Movies and TvShows featuring "search-for-identity" theme.

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum is a historical drama that follows the life of a stage actor in 19th-century Japan. It explores themes of love, sacrifice, and the search for identity, as the protagonist navigates the rigid traditions and societal expectations of the time.

In this crime drama, a young doctor becomes obsessed with finding the identity of a deceased patient after she refuses to answer the door during an emergency visit. As she delves deeper into the case, she uncovers a web of secrets and must confront her own past traumas.

Next of Kin is a comedy-drama movie released in 1984. The story revolves around a man who leads a normal life until he discovers that he has a long-lost son. This discovery brings about a series of events that challenge his relationships with his family and friends. With themes of family relationships, practical jokes, and the search for identity, Next of Kin offers a humorous yet thought-provoking narrative.

After the death of their child, a family travels to Mongolia in search of identity and find themselves on a unique and unexpected journey.

Anthony Adverse follows the life of an illegitimate Catholic orphan who is caught up in the slave trade, manipulated by a femme fatale, and torn between his loyalty to a Catholic priest and his search for his true identity. Set against the backdrop of Napoleon Bonaparte's reign, the film explores themes of betrayal, love, and the struggle for moral reformation.

A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuses to listen to his tormentor and goes to the police. The man speaks. The scandal is public soon ...

An 18 year old girl called Joy has gone missing. Another girl called Helen is a few weeks away from leaving her care home. Helen is asked to 'play' Joy in a police reconstruction that will retrace Joy's last known movements. Joy had everything. A loving family, a boyfriend, a bright future. Helen, parent-less, has lived in institutions all her life and has never been close to anyone. Gradually Helen begins to immerse herself into the role, visiting the people and places that Joy knew; quietly and carefully insinuating her way into the lost girl's life. But is Helen trying to find out what happened to Joy that day, or is she searching for her own identity?

A group of people is summoned to a mysterious mansion on Skull Mountain for the reading of a will. They soon discover that the house holds dark secrets and they must confront their fears in order to survive.

A con man and a young woman travel across the country, first in search of a man he knows, and then in search of a woman she knows.

In the middle of preparing his apartment to have Mira live with him, Luc escapes to Svalbard. Stumbling drunk out of an Artic “Oktoberfest”, Luc meets Mike, a stranger who lives in an isolated cabin in the Arctic desert. Mike mysteriously abandons Luc in mid conversation. Intrigued, Luc decides to find Mike. Along the way, he meets Ingrid, a Norwegian teacher. Luc rushes into the footsteps of Mike who remains elusive and volatile, Luc hunts a shadow, his own possibly.

In 1970s Iran, an army major embarks on a journey to search for a missing girl. Along the way, he delves into a web of secrets and historical truths, as he confronts his own identity and the lingering effects of war.

Analía’s mother sends her to Buenos Aires to deliver some handicrafts. She is expected to return home quickly to the country town where she is to take on her family’s hairdressing salon. But by chance an address mix-up leads her to a Muslim community where she finds herself taking part in a ritual completely unknown to her. Enthralled by the new world she has entered, Analía decides on the spur of the moment to take on another identity.

Some years before WWI, art historian and priest Ciril from Ljubljana and his friend Fritz set out on a journey through Italy. Ciril hopes that his doctorate on Italian art would provide him inner peace, thus starting a new life. Emotionally disturbed Fritz, on the other hand, tries to escape everyday life, as well as from commitment he has to his female friend.

A documentary tragicomedy of a father-daughter relationship, told by the subjective perspective of the young director. She tries to understand how a revolutionary could have become a criminal and an alcoholic, and why he abandoned his family. Freely juggling between documentary, fiction and animation, the director takes us on a journey around the world. The daughter of a former communists visits the ports of the revolt, where communities are trying to realize the concrete utopia.

Full of Love is a combination of autobiography and Finnish burlesque. It’s a story of personal growth, but also a study of inhibitions and gender—of everything that has accumulated over the years and open for examination through burlesque. When Petra Innanen a.k.a. Bettie Blackheart guides Terho, the audience can rest assured that glimpses of both Finnish and foreign stars, from Erochica Bamboo to Satan’s Angel, can be caught during the journey.

A Russian girl, a Kurdish father. The father lives in Syria, in a town near the Turkish border. The girl joins him to meet her new family and... to find her lost roots. Everything moves forward in fragments, of time and of space. It is not only an aesthetic choice. It is a form consistent with the state of war, with the fragility of existences, with the capturing of reality by the body and by the spirit. But everything moves forward, in its way, carried along by a painful energy that obstinately perforates the borders.

The story of how Teal's love for The Wizard of Oz helped them discover their name

British television presenter A.J. Odudu embarks on a mission to find a husband in her parents native Nigeria with her feisty, match-making mother Florence.