THEME EXPLORATION

performative identity

12 films · 3 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
In a Year with 13 Moons
In a Year with 13 Moons
1978 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Adam Resurrected
Adam Resurrected
2008 · Paul Schrader
Die My Love
Die My Love
2025 · Lynne Ramsay
Layla
Layla
2026 · Amrou Al-Kadhi
Nazarín
Nazarín
1958 · Luis Buñuel
Quick
Quick
1932 · Robert Siodmak
The Whole Town’s Talking
The Whole Town’s Talking
1935 · John Ford
Aga's House
Aga's House
2019 · Lendita Zeqiraj
Reindeer Games
Reindeer Games
2000 · John Frankenheimer
Cabo Negro
Cabo Negro
2024 · Abdellah Taïa
Di che segno sei?
Di che segno sei?
1975 · Sergio Corbucci
Ernesto
Ernesto
1979 · Salvatore Samperi
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Germany

His films obsessively deconstruct how individuals perform social roles and construct identity through artifice, costume, and emotional manipulation.

 Pedro Almodóvar Spain

He celebrates performative identity as liberation, exploring how characters theatrically construct and reconstruct themselves through melodrama, desire, and reinvention.

 Joe Lynch United States

His work reveals the fractures between public personas and hidden selves, using surrealism to expose how identity performance masks darker psychological truths.