Movies like Memento

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   Lost Highway

   Strong story similarity

   1997 · 134 min · Drama · Mystery · Thriller

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   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 connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: los angeles, california and motel
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Mulholland Drive

   Strong story similarity

   2001 · 147 min · Drama · Mystery · Thriller

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   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 runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: amnesia and awestruck
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Identity

   Strong story similarity

   2003 · 90 min · Mystery · Thriller

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   Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: motel and murder
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Jacket

   Strong story similarity

   2005 · 103 min · Drama · Fantasy · Mystery · Science Fiction · Thriller

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   A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared genre DNA
   • shared production studio: Summit Entertainment

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   Insomnia

   Same director

   2002 · 118 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong shared themes: flashback and murder

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   Unknown

   Shared cast

   2006 · 85 min · Mystery · Thriller

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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.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • principal cast overlap

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   Gone Girl

   Strong story similarity

   2014 · 149 min · Drama · Mystery · Thriller

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   With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: psychological thriller and whodunit

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   Cape Fear

   Strong story similarity

   1991 · 128 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: psychological thriller and revenge
   • shared psychological thriller movie style

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   Dark City

   Strong story similarity

   1998 · 101 min · Mystery · Science Fiction

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   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.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: amnesia and manipulation
   • a closely matched era

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    Stonehearst Asylum

    Strong story similarity

    2014 · 112 min · Horror · Mystery · Thriller

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    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 staffing change.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: based on short story and psychological thriller

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