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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
60 films tagged memory, showing 50
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2025 · Fantasy
Two strangers who meet at a wedding end up driving rented cars with a GPS that keeps steering them through doors into their own pasts. A gentle fantasy romance, mostly the two of them.
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2025 · Action
Ronnie wakes from a coma grieving a girlfriend everyone tells him never existed, and sets out to prove she was real. Very long and very violent, and it keeps you unsure what is only in his head.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
Riya wakes on a research station on a distant planet with no memory of how she got there and her crew dead around her. A man arrives saying he came for her, and she has to decide whether to believe him.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A violent Mumbai police officer works out who killed a fellow officer, then loses his memory in a crash before he can say the name. He is put back on the case and has to build it again, learning what he used to be like as he goes.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
Four distant cousins clear out a Normandy house untouched since the 1940s and piece together the story of an ancestor who left for Paris in 1895 to look for her mother. It moves between the two centuries.
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2025 · Drama
Ten years into a sentence for killing her sister, a woman who says she remembers almost none of it joins a criminologist's study of family crimes. Most of it is the two of them talking in a prison.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A woman wakes from a coma with her memory in pieces, and her husband checks her into an experimental trauma clinic deep in the woods. She gets the story of her own marriage back a fragment at a time.
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Little-known
2025 · Science fiction
In a future where people gave up dreaming in exchange for long life, a woman finds a creature who still dreams and gives him a projector to relive a century of past lives. Long segments, each its own world, and no straight line through it.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A career thief breaks into a house in Kanyakumari and finds an old man with Alzheimer's chained to a window, who mistakes him for his son and offers him money to be let go. The two end up on a road trip, and the thief keeps finding reasons to stay.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
An eighteen-year-old orphan travels to Vigo to have her name added to her father's death certificate, and spends five days meeting his family for the first time. Conversations, meals and her mother's old diary.
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2025 · Mystery
A New York actor comes to with no memory in a small Ohio town in the 1950s, and cannot find his way home. Working out who he was is most of what the film is.
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2026 · Science fiction
A middle school teacher wakes from a coma on a spacecraft light-years from home, with no memory of how he got there and both crewmates dead. Flashbacks fill in the mission and what is eating the sun.
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2026 · Horror
In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein's monster asks a scientist to build him a companion, and she revives a dead woman who wakes with no idea who she was. He tells her she is his bride, and they go out into the city.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
A once-famous musician living with dementia is visited by the son he fell out with years ago. Slow, and mostly the two of them and the woman who has stayed close to him.
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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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2026 · Drama
After a tragedy, a mother, her daughter and a teenage boy take the family holiday in Tenerife that never happened, working through blame and forgiveness. Past and present start to overlap.
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2026 · Drama
A Mexican sound artist travels from the jungle up into the Peruvian Andes, recording endangered languages along a path her exiled grandfather once took. It is slow, and her grip on what is real slips.
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2026 · Documentary
An elderly Ruc woman born in a cave lives with her extended family in rural Vietnam, teaching the children words from a language that is nearly gone. Shot on 16mm, and built from moments.
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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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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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Little-known
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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Little-known
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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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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Little-known
2015 · Drama
A week before their anniversary party a letter arrives about a woman the husband knew fifty years ago. Two people in a quiet house, and everything happens in what they do not say.
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Little-known
2017 · Drama
A man dies and comes back to his own house under a white sheet, and stays there while time moves on without him. Very slow, almost no dialogue, and one long unbroken shot of a woman eating a pie.
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2021 · Science fiction
When the android who acts as older brother to an adopted daughter breaks down, her father goes through his memories looking for a way to repair him. Very slow, very quiet, mostly domestic.
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2019 · Science fiction
A doctor in a scrapyard city rebuilds a cyborg girl found in the junk, and she turns out to have been built for fighting. Bright and fast, built around one long run of combat and sport.
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1998 · Science fiction
A man wakes in a bath with no memory, in a city where it is always night and the buildings rearrange themselves after midnight. It explains itself slowly and then all at once.
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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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Little-known
2021 · Documentary
An Afghan refugee in Copenhagen tells a friend, for the first time, how he actually got to Denmark. Animated so that he could say it, with archive news cut in.
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2019 · Animation
A severed hand escapes a laboratory fridge and crosses Paris to find the young man it belonged to, whose story runs alongside it. Animated, adult, and quite short.
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2020 · Drama
A woman drives through a snowstorm with her new boyfriend to meet his parents on their farm, planning to end it. The rules slip, and it is mostly conversation in a car.
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1994 · Horror
A two-hundred-year-old vampire tells a journalist in a San Francisco room how he was made and who he had to live with. Told in flashback, and lush throughout.
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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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2011 · Drama
A young woman escapes a farm commune and moves in with her sister, unable to say where she has been. It cuts between the two without telling you which one you are in.
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2001 · Animation
A documentary crew interviews a retired film star, and the interview keeps falling into her own films with the interviewers inside them. Cuts between eras without warning.
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2013 · Science fiction
A technician servicing drones on an abandoned Earth has two weeks left before he leaves for good, and then a craft comes down. Clean, quiet and very good-looking.
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1984 · Crime
A Jewish gangster returns to New York after thirty-five years away, and the film moves between three periods of his life. Very long, and it does not signal the jumps.
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1991 · Animation
A twenty-seven-year-old office worker takes a week in the countryside picking safflowers, and her ten-year-old self keeps turning up. Slow, adult and quietly detailed.
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2020 · Science fiction
An assassin does her work by piloting other people's bodies, and the latest job will not let her back out. Very bloody, and the identity slips both ways.
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1987 · Science fiction
A Detroit officer killed on duty is rebuilt by the company that now runs the police, and pieces of him start coming back. Extremely violent, and it is a satire.
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