Year
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Descriptive Hint
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Answer
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2000
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To try and find his wife's killer, a man with memory loss tattoos notes on his body.
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Memento
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1998
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Adrift in space, aliens experiment with humans by adjusting their memories every 24 hours.
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Dark City
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2004
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Alzheimer's disease is no obstacle for one man's love of his partner.
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The Notebook
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2004
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Couple undergo a procedure to have each other wiped from the other's memories.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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2004
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Man edits the memories of the recently departed so that they can be displayed at the funeral/memorial service.
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The Final Cut
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2021
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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.
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Reminiscence
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2016
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A dead CIA agent's memories are implanted in a Death Row inmate in the hopes of achieving the agent's final mission.
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Criminal
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2011
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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.
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Wrinkles
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2014
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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.
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Before I Go to Sleep
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1991
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Man who loses his memory after a car accident begins to unravel his past as his life spins out of control.
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Shattered
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2004
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Man in love with a woman who loses her short term memory every day, must win her love anew each day.
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50 First Dates
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2013
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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.
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Anna
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2017
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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.
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Rememory
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2006
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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.
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Unknown
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2003
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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.
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Paycheck
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2002
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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.
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Minority Report
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2002
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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.
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The Bourne Identity
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1982
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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.
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Blade Runner
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1941
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Publishing tycoon dies and his life unfolds through the memories of others.
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Citizen Kane
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1962
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A former POW was brainwashed to be used as an assassin.
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The Manchurian Candidate
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2010
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U.S. Marshall in the 1950s investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from an island-based hospital for the criminally insane.
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Shutter Island
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1990
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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.
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Total Recall
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1987
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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.
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Overboard
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1945
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An amnesia patient accused of murder is protected by the psychiatrist attempting to recover the man's memory.
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Spellbound
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1996
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Amnesiac housewife teams up with a private eye after she starts to recall that she was a government assassin.
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
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1991
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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.
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Regarding Henry
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2006
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Man must cope with his wife's institutionalization due to Alzheimer's. While at the facility, she begins to show affection for another patient.
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Away from Her
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1950
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Japanese language story of a rape and murder told from the various points of view of four different witnesses.
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Rashomon
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2007
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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.
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The Lookout
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1996
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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.
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Unforgettable
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2009
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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.
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The Hangover
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1984
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Amnesiac who has been missing for four years, wanders in out of the desert and must reconnect with his former life and family.
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Paris, Texas
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2001
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Blacklisted screenwriter gets amnesia after a car accident and settles into a new life in a small town where he restores a cinema.
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The Majestic
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2012
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Woman falls into a coma after a car accident and awakens with amnesia. Her husband then has to win her heart again.
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The Vow
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2004
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A woman is told her children never existed and she must determine if her memory is faulty, or if something more sinister is afoot.
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The Forgotten
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2013
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An art auctioner becomes involved with a group of criminal who use a hypnotherapist to achieve their ends.
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Trance
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2008
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A newspaper editor with memory loss returns to his hometown where he bonds with his Alzheimer's impaired uncle.
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Diminished Capacity
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1994
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Private eye who suffers total amnesia every 24 hours, is embroiled in a murder and theft case.
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Clean Slate
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1994
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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.
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Amateur
|
2001
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After a car wreck leaves a woman with amnesia, she pairs up with an aspiring actress in search of answers about her life.
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Mulholland Drive
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2009
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Two crew members wake up from hypersleep on a spaceship and quickly learn they are not alone.
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Pandorum
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1966
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An amnesiac wanders Manhattan, searching for clues to his identity.
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Mr. Buddwing
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2019
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Deactivated cyborg is revived and goes on a quest for answers about herself.
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Alita Battle Angel
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2014
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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.
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The Maze Runner
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2001
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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.
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Vanilla Sky
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2003
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Writer son must reconcile with his terminally ill storytelling father, whose fanciful stories contain more truth in them than the son thought.
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Big Fish
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2014
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A linguistics professor must learn to juggle work, family and Alzheimer's disease.
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Still Alice
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2020
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An octogenarian Londoner succumbs to dementia and begins doubting everything, including himself.
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The Father
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2015
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A global neurological pandemic leaves the majority of the world without memory. The survivors must pick up the pieces.
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Embers
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2004
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A man so guilt-ridden from a traumatic experience hasn't slept for an entire year and begins to doubt his sanity.
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The Machinist
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