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Theme: Doppelgangers

A doppelganger is a duplicate of a person. This is usually created by a supernatural process and should be differentiated from a Twin, a naturally born genetic sibling, or a Clone, which is an artificial genetic copy of an individual.

Beginning with The Student of Prague (1913), genre cinema has created numerous examples of doppelgangers that most often appear by means that are left unexplained. They wreak havoc with the confusion and mischief they create as they seek to steal or corrupt the life of an individual.

In Body Snatchers films, they are aliens that have come to steal human bodies replicating everything except the emotions. In other works, doppelgangers will emerge from mirrors, Other Dimensions or Alternate Timelines.


The Abandoned (2006)

20 April 201726 November 2024

Rating: ★★½

Haunted Farmhouse

Director: Nacho Cerda
Actors: Anastasia Hille, Karel Rodin, Valentin Ganev
Category: Horror

The ABCs of Death (2012)

26 February 201320 October 2024

Rating: ★★★

Horror Anthology

Director: Aaron Becker, Nacho Vigalondo, Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Ernesto Diaz Espinoza, …
Actors: Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley
Category: Horror

Annihilation (2018)

24 March 20189 July 2022

Rating: ★★★½

Mysterious Alien Zone

Director: Alex Garland
Actors: Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, …
Category: Science Fiction

Another Earth (2011)

12 August 20113 January 2024

Rating: ★★½

Mirror Earth

Director: Mike Cahill
Actors: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Robin Lord Taylor, Jordan Baker
Category: Science Fiction

Another Me (2013)

17 May 20154 July 2025

Rating: ★★

Doppelganger Film

Director: Isabel Coixet
Actors: Sophie Turner, Rhys Ifans, Claire Forlani, Gregg Sulkin, …
Category: Fantasy

Appendage (2023)

13 October 202413 October 2024

Rating: ★★

Malignant Twin

Director: Anna Zlokovic
Actors: Hadley Robinson, Emily Hampshire, Kausar Mohammed, Brandon Mycal Smith, …
Category: Horror

Army of Darkness (1992)

5 June 200017 May 2023

Rating: ★★

Evil Dead Sequel/War with the Dead/Horror Comedy

Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, …
Category: Horror

Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016)

18 December 201610 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

Animation/Retro 1960s Batman

Director: Rick Morales
Actors: Adam West, Burt Ward, Julie Newmar, Jeff Bergman, …
Category: Fantasy

Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)

3 July 199915 February 2020

Rating: ★★

Horror Spoof

Director: Ray Cameron
Actors: Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price, Gareth Hunt, …
Category: Horror

Bodies (2023)

19 January 202413 April 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Cross-Historical Detective Story/Time Travel

Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner, Haolu Wang
Actors: Stephen Graham, Kyle Soller, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Amaka Okafor, …
Category: Science Fiction

Body Snatchers (1993)

12 February 200223 February 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Invasion of the Body Snatchers Remake

Director: Abel Ferrara
Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Meg Tilly, Terry Kinney, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Breach (2022)

2 September 20249 March 2025

Rating: ★★★

Lovecraftian Horrors

Director: Rodrigo Gudiño
Actors: Allan Hawco, Emily Alatalo, Natalie Brown, Adam Kenneth Wilson, …
Category: Horror

The Brøken (2008)

12 June 201221 June 2022

Rating: ★★★

Mirror Body Snatchers

Director: Sean Ellis
Actors: Lena Headey, Richard Jenkins, Michelle Duncan, Ulrich Thomsen, …
Category: Horror

Cam (2018)

3 May 201926 January 2024

Rating: ★★

Camgirl and Her Doppelganger

Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Actors: Madeline Brewer, Melora Walters, Patch Darragh, Devin Druid, …
Category: Horror

Coherence (2013)

20 September 201425 April 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Alternate Timelines Blur Together

Director: James Ward Byrkit
Actors: Emily Foxler, Nicholas Brendon, Maury Sterling, Hugo Armstrong, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Dark Half (1993)

4 August 200111 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

Writer’s Evil Doppelganger/Stephen King Adaptation

Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, …
Category: Horror

The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1962)

11 December 20008 September 2022

Rating: ★★★

Alien Infiltration

Director: Maury Dexter
Actors: Kent Taylor, Marie Windsor
Category: Science Fiction

Dead Dicks (2019)

1 March 20211 March 2021

Rating: ★★★

Apartment That Produces Copies of People

Director: Chris Bavota, Lee Paula Springer
Actors: Jillian Harris, Hestor Horwin, Matt Keyes, Kristina Sandev, …
Category: Fantasy

Doors (2021)

2 April 20211 March 2025

Rating: ★★★

Anthology/Mysterious Alien Portals Appear

Director: Jeff Desom, Saman Kesh, Dugan O’Neal
Actors: Josh Peck, Lina Esco, Kyp Malone, Kathy Khanh, …
Category: Science Fiction

Doppelganger (1993)

3 June 200518 June 2025

Rating: ★★★

Mysterious Doppelganger

Director: Avi Nesher
Actors: Drew Barrymore, George Newbern, Leslie Hope, Dennis Christopher, …
Category: Horror

The Double (2013)

27 June 201426 November 2022

Rating: ★★

Doppelganger

Director: Richard Ayoade
Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Noah Taylor, …
Category: Fantasy

Enemy (2013)

14 March 20146 October 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Mysterious Doppelganger

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Sarah Gadon, Melanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini
Category: Fantasy

The Eternal (1998)

6 March 200115 October 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Druidic Mummy

Director: Michael Almereyda
Actors: Christopher Walken, Jared Harris, Lois Smith, Karl Geary, …
Category: Horror

Everywhen (2013)

15 September 20153 November 2020

Rating: ★

Mysterious Mass Disappearance/Doppelgangers

Director: Jarand Breian Herdal
Actors: Harald Evjan Furuholmen, Hugo Herrmann, Elin Synnøve Brathen, Graeme Whittington, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Evil Within (2017)

18 June 20173 November 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Evil Mirror Doppelganger

Director: Andrew Getty
Actors: Frederick Koehler, Sean Patrick Flanery, Dina Meyer, Kim Darby, …
Category: Horror

The Forbidden Room (2015)

3 October 201530 October 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Tapestry of Surreal Tall Tales

Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
Actors: Roy Dupuis, Udo Kier, Mathieu Amalric, Maria de Madeiros, …
Category: Fantasy

Four Sided Triangle (1953)

23 January 202020 July 2023

Rating: ★★

Matter Duplication Device

Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Barbara Payton, James Hayter, John Van Eyssen
Category: Science Fiction

The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials (1979)

24 January 202425 June 2024

Rating: ★★

Alien Visitors Slapstick Comedy

Director: Jean Girault
Actors: Louis de Funes, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch
Category: Science Fiction

Hatching (2022)

29 January 202329 January 2023

Rating: ★★★½

Girl Adopts a Monstrous Creature

Director: Hanna Bergholm
Actors: Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkila, Jani Volanen, Reina Nordin, …
Category: Horror

The Hole in the Ground (2019)

2 May 202117 May 2023

Rating: ★★★

Child Turns Evil

Director: Lee Cronin
Actors: Seana Kerslake, James Cosmo, James Quinn Markey, Kati Outinen, …
Category: Horror

The House That Dripped Blood (1970)

24 December 200230 April 2020

Rating: ★★½

Horror Anthology

Director: Peter Duffell
Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Jon Pertwee, John Bennett, …
Category: Horror

How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

24 March 199913 June 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Talking Boil/Black Comedy

Director: Bruce Robinson
Actors: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, John Shrapnel
Category: Fantasy

If You Believe (1999)

29 March 200818 January 2025

Rating: ★★½

Woman Meets Her Childhood Self

Director: Alan Metzger
Actors: Ally Walker, Hayden Panettiere, Meredith McGeachie, Richard Romanus
Category: Fantasy

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

19 June 20014 November 2019

Rating: ★★★★★

Alien Duplication and Takeover

Director: Donald Siegel
Actors: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, …
Category: Science Fiction

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

25 June 201030 March 2022

Rating: ★★★★½

Alien Duplication and Takeover

Director: Philip Kaufman
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, …
Category: Science Fiction

Just Imagine (1930)

9 October 20039 September 2022

Rating: ★★

Future New York Musical-Comedy

Director: David Butler
Actors: El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Albertson
Category: Science Fiction

The Kid (2000)

9 July 20007 June 2021

Rating: ★★★

Man Meets His Boyhood Self

Director: Jon Turteltaub
Actors: Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, …
Category: Fantasy

Kinds of Kindness (2024)

13 September 20246 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

Black Comedy Anthology

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Actors: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Hong Chau, …
Category: Fantasy

The Kingdom: Exodus (2022)

11 March 2023

Rating: ★★★

Haunted Hospital/Black Comedy

Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Mikael Persbrandt, Bødil Jorgensen, Lars Mikkelsen, Nicolas Bro, …
Category: Horror

Legion of Super-Heroes (2023)

17 February 202322 August 2024

Rating: ★★½

Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes

Director: Jeff Wamester
Actors: Meg Donnelly, Harry Shum Jr, Darren Criss, Jensen Ackles, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)

9 September 20075 January 2025

Rating: ★★

Evil Doppelganger

Director: Basil Dearden
Actors: Roger Moore, Hildegard Neil, Olga Georges-Picot, John Welsh, …
Category: Horror

Mega Time Squad (2018)

2 March 202117 March 2021

Rating: ★★★

Guy and Various Temporal Copies of Himself Comedy

Director: Tim Van Dammen
Actors: Anton Tennet, Jonny Brugh, Hetty Gaskell-Hahn, Arlo Gibson, …
Category: Science Fiction

Melies Cinemagician (2011)

12 June 200221 July 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Compilation of Georges Melies Shorts

Director: Georges Melies
Category: Fantasy

The Miracle (1959)

7 April 201312 September 2024

Rating: 0­

Statue of the Virgin Mary Comes to Life/Catholic Historical Romance

Director: Irving Rapper
Actors: Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, Walter Slezak, Vittorio Gassman, …
Category: Fantasy

The One (2001)

2 November 200116 December 2021

Rating: ★★

Alternative Universe Hopping Action

Director: James Wong
Actors: Jet Li, Delroy Lindo, Carla Gugino, Jason Statham, …
Category: Science Fiction

The One I Love (2014)

9 August 201526 August 2024

Rating: ★★★

Married Couple Encounter Mysterious Doppelgangers

Director: Charlie McDowell
Actors: Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss, Ted Danson
Category: Fantasy

Paradise Hills (2019)

1 December 20191 April 2025

Rating: ★★

Future Re-Education Facility

Director: Alice Waddington
Actors: Emma Roberts, Eiza Gonzalez, Milla Jovovich, Awkwafina, …
Category: Science Fiction

Parallel (2018)

9 August 202210 August 2022

Rating: ★★★

Portal to a Parallel Timeline

Director: Isaac Ezban
Actors: Aml Ameen, Martin Wallstrom, Georgia King, Mark O'Brien, …
Category: Science Fiction

Passion of Mind (2000)

7 June 200018 July 2019

Rating: ★★

Woman’s Double Life in Dreams

Director: Alain Berliner
Actors: Demi Moore, Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd, William Fichtner, Sinead Cusack, …
Category: Fantasy

Perfect Blue (1997)

11 April 199914 July 2021

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Psycho-Thriller

Director: Satoshi Kon
Category: Horror

The Prestige (2006)

30 November 20065 December 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Rival Victorian Stage Magicians

Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, …
Category: Science Fiction

Recreator (2012)

9 March 201623 April 2020

Rating: ★★★

Cloning Film

Director: Gregory Orr
Actors: Stella Maeve, Alexander Paul Nifong, Jamal Mallory-McCree, John de Lancie, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Resurrected (1992)

1 July 200124 November 2024

Rating: ★★★

Black Magician’s Resurrection/H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: Dan O'Bannon
Actors: Chris Sarandon, John Terry, Jane Sibbett, Richard Romanus
Category: Horror

Robots (2023)

17 February 202517 February 2025

Rating: 0­

Android Doubles Comedy

Director: Casper Christensen, Art Hines
Actors: Jack Whitehall, Shailene Woodley, Paul Rust, Paul Jurewicz, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Santa Clause 2 (2002)

13 December 20024 December 2024

Rating: ★½

Santa Seeks a Wife

Director: Michael Lembeck
Actors: Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lloyd, David Krumholtz, …
Category: Fantasy

Significant Other (2022)

1 October 2023

Rating: ★★★

Alien Body Snatchers

Director: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
Actors: Maika Monroe, Jake Lacy, Matthew Yang King, Dana Green
Category: Science Fiction

The Similars (2015)

22 October 201513 June 2022

Rating: ★★★

People All Become Copies of the Same Man

Director: Isaac Ezban
Actors: Gustavo Sanchez Parra, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Humberto Busto, Catalina Salas, …
Category: Fantasy

Solaris (1972)

14 June 200225 May 2023

Rating: ★★★★★

Enigmatic Alien Planet/Ghosts of Memory

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk
Category: Science Fiction

Solaris (2002)

1 April 20034 August 2020

Rating: ★★½

Enigmatic Alien Planet/Ghosts of Memory

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis
Category: Science Fiction

The Student of Prague (1913)

10 January 202221 February 2024

Rating: ★★½

Evil Doppelganger

Director: Stellan Rye, Paul Wegener
Actors: Paul Wegener, John Gottowt, Lyda Salmanova
Category: Horror, Fantasy

The Student of Prague (1926)

5 November 20185 October 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Pact with the Devil/Malevolent Doppelganger

Director: Henrik Galeen
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss
Category: Fantasy, Horror

The Substance (2024)

25 October 202417 December 2024

Rating: ★★★

Rejuvenation Serum/Alternate Youthful Self

Director: Coralie Fargeat
Actors: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Edward Hamilton Clark, …
Category: Horror

Superman III (1983)

16 December 200027 September 2023

Rating: 0­

Comic-Book Superhero

Director: Richard Lester
Actors: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Annette O'Toole, Robert Vaughn, …
Category: Science Fiction

Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1968)

1 March 20019 March 2021

Rating: ★★★

Edgar Allan Poe Anthology

Director: Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini
Actors: Jane Fonda, Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Vincent Price, …
Category: Horror

The Tiger’s Tail (2006)

10 May 20099 January 2024

Rating: ★★★

Doppelganger Film

Director: John Boorman
Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Brian Gleeson, Sinead Cusack, …
Category: Fantasy

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

12 October 20103 February 2022

Rating: ★★★½

Thai Spirits

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Actors: Sakda Kaewbuadee, Jenjira Pongpas
Category: Fantasy

Us (2019)

1 June 201930 June 2025

Rating: ★★★

Doppelgangers

Director: Jordan Peele
Actors: Lupita Nyong'o, Wilson Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Elisabeth Moss, …
Category: Horror

V/H/S Viral (2014)

14 December 201427 February 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Anthology of Found Footage Horror Tales

Director: Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Nacho Vigalondo, Justin Benson, …
Actors: Justin Welborn, Patrick Lawrie, Emilia Zoryan, Emmy Argo, …
Category: Horror

War of the Satellites (1958)

11 June 202028 September 2023

Rating: ★★½

Aliens Sabotage Space Launches

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Dick Miller, Richard Devon, Susan Cabot, Robert Shayne, …
Category: Science Fiction

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