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The Dark Mirror
Why this pick
Like The Man Who Haunted Himself, it turns a double into a source of psychological unease, using an elegant, tightly controlled mystery to question identity and self-knowledge.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1970 1h 34m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Man Who Haunted Himself
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
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Dead Ringers
Why this pick
Its twin protagonists and clinical visual precision push the same fascination with doubling, professional masks and a mind becoming dangerously split.
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The Double Life of Véronique
Why this pick
For the film’s uncanny double motif and melancholic atmosphere: this is a more lyrical, mysterious meditation on parallel selves and inexplicable recognition.
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Enemy
Why this pick
A deliberately disquieting modern counterpart, building paranoia around an ordinary man’s encounter with his exact double and sustaining dread through restrained, ambiguous storytelling.
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Seconds
Why this pick
Its paranoid 1960s style and pressure-cooker mood closely suit Basil Dearden’s thriller, following a man whose chance at a new identity becomes profoundly alienating.
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Edward Chapman
Barton
Olga Georges-Picot
Julia Anderson
Kevork Malikyan
Luigi
Thorley Walters
Frank Bellamy
Ruth Trouncer
Miss Bird
Jacki Piper
Secretary
Roger Moore
Harold Pelham
Anton Rodgers
Tony Alexander