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List of identity crisis movies

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Shades of Ray (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, identity crisis, interracial relations, family reunited, audition, family relations, moral dilemma, actor's life, couples, parents and children, society, proposal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, pakistan
Is relevant ?
 8.0
 46K
1: I Am Alone (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Gautham is a rock star suffering from a mental disorder due to which he loses grip over reality. But he's convinced his parents were murdered by three men and his only goal is revenge.
Style: tense, psychological, psychological thriller, serious, exciting ...
Plot: haunted by the past, investigation, identity crisis, uncover truth, danger, suspicion, murder, violent content, young man, journalist, direction and purpose, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, india
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Frankie & Alice (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: split personality, mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, racism, dancer, illness, doctors and patients, haunted by the past, identity crisis, power relations, multiple personality disorder, go go dancer ...
Time: 20th century, year 2010, 70s, 1950s, year 1957
Place: usa, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 4K
Skin (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: racism, interracial relations, self discovery, human spirit, forbidden love, eccentric family, family problems, couples, society, love and romance, social misfits, hopes ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 60s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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 7.2
 2K
Noir (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Noir is a tale of assassins, in particular one named Mireille Bouquet, a contract killer who receives a message from a young girl with no memory about herself, but is an incredibly efficient killing machine. The story takes us on a pilgrimage to the ...
Style: anime, yuri, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: female warrior, friendship, amnesia, obsessive quest, uncover truth, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, identity crisis, deathtrap, dishonesty, escapades, master warrior ...
Time: 21st century
Place: corsica, france, paris france, europe
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Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Style: road movie, realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: road trip, character study, dysfunctional family, on the road, drifter, alienation, hitchhiker, working class, piano, self discovery, pianist, bowling ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place: california, usa, oregon, washington state, northern california ...
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 87K
Young Adult (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
Style: dark comedy, realistic, talky, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: mental illness, high school, small town, emotional breakdown, alcoholic, narcissism, divorce, hometown, borderline personality disorder, thirtysomething life, depression, old love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota
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 6.2
 40K
Astro Boy (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, USA, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he had lost. Unable to fulfill his creator's expectations, Astro embarks on a journey in search ...
Style: exciting, anime, computer animated, futuristic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: robot, androids and robots, transformation, androids, children, superhero, family in danger, evil force, goodhearted, giant, good versus evil, heroes ...
Time: future, year 2009
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 15K
Reprise (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers.
Style: depressing, melancholic, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, depression, writers, self discovery, cathartic, suicide attempt, love triangle, ambition, rise and fall, follow your dream, health situation, nervous breakdown ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, paris france
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 7.4
 61K
2046 (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Style: touching, surreal, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot: writers, writer's life, love, androids, road not taken, sensuality, haunted by the past, old friend, coincidence, destiny, memory, introspection ...
Time: future, 60s, year 2004, 2040s, y2k ...
Place: hong kong, china, singapore, east asia, asia
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 7.7
 52K
Dollhouse (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series that revolves around a corporation running numerous underground establishments across the globe which program individuals referred to as "Actives" with temporary personalities and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, cyber, mysterious, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cyberpunk, kickass women, innocence lost, female protagonist, sex slave, life is a bitch, memory loss, human nature, uncover truth, self discovery, moral ambiguity, mind control ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, tucson arizona
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 6.8
 155K
Glee (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Glee is an American teen musical comedy-drama television series that airs on the Fox network in the United States. It focuses on the reconstituted William McKinley High School glee club, New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition ...
Style: feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, gay, coach, teenage life, youth, cheerleader, friendship, contests and competitions, outcast, teenage girl, gay teenager, music band ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: ohio, idaho, usa
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Terminator Salvation (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether ...
Style: futuristic, intense, serious, apocalyptic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, post apocalypse, distopia, man versus machine, dystopian future, time travel, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place: los angeles, california, san francisco
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 5.1
 13K
Wolf (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jacob, a man who believes he is a wolf trapped in a human body, is sent to a clinic by his family where he is forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of "curative" therapies at the hands of The Zookeeper. Jacob’s only solace is the ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychological thriller, crying, allegory ...
Plot: identity crisis, woman, new year, mental health, winter, chained man, psychiatric hospital, consciousness, punishment, unpunished crime, doctor patient relationship, fat woman ...
Time: 2020s
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Halt and Catch Fire (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the early 1980s, and about a fictional visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations confronts the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the ...
Style: clever, realistic, serious, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: computer, programmer, inventions and discoveries, computers and web, existentialism, computer system, family relations, marriage, hacker, workplace situations, supportive spouse, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, dallas texas, texas, syria
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 126K
Ghost World (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' ...
Style: black comedy, thought provoking, independent film, melancholic, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, age difference, friendship, adolescence, graduation, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, blues, teen angst, best friend, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 149
Psychologirls (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Viewers will be able to look into the personal lives of psychologists and see how those, who seemingly know everything about people actually live. The main characters, as they are called, shoemakers without boots, are psychologists, who themselves ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, romantic, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: psychology, male female relationship, friendship, identity crisis, relationship problems, problem solving, family in crisis, career, love and romance, awkwardness, independence, love affair ...
Place: russia
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 8K
Pariah (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lgbt teen, african american, lesbian teen, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, black lesbian, black, introspection ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, new york, brooklyn new york city
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 5.8
 3K
Weather Girl (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After learning her boyfriend (Harmon) cheated on her with his co-host (Olson), a Seattle morning show weather girl (O’Kelley) freaks out on-air and is fired. Forced to move in with her little brother (Devlin) and deal with his best friend (Adams), ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: self discovery, weatherman, couples, infidelity, identity crisis, ambition, down on your luck, family relations, grownups, love and romance, dating, famous ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
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This Is Not My Life (2010)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: This Is Not My Life is a 2010 New Zealand television mystery thriller which originally aired on Television New Zealand's TV ONE channel on Thursday nights. Set in the 2020s, the show centres on Alec Ross who awakes one morning to find that he ...
Style: serious, futuristic, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: uncover truth, memory loss, twists and turns, identity crisis, small town, memory lapse, erased memory, repressed memory, society, danger, memory, chance ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new zealand
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Don't Look Back (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Panic attacks and memory loss signal the plight of a writer whose body is inexplicably being taken over by another woman.
Style: psychological, suspense, serious, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot: memory loss, haunted by the past, loss of daughter, family crisis, unfulfillment, obsession, self discovery, supernatural, identity crisis, women, dual identity, photography ...
Place: italy, france, europe
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The Other Son (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two men discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
Plot: switched at birth, teenage boy, family relations, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, disorder, introspection, society, occupation, family in crisis, interracial relations ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, palestinian authority
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Karthik Calling Karthik (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Meet Karthik: an introvert by nature and shy by choice. Karthik suffers with huge confidence issues and is miserable at his just average job that yields less than average results.His boss treats him like dirt. Shonali, his colleague who he secretly ...
Style: suspense, exciting, psychological, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot: schizophrenia, couples, ambition, false accusation, disorder, fall in love, hidden identity, couple relations, against the odds, mistaken identity, identity crisis, wooing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, mumbai india
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 35K
Upstream Color (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Style: surreal, psychological, art house, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: hypnosis, brainwashing, parasite, love affair, existentialism, drugged, tragic love, memory loss, identity crisis, haunted by the past, parallel universe, trippy ...
Time: year 2013, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 8.2
 10K
Bommarillu (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Siddu is the son of an over-protective business man. Every decision of his is made by his father, which leads him into frustration. He half-heartedly agrees to become engaged to a rich man's daughter, but then falls for a middle-class ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Plot: overprotective parent, adulthood, family disapproval, father son relationship, respect, maturity, family relations, self fulfillment, self discovery, fall in love, parents and children, identity crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On the 30th August, he is given a day’s leave to attend a job interview in the city centre.
Style: depressing, touching, gloomy, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: suicide attempt, drug addict, suicide, addiction, loneliness, depression, drug addiction, complex characters, old friend, job interview, unlikely friendships, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: oslo norway, scandinavia
Is relevant ?
 8.0
 100K
Persepolis (2007)
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she ...
Style: adult animation, political, black and white, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot: revolution, coming of age, feminist, iraq iran war, female protagonist, politics, freedom, biopic, self discovery, childhood, social problems, adolescence ...
Time: 80s, year 2007, 70s, 20th century, near future ...
Place: iran, middle east, france, tehran iran, asia ...
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Me, Myself and Mum (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the role of a girl then of a ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: gay stereotype, identity crisis, gay, family relations, same actor playing two characters simultaneously on screen, youth, actor's life, self discovery, fall in love, unsupportive parent, lifestyle, parents and children ...
Time: year 2013, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, spain
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F is for Family (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the Murphy's, a lower middle class family living in the 1970s — a time when you could smack your kid, smoke inside, and bring a gun to the airport. “F Is For Family”, is a six-episode animated series based on the comedy of ...
Style: realistic, adult cartoon, adult animation, humorous, anime ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children, couple relations, satire, teenage life, gross out humor, family relations, teenager, betrayal, middle class, identity crisis ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 505K
Barbie (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
Style: captivating, entertaining, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: barbie, doll, fantasy world, existential crisis, voice over narration, blonde girl, ceo, patriarchy, social satire, blonde, pregnant woman, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 2020s
Place: california, los angeles
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