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Twin films

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Similar films released around the same time

Twin films are films with the same or similar plots produced and released within a close proximity of time by two differentfilm studios.^[1] The phenomenon can result from two or moreproduction companies investing in similar scripts at the same time, resulting in a race todistribute the films to audiences.^[2]^[3] Some attribute twin films toindustrial espionage, the movement of staff between studios, or that the samescreenplays are sent to several film studios before being accepted. Another possible explanation is if the films deal with topical issues, such asvolcanic eruptions,reality television,terrorist attacks, or significant anniversaries, resulting inmultiple discovery of the concept.^[3]

While twin films are often big budget films, amockbuster can be made with a low budget, with similar titles, aesthetics, or theme asblockbuster films.^[4] Mockbusters are usually given more limited release and marketing, intending to take advantage of the public interest in the topic driven by the major film.

Avoiding twin films

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ScreenwriterTerry Rossio notes that there are always film projects with similar subjects being developed in multiple studios, and that usually only one of them makes it into production in a given period of time, and therefore twin films are better regarded as exceptions to this tendency.^[5] For example, the release of the 2015Whitey Bulger biopicBlack Mass led to the abandonment of a planned film about Bulger that would have been produced byBen Affleck andMatt Damon.^[6]

The 2008 filmWho Do You Love?, about American record labelChess Records, had its widespread release delayed until 2010 to avoid competing withCadillac Records, a higher-budget 2008 film on the same subject.^[7]

In one case, for the 1974 filmThe Towering Inferno, the fear of having competing action thrillers, both set in a burning skyscraper, convinced two Hollywood studios to merge their productions into one (all-star) film.^[8]

Notable examples

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Notable examples of twin films are included in this list:^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]

First film	Release date	Second film	Release date	Similarities
Das Mirakel	1912	The Miracle	1912	Based on playThe Miracle (1911). Both films were exhibited with similar titles, causing legal disputes.
Ivanhoe	1913	Ivanhoe	1913	Based onIvanhoe (1819).
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	1920	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	1920	Based onThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)^[13]
The Three Musketeers	1921	Les Trois Mousquetaires	1921	Based onThe Three Musketeers (1844).
The Spanish Dancer	1923	Rosita	1923	Based on the playDon César de Bazan (1844) and the operaDon César de Bazan (1872).
Ingagi	1930	Africa Speaks!	1930	Both exploitation films about an expedition in theBelgian Congo.^[14]
Dishonored	1931	Mata Hari	1931	Both films are about female spies.MGM studios, alarmed by the competition that the Sternberg-Dietrich phenomena posed to starGreta Garbo, responded with the copycatMata Hari the same year.^[15]
Topaze	1933	Topaze	1933	Both are adaptations of the play byMarcel Pagnol released a month apart.
Little Man, What Now?	1933	Little Man, What Now?	1934	Both are adaptations of the novel byHans Fallada.
The Rise of Catherine the Great	1934	The Scarlet Empress	1934	Both are aboutCatherine the Great.
The Black Cat	1934	Maniac	1934	Both are loose adaptations ofThe Black Cat.^[16]^[17]
Crime and Punishment	1935	Crime and Punishment	1935	Both are based onDostoevsky'sCrime and Punishment.
The Emperor's Candlesticks	1936	The Emperor's Candlesticks	1937	Both are adaptations ofThe Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) byBaroness Orczy.
Jezebel	1938	Gone with the Wind	1939	William Wyler'sJezebel (1938) was reportedly created forBette Davis when she failed to win the highly coveted role ofScarlett O'Hara inGone with the Wind (1939). Both films were about feisty, independentSouthern belles during theAmerican Civil War.
Young Mr. Lincoln	1939	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	1940	Both are aboutAbraham Lincoln.^[18]^[19]
The Wizard of Oz	1939	The Blue Bird	1940	Walter Lang's The Blue Bird (1940), adapted fromMaurice Maeterlinck's 1908play of the same name, significantly embellishes the original tale and serves as20th Century Fox's response toMGM's adaptation ofThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) byL. Frank Baum, following MGM's unsuccessful attempt to castShirley Temple in thelead role. Both films center on young girls who are discontented with their lives and are magically transported to enchanting new worlds. Notably, they both begin in black and white before transitioning to vibrant Technicolor, representing their respective journeys of self-discovery.
Journey into Fear	1943	Background to Danger	1943	An American becomes the target of Nazi spies in neutral Turkey. Based on novels byEric Ambler.
Rhapsody Rabbit	1946	The Cat Concerto	1947	Both cartoons center around a piano rendition of "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2", and both feature a mouse pestering the pianist.See alsoRhapsody Rabbit § Plagiarism dispute.
Alice au pays des Merveilles	1949	Alice in Wonderland	1951	Both arefeature-length animated adaptations ofLewis Carroll's 1865 novelAlice's Adventures in Wonderland.The Walt Disney Company would sue the French film's distributors to prevent release of the British version in the U.S., and the case was extensively covered inTime magazine.^[20] The company that released the British version accused Disney of trying to exploit their film by releasing its version at virtually the same time.^[20]
Volcano	1950	Stromboli	1950	Both are films about a woman who is forced to move to a volcanic island in Italy, where she is ostracized by the locals.Volcano was widely viewed as starAnna Magnani's revenge at not having been cast inStromboli, as she had been promised by directorRoberto Rossellini; this dispute was covered in the 2012 documentaryThe War of the Volcanoes.
Manina, the Girl in the Bikini	1952	Woman of the Red Sea	1953	Brigitte Bardot andSophia Loren in their first main roles as girls in bathing suits in films about deep sea diving.
The Daughter of the Regiment	1953	Daughter of the Regiment	1953	Based onLa fille du régiment (1840) byGaetano Donizetti
Sign of the Pagan	1954	Attila	1954	Both films about Attila and his invasion of the Western Roman Empire; a contemporary review inThe New York Times writes, "Attila the Hun, quite ignored by moviemakers up to now, is about to step into the limelight in two new films."^[21]
Touchez pas au grisbi	1954	Rififi	1955	Both are films about aging gangsters in Paris. After a successful heist they have to fight against a rival gang.
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler	1955	Jackboot Mutiny	1955	Both are about the20 July plot of 1944 to assassinateAdolf Hitler.
Anastasia	1956	The Story of Anastasia	1956	Both follow the life ofAnna Anderson, a woman who claimed to have been the presumed deadAnastasia, the youngest daughter ofTsar Nicholas II, who was the last sovereign ofImperial Russia.
The Fly	1958	The Wasp Woman	1959	Both films are about a human being transforming into a giant insect (a fly and a wasp).
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure	1959	Tarzan, the Ape Man	1959	Both movies are about Tarzan and an adventure that he has.
Oscar Wilde	1960	The Trials of Oscar Wilde	1960	Both are about the Irish playwrightOscar Wilde.
Portrait of a Mobster	1961	Mad Dog Coll	1961	Films aboutDutch Schultz andMad Dog Coll.
Mutiny on the Bounty	1962	H.M.S. Defiant	1962	Films about mutinies on British ships in the late 18th century.
Cleopatra	1963	A Queen for Caesar	1962	Films aboutCleopatra.
Captain Clegg	1962	The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh	1963	Both films were based onDoctor Syn (1915) byRussell Thorndike.
Dr. Strangelove	1964	Fail Safe	1964	Both deal with the concept of accidentalnuclear war, althoughDr. Strangelove issatire, whileFail Safe is adrama.
Harlow	1965	Harlow	1965	Both were based on the life story ofJean Harlow.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines	1965	The Great Race	1965	Both are slapstick films about a race in the early 1900s, inspired by the success ofIt's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).^[22]^[23]^[24] The films were released two weeks apart.^[25]
The Quiller Memorandum	1966	Funeral in Berlin	1966	Both are spy films set in contemporaryBerlin.
You're a Big Boy Now	1966	The Graduate	1967	AlsoBenjamin (1968). All arecoming-of-age comedy-drama films about a young man being pursued by an older woman.^[26]
Three Resurrected Drunkards	1968	Head	1968	Both films feature a boy band that tackle the common anti-war and counter-culture themes of the time whilst utilizing a time-loop and dream-like narrative.
Yours, Mine and Ours	1968	With Six You Get Eggroll	1968	Both movies deal with widowed parents marrying andcombining both of their families.
Fellini Satyricon	1969	Satyricon	1969	Both films were based onPetronius's work,Satyricon.
Venus in Furs	1969	Venus in Furs	1969	Both films were based onVenus in Furs (1870) byLeopold von Sacher-Masoch.
Don't Grieve	1969	Mon oncle Benjamin	1969	Both films were based onMon oncle Benjamin [fr] (1842) byClaude Tillier.
The Thirteen Chairs	1969	The Twelve Chairs	1970	AlsoThe Twelve Chairs (1971). All are based on the Russian 1928 novelThe Twelve Chairs byIlf and Petrov.
Leo the Last	1970	The Landlord	1970	Both deal with issues of class and race and feature an upper-class man who moves into a lower-class black neighborhood and gets involved with the residents.^[27]
The Strawberry Statement	1970	Getting Straight	1970	AlsoThe Revolutionary andR. P. M. (1970). All are dramas about campus revolt.^[28]
Bloody Mama	1970	The Grissom Gang	1971	Both based on the life story ofMa Barker.^[29]
Goya, a Story of Solitude	1971	Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment	1971	Biographical films aboutFrancisco Goya.
Gamera vs. Zigra	1971	Godzilla vs. Hedorah	1971	Both are kaiju films that deal with pollution.
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song	1971	Shaft	1971	Both are frequently credited as the earliest examples of theblaxploitation genre.
Ludwig	1973	Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King	1972	Both concernLudwig II of Bavaria.
Godspell	1973	Jesus Christ Superstar	1973	Both adaptations of 1971 Broadway musicals based on the life ofJesus Christ.^[30]^[31]
A Doll's House	1973	A Doll's House	1973	AlsoNora Helmer [de] (1974). Adaptations ofHenrik Ibsen's playA Doll's House (1879).
The Gambler	1974	California Split	1974	Both portray Jewish protagonists addicted togambling on a downward spiral.
Executive Action	1973	The Parallax View	1974	Paranoid thrillers about political assassinations.
Eskimo Nell	1975	The True Story of Eskimo Nell	1975	Based onThe Ballad of Eskimo Nell.
Rollerball	1975	Death Race 2000	1975	Both aredystopian science fiction action films involving dangerous and, sometimes, fatal sports.
Cannonball	1976	The Gumball Rally	1976	AlsoThe Cannonball Run (1981). All three are about the sameillegal cross-country race.
Victory at Entebbe	1976	Raid on Entebbe	1977	AlsoOperation Thunderbolt (1977). All are based on the real-lifeOperation Entebbe, in which Israeli hostages from a hijacked airplane were freed on July 4, 1976.
Fellini's Casanova	1976	Casanova & Co.	1977	Two films aboutGiacomo Casanova.
Two-Minute Warning	1976	Black Sunday	1977	Both action thrillers are about preventing a large-scale terrorist attack at a stadium during a football game.
Brink's: The Great Robbery	1976	The Brink's Job	1978	Both films are based on theBrink's robbery of 1950 inBoston, where almost 3 milliondollars was stolen.
The Last Remake of Beau Geste	1977	March or Die	1977	Two films about theFrench Foreign Legion.
Valentino	1977	The World's Greatest Lover	1977	Two films based on the Hollywood career ofRudolph Valentino.
Corvette Summer	1978	Stingray	1978	Both are action comedies about aChevrolet Corvette.
The Warriors	1979	The Wanderers	1979	Both are about gang wars between New York teenage street gangs of various ethnicities.
Nosferatu the Vampyre	1979	Dracula	1979	AlsoLove at First Bite (1979). All are based onBram Stoker's novelDracula.
Concorde Affaire '79	1979	The Concorde... Airport '79	1979	Both aredisaster films that involve theConcorde plane.
The Amityville Horror	1979	The Shining	1980	Both aresupernatural horror films about a family moving into a building where a previous family of tenants has been murdered, in which the father gets possessed by the previous murderer, ultimately attacking his family with an axe.
Border Cop	1979	Borderline	1980	AlsoThe Border (1982); all involve border patrol or immigration enforcement agents who have dangerous encounters with criminals.
Sphinx	1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	Adventure films about archaeologists in Egypt.John Rhys-Davies andVic Tablian have roles in both films.
The Last Chase	1981	Firebird 2015 AD	1981	Both films which take place in a future where the American government has banned private automobiles.
Roar	1981	Savage Harvest	1981	Both films feature American families being attacked by lions in Africa.
The Howling	1981	Wolfen	1981	AlsoAn American Werewolf in London (1981); all either involvewerewolves or supernatural wolf-like creatures.
Porky's	1981	The Last American Virgin	1982	AlsoScrewballs andLosin' It (both 1983); all are sex comedies depicting a group of young male friends trying to lose their respective virginities or perform another sexually related mission.
The Killing of Angel Street	1981	Heatwave	1982	Both were loosely based on the disappearance of Australian anti-development activistJuanita Nielsen.^[32]^[33]
Reds	1981	Red Bells	1982	AlsoRed Bells II (1983). Films about journalistJohn Reed (1887–1920).
Some Kind of Hero	1982	First Blood	1982	AlsoRuckus (1980). Films feature aVietnam veteran who returns home who then has trouble adjusting to civilian life.
The Pirate Movie	1982	The Pirates of Penzance	1983	Both are adaptations of theGilbert and Sullivan operettaThe Pirates of Penzance.
Carmen	1983	Carmen	1984	AlsoFirst Name: Carmen (1983). All are inspired byGeorges Bizet's operaCarmen.
Octopussy	1983	Never Say Never Again	1983	Both films feature slightly older-than-usual versions of the fictional super-spy,James Bond, as played by actors who had played him in multiple past Bond films (Roger Moore andSean Connery respectively).
Wild Style	1983	Beat Street	1984	Both are well-receivedold-school hip hop films, focusing on all four pillars ofhip hop culture.^[34]^[35] See also 1983 documentary,Style Wars, focusing on graffiti and to a lesser extent breakdancing; 1984 filmBreakin' focused largely on breakdancing; 1985'sKrush Groove, a fictionalized retelling of the founding ofDef Jam, which focused more on rap music. Many overlapping performers appear in the films, such as theRock Steady Crew inWild Style,Style Wars, andBeat Street.
The Day After	1983	Threads	1984	AlsoTestament (1983) andOne Night Stand (1984); all are about the run-up and aftermath of a nuclear attack.
Country	1984	The River	1984	AlsoPlaces in the Heart (1984); all are about the difficulties faced by family farms.
Dreamscape	1984	A Nightmare On Elm Street	1984	Both are about people entering the dreams of others and being able to kill them in real life by killing them in their dreams.
Gremlins	1984	Ghoulies	1985	AlsoCritters (1986). All involve small destructive, evil creatures.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	1984	King Solomon's Mines	1985	AlsoAllan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986), the sequel to the latter. All three are action adventure films where an archaeologist-type figure goes on a quest for a mystical place or item, encountering natives along the way.
Rambo: First Blood Part II	1985	Commando	1985	AlsoMissing in Action (1984). All are one-man armyaction films.
The Return of the Living Dead	1985	Day of the Dead	1985	Both are zombie movies, released almost simultaneously, and arising from the collaboration betweenJohn Russo andGeorge A. Romero onNight of the Living Dead.
Wills & Burke	1985	Burke & Wills	1985	Both Australian films are about theBurke and Wills expedition. The films were released within a week of each other.
Back to the Future	1985	Peggy Sue Got Married	1986	Both feature protagonists who go back in time and meet high school versions of their family members, played by the same actors.
Fright Night	1985	Vamp	1986	AlsoThe Lost Boys andNear Dark (1987); all arevampire films involving teenage characters.
Into the Night	1985	After Hours	1985	AlsoSomething Wild (1986); all are comedies about men whose encounter with a mysterious woman leads them to trouble.
Top Gun	1986	Iron Eagle	1986	Both are films about fighter pilots.
GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords	1986	The Transformers: The Movie	1986	Both are animated feature films derived from TV cartoons based on toy lines about transforming robots.
Big Trouble in Little China	1986	The Golden Child	1986	Both are themed around Eastern mythology, and starJames Hong.
The Great Mouse Detective	1986	An American Tail	1986	Both are animated feature films about a group of mice.
The Vindicator	1986	RoboCop	1987	Both are about an innocent man who is left mutilated and near-dead by villains, is reconstructed into acyborg by a special-weapons company, and seeks revenge on the people responsible for his fate.
Platoon	1986	Full Metal Jacket	1987	AlsoHamburger Hill (1987) and84C MoPic (1989). All are bleak, violent and unglamorized depictions of theVietnam War.^[36]
Gothic	1986	Haunted Summer	1988	AlsoRowing with the Wind (1988). All are set in 1816 whenLord Byron,Mary Shelley,Percy Shelley andJohn William Polidori spend a summer in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva.
Link	1986	Monkey Shines	1988	Both arehorror films with primates as the antagonist.
The Secret of My Succe$s	1987	Working Girl	1988	Both are about people starting new lower-level jobs in New York City, pretending to be executives, coming up with great ideas regarding takeovers, and getting the girl/guy that was "out of their league".
Like Father, Like Son	1987	Big	1988	AlsoVice Versa,18 Again!,14 Going on 30 (1988) andDream a Little Dream (1989); all portray boys who transform into, or who switch bodies with, adult men.
Buster	1988	Prisoner of Rio	1988	The fate ofBritish train robbers from 1963.
Dangerous Liaisons	1988	Valmont	1989	Both are adaptations of the novelLes Liaisons Dangereuses.
Oliver & Company	1988	All Dogs Go to Heaven	1989	Both are animated feature films about dogs with a human partner.
K-9	1989	Turner & Hooch	1989	Both arebuddy cop-dog films about a police officer who gets a dog for a partner.
DeepStar Six	1989	Leviathan	1989	AlsoThe Abyss,The Evil Below,Lords of the Deep (1989) andThe Rift (1990); all are underwater thrillers involving explorers discovering strange new (and in most of the movies hostile) creatures in the ocean.
Goldeneye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming	1989	Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming	1990	Both are biopics ofJames Bond creatorIan Fleming.
The Forbidden Dance	1990	Lambada	1990	Both are films that center around the dance theLambada.
Manta, Manta	1991	Manta – Der Film [de]	1991	Both are based onManta jokes.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	1991	Robin Hood	1991	Both are based on the legend ofRobin Hood.
The Super	1991	Life Stinks	1991	Both are about ruthless upper-class white men who are forced to live in an urban slum.
Mobsters	1991	Bugsy	1991	Bothcrime films are aboutBenjamin "Bugsy" Siegel,Charles "Lucky" Luciano,Meyer Lansky,Frank Costello. Luciano also appears inBilly Bathgate (1991).
December Bride	1991	The Playboys	1992	Both films tell of a young Irish woman in a small rural community who decides to have a child out of wedlock.
The Hard Way	1991	Into the Sun	1992	Both films are about a movie star going through dangerous adventures while gathering material for a role.
American Me	1992	Blood In Blood Out	1993	Both films depict gang violence in the Mexican-American community in California. At one point,American Me star and directorEdward James Olmos was offered to star in and directBlood In Blood Out, but passed on the film due to creative differences.^[37]Floyd Mutrux is credited as a co-writer on both films.
1492: Conquest of Paradise	1992	Christopher Columbus: The Discovery	1992	AlsoCarry on Columbus (1992). All three are aboutChristopher Columbus and his discovery of the Americas in 1492.
Fear of a Black Hat	1993	CB4	1993	Both parodyhip hop, with a particular focus on rap groupN.W.A;Fear of a Black Hat is amockumentary.^[34] Both films feature actorsDeezer D,Lance Crouther, andLaVerne Anderson;Kimberly Hardin cast both pictures.
Mad Dog and Glory	1993	Indecent Proposal	1993	AlsoHoneymoon in Vegas (1992). All three films involve a man buying a woman who is not a prostitute for a short period of time and a large amount of money.
Carnosaur	1993	Jurassic Park	1993	Both are action adventure films involving the genetic recreation of dinosaurs or prehistoric animals. Both are also based on books.
Groundhog Day	1993	12:01	1993	Both are about an individual stuck in a 24-hour time loop where the protagonist wakes every morning on the same day and experiences the events of that day over and over until they discover how to break the cycle.
Hard Target	1993	Surviving the Game	1994	Both are modern-dayaction-adventure thrillers that are heavily inspired byThe Most Dangerous Game.
Tombstone	1993	Wyatt Earp	1994	Both areWyatt Earp biopics.
Rookie of the Year	1993	Little Big League	1994	Both are films in which a 12-year-old boy becomes involved inMajor League Baseball.
Undercover Blues	1993	True Lies	1994	Both films are action comedies about secret agents and their family lives.
Kalifornia	1993	Natural Born Killers	1994	Also 1993 mini-seriesMurder in the Heartland. All are road movies about a couple engaging in multi-statekilling sprees, and all are directly or loosely based on real murdererCharles Starkweather. Both films haveJuliette Lewis as a main character.
Three of Hearts	1993	Threesome	1994	Both films involve a love triangle between a heterosexual, a homosexual and a bisexual. Each film also stars one of theBaldwin brothers and a series-regular actress from the television showTwin Peaks.
The Beverly Hillbillies	1993	Addams Family Values	1993	Both films are adaptations of 1960s American television sitcoms, centering on eccentric families struggling to fit into conventional society while humorously exposing its flaws.The Beverly Hillbillies follows a rural family that strikes oil and moves to Beverly Hills, where their simple ways clash with high society.Addams Family Values continues the story of the macabre Addams clan, who face suburban norms head-on, especially through Wednesday’s rebellious antics at summer camp. Both films feature a subplot where a naïve, wealthy bachelor—Jed Clampett andUncle Fester—is targeted by a scheming woman after his fortune.
The Elsa Santos Castillo Story: The Chop Chop Lady	1994	Elsa Castillo Story ... Ang Katotohanan	1994	Both films purport to tell the true story of the 1989 Elsa S. Castillo murder case in the Philippines.
Terminal Velocity	1994	Drop Zone	1994	AlsoFreefall (1994). All are action films that involve skydiving.
Time Chasers	1994	Timecop	1994	Both are science fiction films with the themes of time traveling that involved the protagonist trying to prevent the course of time being altered for the antagonists' personal gain.
The Air Up There	1994	The Scout	1994	Both films are about a desperate Americanscout who thinks he found an extraordinary talent in an unlikely foreign locale, but bringing the player to stardom has unthought-of difficulties and the scout learns life lessons from the player he is supposed to be developing.
Camp Nowhere	1994	Heavyweights	1995	Both films take place atsummer camp and include a preteen protagonist who is initially reluctant to go. (Both films were also released byDisney'sBuena Vista Pictures.)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	1994	To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar	1995	Both have the plot ofdrag queens going on a road trip across their country (in one case Australia, in the other, the United States), in a journey of self-discovery. Both have eight-word-titles.
Street Fighter	1994	Mortal Kombat	1995	AlsoDouble Dragon (1994). All aremartial arts action adventure films based onfighting video game franchises.
Braveheart	1995	Rob Roy	1995	AlsoThe Bruce (1996); all are adventure/war biopics set inScotland.^[10]
Gordy	1994	Babe	1995	Both arefamily films starringpiglets.^[10]
The Flor Contemplacion Story	1995	Bagong Bayani	1995	Both films depict the trial and execution ofFlor Contemplacion, anOverseas Filipino Worker inSingapore.
A Kid in King Arthur's Court	1995	Kids of the Round Table	1995	Both involve a modern American boy who encounters characters fromArthurian legend, leading the boy to experience adventure and an increase in self-confidence.
Showgirls	1995	Striptease	1996	AlsoStripteaser (1996). All three areerotic drama films featuring a lead character involved in thestripper profession.^[38]
GoldenEye	1995	Mission: Impossible	1996	Both are spy films based on long running franchises and feature plots wherein the protagonist's close friend fakes his death and is revealed to be a traitor.
Powder	1995	Phenomenon	1996	Both tell the story of a man withtelepathic powers that make him an outcast in a small town. (Both films were also released by Disney's Buena Vista Pictures.)
The Craft	1996	Little Witches	1996	Both are films about young teenage outcasts becoming witches.
Emma	1996	Emma	1996	AlsoClueless (1995). All are based on theJane Austen novelEmma, howeverClueless takes place in modern-dayBeverly Hills.
Independence Day	1996	Mars Attacks!	1996	Both are alien invasion films released the same year. However, one is a comedy while the other is an action thriller.
Twister	1996	Tornado!	1996	Both chronicle the lives ofstorm chasers in their line of work.
Executive Decision	1996	Air Force One	1997	Both are films aboutterrorists hijacking a plane and a rescue team saving the passengers and defeating the terrorists.Con Air (1997) also has a similar concept, though involving convicts.
The Arrival	1996	Contact	1997	Both arescience fiction thriller films in which the main character is aradio astronomer that takes part in a conspiracy involving making first contact with an alien race.
Titanic	1996	Titanic	1997	Both areepic romantic disaster films incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, based on accounts ofthe sinking ofRMSTitanic in 1912.
Dante's Peak	1997	Volcano	1997	AlsoVolcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997). All three are disaster films centered aroundvolcanic eruptions.^[9]^[10]
The Jackal	1997	The Assignment	1997	Both areaction thrillers dealing with assassins called Jackal;The Assignment's is based on Venezuelan terrorist operativeCarlos the Jackal.
Kundun	1997	Seven Years in Tibet	1997	Both are fact-based dramas set in mid-20th centuryTibet, with the14th Dalai Lama as a main character.^[10]
Murder at 1600	1997	Absolute Power	1997	Both films center around a Washington, D.C. murder investigation involving the President/at theWhite House.^[39]^[40]
The House of Yes	1997	The Myth of Fingerprints	1997	AlsoThe Ice Storm. All three films center arounddysfunctional families in theNortheastern United States gathering forThanksgiving.
FairyTale: A True Story	1997	Photographing Fairies	1997	Both films are based on thesame story about two supposedly photographed fairies by two girls. Both films (as in life) featureArthur Conan Doyle.
Prefontaine	1997	Without Limits	1998	Both are biographicalsports films about distance runnerSteve Prefontaine.
Jack Frost	1997	Jack Frost	1998	Both films have the same title and each is about a man killed in a vehicle crash who is subsequently reanimated as a living snowman. They differ in that the 1997 movie is aslasher film, while the 1998 film is family-friendly.
I Know What You Did Last Summer	1997	Urban Legend	1998	Both are slasher films about urban legends and inspired by the success ofScream (1996). (Both films are also produced byNeal H. Moritz).
Antz	1998	A Bug's Life	1998	Both arecomputer-animated films about insects, starring a non-conformist ant who falls in love with an ant princess, leaves the mound, and eventually returns and is hailed as a hero.^[10]
Deep Impact	1998	Armageddon	1998	AlsoDoomsday Rock (1997),Asteroid (1997),Judgment Day (1998), andTycus (1998). All areglobal catastrophic risk disaster films centered around an impendingimpact event that threatens to end most or all life on Earth.^[9]^[10]
Saving Private Ryan	1998	The Thin Red Line	1998	AlsoLife Is Beautiful (1997). All are dramas about, or involving,World War II.^[10]
Sliding Doors	1998	Run Lola Run	1998	Both films tell the same story of a woman multiple times, changing a minor detail at the beginning and depicting how that change drastically affects the outcome.^[41]
Dead Man on Campus	1998	The Curve	1998	Both films involve college students attempting to utilizepass by catastrophe.
54	1998	Last Days of Disco	1998	Both films are set again the backdrop of the waningdisco era of the late 1970s.^[42]
The Truman Show	1998	EDtv	1999	AlsoPleasantville (1998). All are films in which a person or a large group of people's lives are broadcast on TV.^[10]
Tale of the Mummy	1998	The Mummy	1999	AlsoBram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy (1997). All three are aboutmummies coming back to life and killing people.
Dark City	1998	The Matrix	1999	AlsoThe Thirteenth Floor andeXistenZ (1999);^[10] all arescience fiction films involving the theme of whether the world is real or an illusion. All except forDark City involve virtual reality in a computer system.
Paulie	1998	The Real Macaw	1998	Both are children's adventure films featuring aparrot.
Anywhere But Here	1999	Tumbleweeds	1999	Both films concern a mother-daughter pair who drive across the country to settle in California.^[43]
Entrapment	1999	The Thomas Crown Affair	1999	Both arecaper films focused on the relationship between an attractive femaleinsurance investigator and a male thief who steals an expensive painting by a famous artist.^[10] (Coincidentally, the male lead in both films is also played by an actor who has portrayedJames Bond.)
The Sixth Sense	1999	Stir of Echoes	1999	Both aresupernatural horror films with a man and his relatives, experiencing a series of frightening visions and having the ability to interact with ghosts.
End of Days	1999	Stigmata	1999	AlsoLost Souls (2000); all are supernatural religious horror films involving the Catholic Church. BothEnd of Days andStigmata starGabriel Byrne as a main character. BothEnd of Days andLost Souls involve the theme of Satan taking possession of a man's body.^[10]
The Haunting	1999	House on Haunted Hill	1999	AlsoThe House That Screamed (2000). All are horror films in which people are trapped in a haunted house. BothThe Haunting andHouse on Haunted Hill are based on media from 1959. The two also have strangers lured into the house under false pretenses.
10 Things I Hate About You	1999	Hamlet	2000	AlsoO (2001). All are modern-day adaptations ofWilliam Shakespeare plays, featuringJulia Stiles as the female lead.^[44]
The Legend of the Titanic	1999	Titanic: The Legend Goes On	2000	Both are animated films about the sinking of RMSTitanic.
Bicentennial Man	1999	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	2001	Both are science fiction films dealing with the theme ofhumanoid robots seeking to experience emotion and be human. Both are also adapted from works of prominent sci-fi authors;Isaac Asimov andBrian Aldiss respectively.
Lovers Lane	1999	Valentine	2001	Both areholiday horror movies set on Valentine's Day revolving around a serial killer exacting revenge on young adults 13 years later.
Padre Pio: Miracle Man	2000	Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth	2000	Both films are aboutPadre Pio.
The Road to El Dorado	2000	The Emperor's New Groove	2000	Both are animated buddy comedy films set in what is nowLatin America.
Bring It On	2000	Sugar & Spice	2001	Both films are comedies about high school cheerleading squads.Sugar & Spice starMarley Shelton was the second choice to playBring It On character Torrance Shipman, prior toKirsten Dunst being cast in the role, after previously turning it down.^[45] Also, according toBring It On starGabrielle Union, she and many of herBring It On co-stars also auditioned forSugar & Spice.^[46]
Scary Movie	2000	Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth	2000	Both are horror moviespoofs featuring a killer wearing aGhostface mask;Scary Movie additionally had the working titleScream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween.^[10]
Mission to Mars	2000	Red Planet	2000	AlsoBlood Red Planet (2000) andGhosts of Mars (2001). All arescience fiction adventure films about expeditions toMars.^[47]^[10] However,Ghosts of Mars is a horror film.
Wonder Boys	2000	Finding Forrester	2000	Both are films involving a writer and his friendship with a student.^[10]
The Score	2001	Heist	2001	Both are crime thriller films involving a major robbery.^[10]
Autumn In New York	2000	Sweet November	2001	Both films center onfree-spirited young women who are diagnosed with terminal illnesses set against the fall backdrop.
Joe Dirt	2001	Run Ronnie Run!	2002	Both are crude humor stories about lovable-ish rednecks. There are jokes that are nearly identical in each movie. However,Run Ronnie Run! is based on aMr. Show with Bob and David character that first appeared in 1995.
Stealing Harvard	2002	Orange County	2002	Both are comedy films about someone resorting to drastic measures in order to obtain acceptance to, or tuition for, a prestigious college.
Liberty Stands Still	2002	Phone Booth	2002	Both movies revolve around people who answer a ringing phone in a public place and are held hostage there by a sniper who has an agenda.
The Legend of Bhagat Singh	2002	23rd March 1931: Shaheed	2002	Both movies are about Bhagat Singh, a revolutionary who fought for Indian independence
Freddy vs. Jason	2003	Alien vs. Predator	2004	Both feature horror icons from the 1980s fighting against each other, while humans end up in the crossfire.
Biker Boyz	2003	Torque	2004	Both are action films about motorcycle gangs and street racing.
Finding Nemo	2003	Shark Tale	2004	Both are computer-animated films set underwater.
Underworld	2003	Van Helsing	2004	Both films depict a war between vampires and werewolves.Kate Beckinsale played the female lead in both films.
Beautiful Boxer	2003	Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior	2003	Both are Thai films centering onMuay Thai
Chasing Liberty	2004	First Daughter	2004	Both areromantic comedy films about the rebellious daughter of the President of the United States.^[11]
The Cave	2005	The Descent	2005	AlsoThe Cavern (2005). All three are horror films in which people encounter deadly creatures in a cave system.
Red Eye	2005	Flightplan	2005	Both arethriller films set on airplanes.^[10]
War of the Worlds	2005	H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds	2005	AlsoWar of the Worlds (2005). All three are adaptations ofH. G. Wells'The War of the Worlds.
Sky High	2005	Zoom	2006	Both are about kids training to become superheroes.
Madagascar	2005	The Wild	2006	Both are computer-animated films involving similar animal characters from New York'sCentral Park Zoo being introduced to the wild. SeeThe Wild#Comparisons toMadagascar.
Capote	2005	Infamous	2006	Both are drama films aboutTruman Capote and the writing ofIn Cold Blood.^[9]^[10] The confluence of the two films led to an incident in 2003 whenInfamous writer-directorDouglas McGrath called producerBingham Ray to announce that his script had been finished, and Ray responded "I know, I've got it on my desk!" before realizing that he actually had the screenplay toCapote.^[9]
The Dark	2005	Silent Hill	2006	Both are horror films where a woman enters a strange otherworld in search of her missing daughter. Both also starSean Bean in a small role, have similar style final scenes, and have been adapted from other media.
Asylum	2005	Notes on a Scandal	2006	Both are British dramas about women of similar age who have an illicit affair at a public institution (respectively a mental asylum and a school) while being observed and manipulated by an older person. Both films were adapted from novels by screenwriterPatrick Marber, who has himself commented on the similarity between them.
Beowulf & Grendel	2005	Beowulf	2007	AlsoGrendel (2007). All three are fantasy adventure films based on the Old English epic poemBeowulf.
The Zodiac	2005	Zodiac	2007	AlsoCurse of the Zodiac (2007);^[48] All are films based on the story of theZodiac Killer.
Zzyzx	2006	Zyzzyx Road	2006	Both are thrillers about people trying to hide a dead body onZzyzx Road in California.^[49]
United 93	2006	Flight 93	2006	Both are dramas aboutUnited Airlines Flight 93.^[10]
The Prestige	2006	The Illusionist	2006	Both are films about 19th-century magicians.^[10]
Over the Hedge	2006	Open Season	2006	Both are computer-animated films about wild animals who are at war with humans.
Happy Feet	2006	Surf's Up	2007	Both are computer-animated comedy films about penguins.^[50]^[38]
The Zombie Diaries	2006	Diary of the Dead	2007	Both arefound footage horror films surrounding an outbreak of zombies, along with similar titles.
An American Crime	2007	The Girl Next Door	2007	Both are based on the torture andmurder of Sylvia Likens.
Knocked Up	2007	Juno	2007	AlsoWaitress (2007). All feature a young female protagonist facing an unexpected pregnancy.
Control	2007	What We Do Is Secret	2007	Both films are biopics centered on (post-)punk frontmen who died by suicide in their early 20s in 1980.
This Christmas	2007	Nothing Like the Holidays	2008	Both films revolve large families gathering for theChristmas holiday.
27 Dresses	2008	Made of Honor	2008	Both films areromantic comedies centering on weddings and loyal friends taking part as bridesmaids. Both films also have actors that starred in the television seriesGrey's Anatomy at the time in the lead roles,Katherine Heigl andPatrick Dempsey respectively.Kevin McKidd ofGrey's Anatomy also co-starred inMade of Honor prior to appearing in the series later in the film's release year.
Journey to the Center of the Earth	2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth	2008	Both are loose adaptations ofJules Verne's novel of the same name.
Coco Chanel	2008	Coco Before Chanel	2009	AlsoCoco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009). All are related to French fashion designerCoco Chanel.
Eagle Eye	2008	Echelon Conspiracy	2009	Both center around a governmentAI supercomputer that is tasked with protecting the US through ubiquitous surveillance and endless access to nearly all technology, which becomes too autonomous and powerful.^[51]
Beast Stalker	2008	Connected	2008	Both are crime dramas containing the theme of kidnapping involving a single mother, her child and a police officer - both also starNick Cheung.
Who Do You Love?	2008	Cadillac Records	2008	Both films delves into the musical landscape from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, highlighting the life ofLeonard Chess, a prominent record company executive based in Chicago, along with several musicians who recorded for Chess Records.
Repo! The Genetic Opera	2008	Repo Men	2010	Set in a dystopian future, both films are about one or more corporate-employed "repo men" who fatally repossess artificial organs when patients default on their payments.^[52]
Observe and Report	2009	Paul Blart: Mall Cop	2009	Both are comedy films about an overweight mall cop.^[2]
Gamer	2009	Surrogates	2009	AlsoSleep Dealer (2008) andAvatar (2009); all arescience fiction films in which people control physical remotely-operated bodies.^[2]^[53]^[54]
Avatar	2009	District 9	2009	Both films portray aliens abused by humans, the protagonist changing sides, turning against the military-minded antagonist and eventually becoming an alien.
Knowing	2009	2012	2009	Both are science fiction disaster films about the end of the world.
The Road	2009	The Book of Eli	2010	AlsoHell (2011). All three films are set in a post-apocalyptic world, where the main characters try to survive by travelling.
Armored	2009	Takers	2010	Both are stylized, action-crime robbery thrillers.Matt Dillon stars in both films.
Dark Moon Rising	2009	The Wolfman	2010	Both show a werewolf trying to stop his father,who is also a werewolf.
The A-Team	2010	The Losers	2010	Both are fast-paced action films about dishonored military operatives seeking redemption and revenge after being betrayed on a secret mission. In addition, both are based on pre-existing series from other mediums (one is based on atelevision show and the other acomic book).
Kick-Ass	2010	Super	2010	Both feature characters who possess no super abilities/powers who embark on vigilante justice under the disguise of homemade costumes and alter egos. Each confronts the difficulties of fighting evil while lacking special abilities, and both are joined, later in their stories, by characters who share similar vigilante motivations.
Despicable Me	2010	Megamind	2010	AlsoWreck-It Ralph (2012). All three are computer-animated films featuring a stereotypicalvillain as the protagonist.^[55]
Ip Man 2	2010	The Legend Is Born: Ip Man	2010	Both are Hong Kong films depicting the life ofIp Man.Sammo Hung stars in both films.
Skyline	2010	Battle: Los Angeles	2011	Both are alien invasion movies that primarily take place inLos Angeles.Sony Pictures, the studio ofBattle, initiated legal action against the directors and special effects gurus ofSkyline for allegedly ripping off ideas and equipment for their similar film. Sony later dismissed their arbitration, stating they were satisfied their own special effects were not used inSkyline.^[56]
Centurion	2010	The Eagle	2011	Both are historical action films about thedisappearance of the Roman Empire's Ninth Legion.
The Bounty Hunter	2010	One for the Money	2012	Both are films about a bounty hunter and going after a former love interest.^{[citation needed]}
No Strings Attached	2011	Friends with Benefits	2011	Both are romantic comedies about a pair of friends who have a casual, non-romantic sexual relationship and eventually fall in love.No Strings Attached had theworking titleFriends with Benefits, but had to be renamed due to a conflict with the other film.^[57]
Yann Samuell's War of the Buttons	2011	Christophe Barratier's War of the Buttons	2011	Both are French film adaptations of the 1912 novelWar of the Buttons, released a week apart from one another, though the first was set in theAlgerian War while the second was set inWorld War II.^[58]
The Raid	2011	Dredd	2012	Both films deal with a law enforcement officer infiltrating a tall residential building in pursuit of a crime lord, wherein the crime lord attempts to turn the residents against the officer.^[59]
Extraterrestrial	2011	Seeking a Friend for the End of the World	2012	Also4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011) andMelancholia (2011). All are apocalyptic science fiction films.^[60]^[61]
Quartet	2012	A Late Quartet	2012	Both are about the members of aclassical music quartet facing old age.^[62]
The Girl	2012	Hitchcock	2012	Both areAlfred Hitchcock biopics.
Mirror Mirror	2012	Snow White and the Huntsman	2012	Both are loose adaptations of the fairy taleSnow White. Also the Spanish 2012 filmBlancanieves adaptsSnow White,using black-and-white silent cinematography like the 2012 French filmThe Artist.^[63]
Zero Dark Thirty	2012	Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden	2012	Both films are about the assassination ofOsama bin Laden.
Upside Down	2012	Patema Inverted	2013	Both are a romance between characters of twin worlds, each with gravity opposite to the other.^[64]
The Other Son	2012	Like Father, Like Son	2013	Both films revolve around two young men who wereswitched at birth and raised by families from contrasting socioeconomic strata.^[65]
Witchslayer Gretl	2012	Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters	2013	AlsoHansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft (2013). All three are dark fantasy films portrayingHansel and Gretel in an edgier light.
A Hijacking	2012	Captain Phillips	2013	Both are about apirate attack on a cargo ship off the coast of Somalia.^[66]
Ip Man: The Final Fight	2013	The Grandmaster	2013	Both are Hong Kong produced martial arts drama films about the life ofIp Man, produced outside theIp Man film series.
Jobs	2013	Steve Jobs	2015	Both areSteve Jobs biopics.^[67]
Olympus Has Fallen	2013	White House Down	2013	Both are action films about terrorist attacks on theWhite House.^[68]
Oblivion	2013	After Earth	2013	Both films include a protagonist who must fight for survival on a post-apocalyptic Earth.^[69]
This Is the End	2013	The World's End	2013	AlsoRapture-Palooza (2013); all are apocalyptic comedy films.^[70] BothThis Is the End andRapture-Palooza starCraig Robinson as a main character.
The Double	2013	Enemy	2013	Both are about a man who finds his physicaldoppelgänger in a seemingly totalitarian state.^[71]
The Machine	2013	Automata	2014	AlsoHer (2013),Ex Machina (2014),Transcendence (2014),Chappie (2015), andUncanny (2015).^[2] All are science fiction films involving robots and/or artificial intelligence.
The Starving Games	2013	The Hungover Games	2014	Both areparody films that are mainly spoofs ofThe Hunger Games, along with other popular movies and TV shows of the time.
Yves Saint Laurent	2014	Saint Laurent	2014	Both areYves Saint Laurent biopics.^[68]
Hercules	2014	The Legend of Hercules	2014	AlsoHercules Reborn (2014).^[2] All are aboutHercules.
The Equalizer	2014	John Wick	2014	Both films involve a highly trained protagonist who seeks vengeance through killing.^[72]
Life After Beth	2014	Burying the Ex	2014	AlsoWarm Bodies (2013). All three are romantic comedies involving zombies.^[73]
This Is Where I Leave You	2014	August: Osage County	2014	Both movies involve dysfunctional families reuniting after the death of the patriarch.
Unfriended	2014	Friend Request	2016	Both are horror films with plots centered aroundsocial media.
Labyrinth of Lies	2014	The People vs. Fritz Bauer	2015	AlsoDie Akte General [de] (2016). All are films depicting the effort which led to theFrankfurt Auschwitz trials by a group of prosecutors headed byFritz Bauer.
Moonwalkers	2015	Operation Avalanche	2016	Both are films based onMoon landing conspiracy theories.^[74]
The Beauty Inside	2015	Every Day	2018	Both are a romance between a woman and a spirit who wakes up every day in a different body.^[75]^[76]
Marguerite	2015	Florence Foster Jenkins	2016	Both films are based on the life ofFlorence Foster Jenkins.^[77]
The Martian	2015	Approaching the Unknown	2016	AlsoForsaken (2018). Both are about a man who is stranded in space on a mission to Mars and has to figure out a way to survive.^[78]
Spectre	2015	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation	2015	Both films feature the protagonists chasing after secret criminal organisations through Austria, Morocco and London while their intelligence agencies are shutting down.^[79]^[80] Paramount had to advance the release date ofMission: Impossible – Rogue Nation to avoid conflicting withSpectre.^[81]
Coming Through the Rye	2015	Rebel in the Rye	2017	Both are films aboutJ. D. Salinger.^[82]
Other People	2016	The Hollars	2016	Both are about a male writer living in New York City who returns to his hometown for his mother dying of cancer.^[83]^[84]
Southside with You	2016	Barry	2016	Both are films about a youngBarack Obama, as well as a love interest.
Zootopia	2016	Sing	2016	Both films are set in a metropolis inhabited by animals.
The Secret Life of Pets	2016	Sing	2016	Both films feature animals as protagonists and both are distributed byUniversal Pictures andIllumination Entertainment.
Christine	2016	Kate Plays Christine	2016	Both are films aboutChristine Chubbuck, thoughKate Plays Christine is a documentary about the acting process.^[85]
Patriots Day	2016	Stronger	2017	Both films revolve around the 2013Boston Marathon bombings and their aftermath.^[86]^[87]
Captain Fantastic	2016	The Glass Castle	2017	Both are about a large family who lives secluded from the civilized world and deal with its moral ramifications.^[88]
Anthropoid	2016	The Man with the Iron Heart	2017	Both films are aboutOperation Anthropoid, the assassination ofSS-ObergruppenführerReinhard Heydrich.^[89]
Storks	2016	The Boss Baby	2017	Both films are animated and focus on fictional worlds where babies come from.
The Jungle Book	2016	Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle	2018	Both are live-action, CGI-heavy adaptations ofRudyard Kipling'sThe Jungle Book, though the 2016 film is a remake ofthe 1967 animated musical film.^[90]
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	2016	Captain America: Civil War	2016	Both films show the world's two greatest heroes being manipulated by a villain to fight each other.
Earthquake	2016	Spitak	2018	Both films are about the1988 Armenian earthquake.
Churchill	2017	Darkest Hour	2017	Both are films aboutWinston Churchill. Also, the TV filmChurchill's Secret (2016) is about Winston Churchill.
Dunkirk	2017	Darkest Hour	2017	Both films prominently feature the planning of the evacuation of Dunkirk.
The Age of Pioneers	2017	Salyut 7	2017	Both Russian films are based on facts and feature Soviet cosmonauts.
Daddy's Home 2	2017	Bad Moms Christmas	2017	Both sequels revolve around parents whose own parents visit for the holidays.
Goodbye Christopher Robin	2017	Christopher Robin	2018	The former is a biopic of authorA. A. Milne, focusing on his relationship with his sonChristopher Robin, whose childhood inspired the world of Milne'sWinnie-the-Pooh. The latter is a fantasy drama about the adult life of thePooh characterChristopher Robin in a continuation of theDisney films based on Milne's books.
Crowhurst	2017	The Mercy	2018	Both films are aboutDonald Crowhurst's ill-fated entry in theSunday Times Golden Globe Race, a non-stop round-the-world sailing competition. Uniquely, these films not only have an identical subject, but were also distributed by the same studio, namelyStudioCanal: according to the head ofStudioCanal UK, Danny Perkins, the company bought the low-budget productionCrowhurst "so we could control it".^[91]
Little Women	2017	Little Women	2019	AlsoLittle Women (2018 film). Both are adaptations of the 2-part novelLittle Women byLouisa May Alcott which released aroundChristmas. However the 2018 film takes place in modern-day.
Den of Thieves	2018	King of Thieves	2018	Both are heist thriler featuring group.
303 Squadron	2018	Hurricane: 303 Squadron	2018	Both are about Polish pilots of theNo. 303 Squadron RAF fighting in theBattle of Britain.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post	2018	Boy Erased	2018	The protagonists of both films are gay teenagers forced by their families to undergoconversion therapy.^[92]
U – July 22	2018	22 July	2018	Both are dramas based on the2011 Utøya, Norway massacre.
Sink or Swim	2018	Swimming with Men	2018	Both are about a man who is facing amidlife crisis and joins an all-malesynchronised swimming team.^[93]
Hotel Artemis	2018	Hotel Mumbai	2018	Both films are Action-thriller about trying terrorist hotel.
Black Panther	2018	Aquaman	2018	Both films focus on two superheroes who must take their place as kings of a fictional kingdom and depose a relative.
Smallfoot	2018	Abominable	2019	Both are computer-animated films aboutabominable snowmen makingfirst contact with humans and are both set in the Himalayas.
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich	2018	The Happytime Murders	2018	Both are dark comedies featuring puppets.^[94]
A Quiet Place	2018	The Silence	2019	Both are about parents with a deaf teenage daughter trying to survive a planet-wide attack from creatures who hunt their human prey by sound.
Beautiful Boy	2018	Ben Is Back	2018	Both are melodramas about a family with a teenage son facing a drug addiction.^[95]^[96]
Skate Kitchen	2018	Mid90s	2018	Both are coming of age stories about a group of skateboarding teenagers played by inexperienced actors who skateboard in real life. In both films, the primary character is the newest member of the group and has a contentious relationship with their single mother.^[97]^[98]
RBG	2018	On the Basis of Sex	2018	A documentary and a biographical drama aboutRuth Bader Ginsburg.
A Twelve-Year Night	2018	El Pepe: A Supreme Life	2019	A biographical drama and a documentary aboutJosé Mujica.
Won't You Be My Neighbor?	2018	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	2019	Both films are aboutFred Rogers, although the former is adocumentary while the latter is abiopic.
Widows	2018	The Kitchen	2019	Both are about the law-abiding wives of criminals who take up their husbands' criminal plans when they are gone.^[99]^[100]
Lez Bomb	2018	Happiest Season	2020	Both films revolve around lesbians who plan tocome out to their conservative families during the holidays, only to be confronted by theirex-boyfriends;Lez Bomb is set onThanksgiving whileHappiest Season takes place onChristmas.^[101]
Fyre Fraud	2019	Fyre	2019	Both are documentaries about theFyre Festival.^[102]
A Dog's Journey	2019	The Art of Racing in the Rain	2019	Both are films about a dog's life in their owner's lives and are narrated and seen through the eyes of the dogs.
The Haunting of Sharon Tate	2019	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	2019	Both are films aboutSharon Tate and her murder. Although the former is ahorror thriller film that dramatizes the events, the latter takes place in an alternate universe where the murder did not take place.^[103]
Ip Man 4: The Finale	2019	Ip Man: Kung Fu Master	2019	Both depict the life ofIp Man and are part of a series of films based on him.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire	2019	Ammonite	2020	Both films are set around 1800 on the coast of theEnglish Channel and feature a forbidden lesbian relationship further complicated by class differences.
The King's Letters	2019	Forbidden Dream	2019	Both are aboutKing Sejong the Great and his patronage of scholarship.^[104]
Ujda Chaman	2019	Bala	2019	Both movies are about men facing premature baldness, hence becoming a subject of social ridicule and facing problems finding a spouse.^[105]
The Curse of La Llorona	2019	La Llorona	2019	Both films are about the legend ofLa Llorona.^[106]
Never Rarely Sometimes Always	2020	Unpregnant	2020	Both are American films about a teenage girl finding out she is pregnant and going on a road trip with her best friend to another state to get an abortion without their parents' consent.
The Vow	2020	Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult	2020	Both are documentaries about the cultNXIVM.
Killer Spider	2020	Holy Spider	2022	Both are dramatizations of the case ofSaeed Hanaei, a serial killer who targeted sex workers in Iran.^[107]
The Battle at Lake Changjin	2021	Devotion	2022	AlsoThe Battle at Lake Changjin II (2022), the sequel of the former andSniper (2022). Both films are, or are partially, set during theBattle of Chosin Reservoir at theKorean War.
Pinocchio	2022	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	2022	AlsoPinocchio: A True Story (2022) andPinocchio and the Water Of Life (2023). All films are based onThe Adventures of Pinocchio. Three of the films—Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio,Pinocchio: A True Story, andThe Adventures of Pinocchio—starTom Kenny.^[108]
Violent Night	2022	The Mean One	2022	AlsoChristmas Bloody Christmas (2022). All are films about a murderousSanta Claus figure.^[109]
Fire of Love	2022	The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft	2022	Both document the life and work of volcanologist and filmmaker coupleKatia and Maurice Krafft, making extensive use of their own video footage.
Elvis	2022	Priscilla	2023	Both are films about or revolve aroundElvis Presley.^[110]
Turning Red	2022	Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken	2023	Both are animated films aboutadolescent girls who transform into larger creatures (a red panda and a kraken, respectively) under certain conditions.
Renfield	2023	The Last Voyage of the Demeter	2023	Both are films based onDracula released byUniversal Pictures in the same year.
The Beast in the Jungle	2023	The Beast	2023	Both are French adaptations of theHenry James novellaThe Beast in the Jungle.
The Covenant	2023	Kandahar	2023	AlsoWarhorse One. All films are set in aTaliban-controlled Afghanistan.^[111]
The Great Escaper	2023	The Last Rifleman	2023	Based on the true story of Bernard Jordan, both are films about an elderlyWorld War II veteran who escapes hisnursing home in order to attend a milestone anniversary commemorations of theNormandy landings in France.^[112]
Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe	2023	Escaping Twin Flames	2023	Both are documentaries about the cultTwin Flames Universe.
Reality	2023	Winner	2024	Both are films about American whistleblowerReality Winner.^[113]
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey	2023	The Mouse Trap	2024	AlsoBambi: The Reckoning (2025). All three are slasher films based on famous works only recently made part of the public domain – Bambi, Winnie-the-Pooh, and theSteamboat Willie design of Mickey Mouse, respectively.^[114]
The Pope's Exorcist	2023	The Exorcism	2024	Both films starRussell Crowe, in which he plays some form of exorcist.^[115]
Godzilla Minus One	2023	Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire	2024	Both are Godzilla films that celebrate the character's 70th birthday.
Totally Killer	2023	Time Cut	2024	Both films are about a female high school student who is accidentally transported back in time and must unmask an unidentified serial killer who terrorized their town and prevent the murder of a female relative who is in high school at the time.^[116]
Nyad	2023	Young Woman and the Sea	2024	Both films are biopics about long-distance female swimmers:Diana Nyad, the first person to swim theStraits of Florida without a shark cage, andTrudy Ederle, the first woman to swim theEnglish Channel.
Nosferatu	2023	Nosferatu	2024	Both are remakes ofNosferatu (1922)
The First Omen	2024	Immaculate	2024	Both films are about young American nuns who travel to Rome, Italy, and become unexpectedly pregnant with what turns out to be a demon fetus/the antichrist.^[117]^[118]
The Idea of You	2024	A Family Affair	2024	Both films are about single mothers dating much younger celebrities and how their romances affect their daughters.
The Beast Within	2024	Wolf Man	2025	Both films show a man turning into a werewolf and terrorizing his wife and young daughter.
Savi	2024	Jigra	2024	Both movies depict Indian women rescuing their male relatives from a foreign country's high security prison.
Piece by Piece	2024	Better Man	2024	Both movies are musical biopics about artists with the surname Williams depicted in an unorthodox fashion:Piece by Piece showsPharrell Williams' life throughLego animation, whileBetter Man depictsRobbie Williams as a CGIchimpanzee.^[119]^[120]^[121]
Dear Satan	2024	Dear Santa	2024	Both films depicts a story of a child accidentally writing a letter to Satan rather than Santa Claus. Also,Dear Satan had its name changed toDear Santa, due to controversy.
Transformers One	2024	Mufasa	2024	AlsoWicked (2024). Prequels about a former friendship and falling out between a protagonist and antagonist of the present-day story.Transformers One andMufasa are both CGI animated films whileMufasa andWicked are both musicals.^[122]
The Count of Monte Cristo	2024	The Count of Monte Cristo	2024	Both adaptations of theFrench classic novel of the same name byAlexandre Dumas, with French production (fully for the theatrical release, also in French language; partially for the TV miniseries, in English language).
The Substance	2024	A Different Man	2024	A person who dislikes their physical appearance undergoes an experimental treatment to become more conventionally attractive, only for their life to be upended.

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One story from two perspectives

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The term "twin films" has also been used for films produced by the same production company with the purpose of telling the same story from two different points of view:

Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise (1964) andAnatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc (1964) use the same cast to tell the same story from two different points of view.^[123]
I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) andI Am Curious (Blue) (1968) are a pair of Swedish drama films, both telling the story of directorVilgot Sjöman who plans to make asocial film starring his loverLena Nyman, a theatre student.^[124]Blue is a second version ofYellow (the colours taken from theSwedish flag), taking place before and after the first film. It has a more somber and bitterlysatiric style, and a further explication of theframing narrative.^[125]
The World War II filmsFlags of Our Fathers (2006) andLetters from Iwo Jima (2006) are about theBattle of Iwo Jima, told from the perspective of United States Marines and Japanese soldiers.^[126]^[127]
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2014) was a trio of films following Conor Ludlow and Eleanor Rigby, a young married couple living in New York.Him looks at their relationship from Conor's angle, whileHer follows Eleanor's.Them has the two twin films edited into a linear story.^[128]