![]() Young woman doesn’t recall she is 3000 years old basically the plot of Blood on the Mummy’s Tomb and The Awakening based on Bram Stoker’s Jewel of the Seven Stars. A young woman doesn’t know she is a ghost. A woman’s loss of memory puts her in danger from a coven of witches.Ĭarnival of Souls - Candace Hilligloss. Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? - Doris Day tries to remember what happened the night of the blackout when she had too much to drink. French diplomat must regain his memory to save himself. Con man regains his memory and tries to save his new respectable life with wife Myrna Loy from his old pals in this screwball comedy.Ĭrossroads - William Powell. GI Cotton comes to England to meet Jennifer Jones whom he corresponded with who has lost her memory and may be in danger, with a screenplay by Ayn Rand. Sigmund Freud helps Sherlock Holmes recover repressed childhood memories so he can solve a case and cure himself of cocaine addiction. The Seven Percent Solution - Nicol Williamson. A woman claims to have lost her memory and seeks help from Sherlock Holmes. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes - Robert Stephens. The Woman With No Name - Phyllis Calvert. Am amnesiac poses as a psychiatrist but becomes the patient based on Francis Beeding’s The House of Dr. A woman with amnesia returns to husband she doesn’t remember, from the Pirandello play. Remade as Istanbul with Errol Flynn.Īs You Desire Me - Greta Garbo. A woman loses her memory and can’t remember the man who loved her. A man returns home with memory loss based on Mickey Spillane novel. A private eye returns from the war with memory loss. The granddaddy of them all, based on James Hilton’s novel. Investigators try to understand what happened to man with robot head based on Algis Budrys’s novel. A psychiatrist tries to help agent suffering from trauma induced memory loss but finds himself in a spy plot. A city-wide blackout triggers a crisis for a businessman whose life begins to unravel when nothing he remembers is real.īlindfolded - Rock Hudson. Female cabbie helps a man recall his memory as they race to solve a murder, remade with Tom Conway and Ann Rutherford and directed by Anthony Mann as Two O’Clock Courage. Man begins to see through the illusion he lives in. A man with amnesia struggles to recall reality in clever noirish sf film based on a graphic novel. Memento - Man who loses his memory every time he goes to sleep tries to solve the murder of his wife by leaving clues behind to follow each day.ĭark City - Rufus Sewell. Phantom Lady - Alan Curtis man’s drink induced memory loss means his friends have to follow abstract clues from his flawed memory to save him from execution based on Cornell Woolrich novel. Jazz musician gets help from his cop brother-in-law Paul Kelly to recover marijuana induced memory loss and clear his name based on Cornell Woolrich short ‘Marijuana’ and remade with Kevin McClory and Edward G. An Army officer tries to combat drug induced memories implanted as part of a Chinese plot from Richard Condon’s novel.įear in the Night - Deforest Kelly. The Manchurian Candidate - Frank Sinatra. An amnesiac tries to clear himself by regaining his memory. An obnoxious millionaire struggles to remember who is trying to kill him based on Joseph Hayes’ novel. German doctor Rod Taylor uses drugs to induce amnesia in order to get Garner to reveal the true site of the D-Day landings. Based on the novel Buddwing by Even Hunter a man with amnesia stumbles from one woman in his life to the next trying to put together who he is.ģ6 Hours -James Garner again. No Man of Her Own - Barbara Stanwyck claims partial amnesia to cover lapses in her memory in pretending to be another woman based on Woolrich’s I Married a Dead Man. Richard Todd’s character suffers partial amnesia involving the murder the police want him for. A writer and producer who wakes up with no memory and in the middle of a murderous plot based on Q. Based on Cornell Woolrich’s Black Curtain about a man with short term amnesia who thinks he may have committed a murder.įemale Fiends - Lex Barker. This one could get pretty long fast, but I’ll try to restrain myself: Which of course triggered the obvious question from me to David. “It” referring to the concept of amnesia, as practiced in the movies and crime fiction. In a comment that he left soon after the review appeared, David Vineyard wondered “where would suspense fiction and movies be without it?” This particular list of motion pictures was prompted by Walter Albert’s recent review of De Luxe Annie (1915), in which all of the heroine’s difficulties stem from being knocked unconscious early on and suffering from amnesia for the rest of the movie, or almost.
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