217 films

Films about memory

Stories where what is remembered — or lost, or implanted — drives the world.

Every film here has been read through the same lens: which rung of the E0–E14 reality ladder its story fights on, whether it moves consciousness off the human, and which rule of its world it alters. Ordered by how many people have rated them.

Inception (2010)★ 8.4memory, guilt, reality, timeInside Out (2015)★ 7.9emotion, memory, identity, pubertyCoco (2017)★ 8.2memory, family, tradition, deathIt (2017)★ 7.2fear, trauma, memory, childhoodToy Story (1995)★ 8.0identity, belonging, obsolescence, consumerismSpirited Away (2001)★ 8.5identity, labor, environment, memoryEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)★ 8.1memory, love, identity, technologyBeauty and the Beast (2017)★ 7.0love, memory, transformationToy Story 3 (2010)★ 7.8identity, obsolescence, belonging, memoryBlade Runner 2049 (2017)★ 7.6identity, technology, freedom, memoryThe Sixth Sense (1999)★ 8.0death, grief, memory, communicationFinding Dory (2016)★ 7.0memory, family, identityYour Name. (2016)★ 8.5memory, identity, fate, connectionOblivion (2013)★ 6.7technology, control, memory, identityNight at the Museum (2006)★ 6.6history, culture, memory, identityMen in Black II (2002)★ 6.4alien, agency, memory, powerFrozen II (2019)★ 7.2prejudice, environment, colonialism, memoryIt Chapter Two (2019)★ 6.8fear, trauma, memory, prejudiceSource Code (2011)★ 7.3time, terrorism, identity, memoryBig Fish (2003)★ 7.8memory, identity, familyCloud Atlas (2012)★ 6.9prejudice, exploitation, memory, powerThe Others (2001)★ 7.6grief, faith, memory, identityMulholland Drive (2001)★ 7.8identity, memory, fame, illusionAlice Through the Looking Glass (2016)★ 6.6identity, memory, time, authorityInside Out 2 (2024)★ 7.5emotion, identity, memory, adolescenceVan Helsing (2004)★ 6.4monsters, faith, redemption, powerThe Babadook (2014)★ 6.5grief, fear, memoryNight at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)★ 6.2tradition, authority, memory, consciousnessAnastasia (1997)★ 7.6identity, memory, love, tradition13 Going on 30 (2004)★ 6.8identity, love, career, memoryCasper (1995)★ 6.3afterlife, grief, memory, familySilent Hill (2006)★ 6.6guilt, religion, trauma, cultVanilla Sky (2001)★ 6.8identity, memory, grief, realityThe Giver (2014)★ 6.6memory, control, freedom, emotionInsidious: Chapter 2 (2013)★ 6.7death, memory, family, possessionMonster House (2006)★ 6.7fear, grief, death, memoryYesterday (2019)★ 6.7music, culture, fame, memoryThe Host (2013)★ 6.3colonization, identity, control, memory9 (2009)★ 6.9survival, technology, rebirth, sacrificeKubo and the Two Strings (2016)★ 7.6memory, storytelling, family, traditionThe Virgin Suicides (2000)★ 7.1memory, repression, faith, adolescenceDark City (1998)★ 7.3memory, identity, control, experimentMeet the Robinsons (2007)★ 6.9family, technology, memory, inventionThe Fountain (2006)★ 6.9mortality, love, eternity, memoryThe Little Prince (2015)★ 7.6identity, memory, authority, freedomThe Lake House (2006)★ 7.0love, time, memory, fateThe French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)★ 7.0journalism, art, politics, cultureLost Highway (1997)★ 7.5identity, memory, duality, guiltThe Darkest Minds (2018)★ 7.0oppression, adolescence, rebellion, memoryScary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)★ 6.5prejudice, fear, memory, horrorPaprika (2006)★ 7.8dream, identity, memory, technologyThe Boy and the Heron (2023)★ 7.4grief, war, memory, familyLoving Vincent (2017)★ 8.0memory, grief, mortalityJust Like Heaven (2005)★ 7.0love, grief, death, memory8½ (1963)★ 8.1identity, memory, media, purposeA Ghost Story (2017)★ 7.1grief, memory, time, mortalityHero (2002)★ 7.5power, memory, identity, warGothika (2003)★ 6.1ghost, possession, justice, memoryAsteroid City (2023)★ 6.5authority, community, memory, familyThe Ring Two (2005)★ 5.8fear, death, family, curseDead Silence (2007)★ 6.4revenge, memory, folklore, possessionGhosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)★ 6.0love, grief, memory, growthPersona (1966)★ 8.1identity, memory, performance, genderYouth (2015)★ 6.9mortality, memory, artChungking Express (1994)★ 8.0love, memory, identityI'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)★ 6.6identity, memory, consciousnessWhat Lies Beneath (2000)★ 6.4guilt, betrayal, memory, possessionExtinction (2018)★ 6.0identity, memory, prejudice, survivalMirage (2018)★ 7.5time, memory, causality, familyEnter the Void (2010)★ 7.3consciousness, death, memory, spiritualityWhen Marnie Was There (2014)★ 7.9identity, memory, family, griefVolver (2006)★ 7.5family, memory, death, guiltJacob's Ladder (1990)★ 7.4death, memory, reality, authorityCriminal (2016)★ 6.2memory, identity, espionage, technologySolaris (1972)★ 7.8grief, memory, identity, consciousnessAnomalisa (2015)★ 7.1identity, loneliness, otherness, memoryCandyman (1992)★ 6.7prejudice, legend, horror, urbanAnon (2018)★ 6.0surveillance, privacy, memory, identitySuzume (2022)★ 7.9disaster, trauma, memory, griefThe Cell (2000)★ 6.3memory, consciousness, technologyField of Dreams (1989)★ 7.1dreams, reconciliation, nostalgia, legacyGrave Encounters (2011)★ 6.3fear, institution, abuse, memoryThree Thousand Years of Longing (2022)★ 6.9desire, love, memory, fantasySerenity (2019)★ 5.5grief, control, memory, agencyIF (2024)★ 7.0imagination, memory, grief, familySynecdoche, New York (2008)★ 7.5identity, memory, mortality, purposeGhost World (2001)★ 7.1loneliness, death, apocalypse, technologyThe Haunting (1999)★ 5.5fear, memory, exploitation, familyThe Awakening (2011)★ 6.4grief, memory, trauma, beliefHypnotic (2023)★ 6.2control, memory, authority, surveillanceThe Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)★ 6.5possession, ritual, memory, mortalitySolaris (2002)★ 5.9memory, grief, identity, consciousnessDream House (2011)★ 6.2grief, memory, justiceShutter (2004)★ 7.3guilt, memory, revenge, supernaturalThe Devil's Backbone (2001)★ 7.3war, ghost, memory, traumaPersonal Shopper (2016)★ 5.9grief, identity, afterlife, memoryThe Bye Bye Man (2017)★ 5.2meme, taboo, fear, memoryInland Empire (2006)★ 7.0identity, memory, performance, traumaAmarcord (1973)★ 7.9memory, tradition, authority, familyThe City of Lost Children (1995)★ 7.2dream, exploitation, memory, fantasyWelcome to Marwen (2018)★ 6.5trauma, addiction, memory, identityDisenchanted (2022)★ 6.7family, identity, memory, powerRiley's First Date? (2015)★ 7.2family, communication, generational, memoryHow to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019)★ 8.0prejudice, tradition, family, fearThe Deep House (2021)★ 6.0fear, possession, sacrifice, memoryMirror (1975)★ 8.0memory, identity, history, trauma2046 (2004)★ 7.2love, memory, timeThe Life of Chuck (2025)★ 7.3mortality, meaning, memoryWaltz with Bashir (2008)★ 7.7memory, trauma, war, guiltSpaceman (2024)★ 6.7loneliness, grief, memory, belongingSession 9 (2001)★ 6.1fear, trauma, memory, isolationMillennium Actress (2002)★ 7.8memory, identity, history, artAll of Us Strangers (2023)★ 7.4grief, memory, identity, loveThe Empty Man (2020)★ 6.2grief, cult, belief, fearPassengers (2008)★ 6.1grief, death, memory, acceptanceWaking Life (2001)★ 7.5consciousness, philosophy, reality, memoryThe Double Life of Véronique (1991)★ 7.5identity, fate, duality, connectionThe NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)★ 5.8imagination, memory, wish, courageSteven Universe: The Movie (2019)★ 8.2identity, memory, colonization, authorityMirai (2018)★ 7.1family, memory, growth

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