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- Into the Wild (2007) Directed by Sean Penn. Starring Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener. Adventure, Biography, Drama (2h 28m) 8.1 on IMDb — 83% on RT.
- Wild Strawberries (1957) Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Starring Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin. Drama, Romance (1h 31m) 8.1 on IMDb — 94% on RT.
- The Truman Show (1998) Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney. Comedy, Drama (1h 43m) 8.2 on IMDb — 95% on RT. Played by Jim Carrey, Truman Burbank's moment of discovery is quite drastic compared to anything experienced by most.
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) Directed by Ben Stiller. Starring Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Jon Daly. Adventure, Comedy, Drama (1h 54m) 7.3 on IMDb — 52% on RT.
Identity is a 2003 American mystery thriller film directed by James Mangold, written by Michael Cooney, and starring John Cusack, Ray Liotta, and Amanda Peet with Alfred Molina, Clea DuVall, and Rebecca De Mornay.
- 10 The Bourne Identity
- 9 Enemy
- 8 Memento
- 7 A Beautiful Mind
- 6 Aftersun
- 5 The Passenger
- 4 Persona
- 3 Fight Club
- 2 The Man Who Sleeps
- 1 Taxi Driver
Matt Damon as Jason Bourne wakes up not knowing who he is in The Bourne Identity. He is found by a fisherman in the Mediterranean Sea who removes bullets and a laser projector from his body. The laser displays a bank location and a safe deposit box number to which Bourne investigates. His presence is outed by a secret CIA division Operation Treadst...
Jake Gyllenhaal plays college professor Adam Bell in Enemy. His humdrum life is turned upside down when he decides to pursue actor Anthony Claire, who resembles himself. Adam calls Anthony's home, but reaches his pregnant wife instead, causing confusion. Anthony and Adam meet, the latter being shocked by how similar they look but how different they...
Guy Pearce is Leonard Shelby in Memento, a man afflicted with short-term memory loss after two attackers beat him, then sexually assault and kill his wife. His only way to remember the event is through photographs and people he uses as reminders. Having to constantly retrace his steps and end up with the same leads repeatedly, Leonard discovers the...
A Beautiful Mindstars Russell Crowe as Nobel Laureate in Economics John Nash. He makes breakthroughs in the economic strategy of game theory as well as working for the U.S. government. He later is tasked with finding patterns in American newsstand publications in order to defeat the Soviets. The mathematician, however, suffers from episodes of para...
Calum is played by Paul Mescal in Aftersun, a single father on vacation with his daughter Sophie, played by Frankie Corio. He celebrates his time with her despite having career and financial troubles. Calum also shows signs of depression among a habit of spirituality, which he hides from Sophie. Their time together is bittersweet as Calum goes his ...
The Passengerfollows Jack Nicholson as television journalist David Locke making a documentary in Africa. He is unsuccessful at gathering interviews and returns to his hotel frustrated. There, his friend-in-passing, David Robertson, had died of a heart condition. Locke then reports his own death while assuming Robertson's identity. The new lease on ...
Actress Elisabet Vogler, played by Liv Ullmann, is struck with sudden mutism in Persona. She is under the care of nurse Alma, played by Bibi Andersson, who treats her at a remote sea cottage. Alma shares revealing stories about herself to Elisabet, since the latter is in a catatonic state. Elisabet "tricks" Alma so that she can study her, recountin...
The post-modern, anti-establishment Fight Clubtreats personality as an inescapable limbo. The Narrator, played by Edward Norton, grows dissatisfied with his comfortable life and job security. He meets soap salesman Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt, who teaches him the ways of anti-consumerism and how to subvert society and its rat race. The Narrat...
Jacques Spiesser plays a French student going through the motions of university life in The Man Who Sleeps. He adopts an indifferent, almost nihilistic, view of the world, accepting that any effort becomes mundane with time. The student falls in and out of extremes, from isolating himself to questioning how to live life. His freedom of choice in a ...
Robert DeNiro is Travis Bickle, a Vietnam War veteran turned taxi driver on the night shift in Taxi Driver. Most nights, a sleepless Travis is met by shameless passengers. He copes with his PTSD and insomnia by visiting adult movie theaters and writing down his pithy self-talk. Travis living alone in a crime-ridden New York City only worsens his ph...
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- Moonlight (2016) We take our life for granted at times. While we may face occasional hiccups in our life, for some people those hiccups are normal.
- Fight Club (1999) Fight Club is a drama thriller film. It revolves around an unnamed protagonist who is fed up with his dull life.
- Birdman (2014) When you fall down from the heights of success, it is very difficult to come to terms with your new life. These sudden changes to your lifestyle can often make you question your identity.
- Split (2016) So far, we have talked about movies about identity that focus on an individual’s singular identity. Now imagine a man who is facing 23 different identities.
- Persona (1966) Perhaps the most obvious entry on the list, ‘Persona’ is quite simply the best film about identity crisis. It tells the story of Alma, a nurse who is given the responsibility of taking care of a mute actress named Elisabeth.
- Synecdoche, New York (2008) You don’t expect things to be straightforward in a Charlie Kaufman film. In his directorial debut, Kaufman anatomizes the psyche of Caden Cotard – an ailing theatre artist working on a grand stage production that could turn out to be his magnum opus.
- Mulholland Drive (2000) With ‘Mulholland Drive,’ David Lynch crafted some of the most puzzling, terrifying, and heartbreaking mysteries ever in cinema.
- 3 Women (1977) In Robert Altman’s surreal avant-garde masterpiece, identity is distorted, and reality is blurred. ‘ 3 Women’ tells the enigmatic relationship between a woman and her roommate.
1. Looking for Alibrandi. 2000 1h 43m. 7.0 (3.6K) Rate. At seventeen Josie Alibrandi is about to enter her final year as a scholarship student at an exclusive Catholic College. It's the year her life is turned upside down and changed forever. Director Kate Woods Stars Greta Scacchi Anthony LaPaglia Elena Cotta. 2. Mao's Last Dancer. 2009 1h 57m PG.
Identity: Directed by James Mangold. With John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes. Stranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain storm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one.
