A city-wide blackout triggers a crisis for a businessman whose life begins to unravel when nothing he remembers is real.īlindfolded - Rock Hudson. Female cabbie helps a man recall his memory as they race to solve a murder, remade with Tom Conway and Ann Rutherford and directed by Anthony Mann as Two O’Clock Courage. Man begins to see through the illusion he lives in. A man with amnesia struggles to recall reality in clever noirish sf film based on a graphic novel. Memento - Man who loses his memory every time he goes to sleep tries to solve the murder of his wife by leaving clues behind to follow each day.ĭark City - Rufus Sewell. Phantom Lady - Alan Curtis man’s drink induced memory loss means his friends have to follow abstract clues from his flawed memory to save him from execution based on Cornell Woolrich novel. Jazz musician gets help from his cop brother-in-law Paul Kelly to recover marijuana induced memory loss and clear his name based on Cornell Woolrich short ‘Marijuana’ and remade with Kevin McClory and Edward G. An Army officer tries to combat drug induced memories implanted as part of a Chinese plot from Richard Condon’s novel.įear in the Night - Deforest Kelly. The Manchurian Candidate - Frank Sinatra. An amnesiac tries to clear himself by regaining his memory. An obnoxious millionaire struggles to remember who is trying to kill him based on Joseph Hayes’ novel. German doctor Rod Taylor uses drugs to induce amnesia in order to get Garner to reveal the true site of the D-Day landings. Based on the novel Buddwing by Even Hunter a man with amnesia stumbles from one woman in his life to the next trying to put together who he is.ģ6 Hours -James Garner again. No Man of Her Own - Barbara Stanwyck claims partial amnesia to cover lapses in her memory in pretending to be another woman based on Woolrich’s I Married a Dead Man. Richard Todd’s character suffers partial amnesia involving the murder the police want him for.
A writer and producer who wakes up with no memory and in the middle of a murderous plot based on Q. Based on Cornell Woolrich’s Black Curtain about a man with short term amnesia who thinks he may have committed a murder.įemale Fiends - Lex Barker.
This one could get pretty long fast, but I’ll try to restrain myself: Which of course triggered the obvious question from me to David. “It” referring to the concept of amnesia, as practiced in the movies and crime fiction. In a comment that he left soon after the review appeared, David Vineyard wondered “where would suspense fiction and movies be without it?” Never love a man who calls you "darlings" and then hits you.This particular list of motion pictures was prompted by Walter Albert’s recent review of De Luxe Annie (1915), in which all of the heroine’s difficulties stem from being knocked unconscious early on and suffering from amnesia for the rest of the movie, or almost. The wife remains hopeful her husband will change. It has three superstars in top form and frothy antics, but there is no missing at any moment its dire warning on the emotional manipulation and toxic cycle of spousal violence. This marital caper holds onto its prerogative as Bollywood entertainment. No mere laughing matterīhatt and Shah are a terrific double act, together hatching a hare-brained vendetta. Reen and co-producer Bhatt for prying open the bedroom doors of India's patriarchal society, where misogyny is systemic and victims suffer in silence. With a subject so enraging, it was bound to be a conversation-starter even in the international media. The Hindi dark comedy on domestic abuse in a Mumbai chawl has become the most-watched non-English Indian original film, clocking more than 24 million viewings since its Netflix release earlier this month, with plans for both a Tamil and Telugu remake. Female netizens argue Darlings is empowering. Male rights activists demanded a boycott, upset at the story for encouraging violence against men. Here are two reasons to watch this streaming smash. Shefali Shah is invaluable as her nosy mother-cum-avid accomplice. Three years into their marriage, she is a battered wife taking murderous revenge.
The story: Alia Bhatt and Vijay Varma co-star as a once-happy couple.
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