Top Amnesia Movies & TV Shows

Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl (2011) TV Show

7.8 78 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: The story revolves around a highschool boy named Niwa Makoto. He lives with his aunt's family since his parents are away on business. It is there where he meets his mysterious cousin of the same age Touwa Erio — who happens to tie a futon mattress around her upper body and is a self-proclaimed alien. Her staple food is pizza. Erio had been missing for half a year and was found floating in the sea. She doesn't remember anything about what happened during that period of time, but she began to think that it was the act of an alien and wanders the neighbourhood wrapped in the futon.

Style: absurdist

Plot: amnesia, cousin, high school, parody, romance, slice of life, tragedy, coming of age, ...

Haibane Renmei (2002) TV Show

7.7 128 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: A dream of falling from the sky...and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home, greeted by a group of female beings with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka’s own wings grow, a halo is placed on her head and she is told that she must work in the nearby town of Grie. She soon realizes that the town and the entire world they live in are confined behind the Wall, a tall, impenetrable wall that none except the mysterious Toga are allowed to exit.

Style: psychological

Plot: suicide, angel, countryside, amnesia, afterlife, slice of life, tragedy, redemption, ...

Place: japan

Twisted Metal (2023) TV Show

7.7 543 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 22

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A motor-mouthed outsider with no memory of his past is offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.

Plot: amnesia, post-apocalyptic future, gore, tournament, based on video game, delivery service, cars, comedy

Cast

Rie Saitou

Koji Yusa

Akiko Yajima

Ergo Proxy (2006) TV Show

7.6 400 votes

Genre: Animation, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 23

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Thousands of years after Earth’s atmosphere was destroyed, adventure blooms in the strangest of places. The domed city of Romdo is supposed to be perfect, but Re-l Mayer, a young female inspector from the Civilian Intelligence Office, knows better. In this place where humans and robots coexist, she receives a strange message: something is awakening!

Style: philosophical, psychological

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), android, europe, amnesia, greek mythology, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, mecha, ...

Time: future

Kiznaiver (2016) TV Show

7.6 161 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: The anime's setting is a fictional Japanese city named Sugomori City. One day, Noriko Sonosaki tells her classmate Katsuhira Agata, "You have been selected to be a Kiznaiver." The Kizuna System, which allows Katsuhira to share his wounds, connects him to the classmates whose lives and personalities completely differ from his. The Kizuna System is an incomplete system for the implementation of world peace that connects people through wounds. All those who are connected to this system are called Kiznaivers. When one Kiznaiver is wounded, the system divides and transmits the wound among the other Kiznaivers. Sugomori City is built on reclaimed land, but as the years go by, the city's population is decreasing. The story is set in this town where Katsuhira and the others live.

Style: philosophical, intimate

Plot: amnesia, secret organization, friendship, high school, romance, unrequited love, psychic, anti war, ...

Cast

Koji Yakusho

Masato Hagiwara

Tsuyoshi Ujiki

Anna Nakagawa

Cure (1997)

7.5 817 votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Country: Japan

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Plot: hotel, prostitute, amnesia, based on novel or book, investigation, hallucination, interview, murder, ...

Cast

Zhao Liying

Lin Gengxin

Shawn Dou

Li Qin

Princess Agents (2017) TV Show

7.5 229 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: China

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 67

Story: During the Warring Period, slave girl Chu Qiao survives a deadly hunting game and is drawn into the ruthless power struggles of the Yuwen family. Trained by Yuwen Yue and bonded with Prince Yan Xun, she faces betrayal and war. As Yan Xun becomes consumed by revenge, Chu Qiao forges her own path, rising as a military strategist and fighting to end slavery.

Plot: based on novel or book, amnesia, revenge, romance, wuxia, power struggle, master servant relationship, reverse harem

Place: china

Cast

Matt Damon

Franka Potente

Chris Cooper

Clive Owen

The Bourne Identity (2002)

7.5 10.2K votes

Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

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 dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?

Plot: assassin, amnesia, paris, france, based on novel or book, escape, barcelona, spain, ...

Still Alice (2014)

7.5 3.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

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.

Plot: mother, amnesia, based on novel or book, professor, alzheimer's disease, memory loss, family, illness, ...

Cast

Minami Takayama

Kappei Yamaguchi

Wakana Yamazaki

Akira Kamiya

Detective Conan: Captured in Her Eyes (2000)

7.4 208 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Crime

Country: Japan

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Police officers around Tokyo are being murdered by an unknown assailant. When Ran witnesses an attempt on the life of one of her friends in the police, she loses her memory. Now, Conan and Inspector Megure must find the murderer while Ran attempts to regain her lost memories.

Plot: amnesia, detective, murder, shounen, anime, suspense, mystery

Ressha Sentai ToQger (2014) TV Show

7.4 14 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Family

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 47

Story: The evil empire, Shadow Line appeared to cover the world in darkness. Five childhood friends who have great imaginations were selected as the ToQgers to fight the Shadow Line.

Plot: monster, amnesia, superhero, alternate dimension, mecha, giant robot, giant monster, train, ...

Cast

Chris Pine

Alec Baldwin

Jude Law

Isla Fisher

Rise of the Guardians (2012)

7.4 7.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG

Story: When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.

Plot: new york city, friendship, amnesia, santa claus, cartoon, villain, easter bunny, boogeyman, ...

Cast

Jaimie Alexander

Sullivan Stapleton

Audrey Esparza

Ashley Johnson

Blindspot (2015) TV Show

7.4 2.6K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 100

Audience: TV-14

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 to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller, emblazoned across her back. "Jane," Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed.

Plot: tattoo, amnesia, fbi, puzzle, memory, memory loss

Cast

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Alex Lewis

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Marcus Lewis

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Andrew Caley

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Kathleen Rainey

Tell Me Who I Am (2019)

7.4 264 votes

Genre: Documentary, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 85 min.

Story: In this documentary, Alex trusts his twin, Marcus, to tell him about his past after he loses his memory. But Marcus is hiding a dark family secret.

Plot: amnesia, family secrets, twin brother, road accident, twins, reenactment, buried memories, painful memories

Cast

Bradley Cooper

Ed Helms

Zach Galifianakis

Justin Bartha

The Hangover (2009)

7.3 18.2K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. Launching a frantic search for Doug, the trio perseveres through a nasty hangover to try to make it to the church on time.

Style: absurd

Plot: amnesia, blackjack, stag night, lost weekend, chapel, hit with tire iron, memory loss, drugs, ...

Place: las vegas

Cast

Matt Damon

Franka Potente

Brian Cox

Julia Stiles

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

7.3 8.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 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 should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: sniper, assassin, berlin, germany, amnesia, based on novel or book, espionage, lie, ...

Cast

Rufus Sewell

William Hurt

Kiefer Sutherland

Jennifer Connelly

Dark City (1998)

7.3 3.2K votes

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: beach, amnesia, experiment, paranoia, dystopia, sleep, manipulation, mad scientist, ...

Cast

Audrey Tautou

Gaspard Ulliel

Dominique Pinon

Chantal Neuwirth

A Very Long Engagement (2004)

7.3 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.

Plot: prostitute, amnesia, paris, france, loss of loved one, bodily disabled person, wheelchair, lighthouse, ...

Time: world war i

John Doe (2002) TV Show

7.3 91 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 21

Audience: TV-14

Story: John Doe tell the story of a man who wakes up naked on an island off the coast of Seattle, knowing everything in the world there is to know—except for who he is and how and why he ended up there.

Plot: amnesia

Cast

Rachel McAdams

Channing Tatum

Sam Neill

Scott Speedman

The Vow (2012)

7.2 4.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

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 relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

Plot: amnesia, coma, based on true story, romance, memory loss, car accident, valentine's day

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