Amélie (2001), The Wages of Fear (1953), The Revenant (2015), Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018), Arrival (2016), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), That's Entertainment! III (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Reminiscence movies.
Storyline: Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she's stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: greece, breaking the fourth wall, adultery, husband wife relationship, greek island, female protagonist, british ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a wonderfully sweet yet poignant story, Louise, an old lady, finds herself stranded in a seaside resort after the last train of the holiday season has left the station. But far from panicking, the fearless Louise decides to stay, no matter what awaits her. And the worst does await her: foul weather, heavy rains, high tides. Under such circumstances, will this new Robinson achieve her goal and manage to survive amidst the raging elements?—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: character name in title, alone, loneliness, crab, breaking a window, breaking and entering, cabin ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys Antoine's first published autobiographical novel. They meet again in a station...—Yepok
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, nonlinear timeline, flashback, wine cellar, female lawyer, record store, thirty something ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After 12 years of absence, Louis (Gaspard Ulliel), a writer, goes back to his hometown, planning on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment soon rewrites the course of the afternoon, fits and feuds unfold, fuelled by loneliness and doubt, while all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people's incapacity to listen and love.
Plot Keywords: gay lead character, illness, returning home, family reunion, dysfunctional family, family relationships, based on play ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.—Dragomir R. Radev <radev@cs.columbia.edu>
Plot Keywords: french soldier, military officer, presumed dead, back from the dead, marriage, husband wife relationship, paris france ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the early 1800's, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilisation and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: near death experience, childbirth, determination, limping, healing, four word title, courage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon. On Earth, an investigation team finds the last of the Victorian crew - a now aged Arnold Bedford and he tells them the story of how he and his girlfriend, Katherine Callender, meet up with an inventor, Joseph Cavor, in 1899. Cavor has invented Cavorite, a paste that will allow anything to deflect gravity and he created a sphere that will actually take them to the moon. Taking Arnold and accidentally taking Katherine they fly to the moon where, to their total amazement, they discover a bee-like insect population who take an unhealthy interest in their Earthly visitors...—Lee Horton <Leeh@tcp.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: giant insect, passenger, professor, reminiscence, sacrifice, reference to napoleon, alien ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie's daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and estranged daughter to work together to get her back.
Plot Keywords: child gagged, turtle, tomahawk, tolerance, toilet, telegraph, stabbed in the back ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story is set in a world where implanted microchips can record all moments of an individual's life. The chips are removed upon death so the images can be edited into something of a highlight reel for loved ones who want to remember the deceased. Caviezel portrays the leader of the organization that opposes this technology's development.
Plot Keywords: split screen, child molester, incest, child rape, father daughter incest, file cabinet, giving birth ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy's life in a rural 1940s Southern town.—Ivana Redwine <credwine@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: teenage boy, reminiscence, mother son relationship, melancholy, hallucination, dysfunctional family, child's point of view ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paul, a divorced architect, marries Nichole, a woman from Paris. His teen daughter Jenny has fallen in with the English beatnik scene and likes to hang out in cave-like clubs to listen to jazz and rudimentary rock'n'roll. Jenny takes an immediate dislike to her step mother, who is not that much older than she, and goes out of her way to make life miserable for Nichole. When Jenny discovers that Nichole is a friend of one of the strippers from the dance hall across the street, she investigates and uses Nichole's sordid past to embarrass her father. Meanwhile Jenny attracts the lecherous eye of Kenny, the owner of the dance hall.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: teensploitation, candle, vamp, strip club, jukebox, striptease, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At the beginning Ernest gets a shot by Miss. St.cloud then they get a group of kids from a institution. Then Ernest becomes a camp counselor. Later on Ernest gets bit by fire ants at a picnic with Nurse St.cloud and the Chief which is Miss. St.clouds Grandfather. Then The Chief is tricked into selling the camp by Krader Mining company. Then Ernest gets beat up and Miss. St.cloud patches him up. Then he saves Kamp Kikike which is where they live and they become a year round camp.
Plot Keywords: slapstick comedy, character name in title, native american, stupidity, woods, competition, breaking the fourth wall ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two men from Pennsylvania give up hope in their small run down coal mining town, and head off in search of the beaches of California. The two steal cars as they travel across the USA and are joined by a wild young woman.—Rob Hartill
Plot Keywords: independent film, illinois, contamination, native american reservation, leather jacket, wolf, redemption ...
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