Identity Crisis Movies

Two souls: One seeks to know her life's true essence and the other is haunted by foreign sights of himself, as they both are influenced by an...

An unemployed dry alcoholic and former smoker longs to escape his shadows in a small abandoned village. Triggered by a mysterious meeting with his...

Elena, an obsessive artist who dreams of one day appearing on the silver screen in Hollywood, slowly begins to lose her sanity as she waits for the...

A romantic comedy about Liv, who is at the beginning of her 20s. She is very close to her parents and working in the family greengrocer business...

Three groups of adolescent girl friends from Quebec are going through tough changes. The process of inventing their own bodies and identity are being...

A furious, iconoclastic attack on power and the media in a modern France where Islamophobia has become mainstream and inequality is growing from the...

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

Embarrassed about his identity and culture, a meek Indian high-schooler decides to attend an American university to pursue his passion for film. But...

On August 12, 2015, Hasegawa proposed to Ichiko. Ichiko is moved by Hasegawa's proposal and sheds tears, but the next day, she suddenly leaves home,...

Aya grapples with the cost of control, empathy and identity in search of the truth of her past.

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class...

After getting in debt with Russian gangsters, Nick is given one final chance to redeem himself: find a mysterious woman being protected by the Korean...

In order to win over a tough dramatist at her next audition, a young actress turns to method acting to such an extreme that she slowly loses herself...

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his...

"Razakar" is a period drama set in pre-Bangladesh-separation Pakistan, exploring the political tensions of the time. The story follows Jamal, an...

Black Burns Fast is a queer and quirky coming of age film set in at a prestigious boarding school in South Africa. 17-year-old adorkable Luthando is...

A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town....

We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving, intimate film forces us to question what...

A young woman forced by her family to study a major she doesn't want, finds her only escape in her passion for the sky while caught between economic...