Movies like The Jacket
If The Jacket's mix of amnesia, experiment and smoking stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Jacket's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Dark City
1998 · Directed by Alex Proyas · 101 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia, experiment · Also mystery and science fiction
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
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Before I Go to Sleep
2014 · Directed by Rowan Joffé · 92 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia, psychologist · 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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The Experiment
2010 · Directed by Paul T. Scheuring · 96 min6.4
Why you'll like itWith Adrien Brody · Shares: experiment · Also thriller and drama
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004 · Directed by Michel Gondry · 108 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia, love · Also science fiction and drama · From the same decade (2000s)
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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Shutter Island
2010 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 138 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: psychologist · Also drama and thriller
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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Memento
2000 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 113 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia · Also mystery and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
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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Back to the Future
1985 · Directed by Robert Zemeckis · 116 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: time travel, love
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest.
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Limitless
2011 · Directed by Neil Burger · 106 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: medicine · Also thriller and mystery
The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself.
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Looper
2012 · Directed by Rian Johnson · 118 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: time travel · Also thriller and science fiction
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is…
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The Quiet Earth
1985 · Directed by Geoff Murphy · 91 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: experiment · Also drama and science fiction
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
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Stay
2005 · Directed by Marc Forster · 99 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: psychiatrist · Also mystery and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he…
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Solace
2015 · Directed by Afonso Poyart · 101 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: psychologist · Also thriller and mystery
A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.