Movies Like Memento

Memento (2000) is a mystery and thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan. Its recurring themes include drug dealer, amnesia, insulin, tattoo. The 20 films below were selected because they overlap with it on measurable signals — shared genres, shared themes, overlapping cast or crew, and the audiences TMDB records as watching both. Memento stars Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano; where a recommendation shares one of those performers it is noted on the card.

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20 movies similar to Memento

Psycho (1960) poster

Psycho

1960Horror, Thriller8.4

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Ba…

Why it’s similar: Thriller • Mystery • motel • murder • psychological thriller

Before I Go to Sleep (2014) poster

Before I Go to Sleep

2014Thriller, Mystery6.5

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 he…

Why it’s similar: Thriller • Mystery • amnesia • flashback • confusion

Reminiscence (2021) poster

Reminiscence

2021Mystery, Science Fiction6.5

Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to reliv…

Why it’s similar: Mystery • Thriller • flashback • murder • memory

Unknown (2006) poster

Unknown

2006Mystery, Thriller6.2

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.

Why it’s similar: Mystery • Thriller • amnesia • Also stars Joe Pantoliano

Message from the King (2017) poster

Message from the King

2017Action, Mystery6.2

On a relentless quest to avenge his sister's murder, a man from Cape Town infiltrates a sprawling network of lowlifes and elites in Los Angeles.

Why it’s similar: Mystery • Thriller • tattoo • flashback • los angeles, california

Dressed to Kill (1980) poster

Dressed to Kill

1980Thriller, Mystery6.9

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the…

Why it’s similar: Thriller • Mystery • manipulation • murder • whodunit

Lost Highway (1997) poster

Lost Highway

1997Drama, Thriller7.5

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Why it’s similar: Thriller • Mystery • motel • murder • psychological thriller

Blue Velvet (1986) poster

Blue Velvet

1986Mystery, Thriller7.6

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminal…

Why it’s similar: Mystery • Thriller • drug dealer • murder • neo-noir

Mulholland Drive (2001) poster

Mulholland Drive

2001Thriller, Drama7.8

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 wom…

Why it’s similar: Thriller • Mystery • amnesia • los angeles, california • neo-noir

Pulp Fiction (1994) poster

Pulp Fiction

1994Thriller, Crime8.5

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in…

Why it’s similar: Thriller • drug dealer • los angeles, california • nonlinear timeline

The Bourne Identity (2002) poster

The Bourne Identity

2002Action, Mystery7.5

Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconst…

Why it’s similar: Mystery • Thriller • amnesia • flashback

The Butterfly Effect (2004) poster

The Butterfly Effect

2004Science Fiction, Thriller7.6

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. H…

Why it’s similar: Thriller • amnesia • flashback • memory loss

Sleeping Dogs (2024) poster

Sleeping Dogs

2024Mystery, Thriller7.0

Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, is forced to revisit a case he can't remember. As a man's life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece…

Why it’s similar: Mystery • Thriller • memory loss • psychological thriller

Trance (2013) poster

Trance

2013Thriller, Crime6.6

A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

Why it’s similar: Thriller • Mystery • amnesia

Crooked House (2017) poster

Crooked House

2017Mystery, Crime6.4

A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

Why it’s similar: Mystery • Thriller • murder • whodunit

Flashback (2021) poster

Flashback

2021Thriller, Mystery5.9

Frederick Fitzell is living his best life—until he starts having horrific visions of Cindy, a girl who vanished in high school. After reaching out to old friends with whom he used…

Why it’s similar: Thriller • Mystery

No Country for Old Men (2007) poster

No Country for Old Men

2007Crime, Thriller8.0

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bel…

Why it’s similar: Thriller

The Bourne Supremacy (2004) poster

The Bourne Supremacy

2004Action, Drama7.3

A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pai…

Why it’s similar: Thriller

Mr. Arkadin (1955) poster

Mr. Arkadin

1955Mystery, Thriller6.8

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, a…

Why it’s similar: Mystery • Thriller

Stonehearst Asylum (2014) poster

Stonehearst Asylum

2014Thriller, Mystery6.8

An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying sta…

Why it’s similar: Thriller • Mystery

How this list was built

Candidates come from the recommendation and similar-title data TMDB publishes for Memento, merged and deduplicated. Each candidate is then re-ranked on genre overlap, shared TMDB keywords, shared director or cast members, and audience-rating confidence. Titles without a poster, a synopsis or enough votes to be a meaningful signal are dropped rather than padded in — which is why some pages show ten results and others twenty.

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