Top 10 Movies About Mistaken Identity

Three silent film stars think they've been booked for a publicity stunt, but turn out to be the only hope of a small Mexican village. Their Hollywood heroics collide with real bullets and singing bushes. John Landis serves up a light western full of slapstick, quotable lines and great comic chemistry between Martin, Chase and Short.

The cast of a faded sci-fi series is mistaken by real aliens for actual heroes. What follows is a hilarious Star Trek tribute full of meta-humor, props that turn into real weapons and Alan Rickman once again wrestling with his rubber alien prosthetic, but this time to save the universe.

Slevin ends up in the wrong apartment and is promptly mistaken for a man who owes millions to two rival mob bosses. A stylish chess game full of identity confusion, double twists and dry dialogue, with Bruce Willis as a silent hitman and Morgan Freeman thinking he's pulling the strings.

The Dude just wants his rug back after thugs mistake him for a rich man with the same name. Bowling, nihilists and psychedelic dream sequences follow in one big Coen brothers spiral. Jeff Bridges' nonchalance proves that indifference is sometimes the only way to survive a world full of mistaken identity.

Two good-hearted hillbillies are mistaken by college campers for bloodthirsty maniacs. Every rescue attempt ends in gory slapstick and increasingly absurd accidental deaths. The film turns horror clichés upside down, delivering gallons of fake blood and an ode to miscommunication at its bloodiest and funniest.

A worn-out New Jersey couple steals someone else's dinner reservation in Manhattan and is promptly mistaken for blackmailers. What started as dinner and a movie spirals into chases, blunders with a stolen flash drive and a shirtless Mark Wahlberg. Couples therapy was never this explosive.

Tom Ripley travels to Italy to bring a rich playboy home, but soon slips into his luxurious life, and his identity. Seduction turns into murder and masterful deception. Matt Damon shines as a chameleon, showing how deadly admiration can become when pretending works too well.

An anonymous email romance blossoms between a bookstore chain magnate and the owner of a cozy neighborhood bookshop, unaware of each other's true identity. Nora Ephron mixes warm '90s nostalgia with gentle satire of big versus small business, resulting in a feel-good story about love behind screens.

Advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent and chased across America. Hitchcock delivers iconic suspense: the crop-duster attack, the Mount Rushmore climb and Cary Grant braving paranoia in a sharp suit. A masterclass in mistaken identity long before GPS tracking.

Tim Goodman searches for his missing father and meets a coffee-addicted Pikachu whom only he can understand, and who can't remember who he is. Together they unravel a conspiracy in which identities and Pokémon DNA get mixed up. A surprisingly neo-noir maze in a cheerful yellow fur coat.