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Movie Memory Blitz

Provided the year of release and a brief description, can you name these 50 movies with plots centered around memory or memories? Keep in mind that the main story must be about memory or memories. So for instance a film about a goldfish that keeps forgetting things throughout the movie would not qualify. Sources: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and personal viewing.
Foreign films are highlighted in yellow.
Animated films are in blue.
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Year
Descriptive Hint
Answer
2000
To try and find his wife's killer, a man with memory loss tattoos notes on his body.
Memento
1998
Adrift in space, aliens experiment with humans by adjusting their memories every 24 hours.
Dark City
2004
Alzheimer's disease is no obstacle for one man's love of his partner.
The Notebook
2004
Couple undergo a procedure to have each other wiped from the other's memories.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
Man edits the memories of the recently departed so that they can be displayed at the funeral/memorial service.
The Final Cut
2021
In the future, a PI who helps extract information from the memories of witnesses deposed by the courts, gains a new client who promptly disappears. Then he follows her trail.
Reminiscence
2016
A dead CIA agent's memories are implanted in a Death Row inmate in the hopes of achieving the agent's final mission.
Criminal
2011
Spanish language movie about a banker with Alzheimer's disease who moves into a retirement home and quickly makes friends with the resident slickster, who learns some life lessons as a result of the friendship.
Wrinkles
2014
A woman who suffered traumatic brain injury in a car crash and loses her memory each night, begins to suspect what she is being told may not be entirely true.
Before I Go to Sleep
1991
Man who loses his memory after a car accident begins to unravel his past as his life spins out of control.
Shattered
2004
Man in love with a woman who loses her short term memory every day, must win her love anew each day.
50 First Dates
2013
In the future, a man with the ability to enter people's memories, must determine whether a teen accused of a crime is a victim or a perpetrator.
Anna
2017
Man who invented a machine that can extract, record and play people's memories is murdered and a man from the deceased's past must use the machine to find out who did it.
Rememory
2006
Five men awaken in a locked warehouse and all have no memory of how they got there or who they are. They must fight to survive as they determine who is friend and who is foe.
Unknown
2003
A reverse engineer agrees to a long-term job after which his memory is wiped, and he ends up on the run from the FBI and underlings from the company that hired him.
Paycheck
2002
In the future, police arrest people for crimes clairvoyant psychics predict will be committed. One of these special policemen is predicted to be a killer and goes on the run.
Minority Report
2002
A government assassin loses his memory after completing a mission. When the government comes after him, he fights back with skills he doesn't remember obtaining.
The Bourne Identity
1982
In the future, replicated humans are designed with short-term lives and have memories implanted in them. A special enforcer must track down four of these runaway synthetic lifeforms.
Blade Runner
1941
Publishing tycoon dies and his life unfolds through the memories of others.
Citizen Kane
1962
A former POW was brainwashed to be used as an assassin.
The Manchurian Candidate
2010
U.S. Marshall in the 1950s investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from an island-based hospital for the criminally insane.
Shutter Island
1990
In the future, a construction worker pays to have the memory of a vacation implanted in his mind. Before the memory can be implanted, he remembers he has been working with a rebel group on Mars.
Total Recall
1987
Rich heiress loses her memory after falling off her yacht and a carpenter she once hired and was cruel to, convinces her that she and he are a lower-class married couple.
Overboard
1945
An amnesia patient accused of murder is protected by the psychiatrist attempting to recover the man's memory.
Spellbound
1996
Amnesiac housewife teams up with a private eye after she starts to recall that she was a government assassin.
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Year
Descriptive Hint
Answer
1991
After being shot and losing his memory, a high-paced lawyer must relearn speech, mobility and how he fits in with his wife and daughter.
Regarding Henry
2006
Man must cope with his wife's institutionalization due to Alzheimer's. While at the facility, she begins to show affection for another patient.
Away from Her
1950
Japanese language story of a rape and murder told from the various points of view of four different witnesses.
Rashomon
2007
A former high-school jock who lost part of his short-term memory function after a car accident is used to commit a crime at the bank where he works.
The Lookout
1996
Medical examiner suspected of murdering his wife uses an experimental drug to capture his wife's memory so that he can find the true killer.
Unforgettable
2009
Four man-children hold a bachelor party in Vegas, take Rohypnol and lose not just their memory of the previous night, but the groom as well.
The Hangover
1984
Amnesiac who has been missing for four years, wanders in out of the desert and must reconnect with his former life and family.
Paris, Texas
2001
Blacklisted screenwriter gets amnesia after a car accident and settles into a new life in a small town where he restores a cinema.
The Majestic
2012
Woman falls into a coma after a car accident and awakens with amnesia. Her husband then has to win her heart again.
The Vow
2004
A woman is told her children never existed and she must determine if her memory is faulty, or if something more sinister is afoot.
The Forgotten
2013
An art auctioner becomes involved with a group of criminal who use a hypnotherapist to achieve their ends.
Trance
2008
A newspaper editor with memory loss returns to his hometown where he bonds with his Alzheimer's impaired uncle.
Diminished Capacity
1994
Private eye who suffers total amnesia every 24 hours, is embroiled in a murder and theft case.
Clean Slate
1994
An amnesiac who wakes up in a New York alley is helped by a former nun. Meanwhile, his wife is on the run after believing she killed him.
Amateur
2001
After a car wreck leaves a woman with amnesia, she pairs up with an aspiring actress in search of answers about her life.
Mulholland Drive
2009
Two crew members wake up from hypersleep on a spaceship and quickly learn they are not alone.
Pandorum
1966
An amnesiac wanders Manhattan, searching for clues to his identity.
Mr. Buddwing
2019
Deactivated cyborg is revived and goes on a quest for answers about herself.
Alita Battle Angel
2014
A young man is dropped into a community of young men after his memory is erased and learns his group is meant to find a way through a deathtrap.
The Maze Runner
2001
Man who was disfigured, lives in a world constructed of his memories until enough time passes that his condition can be cured by medical means in the future.
Vanilla Sky
2003
Writer son must reconcile with his terminally ill storytelling father, whose fanciful stories contain more truth in them than the son thought.
Big Fish
2014
A linguistics professor must learn to juggle work, family and Alzheimer's disease.
Still Alice
2020
An octogenarian Londoner succumbs to dementia and begins doubting everything, including himself.
The Father
2015
A global neurological pandemic leaves the majority of the world without memory. The survivors must pick up the pieces.
Embers
2004
A man so guilt-ridden from a traumatic experience hasn't slept for an entire year and begins to doubt his sanity.
The Machinist
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Feb 18, 2022
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DIDN'T PUT FINDING NEMO/DORY IN/ON THIS QUIZ OF YOURS! (nice quiz besides that btw).