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1. The Departed (2006)
R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg
Votes: 1,422,119 | Gross: $132.38M
2. The Pretender (1996–2000)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A specially gifted man, with the ability to instantly master any skill, escapes from a secret testing facility and travels the country taking on different jobs and helping strangers while hiding from his kidnappers.
Stars: Michael T. Weiss, Andrea Parker, Patrick Bauchau, Jon Gries
Votes: 17,086
3. Human Experiments (1979)
R | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.
Director: Gregory Goodell | Stars: Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle
Votes: 882
4. Nowhere Man (1995–1996)
44 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Thomas Veil is a documentary photographer who seemingly has to erase his entire existence in the course of an evening.
Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Megan Gallagher, Marvin LaRoy Sanders, Sam A. Mowry
Votes: 1,979
5. The Pretender 2001 (2001 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 96 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Jarod reunites with two old friends and unleashes some powerful Centre revelations. Also Jarod and Miss Parker learn more about their pasts.
Director: Frederick King Keller | Stars: Michael T. Weiss, Andrea Parker, Patrick Bauchau, Jon Gries
Votes: 2,782
6. Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.
Director: Jim Loach | Stars: Emily Watson, Aisling Loftus, Stuart Wolfenden, Lorraine Ashbourne
Votes: 5,905
7. Samba (2014)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Senegalese Samba has worked 10 years in France. He's arrested and befriends the woman helping him with legal matters as volunteer after a burnout at work. He's released after being told to leave France. Chemistry?
Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Stars: Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, Izïa Higelin
Votes: 17,328 | Gross: $0.15M
8. Timebomb (1991)
R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Eddy is recognized on TV after rescuing two. A group tries to kill the peaceful watchmaker. Why? He sees a cute analyst.
Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Michael Biehn, Patsy Kensit, Tracy Scoggins, Robert Culp
Votes: 2,065 | Gross: $0.06M
9. The Third Part of the Night (1971)
107 min | Drama, Horror, War
Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers slaughter a woman, her son, and mother-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jan Nowicki, Jerzy Golinski
Votes: 2,699
10. The End of Violence (1997)
R | 122 min | Drama, Thriller
Mike is a successful Hollywood producer of violent movies. Then he himself experiences extreme violence, goes missing, joins some Latino gardeners and reviews his life.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Traci Lind, Rosalind Chao, Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell
Votes: 5,177 | Gross: $0.28M
11. The Pretender: Island of the Haunted (2001 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 91 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Through a series of bizarre circumstances, Jarod and Miss Parker find themselves trapped together on a strange island in a life and death situation, out of which come some of the most important revelations about their pasts.
Director: Frederick King Keller | Stars: Michael T. Weiss, Andrea Parker, Patrick Bauchau, Jon Gries
Votes: 1,972
12. Resurrected (1989)
96 min | Drama, War
Surviving soldier is accused of cowardice and desertion. His former comrades-in-arms decide to judge him bypassing the law.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: Tom Bell, Rita Tushingham, David Thewlis, Rudi Davies
Votes: 550
13. Sanitarium (1998 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Drama, Horror
After a horrific car crash your character ends up in an asylum. You must find out how you came to be there and recover your identity.
Director: Martin Stoltz | Stars: Frank Schurter, Stephen Bennett, Brad Broman, Amanda Crocker
Votes: 490
14. Other Voices (2000)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
This stylized turn-of-the-millennium thriller follows troubled couple Phil and Anna, each suspecting the other of infidelity, as they try to keep their paranoia and distrust from further fracturing the strange world around them.
Director: Dan McCormack | Stars: David Aaron Baker, Mary McCormack, Stockard Channing, Campbell Scott
Votes: 300
15. The Last Border: Viimeisellä rajalla (1993)
105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Jolyon Baker, Jürgen Prochnow, Fanny Bastien, Kari Väänänen
Votes: 507
16. Kamen Rider: The First (2005)
91 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A young scientist is given powers by an evil organization and brainwashed into their fold. Recovering from the conditioning, he starts battling their previous masters' plans, while they try to eliminate all witnesses of their existence.
Director: Takao Nagaishi | Stars: Masaya Kikawada, Hassei Takano, Rena Komine, Hiroshi Miyauchi
Votes: 335
17. Fuego gris (1994)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young woman, alienated by her work and confronted to her surroundings, falls into a depression that leads her to live in a sewer to find her identity. In there, life is no better; reality... See full summary »
Director: Pablo César | Stars: Cristina Banegas, María Victoria D'Antonio, Arturo Bonín, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Votes: 54
18. Jing xin dong po (2004)
88 min | Mystery, Thriller
Mandy's life turns upside down after getting into a car accident.
Director: Herman Yau | Stars: Man Sze Au, Nelson Cheung, Jason Chu, Christy Chung
Votes: 72
19. Carrefour (1938)
84 min | Drama
A amnesiac industrialist is tricked into a game of mistaken identity.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Charles Vanel, Jules Berry, Suzy Prim, Tania Fédor
Votes: 135
20. The Raven (1977)
120 min | Drama, History, Mystery
When Mr. Esalat is looking for a topic for his TV show, he notices an advertisement in the newspaper about a missing girl. The picture of the missing girl is very familiar to him and he ... See full summary »
Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Parvaneh Massoumi, Hossein Parvaresh, Anik Shefrazian, Manuchehr Farid
Votes: 338
21. Tuntemattomalle jumalalle (1993)
55 min | Drama, Thriller
Stars: Esko Salminen, Risto Tuorila, Jonna Järnefelt, Tero Jartti
Votes: 85
22. Med dej i mina armar (1940)
82 min | Comedy, Romance
Millionaire Christer Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is... See full summary »
Director: Hasse Ekman | Stars: Edvin Adolphson, Karin Ekelund, Thor Modéen, Stig Järrel
Votes: 126
23. Soch Lo (2010)
Action, Crime, Drama
An injured and amnesiac male who robs to survive in a desert, is rescued with people with an agenda of their own.
Director: Sartaj Singh Pannu | Stars: Barkha Madan, Iris Maity, Nishan Nanaiah, Sartaj Singh Pannu
Votes: 97
24. About: Kate (2013)
26 min | Comedy
Stars: Natalia Belitski, Greta Bohacek, Patrick von Blume, Therese Affolter
Votes: 43
25. Rikollinen nainen (1952)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A happy and spirited lady is being courted by two gentlemen. Eventually she marries the other and leads a content family life - until through unlikely events she ends up in a prison, suffering from amnesia.
Director: Teuvo Tulio | Stars: Regina Linnanheimo, Eija Karipää, Tauno Majuri, Kurt Ingvall
Votes: 119
26. The Lone Defender (1934)
Drama, Mystery, Romance
Feature version of the same-titled 1930 serial, with re-shot and added material.
Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Walter Miller, June Marlowe, Buzz Barton
Votes: 16
27. Stardust Stricken - Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait (1996)
70 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Houshang Golmakani | Stars: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Akbar Abdi, Dariush Arjmand, Ezzatolah Entezami
Votes: 37
29.
Knight Rider (1982–1986)
Episode:
Knightmares
(1983)
TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Michael & Kitt are looking for a stolen substance called Alidium. After tracking a suspect to the Bedford dam, Michael is caught in an explosion and loses part of his memory. He wakes up thinking he's still police officer Michael Long.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Rebecca Holden, Laura Bruneau
Votes: 285
30.
Naked City (1958–1963)
Episode:
Landscape with Dead Figures
(1961)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A talented artist who does not know his identity is a prisoner in a sanitarium. His long-term captivity ends due to the mention of an artist's name in the newspaper and a fluke opportunity ... See full summary »
Director: Elliot Silverstein | Stars: Myron McCormick, Paul Burke, Horace McMahon, Nancy Malone
Votes: 79
31.
The Forgotten (2009–2010)
Episode:
Living Doe
(2010)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama
Young man comes to Alex and asks him to find his own identity.
Director: Guy Ferland | Stars: Christian Slater, Michelle Borth, Anthony Carrigan, Bob Stephenson
Votes: 25