Flashback movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant flashback movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, suspense and independent film films and TV shows about / with flashback, blood, murder, female nudity, death, kiss, violence, husband wife relationship, woman and bare chested male plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as flashback: The Girl on the Train (2016), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Hacksaw Ridge (2016), Point Blank (1967), Inception (2010), Lion (2016), The Hateful Eight (2015), The Night Porter (1974), Don't Look Now (1973).
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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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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family ...
Style:
psychological thriller, neo noir, psychological, suspense, mindfuck ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
writers, revenge, husband wife relationship, divorce, loss of family, infidelity, abortion, rape, rape and murder, symbolism, ex husband, grief ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
texas, los angeles, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, melancholic, romantic, mind bending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
memory, surrealism, dream, love, love story, memory loss, existentialism, loneliness, couples, amnesia, relationships, introspection ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
persia, america, usa, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 229 min.
Story:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style:
epic, ambiguous ending, melancholic, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, friendship, prohibition, rape, gunfight, betrayal, childhood friend, corruption, criminal heroes, mobster ...
Time:
1930s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1984 ...
Place:
new york, usa, america, israel, china ...
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588K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA, UK, China
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Style:
inspirational, touching, sentimental, harsh, motivational ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
world war two, war, soldier, conscientious objector, combat, religion, survival, american soldier, military, us military, bible, u.s. army ...
Time:
1940s, year 2016, 2010s, 20th century, year 1945 ...
Place:
okinawa, okinawa japan, japan, tennessee, usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport, Thriller, War
Country: UK, China, USA, Taiwan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, thought provoking, bleak, sad ...
Plot:
post traumatic stress disorder, american football, iraq war, flashback, thanksgiving, cheerleader, military, soldier, mission, war veteran, patriotism, hostile takeover ...
Time:
year 2016, year 1937, year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east, texas, los angeles, china ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Style:
neo noir, surreal, tense, brutal, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
organized crime, revenge, vengeance, gangster, betrayal, left for dead, anti hero, hitman, flashback, left to die, mafia, money ...
Time:
20th century, future, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa, san francisco, los angeles, california
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2.5M
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, clever, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, twists and turns, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, existentialism, fictional reality, heist, puzzle ...
Time:
year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place:
paris france, japan, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
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250K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK, USA, India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Style:
emotional, touching, motivational, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, family friendly, chick flick, kids
Plot:
adoption, poverty, survival, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loneliness, childhood, mother son reunion, foster home, train, brother brother relationship, courage, missing child ...
Time:
2010s, year 1986, year 2016, year 2012, year 2010 ...
Place:
india, australia, tasmania, kolkata, melbourne
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Style:
captivating, bloody, talky, exciting, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
bounty hunter, murder, snow, winter, gang, stagecoach, cold weather, old west, prisoner, brutality, dark humor, criminal ...
Time:
19th century, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, victorian era
Place:
wyoming, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style:
psychological, serious, controversial, disturbing, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, hotel, sadomasochism, nazi, eroticism, guilt, dangerous attraction, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexual perversion, holocaust, sexual abuse ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, germany, vienna, italy, frankfurt germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style:
suspense, twist ending, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, drowning, serial killer, blindness, psychic, haunted by the past, grief, sex scene, hallucination, twists and turns, death of daughter, marriage ...
Time:
70s, year 1973, near future, 20th century
Place:
italy, venice, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just to regain ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, dramatic, motivational ...
Plot:
art, holocaust, lawyer, nazi, courtroom drama, art theft, injustice, justice, painting, legal action, courtroom, world war two ...
Time:
year 2015, 1900s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
austria, vienna, los angeles, pasadena california, california ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
13-year-old Pablo is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to help Pablo with his transition from childhood to adolescence, and give him some advice on sex, love and ...
Style:
emotional, serious, disturbing, captivating, art house ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, boy, stranger, teenage girl, nudity, sexual exploration, masturbation, male nudity, 13 year old, flashback, surrogate father, man boy relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
andalusia, spain
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
missing person, senior citizen, dementia, alzheimer's disease, flashback, disappearance, old woman, forgetfulness, female protagonist, aging, girlfriend, sister ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two men meet in Barcelona and after spending a day together they realize that they have already met twenty years ago.
Style:
unusual plot structure, sexy, sentimental, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay erotica, gay lead character, male nudity, gay love, lovers, gays and lesbians, homosexual, tourist, cruise ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
madrid, barcelona
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: France, Belgium, Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Nothing in her background destined Loïe Fuller from the American Midwest to become a Belle Epoque icon, even less a dancer at the Paris Opera. Even at the risk of destroying her back and burning her eyes with the stage lights, she will never falter ...
Style:
melancholic, colorful, factual, suspense, erotic ...
Plot:
dancing, female nudity, lesbian, love, sex scene, theater, flashback, bohemian life, lgbt, dancer's life, death of father, performer's life ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
paris france, new york, brooklyn new york city, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, France, Denmark, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return ...
Style:
rough, melancholic, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, grief, death of wife, single father, depression, sibling relationship, death of mother, flashback, absent mother, parent child relationship, father son reunion, car accident ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s
Place:
iraq, usa
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Genre: Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story:
How long can you wait for justice? After being appointed Circuit Judge, John Goodnight (Perry) travels the territory dispensing justice. After returning to a town that brings back memories of his parents murders, he sees someone who looks familiar.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
murder, justice, lawyer, vigilantism, vengeance, judge, racism, flashback, obsession, rivalry, haunted by the past, price of justice ...
Place:
wyoming
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
private detective, murder, serial killer, kidnapping, drug dealer, secrets, murder of wife, investigation, violence, faked death, home invasion, hostage ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1999 ...
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Italy, UK, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation ...
Style:
visually stunning, epic, political, breathtaking, visually appealing ...
Plot:
childhood, world war two, biopic, chinese history, revolution, empress, prison, drug addiction, emperor, interrogation, politics, eunuch ...
Time:
1950s, 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 1910s ...
Place:
china, beijing china, asia, japan, east asia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Cookie Voltecki (Emily Lloyd) is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco (Peter Falk), who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost ...
Style:
humorous, independent film, semi serious, realistic, weeping ...
Plot:
gangster, illegitimate daughter, teen angst, mother daughter relationship, mistress, husband wife relationship, car bomb, chauffeur, prison visit, mob hit, dog, flashback ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
new jersey, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A small town in Italy is about to celebrate their patron saint. The city is full of people with different problems. A Communist in existentialist crisis that also must take care of his mentally ill wife. A woman who is tired of her husband's ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, experimental, controversial, weird ...
Plot:
incest, wrestling, flashback, extramarital affair, female psychopath, fetish, dream, carnival, dysfunctional family, butcher, communist, billiards ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
As a kid, Leo thought he possessed, like a magician, the secret power to make things happen. As a young man, he certainly knows how to make things happen with women. But as his best friend Krantz would say to him, "Why do you always ask ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic
Plot:
dysfunctional family, road trip, flashback, summer camp, self discovery, womanizer, wooing, cheating wife, adultery, children, abusive father, making love ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, suspense, scary ...
Plot:
incest, child abuse, surrealism, violence, incest rape, father daughter incest, dysfunctional family, prostitute, identity crisis, revenge, writers, extreme ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Part two takes place in Hollywood, where survivor Lacey is staying with friends to recover from her trauma. Through long and extremely detailed flashbacks, Lacey tells the story about the murderous spirit in the little piece of mirror to befriended ...
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, scary ...
Plot:
mirror, boogeyman, flashback, broken mirror, hollywood, trauma, filmmaking, exploitation, serial killer, paranormal, evil, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1983, year 2016, 80s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, intellectual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
mccarthyism, naval officer, couples, politics, breakup, husband wife relationship, adultery, love story, passion, world war two, love and romance, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 1930s, 1950s, pre world war two ...
Place:
usa, new york, california, middle east, malibu california ...
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29K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
rape, high school, teenage girl, school, bullying, youth, innocence lost, family problems, life is a bitch, unsupportive friend, teenage life, sexual abuse ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela's arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions.
Style:
slasher, scary, twist ending, surprise ending, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
summer camp, psychopath, serial killer, youth, murder, bullying, rivalry, teenage life, danger, mental illness, female villain, violence ...
Time:
80s, year 2016
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, adultery, love story, tragic love, betrayal, desert, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, life & death, war, wartime, power of love ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place:
sahara, italy, africa, ottoman empire, cairo egypt ...
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