Identity
"identity" Movies and TV Shows
#1
You've Got Mail
Synopsis:
Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
Starring:
Meg Ryan,
Tom Hanks,
Dave Chappelle
Plot:
dog,
e mail,
rivalry,
bookstore,
internet,
new york city,
online identity,
courtship,
handkerchief,
shop owner
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#2
Wild Strawberries
Synopsis:
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 fo…
Starring:
Ingrid Thulin,
Gertrud Fridh,
Naima Wifstrand
Plot:
professor,
road movie,
nostalgia,
dream,
swedish summer,
strawberry,
aging,
voice over narration,
flashback,
self discovery
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#3
Three Wishes for Cinderella
Synopsis:
Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them.
Starring:
Libuše Šafránková,
Pavel Trávníček,
Carola Braunbock
#4
They Live
Synopsis:
Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking dis…
Starring:
Keith David,
Roddy Piper,
Meg Foster
#5
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Synopsis:
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Starring:
Celia Weston,
Philip Baker Hall,
Jude Law
Plot:
nudity,
italy,
playboy,
bisexuality,
sociopath,
neo noir,
saxophone,
male full frontal nudity,
1950s,
friendship
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#6
The Passenger
Synopsis:
David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attemp…
Starring:
Jack Nicholson,
Steven Berkoff,
Maria Schneider
Plot:
desert,
sahara desert,
reporter,
africa,
journalist,
hotel,
escape,
war correspondent,
gunrunner,
stolen identity
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#7
The Net
Synopsis:
Angela Bennett is a freelance software engineer who lives in a world of computer technology. When a cyber friend asks Bennett to debug a new game, she inadvertently becomes involved in a conspiracy that will soon turn her life upside down and make her the target of an assassination.
Starring:
L. Scott Caldwell,
Sandra Bullock,
Dennis Miller
#8
The Lady Vanishes
Synopsis:
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and…
Starring:
Paul Lukas,
Michael Redgrave,
May Whitty
#9
The English Patient
Synopsis:
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.
Starring:
Colin Firth,
Willem Dafoe,
Ralph Fiennes
#10
Some Like It Hot
Synopsis:
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
Starring:
Nehemiah Persoff,
Marilyn Monroe,
Pat O’Brien
Plot:
sex comedy,
comedy of errors,
disguise,
all girl band,
cross dressing,
friendship,
gang,
buddy comedy,
buddy movie,
musician
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#11
Psycho
Synopsis:
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Starring:
John McIntire,
Martin Balsam,
Simon Oakland
Plot:
motel,
shower,
money,
maniac,
stabbed with a knife,
surprise ending,
suspense,
serial killer,
theft,
homicidal maniac
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#12
Persona
Synopsis:
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. The time they spend together only strengthens the crushing realization that one does not exist.
Starring:
Liv Ullmann,
Bibi Andersson,
Margaretha Krook
#13
Mulholland Drive
Synopsis:
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Starring:
Naomi Watts,
Robert Forster,
Justin Theroux
#14
Johnny Mnemonic
Synopsis:
In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race aga…
Starring:
Udo Kier,
Dolph Lundgren,
Barbara Sukowa
Plot:
implanted memory,
cyberpunk,
virtual reality,
cyberspace,
based on story,
glasses,
hitman,
erased memory,
destroyed bridge,
hotel
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#15
Identity
Synopsis:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Starring:
John Cusack,
Amanda Peet,
Jake Busey
#16
Girl, Interrupted
Synopsis:
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 belo…
Starring:
Brittany Murphy,
Winona Ryder,
Jared Leto
#17
Eraser
Synopsis:
U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to terrorist groups. When Kruger discovers that there's a corrupt agent within the program, he must guard his own life while trying to protect Lee's.
Starring:
James Cromwell,
Vanessa Williams,
James Caan
#18
Enemy of the State
Synopsis:
A hotshot Washington criminal lawyer becomes the target of a rogue security executive videotaped in the act of murdering a congressman when the incriminating tape is surreptitiously slipped into his shopping bag by the videographer, who is fleeing the executive's assassins.
Starring:
Loren Dean,
Will Smith,
Jason Lee
#19
Dark City
Synopsis:
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Starring:
Jennifer Connelly,
Rufus Sewell,
William Hurt
Plot:
neo noir,
alien race,
memory,
beach,
experiment,
lovecraftian,
steampunk,
police,
doctor,
prostitute
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#20
Boys Don't Cry
Synopsis:
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
Starring:
Peter Sarsgaard,
Hilary Swank,
Chloë Sevigny