The Double

You've met yourself. It didn't go well.

The doppelgänger is cinema's oldest anxiety made flesh: the fear that identity is a costume anyone could wear, including you. Twins, doubles, split selves and impostors — these films turn the mirror into a horror film and ask the worst question of all: which one is real?

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The Collection

Enemy

Enemy

2013
1
Enemy
2013
1
Enemy
IMDb 6.9 / 10
Director Denis Villeneuve
Cast Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon
Box Office $1,008,726
Why A history teacher discovers his exact double and unravels toward one of cinema's most terrifying fi…
Dead Ringers

Dead Ringers

1988
2
Dead Ringers
1988
2
Dead Ringers
IMDb 7.2 / 10
Director David Cronenberg
Cast Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
Box Office $8,038,508
Why Jeremy Irons plays twin gynaecologists who share everything, including a slow descent into madness.…
The Double

The Double

2013
3
The Double
2013
3
The Double
IMDb 6.4 / 10
Director Richard Ayoade
Cast Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn
Box Office $200,406
Why Jesse Eisenberg's meek clerk is erased by a confident copy of himself. Dostoevsky by way of Terry G…
Persona

Persona

1966
4
Persona
1966
4
Persona
IMDb 8.0 / 10
Director Ingmar Bergman
Cast Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook
Box Office $250,000
Why An actress falls silent and a nurse talks until the two women's faces literally merge. Bergman's in…
Vertigo

Vertigo

1958
5
Vertigo
1958
5
Vertigo
IMDb 8.3 / 10
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Cast James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Box Office $7,863,310
Why Scottie remakes one woman into another until the double becomes an obsession that kills. The defini…
Us

Us

2019
6
Us
2019
6
Us
IMDb 6.8 / 10
Director Jordan Peele
Cast Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss
Box Office $175,084,580
Why A family meets their scissor-wielding doubles from below, and America's shadow selves come for thei…
The Prestige

The Prestige

2006
7
The Prestige
2006
7
The Prestige
IMDb 8.5 / 10
Director Christopher Nolan
Cast Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson
Box Office $53,089,891
Why Two magicians and a trick that requires a double — the film's structure is itself a piece of sleigh…
Adaptation

Adaptation

2002
8
Adaptation
2002
8
Adaptation
IMDb 7.7 / 10
Director Spike Jonze
Cast Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper
Box Office $22,498,520
Why Nicolas Cage plays screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his invented twin brother Donald. A double that…
The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator

1940
9
The Great Dictator
1940
9
The Great Dictator
IMDb 8.4 / 10
Director Charles Chaplin
Cast Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
Box Office $11,000,000
Why A Jewish barber and a fascist dictator share one face, and Chaplin uses the double to look Hitler i…
Coherence

Coherence

2013
10
Coherence
2013
10
Coherence
IMDb 7.2 / 10
Director James Ward Byrkit
Cast Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon
Box Office $102,617
Why A dinner party fractures into infinite alternate versions after a comet passes overhead. The scarie…
Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive

2001
11
Mulholland Drive
2001
11
Mulholland Drive
IMDb 7.9 / 10
Director David Lynch
Cast Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux
Box Office $7,220,243
Why Two women, two identities, and a Hollywood that dissolves the line between them. Lynch's dream-logi…
The Face of Another

The Face of Another

1966
12
The Face of Another
1966
12
The Face of Another
IMDb 7.9 / 10
Director Hiroshi Teshigahara
Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijirô Hira, Kyôko Kishida
Why A disfigured man is given a lifelike new face and becomes a stranger to himself and his wife. Japan…

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