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Browse - Most popular shows featuring: identity crisisx
Dark Matter (2024)
The series will follow, a physicist, professor, and family man who - one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago - is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the multiverse of lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of mind-bending realities, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from the most terrifying, unbeatable foe imaginable: himself.
Legends (2014)
The show centers on a deep-cover operative named Martin Odum, who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. But his own identity comes into question when a mysterious stranger suggests that Martin isn't who he thinks he is.
The Girl in the Mirror
After surviving a bus crash that kills most of her classmates, Alma awakes with no memories of the incident or her past. Her parents seem like strangers and her home is a place filled with secrets and mystery. She gets the growing suspicion that everyone around her is lying, trying to turn her into someone else. Trapped in a world that doesn't feel her own, she must unravel the events that led to the accident before her true identity vanishes forever.
Serial Experiments Lain
"Serial Experiments Lain" is not your typical sci-fi/drama anime. A good frame of reference is to think of The X-Files crossed with The Matrix.
Mask Girl
An office worker who is insecure about her looks becomes a masked internet personality by night - until a chain of ill-fated events overtakes her life.
The Change
Linda, a 50-year-old working class married mother of two, is having an existential crisis. Who is she? What is she? Is this it? Convinced she's got early onset dementia after forgetting what a shoe is called, Linda's GP informs her it is, in fact, the menopause. Feeling invigorated and empowered by this information, Linda decides to claw back some of the time she's spent doing 'invisible work' over the years (not all 3.5 million minutes, just 131,500 of them) to do something for herself... for a change.
The Replacement
The Replacement is a three-part psychological thriller set in Glasgow, which follows the paranoia of a woman who sees her identity being dismantled and can't work out whether the cause is another woman or her own baby.When Ellen, a successful architect in her mid-thirties, falls pregnant, she finds maternity cover in Paula: brilliant, enthusiastic and raring to go. Ellen wants to champion her, but something's not right. Ellen begins to fear for her safety when she suspects her maternity cover has a disturbing agenda. Can her suspicions be explained away as female rivalry and her own insecurity of opting out of work at the top of her game... or do they speak to something deeper?This chilling mini-series examines the darker side of working women, motherhood and the issues that arise from making "the right choice".
Good Night World
A shut-in older brother. A high-achieving younger brother. A father who is not respected by his own children.A mother who neglects her own household. This is a broken family, and none of its members know that they are all players in an online game.
V.C. Andrews' Dawn
V.C. Andrews' Dawn follows the story of Dawn Longchamp, who after growing up in humble surroundings with a very hardworking family including her devoted father Ormand and older brother Jimmy, suddenly has everything she loves ripped away from her. After discovering the shocking truth about the people who raised her, she is thrust into a new family whose dark and twisted secrets change the course of her life forever.
Close To Me
Jo Harding is a woman who has a perfect life with her partner until a fall erases an entire year from her memory. As she struggles to piece events together, Jo discovers that her life was in fact far from perfect.
DOC - Nelle tue mani
Andrea Fanti loses the memory of his last twelve years of life due to brain trauma and, for the first time, he finds himself no longer the brilliant and authoritative doctor ever but a simple patient. Without memories, man falls into an unknown world where his loved ones have suddenly become strangers and the hospital is the only place where he really feels at home. Inspired by the story of Dr. Pier Dante Piccioni.
Huge in France
Gad is a hugely famous comedian... In France. At an emotional crossroads, he leaves it all behind and moves to Los Angeles in an attempt to reconnect with his estranged, comedy hating, 16-year-old male model son. Sadly he'll have to do it without a single celebrity perk.
In My Skin
The coming of age story of 16 year old Bethan Gwyndaf. We follow her as she deals with the comical but painfully real anxieties and insecurities of teenage life, along with the stark reality of a home life that is far removed from what she projects to her friends. It's a place where humour and heartbreak walk hand in hand. Full of Welsh wit and grit and light and shade.
The Bisexual
The Bisexual explores the differences between dating men and women from the perspective of a person who finds herself doing both.
New Yorker Leila is feeling lost in London having just left a ten year relationship with girlfriend and business partner Sadie. Moving out of their beautiful, shared apartment, Leila ends up renting a room from neurotic novelist Gabe, a man living in constant fear of missing out and dwarfed by the success of his debut novel which came out 13 years ago and has long been forgotten. Leila finds an unlikely wingman in the form of Gabe. He helps her navigate a new life dating men and women - and Leila, in return, introduces wide-eyed Gabe to the queer scene whilst doing her best to help him decipher his unreadable, sort-of-girlfriend Francisca. As Leila comes to lean more and more on Gabe she finds herself struggling to come out as bisexual to her gay friends.
Sanctuary (2019)
What could be worse than being imprisoned in a locked-down clinic where nothing is what it seems, and nobody believes you are who you say you are? How about beginning to suspect that they're right? Sanctuary is a suspenseful psychological thriller that deals with the defining human issues of survival, identity, trust and betrayal in a story that asks the audience: Who would you become in order to survive?
Born to Kill
Born to Kill is a haunting exploration of the mind of Sam, played by newcomer Jack Rowan, a teenager who's on the verge of acting out hidden psychopathic desires. He lives with his protective mum Jenny (Romola Garai), a geriatric nurse, and thinks his dad died in a car crash... While working at the local hospital, Jenny meets the charming Bill (Daniel Mays). New to town with his moody teenage daughter Chrissy, played by rising star Lara Peake, Bill's trying to reconnect with his elderly mother Margaret (Elizabeth Counsell). Just as Jenny and Bill start to hit it off, their kids meet at school and also form an instant attraction. Sam feels like he's finally met someone that he can relate to, but does she really share his desire... to kill? At the same time, Jenny learns that her ex, Sam's dad, a violent man named Peter (Richard Coyle), is nearing his parole date. Jenny must now face telling her son that not only is his father alive, he's also a convicted murderer.
Breaking Amish
This show takes a look at what happens when four Amish people and a Mennonite leave the world of buggies and horses and venture out to New York City. The series unfolds as a wild ride of firsts. At the end they must decide- remain in their faith, or denounce it and be shunned by their families.
Fatma
Fatma, an ordinary cleaning lady, commits an unexpected murder while searching for her missing husband, Zafer. She becomes an invisible killer; no one takes her to be more than an unexceptional "cleaner." In the end, murder becomes a release for the years of struggle and grief that she had repressed, and a new part of her identity she must confront.
Bliss (2018)
Bliss follows the complicated double life of Andrew, a successful travel writer who, through extenuating circumstances, finds himself living between two sets of wives and children whose existences are unknown to each other.
Andrew, in a constant state of moral crisis, must find a way to balance his time and energies between his wife Kim and teenage daughter, while travelling back and forth across Bristol to his other family, wife Denise and their teenage son.
As Andrew's two worlds become ever harder to contain, so does his sanity. And he finds himself going to increasingly drastic lengths to protect the two families he loves.
The Gene of AI
The story depicting a doctor who "treats" robot and humanoid problems takes place in the near future, when humanoids with artificial intelligence account for 10% of the population. The main character, Dr. Sudo Hikaru, also has the undercover name Moggadeet, under which he secretly takes on illegal medical procedures. For example, for a man who inadvertently infected his humanoid wife with a computer virus when illegally backing up her data, Sudo proposes an operation to rewrite her memory using backup data. Could an existence replaced by backup data truly be said to be the same as it was before?
Transferts
Florian Bassot suffers a swimming accident and falls into a coma. With the progressions in science, five years later his mind is transferred into the body of someone else.
With transfers outlawed and his family's safety on the line, Florian has to hide his identity and live as Sylvain Bernard, one of the highest-ranking officers of B.A.I.T, the anti-transfers taskforce.
Count Abdulla
Count Abdulla follows Abdulla Khan - a mid-twenties British-Pakistani Muslim doctor stuck in an identity crisis, caught between his religious mother and his secular, hedonistic friends. But when Abdulla is bitten by a vampire he suddenly becomes the outsider's outsider.
Türkisch für Anfänger
Türkisch für Anfänger is a German comedy about the Schneider-Ozturks, a German-Turkish mixed family.
Miseducation
After a public humiliation, a wannabe influencer enrolls in a small-town university, where she aspires to regain her social status.
Switched
High schooler Ayumi's perfect world evaporates when her envious classmate Zenko somehow steals her body, her boyfriend and her life.
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