Movies like Complete Strangers
If Complete Strangers's mix of amnesia, rehabilitation and trauma stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Complete Strangers's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Memento
2000 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 113 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia, memory loss · Also mystery and thriller
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term…
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Mulholland Drive
2001 · Directed by David Lynch · 147 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia, trauma · Also thriller and drama
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher…
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Vanilla Sky
2001 · Directed by Cameron Crowe · 136 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia, memory loss · Also mystery and romance
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident.
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The Butterfly Effect
2004 · Directed by J. Mackye Gruber · 113 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia, trauma, memory loss
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history.
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Before I Go to Sleep
2014 · Directed by Rowan Joffé · 92 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia, memory loss · Also thriller and mystery
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004 · Directed by Michel Gondry · 108 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia · Also drama and romance
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and…
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My Policeman
2022 · Directed by Michael Grandage · 113 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (2020s)
In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when…
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012 · Directed by Stephen Chbosky · 103 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: trauma, gay theme
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him…
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Anna
2013 · Directed by Jorge Dorado · 99 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: trauma · Also thriller and drama
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
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Dead Again
1991 · Directed by Kenneth Branagh · 107 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia · Also mystery and thriller
In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.
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The Hangover
2009 · Directed by Todd Phillips · 100 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia, memory loss
When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom.