Impostor
"impostor" Movies and TV Shows
#1
The Dictator
Synopsis:
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Starring:
Sacha Baron Cohen,
Anna Faris,
Jason Mantzoukas
#2
La Femme Nikita
Synopsis:
La Femme Nikita was a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by Luc Besson. The series was co-produced by Jay Firestone of Fireworks Entertainment and Warner Bros.. It was adapted for television by Joel Surnow. The series was first telecast in North America on the USA Network cable channel on January 13, 1997, and ran for five television seasons—until March 2001. …
Starring:
Matthew Ferguson,
Peta Wilson,
Roy Dupuis
Plot:
undercover agent,
espionage,
spy,
secret organization,
secret agent,
secret life,
double agent,
operative,
love,
spying
...
#3
Person of Interest
Synopsis:
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillan…
Starring:
Michael Emerson,
Kevin Chapman,
Jim Caviezel
#4
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
Synopsis:
Japan has been invaded and conquered by the Britannian Empire. Japan is now known as Area 11 and its citizens known as Elevens. The Britannian Empire takes away Japan's autonomous power and imposes its rule through the use of Knightmares. The Empire's rule has never faltered, but cracks have begun to show...
Starring:
Takahiro Sakurai,
Jun Fukuyama,
Ami Koshimizu
Plot:
mind control,
politics,
war strategy,
mecha,
military,
supernatural power,
robot,
academy,
secret identity,
xenophobia
...
#5
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Synopsis:
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothi…
Starring:
Cary Elwes,
Simon Pegg,
Hayley Atwell
Plot:
spy,
sequel,
ethan hunt character,
secret agent,
espionage,
artificial intelligence,
train,
disguise,
mission impossible,
italy
...
#6
Big Momma's House 2
Synopsis:
FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes back undercover as Big Momma, a slick-talking, slam-dunking Southern granny with attitude to spare! Now this granny must play nanny to three dysfunctional upper class kids in order to spy on their computer hacked dad.
Starring:
Zachary Levi,
Martin Lawrence,
Mark Moses
#7
X2
Synopsis:
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.
Starring:
James Marsden,
Ian McKellen,
Hugh Jackman
#8
While You Were Sleeping
Synopsis:
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.
Starring:
Sandra Bullock,
Bill Pullman,
Michael Rispoli
#9
Where Eagles Dare
Synopsis:
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Robert Beatty,
Richard Burton
#10
Vertigo
Synopsis:
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Starring:
James Stewart,
Henry Jones,
Lee Patrick
#11
Trading Places
Synopsis:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Starring:
Eddie Murphy,
Jamie Lee Curtis,
Dan Aykroyd
#12
Tootsie
Synopsis:
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego - Dorothy Michaels - in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Starring:
Teri Garr,
Geena Davis,
Jessica Lange
#13
The World Is Not Enough
Synopsis:
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
Starring:
Robbie Coltrane,
John Cleese,
Judi Dench
#14
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Synopsis:
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Starring:
Celia Weston,
Philip Baker Hall,
Jude Law
Plot:
nudity,
italy,
playboy,
bisexuality,
sociopath,
neo noir,
saxophone,
male full frontal nudity,
1950s,
friendship
...
#15
The Spy Who Loved Me
Synopsis:
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
Starring:
Bernard Lee,
Richard Kiel,
Caroline Munro
#16
The Pelican Brief
Synopsis:
Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Starring:
Denzel Washington,
Stanley Tucci,
John Heard
#17
The Mexican
Synopsis:
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads…
Starring:
J.K. Simmons,
Brad Pitt,
Michael Cerveris
Plot:
thief,
murder,
dog,
pistol,
hostage,
mexico,
revenge,
antique gun,
bulletproof vest,
dead body in a car trunk
...
#18
The Lady Eve
Synopsis:
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herse…
Starring:
Henry Fonda,
Barbara Stanwyck,
Charles Coburn
Plot:
con artist,
screwball comedy,
snake,
gold digger,
seduction,
revenge,
money,
heir,
ship,
ocean liner
...
#19
The Ipcress File
Synopsis:
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
Starring:
Michael Caine,
Gordon Jackson,
Nigel Green
#20
The Great Dictator
Synopsis:
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Starring:
Billy Gilbert,
Charlie Chaplin,
Paulette Goddard