The incidence of amnesia amongst movie characters is far greater than that of the 'real-life' population, but then that goes for murders and crazy scrapes too. If movies are about telling stories - and let’s hope they are - then getting amnesia is a pretty darn good story. Film Amnesia represents a loss of self; complete collapse of the ego. The character is a naive and vulnerable newborn, learning right from wrong all over again, either for comic ('Finding Nemo') or tragic ('Memento') effect. Consequently some of cinema's most interesting, funny, intriguing, exciting and enchanting stories have started with the proverbial bump on the head. 'Memento', 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', 'A Very Long Engagement' and the brutal, 'The Machinist' spring to recent mind; but what about, 'Paris, Texas', 'Angel Heart', Hitchcock's 'Spellbound', 'The English Patient', 'Robocop' even the 1987 Kurt and Goldie comedy classic, 'Overboard'. Scroll down and check out some of these unforgettable titles… Pictured: Ronald Colman tries hard to remember Greer Garson in 'Random Harvest'
A Kafkaesque slice of sci-fi noir from director/co-writer Alex Proyas ("The Crow"), this haunting thriller stars Rufus Sewell as a man who awakens to... Read more
A stylish, witty, imaginative psychological thriller starring Kenneth Branagh as an L.A. private detective who tries to help a beautiful amnesia victi... Read more
In 1954, US Marshall Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio in superb form) has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insan... Read more
It is the year 2018, John Connor (Christian Bale) is attempting to organise the human resistance against the machines, when a mysterious stranger arri... Read more
A sentimental, old-fashioned comedy about a rich bitch who loses her memory and is taken in by a country boy. She hates him, he teaches her the ground... Read more
Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais' epochal 'Last Year at Marienbad'... Read more
Leonard (James Caan) is a simple man, a caretaker of an apartment block who leads a hermit's life. His world beyond the building's front door is non-e... Read more
Matt Damon is Jason Bourne, an elite government agent determined to outwit and outmaneuver anyone who stands in the way of his finding out the secrets... Read more
The sci-fi action movie of 1987 stars Peter Weller as a Detroit cop gunned down and used as a guinea pig to create a cyborg police officer. All goes w... Read more
A delightfully bittersweet comedy with Matthew Broderick as a newspaper editor who finds himself rotated from the political section to the comic strip... Read more