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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
18 films tagged memory
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2017 · Science fiction
A police officer whose job is retiring old synthetic humans turns up a buried secret and goes looking for a man who disappeared thirty years earlier. Slow, very large, and mostly quiet.
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2000 · Thriller
A man who can no longer form new memories hunts his wife's killer using notes, photographs and tattoos. The scenes run in reverse order, so at the start of each one you know as little as he does.
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1990 · Science fiction
A construction worker who keeps dreaming of Mars buys an implanted memory of a holiday there and wakes up with people trying to kill him. Practical effects throughout, and a high body count.
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2022 · Drama
An eleven-year-old girl and her young dad spend a week at a cheap Turkish resort, filming each other on a camcorder by the pool. Very little is said out loud; it is small moments and long silences.
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1982 · Science fiction
A retired policeman in a permanently raining Los Angeles is brought back to hunt four artificial humans who have come to Earth looking for their maker. Slow, wet, and more interested in the question than the chase.
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2017 · Animation
A boy from a Mexican family that has banned music wants to play, and on the Day of the Dead he ends up in the land where his ancestors live. Bright, quick, and built around songs.
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2004 · Romance
After a bad breakup a shy man learns his girlfriend has had him wiped from her memory, and books the same procedure for himself. Most of it happens inside his head over one night, with the rooms coming apart around him.
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2024 · Horror
Two lonely teenagers in the suburbs bond over a late-night TV show about girls fighting monsters, and one of them cannot let it go. It is slow and dreamlike, and more sad than scary.
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2015 · Animation
The feelings inside an eleven-year-old girl run her from a control room in her head, and two of them get lost the week her family moves across the country. Bright and fast, with a lot underneath.
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2024 · Animation
Riley turns thirteen and a new crew of feelings, Anxiety among them, muscles into the control room in her head just as she leaves for hockey camp. Bright, fast, and mostly set inside her mind.
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2015 · Drama
A five-year-old falls asleep on a train and wakes thousands of miles across India, and grows up adopted in Australia. The first half is a small boy alone in a huge country; the second is a man at a computer.
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2001 · Mystery
A woman with no memory after a crash on a Los Angeles road, and a bright new arrival in town who decides to help her find out who she is. It does not run on normal rules and does not explain itself.
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2019 · Drama
An ageing Spanish director in constant pain stops working and goes back through the people he left behind: his mother, a first love, an actor he fell out with. Slow and warm, and built out of memories.
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2020 · Horror
A woman and her grown daughter drive out to the old family house when the grandmother goes missing, and she comes back with no idea where she has been. Slow, damp, and mostly three women in one house.
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2022 · Drama
A twenty-five-year-old adopted from Korea and raised in France lands in Seoul on a whim and asks the agency to find her birth parents. It follows her on and off for years, and she is not easy company.
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2002 · Action
A man is fished out of the Mediterranean with two bullets in his back, no memory, and a bank account number under his skin. He finds out what he can do at the same time you do, and it keeps moving.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2020 · Drama
An old man in London keeps turning down the help his daughter arranges, and the film is put together from inside his head, so rooms and faces do not stay put. Almost all of it is one flat and two or three people talking.
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2021 · Drama
A university professor on a working holiday on a Greek island becomes fixated on a young mother and her daughter staying at the same beach. It cuts between now and her own years with small children.
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