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The Double

6.5(1,136)20141h 33m7

An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$200K
Language
English
  • depression
  • suicide
  • based on novel or book
  • cemetery
  • subway
  • paranoia
  • dystopia
  • office
  • surrealism
  • look-alike
  • body double
  • co-workers relationship

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Produced in

United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical (limited)R9 May 2014
    • PhysicalRDVD, Blu-ray26 Aug 2014
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereBFI London Film Festival12 Oct 2013
    • Theatrical154 Apr 2014
  • CanadaCA

    • Premiere18AToronto International Film Festival7 Sept 2013
    • Theatrical18A13 Jun 2014
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical26 Feb 2015
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical155 Jun 2014
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTP13 Aug 2014
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereHamburg Film Festival29 Sept 2014
    • Physical1224 Jun 2016
  • GreeceGR

    • TheatricalΚ-1515 May 2014
    • PhysicalDVD19 Jan 2015
  • Hong KongHK

    • Theatrical16 Aug 2014
  • HungaryHU

    • Theatrical163 Apr 2014
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical16ifco4 Apr 2014
  • JapanJP

    • PremiereTokyo International Film Festival18 Oct 2013
    • Theatrical8 Nov 2014

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The Double was released on 3 April 2014.

Audience reviews

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  • B

    badelf

    6/10/2026

    8/10

    Richard Ayoade's The Double, based loosely on Dostoevsky's novel of the same name, unfolds in a world that feels equal parts Kafka and Orwell, a bureaucratic nightmare rendered in sickly yellow fluorescents and impossible architecture. The tone is oppressively dark, deliberately nonsensical; this is a universe where logic has left the building, where every interaction carries the threat of absurdist cruelty. The f…

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