10 Mind-Bending Films Where Actors Star Opposite Themselves

10. Us

First-time director Jordan Peele crashed onto the horror scene in 2016 with the critically lauded Get Out, and managed the unthinkable three years later by following it up with the equally stupendous Us.

The film takes us into the world of Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o), as she holidays with her family in the beachfront community where something strange happened to her as a child. Her trauma hangs over every moment, and as Adelaide grows concerned that something bad is on its way, a family of doppelgangers descend on the Wilsons’ holiday home.

An anomaly even in the world of doppelganger movies, just about every named character in Us has a mute, "tethered" underworld opposite, played by the same actor. But it is Nyong'o's lead performances that stand head and shoulders above the rest, as she contends with a double who can not only speak, but has quite the bone to pick.

The two face off in technically challenging and improbable ways throughout, and the feeling of our stomachs dropping out at the film's conclusion is matched only by the headache of trying to figure out how Peele and company managed such an intimate performance between an actor and herself.