Face-Change Surgery in Movies
by Satantangoandcash | created - 24 Oct 2013 | updated - 05 Feb 2023 | PublicComments may contain spoilers.
In movies you can easily have plastic surgery on your face to completely change your identity.
These are movies with facial surgery or permanent masks used to change someone's identity.
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1. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror
A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.
Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault
Votes: 35,121 | Gross: $0.05M
Les yeux sans visage
Angelic Alida Valli's big eyes stare out of a featureless mask as her mad doctor father tries to find the right skin from dead women to graft onto her face.
2. The Skin I Live In (2011)
R | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes
Votes: 165,789 | Gross: $3.19M
A doctor experiments with skin grafts on a mysterious woman with a damaged face. She ends up looking just like Elena Anaya, and the doctor becomes obsessed with her.
3. The Face of Another (1966)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijirô Hira, Kyôko Kishida, Miki Irie
Votes: 10,406
Okuyama becomes a new person with his mask on and it drives him to do crazy things.
He has some good lines:
"A man without a face is free only when darkness rules the world."
"The face is the door to the soul. When the face is closed off, so too is the soul. Nobody is allowed inside.
4. Face/Off (1997)
R | 138 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
To foil a terrorist plot, FBI agent Sean Archer assumes the identity of the criminal Castor Troy who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.
Director: John Woo | Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 400,771 | Gross: $112.23M
A cop and a criminal exchange faces and lives in this ultimate face change movie. In a secret operation a surgeon temporarily transplants the face of a criminal in a coma onto an FBI agent so he can impersonate the criminal to his brother to find out the location of a bomb they planted. But the criminal accidentally wakes out of his coma. When he finds himself without a face, and find the FBI agent's face in storage, he calls his men to kidnap the surgeon and forces him to transplant the agent's face onto his face. Then he kills everybody who knew about the FBI agent's secret surgery. The two men then live each other's life. When the two finally face off the criminal is killed and a surgeon removes the FBI agent's face from the criminal and puts it back on the agent.
5. Time (2006)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Ha Jung-woo, Park Ji-yeon, Baek Gwang-Doo, Jung Gyu-woon
Votes: 12,876 | Gross: $0.01M
Going to the plastic surgeon at the mall to get a new face is something South Korean kids do on weekends for kicks, before hitting the karaoke brothel. This film was made as a public service message about the dangers of this surgical fad: Kids, if you're having an identity crisis, it's safer just to dye your hair blue than to go under the scalpel, because even if you do, you'll just end up running around kicking the same big tree and making a scene at the coffee shop, ruining everybody's day like you always did.
6. Dark Passage (1947)
Passed | 106 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 21,961
If I escaped from prison, got back-alley plastic surgery, then took off my bandages and saw that I looked like Humphrey Bogart, I'd ask for my money back. That's what happens in this movie, but since Lauren Bacall falls for the man with the Bogart face, he is definitely not complaining.
7. The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
In contemporary Hollywood, private investigator Sam Marlow gets plastic surgery to look like Humphrey Bogart and solves various cases just like Bogart's silver-screen detective characters from the 1940s.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Robert Sacchi, Franco Nero, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey
Votes: 666
This guy must have watched Dark Passage and then paid Bogart's plastic surgeon to give him the same face job.
8. The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
Director: Paul Leni | Stars: Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar, Olga Baclanova
Votes: 8,070
Clown Gypsies perform home plastic surgery on a young boy so they can save money on greasepaint by not having to put makeup on him for every performance. They plug a big grotesque toothy smile into his face that leaves him permanently depressed. He grows up, becomes a star, and falls in love with a blind beauty who can't see his smile and wonders why he's such a buzz kill all the time. But in the end he has the last laugh.
This was the inspiration for "The Joker," or maybe it was the Victor Hugo novel "L'Homme Qui Rit" on which this movie was based.
9. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Passed | 93 min | Horror
A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
Directors: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe
Votes: 20,093 | Gross: $3.75M
Lon Chaney plays Erik the Phantom who wears a mask because his face resembles the face of a rotting corpse. When he is unmasked by Christine, his prisoner of love, we get to see Lon Chaney's creepy mask that makes him look like the Phantom not wearing a mask and we wish that he would put the other mask back on.
10. Under the Skin (I) (2013)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell
Votes: 158,142 | Gross: $2.61M
An alien dresses up in a Scarlett Johannson booty suit and uses her irresistible face to lure sex-hungry male humans into a giant tar pit where their bodies are harvested for some never-explained reason. (Seriously? They couldn't come up with a more efficient plan for harvesting humans? If they were looking for quantity, why didn't they just go to the Midwest where they can get two to three times as much flesh per victim than from those skinny Scots?)
In a touching scene at the end, when her human flesh has been peeled away like a banana, we see the alien's face for the first time holding the still-animated ScarJo face in its hands as they look into each others eyes.
11. The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962)
Approved | 90 min | Horror
Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Conrado San Martín, Diana Lorys, Howard Vernon, Perla Cristal
Votes: 1,804
A mad doctor kidnaps beautiful women and tears their skin off to use it to try to fix his daughter's burned up face. Sound familiar? See Eyes Without A Face.
12. Black Dragons (1942)
Approved | 64 min | Thriller, War
A cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb. It is only until detective Dick ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, George Pembroke, Clayton Moore
Votes: 1,265
6 Japanese people get plastic surgery to replace 6 kidnapped American industrialists so they can sabotage their defense plants just before WW II.
13. Nora Prentiss (1947)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda
Votes: 2,054
A man stages a flaming car crash to fake his own death so he can run away from his wife with a nightclub singer. It works for a while until a real flaming car crash burns his face. After plastic surgery he looks nothing like he used to. Then police arrest him for his own murder but he refuses to defend himself in court so he is ultimately convicted of murdering himself.
14. The Promise (1979)
PG | 97 min | Drama, Romance
A corporate heir's mother pays for his disfigured girlfriend's plastic surgery, on one condition.
Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Collins, Beatrice Straight, Laurence Luckinbill
Votes: 824
Nancy's face is torn off in a car accident on her way to elope, but her fiance's mother pays to get her a new face but she can't see him again - and he thinks she's dead. The new face is much prettier. Get your hankies ready for some sappy romantic twists ahead.
15. The Jigsaw Man (1983)
PG | 94 min | Thriller
An MI6 defector has his appearance altered by the K.G.B. and is sent back to Britain to retrieve top-secret documents.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell
Votes: 2,028
Sir Philip Kimberley is the former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service who defected to Russia. He is an old heavyweight man who sounds exactly like Michael Caine. After the Russians perform plastic facial reconstruction surgery on him, he also looks like Michael Caine with a porn mustache. He trains at martial arts and loses weight then he's given a new identity and sent to Britain to retrieve valuable documents he stole and hid years ago. None of his old colleagues or even his daughter recognize him, but his fingerprints give him away.
16. Stolen Face (1952)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama
A doctor repairs a female inmate's disfigured face to match the lovely woman who left him, and marries her, only to find out how abusive she is.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, André Morell, Mary Mackenzie
Votes: 834
A plastic surgeon gives a female criminal the face of a woman he loves who left him. He marries the woman with the face of his love, but she can't shake off her criminal life. All sorts of craziness ensues when the woman with the real face comes back to the surgeon.
17. G-Men Never Forget (1948)
Passed | 167 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
G-Man and a female detective sergeant pursue racketeers, unaware that her police commissioner is actually a gang boss altered by plastic surgery.
Directors: Fred C. Brannon, Yakima Canutt | Stars: Clayton Moore, Roy Barcroft, Ramsay Ames, Gil Frye
Votes: 110
A gang boss kidnaps the police commissioner and gets plastic surgery to resemble the commissioner so he can take his place and get away with murder.
18. Men in Black (1997)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
James, an NYC cop, is hired by Agent K of a secret government agency that monitors extraterrestrial life on Earth. Together, they must recover an item that has been stolen by an intergalactic villain.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 612,642 | Gross: $250.69M
An alien made of bugs crashes his flying saucer then tears the skin off a farmer and drives around in a pest-control van wearing a body and face that are three sizes too big.
19. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
Unrated | 101 min | Comedy, Horror
A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas marshal hunts them.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Jim Siedow, Bill Moseley
Votes: 37,950 | Gross: $8.03M
Leatherface sort of qualifies for this list, since he wears a mask of pieces of skin sewn together, but it's not really clear if he needs the mask to hide a deformed face. In this sequel he is attracted to a female victim so he skins off her friend's face and puts it on her so she can hide from his family members who want him to kill her. She gets a new face, but it doesn't last long.
20. Phoenix (II) (2014)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, History, Music
After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter
Votes: 20,661
After Nazis shoot the face of a concentration camp survivor, doctors give her a new face. When the bandages come off, she locates her husband, but he doesn't recognize her. He thinks his wife is dead and asks the new woman to impersonate his wife so he can collect her inheritance money. She keeps hoping he'll realize the truth as he teaches her to look and act like her former self.
21. Foxy Brown (1974)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A voluptuous vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter
Votes: 12,020 | Gross: $2.46M
Foxy's ex-undercover Federal agent boyfriend gets a new plastic surgery face, name and identity to hide him from the criminals he testified against.
22. Seconds (1966)
R | 106 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity - one that comes with its own price.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Rock Hudson, Frank Campanella, John Randolph, Frances Reid
Votes: 22,186
An older man is turned into Rock Hudson through plastic surgery.
23. Dead End (1937)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie
Votes: 8,584
Bogart plays 'Baby Face' Martin who is not recognized when he returns to his old tenement neighborhood because plastic surgery changed his face. Ten years later in Dark Passage Bogart played an escaped convict who also has plastic surgery that makes him look like Bogart.
24. The Second Face (1950)
Passed | 77 min | Drama
From her hospital bed a woman recounts her life as a "plain Jane" while awaiting plastic surgeries for the injuries she has sustained in an automobile accident.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Ella Raines, Bruce Bennett, Rita Johnson, John Sutton
Votes: 217
An "ugly" talented woman can't get a good job or a date until she gets plastic surgery following an auto accident that makes her "beautiful." Then everybody wants her.
25. Another Face (1935)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
On the run from the New York police on a murder charge, gangster Broken Nose Dawson undergoes plastic surgery to change his appearance, then goes to Hollywood. Posing as millionaire playboy... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Wallace Ford, Brian Donlevy, Phyllis Brooks, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 269
Gangster Broken-nose Dawson gets a nose job that makes him unrecognizable, then kills all the witnesses. Then he goes to Hollywood to act as a gangster in the movies.
26. A Woman's Face (1941)
Passed | 106 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Osa Massen
Votes: 3,775
In classic Hollywood movies physical disabilities and deformities equal a bad person. It's a terrible stereotype that is present in this movie. Joan Crawford grows up mean and cynical feeling ugly and unlovable after her drunken father burned himself to death and scarred up the right side of her face when she was a child. She runs a gang of blackmailers until one night when she is blackmailing the wife of a plastic surgeon, he discovers her scars, takes her away for 6 months and 12 operations, until her face is beautiful and she ultimately finds love and happiness as a good looking unscarred person.
27. A Woman's Face (1938)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama
An embittered woman, leader of a criminal gang, has a change of heart.
Director: Gustaf Molander | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Tore Svennberg, Anders Henrikson, Georg Rydeberg
Votes: 1,160
In classic Hollywood movies physical disabilities and deformities equal a bad person. It's a terrible stereotype that is present in this movie. Joan Crawford grows up mean and cynical feeling ugly and unlovable after her drunken father burned himself to death and scarred up the right side of her face when she was a child. She runs a gang of blackmailers until one night when she is blackmailing the wife of a plastic surgeon, he discovers her scars, takes her away for 6 months and 12 operations, until her face is beautiful and she ultimately finds love and happiness as a good looking unscarred person.
28. The Phantom of Paris (1931)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Thriller
Cheri-Bibi is an escape artist wrongly imprisoned for murdering the wealthy father of his admirer Cecile. The real murderer is Cecile's fiancé, so how will Bibi escape his death sentence and win back Cecile?
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt
Votes: 1,409
Professional escape artist Bibi loves Cecile, but the Marquis du Touchais commits a murder then frames Bibi for it. The Marquis then marries Cecile to get her fortune. Bibi escapes from prison and a few years later after the Marquis dies of the flu, he kidnaps the corpse and convinces his doctor friend to change his face to look like the Marquis. The doctor takes him to his private hospital and six months later Gilbert returns impersonating the Marquis claiming that he was kidnapped by Bibi and escaped and watched Bibi die. He returns to Cecile to live with her pretending he is the Marquis until he clears his name and become Bibi again, albeit, still with the Marquis' face.
29. Vanilla Sky (2001)
R | 136 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.
Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell
Votes: 285,614 | Gross: $100.61M
30. Open Your Eyes (1997)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez
Votes: 73,219 | Gross: $0.37M
A vain handsome man's face is destroyed in a car crash. The initial plastic surgeries leave him so badly disfigured he sometimes wears a mask. In a dream that makes up most of the movie, his doctors are able to put him in a face fixing machine and give him his old face again.
31. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
PG-13 | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
Detective Sherlock Holmes is on the trail of criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, who is carrying out a string of random crimes across Europe.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris, Rachel McAdams
Votes: 480,307 | Gross: $186.85M
In 1891 Sherlock Holmes' nemesis Dr. Moriarty uses the experimental plastic surgery skills of a German doctor to disguise a known assassin's face look to like someone who is invited to an exclusive meeting of international leaders so he can mingle with his intended victim at a party undetected. We also see a man the doctor has experimented on to make him look like the identical twin of another man.
32. Johnny Handsome (1989)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 10,997 | Gross: $7.24M
A deformed gangster's face is rebuilt by a prison doctor.
33. Circus of Horrors (1960)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Horror
Dr. Rossiter, a plastic surgeon wanted by the police, flees to France and under an assumed name acquires, by murder, a run-down circus. His first recruit is a woman criminal. He transforms her face by surgery and trains her.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 2,397
A patient of an illicit plastic surgeon with a brilliant new technique is accidentally disfigured, so he is hunted by the police. He wrecks his car and his face is cut up. His assistants give him a new face, he takes a new name and identity, then they all escape to France and take over a circus. He finds beautiful facially-scarred female criminals, gives them perfect new unscarred faces, then turns them into circus stars. When any one of his stars threatens to leave the circus, he kills her. His assistants come to hate him, but he stops them from leaving. After his face is scarred by a gorilla, he trusts his assistants to fix his face, but when his bandages are pulled off, we see that they have left him with large visible scars.
34. A Face to Die For (1996 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
A young woman who has a scarred face is conned into helping with the robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, and returns to seek revenge on those who wronged her.
Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Yasmine Bleeth, James Wilder, Richard Beymer, Ricky Paull Goldin
Votes: 591
A woman with a disfigured face gets plastic surgery in prison.
35. Goodnight Mommy (2014)
R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Twin boys move to a new house with their mother after she has face-changing cosmetic surgery, but under the bandages is someone the boys don't recognize.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest, Hans Escher
Votes: 59,744 | Gross: $1.17M
A woman's plastic surgery and odd behavior makes her young sons fear she's not their mother.
36. She Demons (1958)
Approved | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Heroic, but dull, Fred Maklin and beautiful, but spoiled, Jerrie Turner wash up on an uncharted tropical island. They are soon captured by ex-Nazi Colonel Osler, who also has imprisoned a ... See full summary »
Director: Richard E. Cunha | Stars: Irish McCalla, Tod Griffin, Victor Sen Yung, Rudolph Anders
Votes: 809
In a hidden underground laboratory on an uncharted tropical island an ex Nazi concentration camp doctor experiments with captive young women to fix his wife's disfigured face. He transfers the genes of one of the women to his wife and replaces them with his wife's genes mixed with genes of wild animals, which makes the woman's face horribly disfigured. But her face will return to normal in a few days and then he can use her again.
37. Shiri (1999)
R | 125 min | Action, Thriller
South Korean agents Ryu and Lee are tracking a female assassin from North Korea who has mysteriously disappeared. With new killings and the theft of a deadly bomb, time is running out to catch her.
Director: Kang Je-kyu | Stars: Han Suk-kyu, Choi Min-sik, Yunjin Kim, Song Kang-ho
Votes: 8,576 | Gross: $0.10M
The appearance of a North Korean terrorist working undercover in South Korea became known to a South Korean secret agency, so she went to Japan to get plastic surgery. She changed her appearance and name into that of her former South Korean roommate, whose illness forces her to live in a hospital out of the public eye. We only see her after the surgery. The terrorist's fiance visits the woman in the hospital who does not know her identity was stolen.
38. Die Another Day (2002)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens
Votes: 229,118 | Gross: $160.94M
James Bond thought he killed North Korean Colonel Moon until Moon secretly reappears with a new identity (and race) and a new face created by clandestine gene therapy treatment and continued home treatment with a face-covering machine.
39. Predestination (I) (2014)
R | 97 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
As his last assignment, a temporal agent is tasked to travel back in time and prevent a bomb attack in New York in 1975. The hunt, however, turns out to be beyond the bounds of possibility.
Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Madeleine West
Votes: 304,605 | Gross: $0.07M
The face of an agent, whose job is to time travel to stop crimes before they happen, is completely destroyed in an explosion. After reconstructive surgery and a long recovery, he has a new face and a new voice, because his vocal cords were also damaged. With his new identity he is able to travel back in time and meet and manipulate his past self without him knowing who he really is.
40. The Tourist (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Thriller
Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton
Votes: 256,378 | Gross: $67.63M
Big spoiler alert!
Elise (Angelina Jolie) has a boyfriend named Alexander who is hunted by Russian gangsters and British tax collectors but nobody knows what he looks like except her, and she hasn't seen him in two years. He leaves her a note to take a train to Venice and sit with a man on the train with his height and build so the police following her will think the man is Alexander. She picks Frank (Johnny Depp) to be the decoy. Frank and Elise spend time together in Venice and fall in love, but she never realizes that Frank is actually Alexander with a new face and a changed voice until he proves it to her by opening a safe. She asks him: "20 million dollars worth of plastic surgery and that's the face you chose?"
41. A Cure for Wellness (2016)
R | 146 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa's treatments are not what they seem.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Ivo Nandi
Votes: 109,572 | Gross: $8.11M
Volmer has found a way to live for hundreds of years, but his face looks hideous, so he grows new faces out of human skin that he attaches to his face to make himself look human.
42. Level 16 (2018)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In a highly regimented boarding school, a pair of students discover that things are not as they seem.
Director: Danishka Esterhazy | Stars: Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sara Canning, Peter Outerbridge
Votes: 16,199
According to their advertising, the Vestalis Clinic offers a unique approach to beauty augmentation with full-facial rejuvenation that can turn back time. They use "live units" for synthetic genome therapy that matches a client's personal DNA. In other words, they run a skin farm. They buy very young girls from poor desperate families and brainwash them with rituals and videos. They are raised in a phony boarding school where they never go into the sun, convinced that the air outside is toxic. They are drugged to make them sleep so much they develop huge bed sores. When she reaches 16 years of age, a girl is sold to a client and killed. Her face is then cut off and transplanted onto the client. We see one example of a client in Mrs Brixil, the headmistress of the fake school, whose face is a transplant.
43. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson
Votes: 74,958
Raymond Massey plays Jonathan Brewster, a criminal who had bad plastic surgery on his face to disguise his identity. His face is covered with large scars with visible stitch marks. The police description of him says he looks like Boris Karloff, who played Frankenstein.
44. War (2007)
R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An FBI Agent seeks vengeance on a mysterious assassin known as "Rogue" who murdered his partner.
Director: Philip G. Atwell | Stars: Jet Li, Jason Statham, Nadine Velazquez, John Lone
Votes: 96,814 | Gross: $22.49M
FBI agent Crawford chases an assassin called Rogue who he thinks killed his partner John and his wife and child. He learns that Rogue has had surgery a few times over several years to change his face to disguise himself and that he has killed two of the three known plastic surgeons who have operated on him.
Spoiler Alert!
In a big twist at the end we learn that Rogue is actually John who killed the real Rogue after he killed his wife and child then ran away, had face-change surgery and assumed Rogue's identity.
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