990s
Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.
Comedy, Drama
Canada
1984
72 Minutes
Patrick Tierney Berge Fazlian Sirvart Fazlian
young man father mother daughter impostor stranger creative profound disturbing amusing psychiatrist's office family home canada family dysfunction new identity parenthood adoption therapy video tape transformation
Unhappy living with his loveless parents, a young man convinces a family of Armenian immigrants that he's their long-lost son and moves in with them, improving all of their lives in the process.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1990
106 Minutes
Paul McGann Amanda Donohoe Frederick Treves Tom Wilkinson Barbara Leigh-Hunt Jimmy Yuill
impostor doctor nurse worker woman man suspenseful dark eerie emotional london bristol, england emergency room hospital car switched identities car accident medical profession ambition murder
A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|Germany|France|USA
2011
113 Minutes
Liam Neeson Diane Kruger January Jones Aidan Quinn Bruno Ganz Frank Langella Rainer Bock Sebastian Koch Olivier Schneider Stipe Erceg Mido Hamada
doctor taxi driver impostor professor wife assassin gripping suspenseful gritty berlin germany hospice hotel identity theft mistaken identity assassination conspiracy discovery escape quest
When a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is.
Western
USA
1941
77 Minutes
Smiley Burnette Fay McKenzie Harold Huber Sidney Blackmer Joe Sawyer Andrew Tombes Murray Alper Arthur Loft Duncan Renaldo Paul Fix Julian Rivero
gene autry sidekick wealthy man daughter producer impostor confident spirited border town barbecue trail mexico party bank swindling investing movies father/daughter relationship investigation abduction
After the bad guys swindle the good folk of Sage City, Gene and Frog chase them to Mexico where they are now trying to rob a rich Mexican ranchero.
Comedy
UK
1963
91 Minutes
Peter Sellers Lionel Jeffries Bernard Cribbins Davy Kaye Nanette Newman Bill Kerr Ed Devereaux Reg Lye
crime boss police officer scotland yard agent thief impostor detective quirky amusing outlandish thrilling london scotland yard south sea island armored vehicle impersonation scams robbery organized crime unlikely allies
In London, when Australian gangsters disguised as "Bobbies" rob British criminals, the panicked British mobsters seek an alliance with Scotland Yard in order to eliminate the foreign competition and return things to "normal".
Drama
USA
1964
107 Minutes
James Whitmore Sorrell Booke Roscoe Lee Browne Dan Priest Walter Mason John Marriott Clifton James Lenka Petersen Richard Ward Llewellyn B. Skinner
journalist african-american impostor black man white supremacist powerful disheartening fiery tense american south park road store racism race relations harassment secret identity investigative journalism civil rights discovery
Based on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin to experience the realities of a black man's life in the segregated South.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
65 Minutes
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Evelyn Ankers Reginald Denny Thomas Gomez Henry Daniell Montagu Love
sherlock holmes doctor watson widow impostor spy british intelligence agent crafty intricate suspenseful engaging england estate briefing room coast church ghetto espionage terrorism radio nazis
When a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations via the radio 'Voice of Terror', the Homeland Security Inner Council summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to help ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
USA
1953
81 Minutes
Richard Carlson Barbara Rush Charles Drake Russell Johnson Kathleen Hughes Joe Sawyer Dave Willock Alan Dexter George Eldredge Brad Jackson Edgar Dearing
alien writer fiancée sheriff impostor schoolteacher creepy eerie tense arizona desert spacecraft aliens investigation kidnapping search disappearance identity theft rescue underdog
A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.
Romance
India
1998
175 Minutes
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Lakshmi Nassar Senthil Raju Sundaram Geeta Raadhika Sarathkumar
impostor twin brother fiancée father son amusing madcap lighthearted tender los angeles restaurant california hospital family home marriage deception assumed identity love triangle father/son relationship
The father of twin brothers wants to get them married to only twin sisters. But one of the brothers falls in love with a woman does not have a twin sister.
Drama
Belgium|France|Netherlands|Spain
2000
110 Minutes
Jody Abrahams Sylvia Esau John Lynch Oscar Petersen Jonny Phillips Serge-Henri Valcke
criminal minister impostor homosexual thief african suspenseful disturbing emotional quarry church south africa small town car road murder identity theft deception new life homosexuality
This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1938
75 Minutes
Loretta Young Joel McCrea David Niven Stuart Erwin Marjorie Weaver Pauline Moore Binnie Barnes Jane Darwell Leonid Kinskey Spencer Charters Franklin Pangborn
woman sister wealthy man rancher impostor bartender lighthearted amusing playful kansas santa barbara, calif. club hotel ranch fortune hunters sister relationship impersonation inheritance marriage romance
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1949
81 Minutes
Don Ameche Dorothy Lamour Janis Carter Willard Parker Adele Jergens Jeanne Manet
director singer movie producer sister star impostor witty endearing madcap carnival film set swimming pool ballroom california filmmaking talent search love triangle impersonation publicity jealousy
A cinema director who is in an emotional and professional crisis thinks that he has discovered a French star when he meets an ordinary dancer.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
104 Minutes
George Blagden Charleene Closshey Robbie Kay Stelio Savante Michael Beach Raymond J. Barry Michelle Moreno Matt Cornwell
hacker love interest husband marine widow impostor amusing touching shocking quirky hilarious fast food restaurant ice cream parlor police station restaurant house hackers deception theft love
Straight out of jail, a hacker steals letters hoping to find cash. He reads one of the letters, falls in love with the writer and decides to change his ways to be worthy of her.
Action
USA
1967
114 Minutes
James Coburn Lee J. Cobb Jean Hale Andrew Duggan Anna Lee Hanna Landy Totty Ames Steve Ihnat Thomas Hasson Mary Michael Diane Bond
secret agent chef president spy femme fatale impostor confident playful new york city russia virgin islands golf course space station espionage international conspiracy feminism world domination brainwashing adventure mystery
Super-spy Flint takes on a cabal of women plotting to rule the world.
Drama
France|USA
1993
112 Minutes
Richard Gere Jodie Foster Bill Pullman James Earl Jones William Windom Brett Kelley Richard Hamilton Maury Chaykin Lanny Flaherty Frankie Faison Wendell Wellman
wife soldier son lover judge impostor eerie engaging tennessee farm courtroom rural community impersonation marriage fraud mystery american civil war presumed dead forbidden love mystery
A farmer returns home from the Civil War, but his wife begins to suspect that the man is an impostor.
Action
USA
1966
88 Minutes
spy partner femme fatale impostor agent rousing tense intricate swiss alps apartment headquarters switzerland espionage nuclear weapons identity theft terrorism secret mission spies transformation pursuit
U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are sent to the Swiss Alps to find a secret nuclear weapon design but T.H.R.U.S.H. agents kidnap Solo and replace him with a look-alike double.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Romance
India
1992
164 Minutes
Juhi Chawla Rishi Kapoor Kader Khan Shakti Kapoor Alok Nath Mohnish Bahl Kiran Kumar
young man young woman look-alike impostor amusing charming intense gripping emotional india indian village house bungalow street conspiracy identity theft mistaken identity confusion adventure quest
A man returning from a trip discovers that a stranger who looks just like him has moved in with his wife.