🏷 Discover The Best Amnesia Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Amnesia has long captivated audiences, weaving tales of forgotten pasts, unexpected revelations, and emotional journeys. Whether you're a cinephile or a binge-watcher, exploring movies and TV shows centered around memory loss offers a thrilling mix of suspense, drama, and psychological depth. From blockbuster hits to hidden gems, these stories challenge perceptions of identity and time. Dive into our curated selection of the best amnesia-themed entertainment, perfect for fans of mystery, romance, and mind-bending narratives.

Cast

Gong Yoo

Kim Go-eun

Lee Dong-wook

Yoo In-na

Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (2016) TV Show

8.6 3.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-year-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and a sprightly student with a tragic past.

Plot: suicide, poison, child abuse, regret, soulmates, depression, jealousy, general, ...

Cast

Yui Horie

Makoto Furukawa

Ai Kayano

Kaito Ishikawa

Golden Time (2013) TV Show

8.5 585 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Banri Tada is a freshman at a Tokyo law school. After an accident, he suffers severe memory loss. Despite the incident, he befriends fellow freshman, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, which leads him to the beautiful, yet obsessive, Kouko Kaga.

Plot: adolescence, amnesia, romance, slice of life, coming of age, university, anime, based on light novel

Cast

Choo Young-woo

Shin Sia

Cho Yu-jung

Jin Ho-eun

Even If This Love Disappears Tonight (2025)

8.4 194 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: South Korea

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A high school girl wakes up each day with no memory of yesterday. When she agrees to date a shy classmate, can their love grow with every new beginning?

Style: slow burn, emotional, melancholic

Plot: amnesia, based on novel or book, remake, tearjerker, reflective, high school romance, pure love, emotional growth, ...

Cast

Yuki Kaji

Sora Amamiya

Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Misaki Kuno

The Seven Deadly Sins (2014) TV Show

8.4 5.2K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 96

Audience: TV-14

Story: The “Seven Deadly Sins”—a group of evil knights who conspired to overthrow the kingdom of Britannia—were said to have been eradicated by the Holy Knights, although some claim that they still live. Ten years later, the Holy Knights have staged a Coup d'état and assassinated the king, becoming the new, tyrannical rulers of the kingdom. Elizabeth, the king's only daughter, sets out on a journey to find the “Seven Deadly Sins,” and to enlist their help in taking back the kingdom.

Plot: amnesia, magic, narration, fairy, immortality, friendship, supernatural, god, ...

Cast

Miyu Tomita

Mariya Ise

Made in Abyss (2017) TV Show

8.3 652 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Located in the center of a remote island, the Abyss is the last unexplored region, a huge and treacherous fathomless hole inhabited by strange creatures where only the bravest adventurers descend in search of ancient relics. In the upper levels of the Abyss, Riko, a girl who dreams of becoming an explorer, stumbles upon a mysterious little boy.

Plot: android, amnesia, post-apocalyptic future, exploration, friendship, mecha, gore, survival, ...

Cast

Chihiro Suzuki

Sanae Kobayashi

Emiko Hagiwara

Hiroaki Hirata

Elfen Lied (2004) TV Show

8.3 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic abilities. Due to this dangerous power, they have been captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. Lucy, a young and psychotic Diclonius, manages to break free of her confines and brutally murder most of the guards in the laboratory, only to get shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives and manages to drift along to a beach, where two teenagers named Kouta and Yuka discovers her. Having lost her memories, she was named after the only thing that she can now say, "Nyuu," and the two allow her to stay at Kouta's home. However, it appears that the evil "Lucy" is not dead just yet...

Style: psychological

Plot: child abuse, amnesia, sadness, mutant, greek mythology, affectation, childhood trauma, supernatural, ...

Cast

Atsushi Abe

Natsumi Takamori

Madoka Yonezawa

Tomoaki Maeno

Another (2012) TV Show

8.3 1.1K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When Kouichi arrives at his new school, he immediately senses something frightening in the atmosphere of his new class, something that no student wants to talk about and that seems to be related to a mysterious and silent girl.

Plot: suicide, based on novel or book, amnesia, supernatural, gore, curse, tragedy, school, ...

Cast

Cantinflas

Rosita Arenas

u00c1ngel Garasa

Rebeca Iturbide

El señor fotógrafo (1953)

8.3 79 votes

Genre: Comedy, Thriller

Country: Mexico

Duration: 100 min.

Story: Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...

Plot: amnesia, atomic bomb, photographer, gangster, professor, chemist, manicurist, mental clinic, ...

Cast

Charlie Chaplin

Paulette Goddard

Jack Oakie

Reginald Gardiner

The Great Dictator (1940)

8.3 3.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Plot: amnesia, nazi, hairdresser, propaganda, dictator, jewish ghetto, fascism, national socialism, ...

Time: world war i, world war ii

Noragami (2014) TV Show

8.2 708 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-14

Story: Yato may just be a minor god now, but he’s determined to make it big and he’s got a plan. Unfortunately, things just don’t seem to be going his way. He doesn’t have a single shrine dedicated to him, his partner has just quit, and now he’s got to find a new divine weapon. Just when things look bleak, he meets a girl named Hiyori and changes her life forever.

Plot: monster, shapeshifting, swordplay, amnesia, blackmail, friendship, supernatural, bullying, ...

Cast

So Ji-sub

Son Ye-jin

Kim Ji-hwan

Ko Chang-seok

Be With You (2018)

8.2 222 votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Country: South Korea

Duration: 132 min.

Story: Along with his young son, Ji-ho, Woo-jin misses his wife Soo-a, who died after promising to return a year later with the rainy season. Miraculously, they reunite with Soo-a when the rainy season comes around, but she has no memory of her husband and son whom she dearly loved.

Plot: amnesia, based on novel or book, resurrection, remake, bromance, tearjerker, first love, calm, ...

Cast

Guy Pearce

Carrie-Anne Moss

Joe Pantoliano

Mark Boone Junior

Memento (2000)

8.2 16.4K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

Plot: drug dealer, amnesia, insulin, tattoo, waitress, motel, manipulation, flashback, ...

Place: los angeles, california

Cast

Kwon Sang-woo

Choi Ji-woo

Shin Hyun-jun

Kim Tae-hee

Stairway to Heaven (2003) TV Show

8.2 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 20

Audience: NR

Story: Song Ju and Jeong Seo who have lost a father and a mother respectively spend their childhood together like real siblings. Song Ju is there for Jeong Seo whenever she feels lonely and has a hard time, and Jeong Seo also relies a lot on Song Ju. However, after Jeong Seo's father gets married to Tae Mi Ra, Mi Ra and her daughter Yu Ri keep harassing Jeong Seo out of jealousy. Tae Hwa, Yu Ri's rough and wild older brother, has a crush on Jeong Seo who is pure and kind unlike him.

Style: melancholy

Plot: amnesia, romance, blindness, chaebol

Cast

Kim Hye-yoon

Rowoon

Lee Jae-wook

Lee Na-eun

Extraordinary You (2019) TV Show

8.1 210 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 32

Story: When a high-school girl finds that she is merely a character from a comic book whose destiny is decided by the writer, she decides to change the plot to suit her desires and find the love of her life.

Plot: love triangle, amnesia, high school, romance, illness, based on webcomic or webtoon

Cast

Jim Carrey

Kate Winslet

Kirsten Dunst

Mark Ruffalo

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

8.1 16.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

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 mistake.

Style: romantic

Plot: new york city, regret, jealousy, deja vu, amnesia, dreams, operation, relationship problems, ...

Time: 2000s

Cast

Kim Da-mi

Cho Min-soo

Park Hee-soon

Choi Woo-shik

The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion (2018)

7.9 763 votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: Hong Kong, South Korea

Duration: 126 min.

Story: Ja-yoon is a high school student who struggles with memory loss after she endured some unknown trauma during her childhood. While trying to uncover the truth, she is unwittingly dragged into a world of crime and finds herself on a journey that will awaken many secrets hidden deep within.

Plot: amnesia, supernatural, psychological thriller, hidden identity, supernatural power, extreme violence, science experiment

Cast

Doh Kyung-soo

Nam Ji-hyun

Cho Seong-ha

Cho Han-cheul

100 Days My Prince (2018) TV Show

7.9 174 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: Lee Yool falls off a cliff and nearly dies in an attempted assassination. He loses his memory, and wanders for 100 days under a new name and personality. During this period, he meets Hong Sim, head of the first detective agency in Joseon.

Plot: amnesia, marriage of convenience, romance, historical, double identity, joseon dynasty (1392–1910), ancient korea

Cast

Hiroshi Kamiya

Harumi Sakurai

Kana Hanazawa

Ryohei Kimura

Angel Beats! (2010) TV Show

7.9 476 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: Angel Beats takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He is enrolled into the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront — an organization she leads which fights against God. The Battlefront fight against the student council president Angel, a girl with supernatural powers.

Style: absurdist

Plot: angel, martial arts, amnesia, friendship, afterlife, high school, romance, tragedy, ...

Cast

Hikaru Midorikawa

Akiko Yajima

Toshihiko Seki

Shigeru Nakahara

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995) TV Show

7.9 109 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 49

Story: After Colony (A.C.) 195. Mankind has moved into space. Thousands of people live on giant orbiting space colonies called "Sides." However, the Earth Government, which rules the colonies, is unjust and cruel. A group of revolutionaries builds five robotic weapons called Gundams and plans to send them to Earth to begin their fight for independence. Piloted by five young men, these Gundams carry the hopes and dreams of freedom of the colonists with them as they descend to Earth to begin Operation Meteor!

Plot: amnesia, pacifism, space colony, space, mecha, conspiracy, duel, robot, ...

Cast

Wan Peng

Thassapak Hsu

Wang Youjun

Zhang Meng

My Girlfriend is an Alien (2019) TV Show

7.8 49 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: China

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 58

Story: The alien girl Chai Xiaoqi tells the story of Fang Xiaoqi, the overbearing president of the alien girl who died from the "Cape Town Planet", who was suffering from the "rainy weather heterosexual amnesia". A high-energy hilarious and romantic cross-star love story. The female host Chai Xiaoqi is not only an alien, but also a true-handed witch. Once she inhales the hormones emitted by the males in the earth, she will fall into the "flowery state" and suffer from various diseases. The fun and ridiculously ridiculous romance will restore the singularity of the girl in the perfection of the girl. In order to survive on the human earth, Chai Xiaoqi will use his various super powers to solve one accident after another, like a roller coaster. The ups and downs will make the audience hooked. The male lord is cold and is an alternative overbearing president.

Plot: love triangle, amnesia, love-hate relationship, romance, alien, interspecies romance, comforting

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Why Amnesia Stories Captivate Audiences

Amnesia isn't just a plot device—it's a gateway to exploring human fragility, resilience, and the mysteries of the mind. These narratives often blend psychological thrillers with emotional depth, making them irresistibly engaging. Characters grappling with lost memories create tension, as viewers piece together clues alongside them. Whether it's a protagonist forgetting a crime or a romantic partner rediscovering love, amnesia stories tap into universal fears and hopes about identity.

The Appeal of Retrograde and Anterograde Amnesia

Two primary types of amnesia shape these stories: retrograde (forgetting past events) and anterograde (inability to form new memories). Retrograde amnesia often drives narratives where characters must reclaim their past, as seen in films like Memento or The Bourne Identity. Anterograde amnesia, on the other hand, creates a loop of fresh starts, exemplified by 50 First Dates or Groundhog Day. Both types offer unique storytelling potential, blending suspense with emotional arcs.

Top Movies Featuring Amnesia

Cinema has produced iconic films where amnesia drives the plot. Here are some must-watch titles:

Memento (2000) – Christopher Nolan’s nonlinear thriller follows Leonard Shelby, a man with short-term memory loss investigating his wife’s murder. A masterclass in suspense.
The Bourne Identity (2002) – Jason Bourne’s fragmented past drives a gripping espionage thriller. Matt Damon’s performance redefined the genre.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) – A sci-fi romance about erasing painful memories, blending melancholy with innovation.
Total Recall (1990) – Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic sci-fi explores implanted memories and identity crises on Mars.

TV Shows That Master the Amnesia Trope

Television has also embraced amnesia, offering serialized storytelling that keeps viewers hooked. Consider these standout series:

Westworld (2016–2022) – Robots with fragmented memories uncover a dystopian conspiracy, blending sci-fi with philosophical depth.
Dark (2017–2020) – A German sci-fi thriller where characters grapple with time loops and lost memories, challenging even the savviest viewers.
The Good Doctor (2017–present) – Dr. Shaun Murphy’s savant syndrome and autism spectrum traits often blur with amnesia-like traits, adding emotional weight.

Amnesia stories thrive on unpredictability, making them a perennial favorite in entertainment. Whether you prefer high-stakes thrillers or heartfelt romances, these films and shows deliver unforgettable experiences. For fans eager to explore more, streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime host a wealth of amnesia-themed content.