Top Amnesia Movies & TV Shows

Gran Hotel (1944)

7.2 31 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Mexico

Duration: 106 min.

Story: Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.

Plot: hotel, amnesia, investigation, mistaken identity, slacker, waiter, bellhop , collar, ...

Cast

Ralph Fiennes

Juliette Binoche

Willem Dafoe

Kristin Scott Thomas

The English Patient (1996)

7.1 2.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 162 min.

Audience: R

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 love, betrayal, and politics.

Plot: secret love, amnesia, airplane, identity, intelligence, traitor, burn, landmine, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: egypt, cairo

Cast

Mickey Rourke

Robert De Niro

Lisa Bonet

Charlotte Rampling

Angel Heart (1987)

7.1 1.8K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.

Plot: new york city, amnesia, heart, southern usa, voodoo, detective, drug addiction, new orleans, ...

Cast

Lim Soo-jung

Moon Geun-young

Yum Jung-ah

Kim Kap-soo

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

7.1 1.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.

Plot: amnesia, drug abuse, loss of loved one, homicide, drug addiction, stepmother, menstruation, sister, ...

Cast

Albert Brooks

Ellen DeGeneres

Ed O'Neill

Hayden Rolence

Finding Dory (2016)

7.0 12.7K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?

Plot: fish, amnesia, octopus, sequel, anthropomorphism, computer animation, underwater, aftercreditsstinger, ...

K (2012) TV Show

7.0 98 votes

Genre: Action, Animation

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-14

Story: Shiro is an easygoing teenager content with just being a student—until his seemingly perfect life is halted when a bloodthirsty clan, glowing red with fire, attempts to kill him in the streets. Unbeknownst to Shiro, he is suspected of murdering a member of their clan and will need a miracle to escape their vengeance. Miraculously, a young man named Kurou Yatogami swings in and aids Shiro in his getaway, only to reveal he's also after Shiro's life. Now a hunted man, Shiro will have to evade the clans of seven powerful kings and desperately try to prove his innocence—before it’s too late!

Plot: swordplay, amnesia, rivalry, gang, bromance, based on manga, super power, alternative present, ...

Cast

Ryan Reynolds

Justice Smith

Kathryn Newton

Bill Nighy

Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)

6.9 7.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: Japan, United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective.

Plot: amnesia, detective, car crash, whodunit, based on video game, missing person, missing parent, buddy comedy, ...

Cast

Maria Wawreniuk

Ignacy Liss

Marcin Czarnik

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Wojciech Dolatowski

Open Your Eyes (2021) TV Show

6.9 37 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Poland

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Story: After a tragic accident, an amnesiac teen tries to rebuild her life at a memory disorders center but becomes suspicious of her unconventional treatment.

Plot: based on novel or book, amnesia, dreams, memory loss, treatment

Cast

Adam Sandler

Drew Barrymore

Rob Schneider

Sean Astin

50 First Dates (2004)

6.9 7.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: PG-13

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 the delightful Lucy has no short-term memory, so Henry must woo her day after day until he finally sweeps her off her feet.

Style: romantic

Plot: amnesia, romcom, deception, womanizer, love, car accident, screwball comedy, short-term memory loss, ...

Place: hawaii

The Jacket (2005)

6.9 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

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.

Plot: amnesia, experiment, smoking, psychology, hallucination, time travel, medicine, iraq war veteran, ...

Cast

Ingrid Bergman

Yul Brynner

Helen Hayes

Akim Tamiroff

Anastasia (1956)

6.8 189 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.

Plot: princess, amnesia, identity, exile, biography, assumed identity, anastasia romanowa

Time: 1920s

The Tourist (2022) TV Show

6.8 233 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Australia, Germany

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.

Plot: amnesia, australian outback

Cast

Papangkorn Lerkchaleampote

Chutavuth Pattarakampol

Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang

Chayanit Chansangavej

The Stranded (2019) TV Show

6.7 65 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Trapped on an island destroyed by a tsunami, the students of an elite school try to hold on to hope. But mysterious forces seem to work against them.

Plot: love triangle, suicide, jealousy, amnesia, island, investigation, friendship, high school, ...

Cast

Anna Faris

Eugenio Derbez

Eva Longoria

John Hannah

Overboard (2018)

6.7 1.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.

Plot: amnesia, remake, revenge, wealthy, rich

Cast

Milla Jovovich

Michelle Rodriguez

Eric Mabius

James Purefoy

Resident Evil (2002)

6.7 7.0K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, France

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.

Plot: biological weapon, quarantine, amnesia, undercover, dystopia, mutant, hologram, flashback, ...

Cast

James McAvoy

Vincent Cassel

Rosario Dawson

Danny Sapani

Trance (2013)

6.6 2.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

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: tense, intense

Plot: amnesia, loss of sense of reality, heist, art thief, double cross, hypnotism, duringcreditsstinger, implanted memory, ...

Cast

Geena Davis

Samuel L. Jackson

Patrick Malahide

Craig Bierko

The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

6.6 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.

Plot: martial arts, amnesia, assassination, strong woman, escape, chase, hostage, spy, ...

Cast

Bang-ho Cho

Yoshiko Yura

Kiyomi Itu014d

Ku014den Okumura

March Comes In Like a Lion (1991)

6.5 22 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 118 min.

Story: Set in Tokyo, Ice brings her amnesiac older brother Haruo home from the hospital to care for him. He is reluctant to go, until Ice tells him that she is his lover. Since he has no memory of his sister Ice, he obliges her. How long until his memory returns?

Plot: amnesia, incest

Cast

Richard Chamberlain

Jaclyn Smith

Anthony Quayle

Donald Moffat

The Bourne Identity (1988) TV Show

6.5 100 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 2

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: spy, ambush, based on novel or book, identity, amnesia, hitman, mission of murder, lovers, ...

Cast

Nicole Kidman

Colin Firth

Mark Strong

Ben Crompton

Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

6.5 2.2K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: France, Sweden

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

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.

Plot: amnesia, married couple, head injury, flashback, confusion, memory loss, psychologist, hospital, ...

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