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Exploring Identity Through Cinema: Top Movies and TV Shows

Get ready to dive into the complex and multifaceted world of identity through the lens of cinema. From thought-provoking dramas to poignant coming-of-age stories, we've curated a list of the best movies and TV shows that explore the intricacies of identity. Whether you're looking for a cinematic representation of your own experiences or seeking to broaden your perspective, this collection has something for everyone.

The Chosen
Cast
Jonathan Roumie Jonathan Roumie
Shahar Isaac Shahar Isaac
Elizabeth Tabish Elizabeth Tabish
Paras Patel Paras Patel
8.8 919 votes
Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 47
Audience: TV-PG
Story:  The life of Christ through the eyes of those who encountered him.
Plot:  christianity, identity, pacifism, sacrifice, apostle, bible, leprosy, forgiveness, ...
Place:  jerusalem
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Dekalog
8.5 100 votes
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 10
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieslowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.
Plot:  christianity, philosophy, adultery, identity, infidelity, ten commandments, holy water, speech, ...
Place:  poland
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Wild Strawberries
Cast
Victor Sju00f6stru00f6m Victor Sju00f6stru00f6m
Bibi Andersson Bibi Andersson
Ingrid Thulin Ingrid Thulin
Gunnar Bju00f6rnstrand Gunnar Bju00f6rnstrand
8.1 1.8K votes
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Audience: 15
Story:  Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Plot:  adultery, dreams, nightmare, faith, identity, professor, journey in the past, aging, ...
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Sense8
Cast
Miguel u00c1ngel Silvestre Miguel u00c1ngel Silvestre
Max Riemelt Max Riemelt
Jamie Clayton Jamie Clayton
Bae Doona Bae Doona
7.7 1.9K votes
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 24
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."
Style:  romantic
Plot:  sexuality, identity, telepathy, secret agent, supernatural, conspiracy, superhuman, super power, ...
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Like Father, Like Son
Cast
Masaharu Fukuyama Masaharu Fukuyama
Machiko Ono Machiko Ono
Yoko Maki Yoko Maki
Lily Franky Lily Franky
7.7 804 votes
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Audience: G
Story:  Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
Plot:  parent child relationship, identity, redemption, father, family relationships, parenthood, class differences, childhood, ...
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Girl, Interrupted
Cast
Winona Ryder Winona Ryder
Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie
Clea DuVall Clea DuVall
Brittany Murphy Brittany Murphy
7.6 4.2K votes
Genre: Drama
Country: United States of America
Duration: 127 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Plot:  based on novel or book, escape, suicide attempt, identity, insanity, female friendship, based on true story, borderline personality disorder, ...
Time:  1960s
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The Body
Cast
Jose Coronado Jose Coronado
Hugo Silva Hugo Silva
Belu00e9n Rueda Belu00e9n Rueda
Aura Garrido Aura Garrido
7.5 1.4K votes
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Audience: 15
Story:  A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Plot:  prison, infidelity, identity, poison, detective, morgue, femme fatale, love, ...
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Lucky Number Slevin
Cast
Josh Hartnett Josh Hartnett
Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman
Ben Kingsley Ben Kingsley
Lucy Liu Lucy Liu
7.5 4.5K votes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.
Plot:  sniper, assassin, assassination, gambling debt, identity, boss, gangster, mistake in person, ...
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Being John Malkovich
Cast
John Cusack John Cusack
Cameron Diaz Cameron Diaz
John Malkovich John Malkovich
Catherine Keener Catherine Keener
7.4 4.8K votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: United States of America
Duration: 113 min.
Audience: R
Story:  One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
Style:  shocking
Plot:  witch, sexual identity, individual, secret love, transvestism, identity, subconsciousness, new identity, ...
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Source Code
Cast
Jake Gyllenhaal Jake Gyllenhaal
Michelle Monaghan Michelle Monaghan
Vera Farmiga Vera Farmiga
Jeffrey Wright Jeffrey Wright
7.3 9.2K votes
Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Country: United States of America, France
Duration: 93 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.
Plot:  race against time, bomb, virtual reality, identity, investigation, bomber, suspicion, time travel, ...
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Rebels of the Neon God
Cast
Lee Kang-sheng Lee Kang-sheng
Chen Chao-jung Chen Chao-jung
Wang Yu-wen Wang Yu-wen
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Jen Chang-bin
7.3 155 votes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 106 min.
Audience: NR
Story:  In Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
Plot:  nihilism, megacity, identity, obsession, flooding, vandalism, urban life, dysfunctional family, ...
Place:  taipei
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Dollhouse
7.2 500 votes
Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 25
Audience: TV-14
Story:  Echo is a member of a highly illegal and underground group of individuals whose personalities have been wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas. Confined between missions to a secret facility known as the Dollhouse, the "Actives" are hired by the wealthy, powerful and connected to wholly become—with mind, personality and physiology—whomever the client wants or needs them to be. They know no other life than the specific engagements they are in at that time—or do they?
Plot:  identity, dystopia, memory loss, evil corporation, cyberpunk, psychological thriller, bring down organization, body switch
Time:  future
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The English Patient
Cast
Ralph Fiennes Ralph Fiennes
Juliette Binoche Juliette Binoche
Willem Dafoe Willem Dafoe
Kristin Scott Thomas Kristin Scott Thomas
7.1 2.4K votes
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Duration: 162 min.
Audience: R
Story:  In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
Plot:  secret love, amnesia, airplane, identity, intelligence, traitor, burn, landmine, ...
Time:  world war ii
Place:  egypt, cairo
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The Substance
Cast
Demi Moore Demi Moore
Margaret Qualley Margaret Qualley
Dennis Quaid Dennis Quaid
Edward Hamilton-Clark Edward Hamilton-Clark
7.1 6.2K votes
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Country: France, United Kingdom
Duration: 141 min.
Audience: R
Story:  A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Plot:  new year's eve, capitalism, birthday, black market, identity, dark comedy, beauty, satire, ...
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Noriko's Dinner Table
Cast
Kazue Fukiishi Kazue Fukiishi
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Tsugumi
Yuriko Yoshitaka Yuriko Yoshitaka
Ken Mitsuishi Ken Mitsuishi
7.0 160 votes
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 159 min.
Story:  A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
Plot:  suicide, identity, runaway, cult, website, internet, tokyo, japan, ...
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Inland Empire
Cast
Laura Dern Laura Dern
Jeremy Irons Jeremy Irons
Justin Theroux Justin Theroux
Harry Dean Stanton Harry Dean Stanton
7.0 1.3K votes
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: United States of America, France
Duration: 180 min.
Audience: R
Story:  When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
Style:  shocking, absurd
Plot:  homeless person, gypsy, wife, identity, movie business, married couple, violent husband, deceived husband, ...
Place:  poland
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Capote
7.0 1.7K votes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: United States of America, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Audience: R
Story:  A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
Plot:  dreams, based on novel or book, self-fulfilling prophecy, identity, literature, journalism, literature research, biography, ...
Time:  1950s, 1960s
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Frank
Cast
Michael Fassbender Michael Fassbender
Domhnall Gleeson Domhnall Gleeson
Maggie Gyllenhaal Maggie Gyllenhaal
Scoot McNairy Scoot McNairy
6.8 1.7K votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, United Kingdom
Duration: 95 min.
Audience: R
Story:  A young wannabe musician discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
Style:  philosophical, intimate, whimsical
Plot:  mask, friendship, musician, identity, songwriter, austin, texas, twitter, ...
Place:  ireland
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Pariah
Cast
Adepero Oduye Adepero Oduye
Pernell Walker Pernell Walker
Aasha Davis Aasha Davis
Charles Parnell Charles Parnell
6.8 166 votes
Genre: Drama
Country: United States of America
Duration: 86 min.
Story:  A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Plot:  identity, coming of age, female homosexuality, dyje, teenage sexuality, lgbt, lgbt teen, woman director, ...
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Lost and Delirious
Cast
Mischa Barton Mischa Barton
Piper Perabo Piper Perabo
Jessica Paru00e9 Jessica Paru00e9
Mimi Kuzyk Mimi Kuzyk
6.8 536 votes
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Audience: R
Story:  After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation.
Plot:  based on novel or book, identity, roommates, love, school, discovery, woman director, lesbian
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