Movies and TV series about amnesia

The 37 best titles about amnesia, ranked by the iRank Score — our composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb. Every page includes cast, where to watch and similar recommendations.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
iRank87
2004 · Michel Gondry
MovieDramaRomanceScience Fiction
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
The Great Dictator
iRank87
1940 · Charlie Chaplin
MovieComedyWar
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Guardian: The Lonely and Great God
iRank86
2016 · Yoon Ha-lim
SeriesComedyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
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.
Golden Time
iRank85
2013
SeriesAnimationDrama
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 beautifu
Paris, Texas
iRank85
1984 · Wim Wenders
MovieDrama
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
Made in Abyss
iRank83
2017 · Sho Tanaka
SeriesAction & AdventureAnimationDrama
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 s
Another
iRank83
2012 · Tsuneo Takechi
SeriesAnimationDramaMystery
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
Elfen Lied
iRank83
2004
SeriesAction & AdventureAnimationDrama
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 i
Noragami
iRank82
2014
SeriesAction & AdventureAnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy
Hiyori Iki is a normal middle school student until she was involved in a bus accident while trying to protect a stranger. This incident causes her soul to frequently slip out of her body, and she beco
Mulholland Drive
iRank82
2001 · David Lynch
MovieDramaMysteryThriller
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmm
Shaun the Sheep Movie
iRank81
2015 · Mark Burton
MovieAdventureAnimationComedy
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City an
The English Patient
iRank79
1996 · Anthony Minghella
MovieDramaRomanceWar
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 Wa
Cure
iRank79
1997 · Kiyoshi Kurosawa
MovieCrimeHorrorMystery
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion
iRank79
2018 · Park Hoon-jung
MovieActionScience Fiction
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 o
Finding Dory
iRank79
2016 · Andrew Stanton
MovieAdventureAnimationFamily
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?
Mysterious Skin
iRank78
2005 · Gregg Araki
MovieDrama
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
The Bourne Identity
iRank77
2002 · Doug Liman
MovieActionDramaMystery
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 f
Twisted Metal
iRank77
2023 · Grant DeKernion
SeriesAction & AdventureComedy
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 hel
Still Alice
iRank77
2014 · Richard Glatzer
MovieDrama
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 bon
The Bourne Supremacy
iRank77
2004 · Paul Greengrass
MovieActionDramaThriller
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 live
The Hangover
iRank76
2009 · Todd Phillips
MovieComedy
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 –
A Tale of Two Sisters
iRank74
2003 · Kim Jee-woon
MovieDramaHorrorMystery
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 t
Blindspot
iRank74
2015 · Chris Pozzebon
SeriesAction & AdventureCrimeDrama
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.
Dark City
iRank73
1998 · Alex Proyas
MovieMysteryScience Fiction
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.
Rise of the Guardians
iRank70
2012 · Peter Ramsey
MovieActionAdventureAnimation
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 a
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
iRank64
2019 · Rob Letterman
MovieActionAdventureFantasy
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.
The Long Kiss Goodnight
iRank62
1996 · Renny Harlin
MovieActionCrimeMystery
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 pa
Spider-Man 3
iRank62
2007 · Sam Raimi
MovieActionAdventureScience Fiction
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Pe
Jason Bourne
iRank61
2016 · Paul Greengrass
MovieActionAdventureThriller
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
Overboard
iRank60
1987 · Garry Marshall
MovieComedyRomance
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 m
50 First Dates
iRank58
2004 · Peter Segal
MovieComedyRomance
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
Vanilla Sky
iRank57
2001 · Cameron Crowe
MovieMysteryRomanceScience Fiction
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the be
The Girl on the Train
iRank56
2016 · Tate Taylor
MovieCrimeMysteryThriller
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
The Butterfly Effect
iRank56
2004 · J. Mackye Gruber
MovieScience FictionThriller
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon find
Resident Evil
iRank52
2002 · Paul W. S. Anderson
MovieActionHorrorScience Fiction
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 tas
Overboard
iRank48
2018 · Rob Greenberg
MovieComedyRomance
A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.
Inferno
iRank48
2016 · Ron Howard
MovieActionMysteryThriller
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.