I don't really watch all that many movies, (the last one I saw was around six months ago) so the only one I can recall enough to discuss involving Shakespearean themes is this TV movie on the Lifetime channel called Perfect Romance. It's about a mother who sets her daughter up with a man on the internet, and they finally meet, but he realizes that he doesn't love the daughter, because it was her mother he was corresponding with. The daughter sets up her own plan to get the man together with her mother: she fakes kissing another person when he walks in the room, who she actually ends up falling in love with. At the end, the mother loves the man she talked with online for her daughter, and her daughter loves the man she pretended to kiss.
I would say that fits the theme of love triangle and the theme of mistaken identity. It's definitely a case of mistaken identity; the man thinks he has been talking to the daughter the entire time. It's a love triangle, because the mother has secretly fallen in love with him, but she wants her daughter to have a lover, so she stays out of their "relationship". The play the movie seems most similar to is As You Like It. I can't say for certain if the producers were inspired by anything related to Shakespeare, but it's fairly obvious they were trying to use some of the common themes in his plays.
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