Memory loss movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant memory loss movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, suspense and surprise ending films and TV shows about / with memory loss, amnesia, memory, flashback, bare chested male, dishonesty, hospital, husband wife relationship, twists and turns and puzzle plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as memory loss: Secret Obsession (2019), Remember Sunday (2013), Paycheck (2003), Before I Go to Sleep (2014), The Vow (2012), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Still Alice (2014), Novo (2002), The I Inside (2004), The Forgotten (2004).

List of memory loss movies

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Secret Obsession (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Newlywed Jennifer is brutally attacked at a dark rest stop. While healing from her injuries, she can’t recall anything from her past, including the ordeal. Her husband, Russell , is just thankful she’s alive and eager to get her home. As he ...
Style: suspense, intense, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, memory loss, stalker, pursuit, murder, violence, deception, memory lapse, psycho killer, crime investigation, family secret, woman in danger ...
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Remember Sunday (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A lonely, down-on-her-luck waitress meets a handsome, quirky jewelry store clerk and thinks that maybe, finally, she's met Mr. Right. The more Molly (Alexis Bledel) gets to know Gus (Zachary Levi), the more she's intrigued by him. But ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, romantic drama, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: memory loss, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, starting over, couples, family relations, flower shop, hopes, brain damage, charm, girl, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, new orleans
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 6.3
 113K
Paycheck (2003)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, tech noir, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, memory loss, time travel, twists and turns, gunfight, frame up, chase, seeing the future, changing the past or future, betrayal, amnesia, time machine ...
Time: future, year 2003, near future, 21st century
Place: seattle
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Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style: twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, obsession, psychiatrist, uncover truth, life turned upside down, investigation, psychology, power relations, doctors and patients, false identity, domestic violence ...
Time: 90s, year 2014, year 2000, year 2007, year 2013 ...
Place: london, england
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 6.8
 204K
The Vow (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: love, memory loss, love story, love and romance, amnesia, true love, marriage, relationships, couple relations, wooing, power of love, couples ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to ...
Style: suspense, intense, serious, realistic, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, hitman, strong female lead, terrorism, chase, female assassin, cia, female protagonist, espionage, christmas, terrorist plot ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, pennsylvania, usa, atlantic city new jersey, new york ...
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 7.5
 143K
Still Alice (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Style: sad, heartbreaking, touching, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: teens
Plot: memory loss, alzheimer's disease, illness, supportive spouse, mother daughter relationship, columbia university, family drama, terminal illness, family bonds, mental illness, psychology, relationships ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 5.6
 3K
Novo (2002)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After an injury, Graham suffers from short-term memory loss, which causes him to fall back into the abyss of amnesia every 10 minutes. Those around him both profit and suffer from his condition -- his sex-crazed boss, Sabine, tricks him into regular ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, stylized, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: memory loss, sex, orgasm, bondage, couple relations, oral sex, infidelity, couples, fall in love, female nudity, dishonesty, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france
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 6.0
 11K
The I Inside (2004)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: memory loss, time loop, hospital, paranoia, puzzle, murder, nightmare, uncover truth, dishonesty, mind game, investigation, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 2000, year 2002
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 5.8
 68K
The Forgotten (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: memory loss, conspiracy, psychiatrist, memory, missing child, mind game, delusion, twists and turns, abduction, grief, alien, experiment ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 8.4
 1.3M
Memento (2000)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, vengeance, plot twist, memory, murder, twists and turns, revenge, paranoia, whodunit, psychology, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000, future, year 2001, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, iran, america, usa
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 6.5
 11K
Shattered (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, erotic, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: memory loss, investigation, private detective, twists and turns, murder, suspicion, plastic surgery, infidelity, abusive husband, haunted by the past, car accident, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa, oregon
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 6.8
 379K
50 First Dates (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: memory loss, fall in love, love story, amnesia, love and romance, love, memory, relationships, wooing, dating, life philosophy, dream ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania
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 7.3
 79K
Blindspot (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, detective, deep ...
Audience: teens
Plot: puzzle, investigation, fbi, memory loss, twists and turns, strong female character, terrorist, killings, tattoo, amnesia, secret organization, martial arts ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, chicago
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 6.8
 269K
Unknown (2011)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, memory loss, investigation, amnesia, uncover truth, assassin, conspiracy, secret service, chase, disorder, danger, mysterious character ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: berlin germany, germany
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 6.9
 117K
Trance (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, neo noir, twist ending, clever ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: hypnosis, memory loss, heist, twists and turns, manipulation, amnesia, art thief, plot twist, art theft, dishonesty, torture, mind control ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, england
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Just Another Love Story (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jonas is a Copenhagen homicide scene photographer, happily married, with two kids. One day, his car stalls, another car slams into him, runs head on into a third car and flips into the ditch. The other driver, Julia, is critically injured. He visits ...
Style: melancholic, emotional, neo noir, psychological, serious ...
Plot: memory loss, mistaken identity, relationships, existentialism, pretense, dangerous attraction, danger, amnesia, obsession, hospital, politics, coma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: copenhagen, denmark, europe
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The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, philosophical, suspense, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: time travel, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, memory loss, twists and turns, alternate reality, psychology, time traveler, changing the past or future, mind control, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.0
 41K
Overboard (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee. A remake of the 1987 comedy.
Style: romantic, humorous, light, funny, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, date night
Plot: memory loss, happy ending, family life, amnesia, rich, love, vengeance, sea, social differences, family relations, ship, memory ...
Time: 2010s
Place: oregon
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 6.4
 31K
Unknown (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: memory loss, twists and turns, kidnapping, confined, murder, hostage, trapped, loss of friend, suicide, survival, puzzle, trap ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century
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The Girl on the Train (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes ...
Style: suspense, psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: train, infidelity, murder mystery, obsession, police investigation, adultery, psychopath, whodunit, alcoholic, ex husband ex wife relationship, investigation, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, america, usa
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 6.9
 67K
Overboard (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Heiress, Joanna Stayton hires carpenter, Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht -- and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get ...
Style: feel good, light, entertaining, sentimental, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: memory loss, rich woman poor man, amnesia, love and romance, single father, father son relationship, family life, parents and children, carpenter, pretend relationship, love, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: oregon
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Beautiful Memories (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, offbeat
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, alzheimer's disease, love affair, mental institution, couples, disability, doctors and patients, dementia, psychiatry, trauma, wine ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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 5.6
 1K
Remainder (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A London man who loses his memory when he's struck by a falling object develops a way to reconstruct his past.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, surreal ...
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, memory lapse, life is a bitch, memories, social problems, amnesiac, tragic past, past, coma, telephone call, accident ...
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Blind Horizon (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: amnesia, memory loss, hitman, conspiracy, investigation, uncover truth, political conspiracy, state affairs, dishonesty, danger, race against time, desert ...
Time: year 2003
Place: new mexico, usa
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 6.2
 265K
Total Recall (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, entertaining, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, virtual reality, memory loss, dystopic future, post apocalypse, technology, on the run, dystopian future, mars, false memory, secret agent ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
Place: seattle, big ben london
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 6.0
 503
Another Woman (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After a brutal attack leaves Lisa Temple without her memory, her husband declares that she is another woman. She begins to find out just what that means when she begins to try to recover that lost memory. The life that emerges is one of a bitter and ...
Style: serious, emotional, psychological, clever, detective ...
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, self discovery, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, couples, haunted by the past, starting over, investigation, doctor, restaurant owner ...
Time: 90s
Place: ontario canada
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 5.9
 81K
Premonition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: time travel, destiny, alternate reality, time loop, memory loss, parallel world, dealing with death, life & death, foreknowledge, deja vu, death, family problems ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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Last Hours in Suburbia (2012)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Grace is accused of playing a role in a deadly accident, her best friend reaches out from beyond the grave to unveil the truth behind what happened.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious ...
Plot: memory loss, uncover truth, investigation, false accusation, dishonesty, life is a bitch, best friend, accident, car accident, danger, murder, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Nightmare Street (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After saving her daughter from an accident Joanna wakes up in the hospital in an alternate world where nothing is as it should be. Someone else lives in her house, her daughter is gone and everyone calls her Sarah. The problem is Sarah is suspected ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: parallel world, protagonist as suspect, memory loss, hospital, uncover truth, life is a bitch, imaginary, siblings relations, mistaken identity, paranormal phenomena, sister sister relationship, mother love ...
Time: 90s
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