Amnesia movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant amnesia movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking, interesting, psychological and entertaining films and TV shows about / with amnesia, memory loss, memory, suspense, twists and turns, dialogue, storytelling, vengeance, love and mentor plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
amnesia
TOP 10 movies tagged as amnesia: 50 First Dates (2004), Memento (2000), Mulholland Drive (2001), Regarding Henry (1991), Before I Go to Sleep (2014), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Identity (2002), The Vow (2012), Trance (2013), The Man Without a Past (2002).
Best films
List of amnesia movies
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, sentimental, touching, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, love story, love and romance, fall in love, relationships, wooing, dating, teenager, beautiful scenery, destiny, memory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania, alaska
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1.3M
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, confusing, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, amnesia, memory loss, murder, plot twist, revenge, memory, paranoia, vengeance, psychology, twists and turns, haunted by the past ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
psychological, surreal, neo noir, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, hallucination, hollywood, alternate reality, obsession, nightmare, doppelganger, lesbian sex, filmmaking ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Henry is a lawyer who survives a shooting only to find he cannot remember anything. If that weren't enough, Henry also has to recover his speech and mobility, in a life he no longer fits into. Fortunately, Henry has a loving wife and daughter ...
Style:
touching, intense, emotional, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
amnesia, rehabilitation, memory loss, lawyer, redemption, disability, starting over, family relations, maid, parents and children, brain damage, self discovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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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, mind bending, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
memory, surrealism, amnesia, love, existentialism, memory loss, love story, relationships, alternate reality, couples, loneliness, introspection ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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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, suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory loss, suspense, amnesia, obsession, psychiatrist, memory, life turned upside down, investigation, uncover truth, psychology, doctors and patients, domestic violence ...
Time:
90s, year 2013, year 1999, year 2007, 2000s ...
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Russia, India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, intellectual, serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
spy, conspiracy, cia, espionage, amnesia, suspense, secret agents, on the run, revenge, twists and turns, tough heroes, dark past ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
russia, europe, berlin germany, napoli italy, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him ...
Style:
intense, exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
spy, amnesia, secret agents, cia, on the run, tough heroes, escape, secret service, one against many, car chase, secret past, suspense ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, hamburg germany, greece, europe, langley virginia ...
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198K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK
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:
romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
marriage, love and romance, memory loss, relationships, amnesia, couple relations, true love, wooing, power of love, love, love story, destiny ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
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115K
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, twist ending, clever, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
hypnosis, manipulation, twists and turns, memory loss, heist, amnesia, plot twist, art thief, art theft, dishonesty, torture, mind control ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job ...
Style:
bleak, satirical, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, generosity, poverty, friendship, robbery, eccentricity, couple relations, starting over, financial problem, haunted by the past, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, europe, north korea, helsinki finland, estonia
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264K
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, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, memory loss, suspense, investigation, uncover truth, conspiracy, chase, mysterious character, amnesia, disorder, spy, secret service ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, witty, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
private detective, amnesia, memory loss, dog, gangsters, betrayal, justice, brutality, twists and turns, partners, goofy hero, kidnapping ...
Time:
90s
Place:
venice beach california, santa monica california, california, los angeles
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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:
exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
memory loss, strong female lead, female assassin, amnesia, hitman, spy, suspense, terrorism, cia, chase, christmas, presumed dead ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, pennsylvania, canada, usa, new york ...
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63K
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, realistic, sentimental, touching, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
family life, memory loss, love and romance, rich woman poor man, love, amnesia, single father, father son relationship, deception, parents and children, carpenter, family relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
oregon
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76K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
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, exciting, art house, intellectual
Audience:
teens
Plot:
investigation, fbi, puzzle, memory loss, killings, strong female character, twists and turns, terrorist, tattoo, amnesia, secret organization, martial arts ...
Place:
new york
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116K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style:
psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind bending, tricky ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, psychology, time loop, supernatural, mental institution, murder, memory loss, parallel universe, hallucination, supernatural ability, suspense, butterfly effect ...
Time:
future, 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
vermont
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, tense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
private detective, murder, suspense, hypnosis, amnesia, reincarnation, memory loss, flashback, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural, twists and turns ...
Time:
1940s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, usa
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17K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the air, but he soon discovers ...
Style:
enigmatic, captivating, mystical, surprise ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
suspense, missing person, amnesia, death, police, memory loss, alone, suspicion, supernatural ability, suicide, memory, car accident ...
Place:
canada, connecticut, usa
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4K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man wakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is, and learns that he's wanted by the police for a committing a series of murders.
Style:
talky, enigmatic, non-linear
Plot:
amnesia, serial killer, hospital, police, false accusation, investigation, murder, suspense, father son relationship, psychopath, escapades, killing spree ...
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39K
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, funny, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, date night
Plot:
memory loss, happy ending, amnesia, family relations, family life, sea, vengeance, love, ship, memory, rich, hollywood ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
oregon
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31K
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:
psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, tricky ...
Plot:
memory loss, twists and turns, confined, kidnapping, amnesia, murder, hostage, suspense, loss of friend, suicide, survival, dishonesty ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, inspirational, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
small town, amnesia, mistaken identity, hollywood, writers, writer's life, justice, life philosophy, happy ending, lovers reunited, parents and children, starting over ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1951
Place:
california, usa, canada
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110K
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, exciting, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, memory loss, cyberpunk, amnesia, twists and turns, frame up, alternate reality, suspense, gunfight, chase, distopia, time ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story:
An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. A retired doctor takes care of the unconscious stranger. When the mysterious man recovers, he can't remember a thing...he does not know his name, ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, sexy, cerebral, visually appealing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, amnesia, espionage, cia, memory loss, hitman, surveillance, conspiracy, assassin, identity, terrorism, heroes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, zurich switzerland, paris france
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, ambiguous ending, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
space travel, space, memory loss, space and aliens, space wars, time travel, distant planet, amnesia, survival, androids, spacecraft, friendship ...
Time:
future
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109K
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Style:
road movie, surreal, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
desert, father son relationship, on the road, amnesia, road trip, relationships, isolation, solitude, parenthood, loneliness, melancholy, sibling relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
texas, los angeles, paris france, austin texas, germany ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
A man ends up in hospital after a car accident. He does not remember his name, but it is soon discovered he is a famous attorney. To make things worse, the police start to suspect him of having murdered his missing niece.
Style:
exciting, tense, suspenseful, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
lawyer, amnesia, disappearance, investigation, niece, memory, police, family relations, murder suspect, suspicion of murder, suspicion, memory loss ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
After waking in a park with total amnesia — and surrounded by dead bodies, all wearing latex gloves — a young woman must fight to uncover her past, and resume her position at the head of Britain’s most secret (supernatural) service before the ...
Style:
enigmatic, atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, urban fantasy
Plot:
secret, secret service, investigation, amnesia, adaptation, murder, suspense, superhero, psychopath, intelligence agency, supernatural power, erased memory ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
memory loss, life is a bitch, polish, surgeon, prodigy, daughter, love and romance, healer, losing-it hero, witch doctor, amnesia, village life ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
poland
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