By Any Name (2016)

Directed by

Euros Jones-Evans

Genre

action, drama, mystery

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man with amnesia from a traumatic event is found covered in blood and admitted to a psychiatric ward. He has military knowledge that suggests a past in terrorism, and when people around him start dying, a psychiatrist risks her life to help him recover his memory.

suspensefultensedarkmysteriousurgentintensegrittyparanoid

What happens

By Any Name is a 2016 British action thriller film, that has won two awards at the 2016 North Wales International Film Festival and is based on the book of the same name by Catrin Collier. The film follows the story of John West who is admitted to a psychiatric ward suffering from trauma-induced amnesia after he was found half naked running down a motorway and covered in blood. He has no memory of who he is. All he can recall is a detailed knowledge of sophisticated weaponry and military techniques that indicates a background in terrorism. When two armed soldiers guarding his room are murdered and Dr Liz Santer Samira Mohamed Ali, the psychiatrist assigned to his case, is abducted at gunpoint, a desperate hunt begins for a dangerous killer. Liz attempts to help her captor recover his memory despite all the warnings of what she might find. Is Liz in the hands of a homicidal terrorist or an innocent pawn? Her life depends on the right answer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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