Dead Ringer

Bette Davis plays both twins — and one of them shoots the other dead. Dead Ringer (1964) is the noir melodrama you can watch online on iFILM. Edith scrapes by running a failing bar; her sister Margaret is freshly widowed and sitting on a fortune.

At the funeral, Edith realizes how long the con has run: Margaret built that wealth on an old lie. So she lures her sister over, shoots her, and stages it as the bartender's suicide. Edith moves into the mansion under a dead woman's name — but the borrowed life is a minefield of a vicious Great Dane, a blackmailing lover, and a detective who knew the real Margaret far too well.

Director Paul Henreid — yes, Victor Laszlo from Casablanca — wrings every ounce of suspense from the dual role, with Karl Malden and Peter Lawford alongside. Made in the wake of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, it slides from melodrama into ice-cold crime thriller. Classic-Hollywood buffs and anyone who loves a stolen-identity plot will eat it up. Stream Dead Ringer (1964) online on iFILM.