Project Hail Mary (2026). Ryland Grace, the human hero of Andy Weir’s 2021 novel (there’s an alien counterpart too) wakes up alone on a spaceship. He’s a school science teacher – he’s not supposed to be here, trying to save the planet from sun-eating bugs! Someone put him on this one-way mission, which seemed doomed until he meets Rocky, from another planet facing the same problem, Sure, they’ll figure it out and build an epic friendship. But who put him on board in the first place?
Reality and memory clash in Liane Moriarty’s novel. But wait. What the hell happened? It’s a decade of drama to piece through – and there are different POVs. Can you trust them? Who’s the real victim?
What Alice Forgot (2009). Alice Love wakes up after a head injury, believing she’s still 29, happily married and pregnant. She’s a 39-year-old mother-of-three, estranged from her husband Nick, her best friend and her sister?
A panicky search with bizarre clues follows, with mobsters, a lost tooth, a Bengal Tiger and Mike Tyson involved. Friends Phil, Stu, and Alan wake up in a Vegas hotel room with zero recollection of the night before. Their friend Doug is missing – and he’s supposed to get married the next day. Along the way, the guys learn to work together, figure out who they really are. And what they are, is just human. Oh, they find Doug. He’s just a little dehydrated. In this psychological thriller based on SJ Watson’s novel, Christine Lucas wakes up every day with a total memory reset. He recommends she maintain a secret video diary. She also learns that her son is alive and Ben is not who he seems. No spoilers. Just remember that the past never stays quiet. Nothing can be worse for John Murdoch than waking up in a hotel bathtub to find he’s wanted for brutal murders he doesn’t remember committing. In Alex Proyas’s sci-fi classic, Murdoch is in a city of eternal night, drifting in space amid creepy aliens called Strangers. Citizens are injected with false identities and memories as an experiment to isolate the human soul. Murdoch must figure out his life, fight Strangers and save the city. And time is running out.
The Hangover (2009). Before I Go To Sleep (2014). Dark City (1998).
Her neurophysiologist, Dr Nasch, says her condition was caused by a violent attack, not a car accident as her husband Ben claims.
Total Recall (2012). Because his brain is already packed with active real spy files. Len Wiseman’s movie is set in a futuristic dystopian Earth, where bored robot-factory worker Douglas Quaid dreams of visiting Mars and decides to buy a fake memory of a secret agent’s two-week trip there. Oops. The machine crashes. Who is this guy? Quaid is actually the high-level operative Hauser, hunted by government forces. This is Colin Farrel at his confused best. Plus a barmaid no straight man will forget.
