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Movies that feel likeMemento (2000)

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

If you loved Memento, the closest films we have are The Body (2012), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Forgotten (2017). All three share Memento's twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The End of Oak Street (2026).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Christopher Nolantwistytensecerebralrelentless
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The Body
2012 · dir. Oriol Paulo
★ 7.6thriller · mysteryPrime Video

A night-long puzzle where grief, guilt and revenge trade masks

The difference: Spanish and plot-first — twist stacked on twist, less texture

A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.

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Mulholland Drive
2001 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 83%★ 7.9thriller · drama · mystery

Identity coming apart while you try to hold the pieces in order

The difference: Dream logic instead of a puzzle box — Lynch never hands you the rules

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.

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Forgotten
2017 · dir. Chang Hang-jun
★ 7.4thriller · mystery · crimeNetflix

A memory you can't trust hiding the crime at the story's core

The difference: Its big swing turns melodramatic — Korean, and less disciplined

Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model for Jin-seok. One night, his beloved brother is kidnapped by unidentified assailants before Jin-seok's eye. Jin-seok can’t recognize their faces, but can remember only the VIN that matches with no car. After long silence of 19 days, suddenly Yu-seok returns home, but remembers nothing which had happened in the meantime. And soon Jin-seok feels Yu-seok is a total stranger.

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2017 · dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
🍅 79%★ 7drama · thriller · mysteryMax

An implacable logic of revenge closing around one man

The difference: Icy absurdist dread — stilted voices and no puzzle to solve

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.

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The Bourne Identity
2002 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 84%★ 7.8action · mystery · thrillerNetflix

A man rebuilding who he is from documents and instincts he can't explain

The difference: A kinetic spy chase — momentum forward, not a slow spiral inward

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 reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?

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Cube
1998 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 61%★ 7.1thriller · science fiction · mystery

Strangers with no context deducing the rules of a trap from inside it

The difference: One bare setting and no interiority — pure survival arithmetic

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

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Limitless
2011 · dir. Neil Burger
🍅 68%★ 7.4thriller · mystery · science fiction

A mind altered against its owner's will, changing what reality even is

The difference: A power fantasy with a slick high — no grief anchoring the trip

The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.

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Identity
2003 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 64%★ 7.3mystery · thriller

A rainswept motel where nobody's account of themselves holds up

The difference: Played as a slasher — jolts and reveals over quiet inner ruin

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.

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The Call
2020 · dir. Lee Chung-hyun
🍅 46%★ 7.1thriller · mystery · science fictionNetflix

Both land twists and tension at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a caller puts a woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.

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Headshot
2016 · dir. Timo Tjahjanto
🍅 73%★ 6.3action · thriller · dramaNetflix

The same two preoccupations: amnesia, and revenge

The difference: Takes it somewhere less twisty than Memento does

A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.

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The End of Oak Street
2026 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 86%★ 6.5science fiction · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Mystery built on ideas, twice over

The difference: Easier on the relentlessness than Memento

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

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Lady Vengeance
2005 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 76%★ 7.5drama · thrillerRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Memento does

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.

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