Posts Tagged ‘memory-loss’

Forgotten, The (2004)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Moore, Julianne | Kovaleski, Christopher | Pleszewicz, Matthew | Edwards, Anthony | Hecht, Jessica | Roache, Linus | Sinise, Gary | West, Dominic | Cooper, Katie | Nicholson, Scott | Morrison, P.J. | Wisdom, Robert | Kang, Tim | Faughnan, Kathryn | Woodard, Alfre
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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A grieving mother, Telly Paretta, is struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist and her husband tell her that she has created eight years of memories of a son she never had. But when she meets the father of one of her son’s friend who is having the same experience, Telly embarks on a mission to prove her son’s existence and her sanity.

Shadow Puppets (2007)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Genres: Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Todd, Tony | Blalock, Jolene | Marsters, James | Winnick, Marc | Alam, Natasha | Baxter, Diahnna Nicole | Whiten, Richard | Ford, Jennie
Directors: Winnick, Michael
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A woman and a man awake in individual white cells in an abandoned prison or mental institution wearing only underwear and without any memory. They hear a strange and creepy noise and decide to look for a way out of the facility. They meet six other strangers in the same situation and one of them is attacked and killed by a shadow. While trying to escape from the place and the shadow, they find the brain washing apparatus with the indication that had been used eight times. When they meet the ninth stranger, they realize that one of them is lying and knows what have happened with them.

Gothika (2003)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dutton, Charles S. | Berry, Halle | Downey Jr., Robert | Lynch, John Carroll | Hill, Bernard | Cruz, Penélope | Harewood, Dorian | Mantel, Bronwen | Mackey, Kathleen | Taylor, Matthew G. | Perron, Michel | Sheldon, Andrea | Rydvald, Anana | Mitchell, Laura | Sloan, Amy
Directors: Kassovitz, Mathieu | Oliphant, Thom
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A criminal psychologist (Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the institution where she works, with no memory of the murder she’s accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory - and her freedom - a vengeful spirit manipulates her.

Away from Her (2006)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada
Actors: Christie, Julie | Pinsent, Gordon | Dukakis, Olympia | Thomson, Kristen | Murphy, Michael | Crewson, Wendy | Watson, Alberta | Grace Lynn Kung | LaBerge, Stacey | Francks, Lili | Moodie, Andrew | Dezmari, Deanna | Sinclair, Judy | Harvey, Tom | Heatherington, Carolyn
Directors: Polley, Sarah
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Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. Now, in the oncoming twilight of their years, they are forced to face the fact that Fiona’s “forgetfulness” actually is Alzheimer’s Disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost, they agree she must go into a nursing home. For the first time in the five decades their relationship has spanned, they are forced to undergo a long-time separation since the nursing home has a “no-vistors” policy for the first 30 days of a patient’s stay, so they can adjust to their new surroundings. When Grant visits Fiona after the orientation period, he is devastated to find out that not only can has she seemingly forgotten him, Fiona has transferred her affections to another man. The other man is Aubrey, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home. As the distance between husband and wife grows, Grant must draw upon his love for Fiona to perform an act of self-sacrifice in order to ensure her happiness.

Code 46 (2003)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Robbins, Tim | Igawa, Togo | Elouhabi, Nabil | Morton, Samantha | Backhouse, Sarah | Ibbotson, Jonathan | Jackson Mendoza, Natalie | Puri, Om | Marwa, Emil | Fog, Nina | Lastra, Bruno | Simpson, Christopher | Nguyin, Lien | Fahm, David | Jones, Mick
Directors: Winterbottom, Michael
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Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have “papelles,” a special travel permit issued by the totalitarianistic government, the “Sphinx”. Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens - people without papelles forced to live primitive lives. William is a family man who works as a government investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake papelles, he meets a woman named Maria. Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his papelles: 24 hours. Back home, William is obessed with the memory of Maria. When the original investigation is inevitably re-opened a week later and William is sent back to finish the work he started, he tracks her down, only to discover she has been accused of a Code 46 violation and any further relationship is impossible.

Lookout, The (2007)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gordon-Levitt, Joseph | Daniels, Jeff | Goode, Matthew | Fisher, Isla | Gugino, Carla | McGill, Bruce | Watson, Alberta | Borstein, Alex | Di Zio, Sergio | Huband, David | Vandervoort, Laura | Dunham, Greg | Kelly, Morgan | Berg, Aaron | Korey, Tinsel
Directors: Frank, Scott
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An admired high school hockey player (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend (Jeff Daniels) who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader (Matthew Goode) befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman (Isla Fisher) who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry. Bruce McGill and Alberta Watson also co-star as the young man’s parents, who still search for the person that was there before the tragic crash.

Unknown (2006)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Caviezel, James | Kinnear, Greg | Moynahan, Bridget | Pantoliano, Joe | Pepper, Barry | Sisto, Jeremy | Stormare, Peter | Mulkey, Chris | Crawford, Clayne | Chapman, Kevin | Boone Junior, Mark | Calderon, Wilmer | Selby, David | Rodriguez, Adam | Phillips, Jeffrey Daniel
Directors: Brand, Simon
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Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.

Cube Zero (2004)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Bennett, Zachary | Moore, Stephanie | Riley, Michael | Martin Roach | Huband, David | Nahrgang, Mike 'Nug' | McMillan, Richard | Hawkes, Terri | Munch, Tony | Geljo, Jasmin | Klattenhoff, Diego | Filippeos, Alexia | Cursione, Fernando | Arslanian, Araxi | Peace, Joshua
Directors: Ernie Barbarash
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A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms.

Finding Nemo (2003)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Brooks, Albert | DeGeneres, Ellen | Gould, Alexander | Dafoe, Willem | Garrett, Brad | Janney, Allison | Pendleton, Austin | Root, Stephen | Lewis, Vicki | Ranft, Joe | Rush, Geoffrey | Perkins, Elizabeth | Bird, Nicholas | Peterson, Bob
Directors: Stanton, Andrew | Unkrich, Lee
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Marlin (a clown fish) is a widower who only has his son Nemo left of his family after a predator attack. Years later, on Nemo’s first day of school, he’s captured by a scuba diver and taken to live in a dentist office’s fish tank. Marlin and his new absent-minded friend Dory set off across the ocean to find Nemo, while Nemo and his tankmates scheme on how to get out of the tank before he becomes the dentist’s niece’s new pet.

Paycheck (2003)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Eckhart, Aaron | Thurman, Uma | Giamatti, Paul | Feore, Colm | Morton, Joe | Michael C. Hall | Friedman, Peter | Morris, Kathryn | Milicevic, Ivana | Kennedy, Christopher | Cecere, Fulvio | Cassini, John | Rennie, Callum Keith | Harrison, Michelle
Directors: Woo, John
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Michael Jennings is a reverse engineer and what he does is technical jobs for certain companies and as soon as he is done, his memory of the work he has done is wiped out. Now the longest he has been contracted is 2 months. But now billionaire, James Rethrick offers him a job that would last 2 years, maybe 3, and he promises that he will probably earn 8 figures. Michael agrees. Before beginning he turns in all of his personal effects. And when the job is done, his memory is erased and he learns he made over 90 million dollars over the three years. When he goes to claim it and his personal effects, he discovers that prior to the erasure of his memory he waived his rights to the money he earned and that the items that were given to him were not the ones he gave when he began. Later he is arrested by the FBI who say that he committed some act of treason and murder. It’s while he is in custody that he escapes using some the items that he was given. He later meets with a friend who gives him some information that helps him understand what is going on. And at the same time Rethrick for some reason wants him so he is being pursued by Rethrick’s people.