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* The episode of ''ChinaBeach'' with Ricky Lake's character getting pregnant and having an abortion.

* The HaroldPinter play (and film version) ''Theatre/{{Betrayal}}'' chronicles a broken marriage in reverse, over a period of several years.

* ''Retro/Grade'' is a rhythm game framed as a 2d shmup played backwards: the player plays through the levels in reverse, dodges backwards enemy fire and "unfires" his shots, all which are in beat with the music.

* An episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' ("Redrum", #167, or S8-6) made use of this, but the central character was aware of it. He woke up in prison, not understanding how he got there. He goes to sleep that night, and wakes up the next morning to discover that he is going to trial, for the crime he was incarcerated for "yesterday."

* The Investigation Discovery series ''Redrum'' (a possible reference to ''TheXFiles'' episode?) starts out with the murder in question.
** More likely both are referring to ''Literature/TheShining''.

* At one point, in ChuckJones's ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon "Shutter Bugged Cat", Tom plays footage from "Heavenly Puss" backwards. Not a bad idea for a ClipShow.

* Just about everything in Martin Amis' Holocaust novel ''TimesArrow'' happens in reverse.

* [[http://www.fisheye.co.il/memento/ An absolutely brilliant "review"]] of the film ''{{Memento}}''. The writer describes how he came to watch the film, but in reverse order - just like the film itself. (The review is in Hebrew, see translation [[http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=iw&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=iw&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fisheye.co.il%2Fmemento%2F here]]).

* The film ''{{Film/Memento}}'', which spawned a number of [[{{Parody}} parodies]]/{{homage}}s/[[FollowTheLeader ripoffs]].

* The French film ''{{Irreversible}}''. Hard to notice, though, when [[BrownNote you're choking on your own vomit (partially thanks to the Infrasound on the first half of the movie)]]...
* In ''EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'' the story is told backwards through the Lacuna memory erasing machine, since it erases the newer memories first and the old ones last.

* A video artist took ''TheAndromedaStrain'' and cut it so every shot appears in reverse order. The resulting piece was entitled ''[[SdrawkcabName Strain Andromeda The]]''.

* "Little Motel" by Modest Mouse. Good god... [[spoiler:It starts off as if a mother is tucking her child into bed, but as the reverse story reveals everything, [[TearJerker it is revealed that the child is dead]]]].

Also see HowWeGotHere, where the last scene comes first and everything else is in order; AnachronicOrder, where scenes are presented out of any chronological order at all, aka NonLinearStorytellinng. This is similarly implemented with InMediasRes, where the middle of story precedes the start. Compare UnstuckInTime.

Also see HowWeGotHere, where the last scene comes first and everything else is in order; AnachronicOrder, where scenes are presented out of any chronological order at all, aka NonLinearStorytelling. Finally, where the middle scenes come up at the front before going back to the start, see InMediasRes. Compare UnstuckInTime.

Also see HowWeGotHere, where the last scene comes first and everything else is in order; AnachronicOrder, where scenes are presented out of any chronological order at all, aka NonLinearStorytelling. Compare UnstuckInTime.

* An episode of ''{{Series/The X-Files}}'' ("Redrum", #167, or S8-6) made use of this, but the central character was aware of it. He woke up in prison, not understanding how he got there. He goes to sleep that night, and wakes up the next morning to discover that he is going to trial, for the crime he was incarcerated for "yesterday."

* The french song ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5WdpSPeQUE Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise]]'' (Best known in its [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Russian]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DfFAlRmIBU version]], to the extent of ''the punchline becoming a proverb'' there). A woman calls to ask how things are going at home. Well, everything is fine, except for your horse dying... because the stables burned down... because the entire house did... because your husband learned he was broke and shot himself, knocking down a candle when he fell dead. [[BlatantLies Otherwise, everything is fine]].

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Amish Paradise" has a reverse section with Al lip-syncing to the forward music.

* Lampshaded in an episode of HomeMovies, when the kids make a movie in reverse because Brendon insists it's the hip thing to do.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDGD4mLC04E The video]] for Enigma's "Return to Innocence" features scenes from a man's life, in reverse. The man starts the video as an elderly guy, and ends it as a baby.

* ''{{Thirtysomething}}'' used the device to good effect to dramatize a character's pregnancy.

* [[http://www.fisheye.co.il/memento/ An absolutely brilliant "review"]] of the film ''Memento''. The writer describes how he came to watch the film, but in reverse order - just like the film itself. (The review is in Hebrew, see translation [[http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=iw&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=iw&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fisheye.co.il%2Fmemento%2F here]]).