memory-loss movies

Shadow Puppets (2007)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Todd, Tony | Blalock, Jolene | Marsters, James | Winnick, Marc | Alam, Natasha | Baxter, Diahnna Nicole | Whiten, Richard | Ford, Jennie
Directors: Winnick, Michael
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A woman and a man awake in individual white cells in an abandoned prison or mental institution wearing only underwear and without any memory. They hear a strange and creepy noise and decide to look for a way out of the facility. They meet six other strangers in the same situation and one of them is attacked and killed by a shadow. While trying to escape from the place and the shadow, they find the brain washing apparatus with the indication that had been used eight times. When they meet the ninth stranger, they realize that one of them is lying and knows what have happened with them.

Labyrinth (1986)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Bowie, David | Connelly, Jennifer | Froud, Toby | Thompson, Shelley | Malcolm, Christopher | Natalie Finland | Weiser, Shari | Henson, Brian | Mueck, Ron | Mills, Rob | Goelz, Dave
Directors: Henson, Jim
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Sarah, a teen, summons the goblins from her fave book, the Labyrinth, to steal her baby 1/2 bro Toby. When they actually do, she must solve the Goblin King’s (Bowie) Labyrinth in 13 hours or else Toby will become a goblin.

Immortel (ad vitam) (2004)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: France | Italy | UK
Actors: Hardy, Linda | Kretschmann, Thomas | Rampling, Charlotte | Frédéric Pierrot | Pollard, Thomas M. | Yann Collette | Brenner, Derrick | Olivier Achard | Bandey, Paul | Barrett, Paul | Carey, Geoffrey | Clack, Leslie | Constantin, Javon | Constantine, Lemmy | Cowan, Gary
Directors: Enki Bilal
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This movie is set in the year 2095, hence the presence of mutant humans and extraterrestrials. The main character is known as Jill (Linda Hardy). She is not human. When she is discovered by Dr Elma Turner (Charlotte Rampling) she is diagnosed as being the most interesting genetic test subject Turner has ever come across. Her organs are not in the right place, she has no memory and she appears, biologically to be only three months old. Turner gives her a break, gives her an identity card and a place to stay, in exchange for being her guinea-pig to work on and discover more about. Nicopol is a frozen prisoner who is due to be released a year after the film is set. There is a problem in the prisoner ward and several are thrown down to grow (dying in the process), including Nicopol (but only his leg). There is a lot more to this story but I can’t disclose it in this summary, I don’t have the words.

Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

Friday, March 20th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery
Countries: Canada
Actors: Anderson, Melissa Sue | Ford, Glenn | Dane, Lawrence | Acker, Sharon | Hyland, Frances | Bregman, Tracey E. | Blum, Jack | Craven, Matt | Zann, Lenore | Eisner, David | Langlois, Lisa | Labelle, Michel-René | Rebiere, Richard | Donaldson, Lesleh | Pennington, Earl
Directors: Lee Thompson, J.
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Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on…

Flash Gordon (1980)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jones, Sam J. | Anderson, Melody | von Sydow, Max | Topol | Muti, Ornella | Dalton, Timothy | Blessed, Brian | Wyngarde, Peter | Melato, Mariangela | Osborne, John | O'Brien, Richard | Hallam, John | Stone, Philip | Danielle, Suzanne
Directors: Hodges, Mike
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Flash Gordon is an American football player who along with Dale Arden are returning to New York City after a long vacation, until the plane they are passengers on crashes into the laboratory of Russian scientist Dr. Hans Zarkov. Both Flash and Dale become unwilling passengers on-board Zarkov’s rocket-ship as Zarkov sets a course for the planet Mongo. Arriving on Mongo, Flash and his companions find the planet is under the ruler-ship of the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless and Ming is attacking Earth with natural disasters as he bids to destroy Earth. Realising that Earth and the human race is in mortal danger, Flash decides to unite the kingdoms of Mongo and combine the forces of rivals Prince Baron and Prince Vultan to rescue Dale, who is to become Ming’s wife and defeat Ming and save Earth from annihilation.

*batteries not included (1987)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Cronyn, Hume | Tandy, Jessica | McRae, Frank | Peña, Elizabeth | Carmine, Michael | Boutsikaris, Dennis | Aldredge, Tom | Hoffman, Jane | DiSanti, John | Pankow, John | Dixon, MacIntyre | Greene, Michael | Belack, Doris | Schaal, Wendy | Santana, José Angel
Directors: Robbins, Matthew
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A group of tenants in an apartment block are being forced to move out so that it can be demolished. The tenants are reluctant to move, so the developers hire a local gang to ‘persuade’ them to leave. Fortunately, visiting alien mechanical life-forms come to town. When they befriend the tenants, the aliens use their extraterrestrial abilities to defeat the developers.

Greedy (1994)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Douglas, Kirk | Travis, Nancy | d'Abo, Olivia | Hartman, Phil | Begley Jr., Ed | Burns, Jere | Camp, Colleen | Balaban, Bob | Hyser, Joyce | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Fallon, Siobhan | McCarthy, Kevin | Alexander, Khandi
Directors: Lynn, Jonathan
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An extremely wealthy and crafty old man (Douglas) toys with his greedy nieces and nephews as they circle about, waiting for their ill-deserved inheritance. The plot thickens as the old man takes a young mistress (d’Abo), and they fear that she will get the estate. In response, they locate the much-loved nephew (Fox) who walked away from the whole greed thing and became a professional bowler. Deception upon deception complicates matters as young Daniel is slowly drawn back under the spell of Greed.

Forgotten, The (2004)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Moore, Julianne | Kovaleski, Christopher | Pleszewicz, Matthew | Edwards, Anthony | Hecht, Jessica | Roache, Linus | Sinise, Gary | West, Dominic | Cooper, Katie | Nicholson, Scott | Morrison, P.J. | Wisdom, Robert | Kang, Tim | Faughnan, Kathryn | Woodard, Alfre
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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A grieving mother, Telly Paretta, is struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist and her husband tell her that she has created eight years of memories of a son she never had. But when she meets the father of one of her son’s friend who is having the same experience, Telly embarks on a mission to prove her son’s existence and her sanity.

Gothika (2003)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dutton, Charles S. | Berry, Halle | Downey Jr., Robert | Lynch, John Carroll | Hill, Bernard | Cruz, Penélope | Harewood, Dorian | Mantel, Bronwen | Mackey, Kathleen | Taylor, Matthew G. | Perron, Michel | Sheldon, Andrea | Rydvald, Anana | Mitchell, Laura | Sloan, Amy
Directors: Kassovitz, Mathieu | Oliphant, Thom
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A criminal psychologist (Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the institution where she works, with no memory of the murder she’s accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory - and her freedom - a vengeful spirit manipulates her.

Away from Her (2006)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada
Actors: Christie, Julie | Pinsent, Gordon | Dukakis, Olympia | Thomson, Kristen | Murphy, Michael | Crewson, Wendy | Watson, Alberta | Grace Lynn Kung | LaBerge, Stacey | Francks, Lili | Moodie, Andrew | Dezmari, Deanna | Sinclair, Judy | Harvey, Tom | Heatherington, Carolyn
Directors: Polley, Sarah
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Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. Now, in the oncoming twilight of their years, they are forced to face the fact that Fiona’s “forgetfulness” actually is Alzheimer’s Disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost, they agree she must go into a nursing home. For the first time in the five decades their relationship has spanned, they are forced to undergo a long-time separation since the nursing home has a “no-visitors” policy for the first 30 days of a patient’s stay, so they can adjust to their new surroundings. When Grant visits Fiona after the orientation period, he is devastated to find out that not only has she seemingly forgotten him, Fiona has transferred her affections to another man. The other man is Aubrey, a wheelchair bound mute patient at the nursing home. As the distance between husband and wife grows, Grant must draw upon his love for Fiona to perform an act of self-sacrifice in order to ensure her happiness.