There is a closer use to your examples , but it may be only UK English, which has more circumlocution. Example .1. "I don't remember if ..."
I don't remember if I've ever watched that film: the book was so vivid.
I don't remember if Jeremy was there; I only had eyes for his sister.
And .2. for the more emphatic sense: "I would have remembered."
I didn't see the film; I would have remembered.
The letter of warning/ apology/ resignation never arrived; I would have remembered.
which, for your example would be:
Never in my life did I see that film with [say, Jack Nicholson] the actor; I would have remembered.
Notice: "Never did I see... " (the restriction of diminished opportunity requires an inversion) is slightly more appropriate for portrait...
Dracula Ch16 Never did I see such baffled malice on a face, ...
Leigh Hunt - 1837 - Liberalism: Never did I see such a movement of generosity and gentleness in all affections , as these children evinced...
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) on James Joyce. Never did I see such apparatus got ready for thinking, ...
...but “Never have I seen ...” is more usual with landscape or where the gaze is held.
Old Man and the sea: Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.
Conan Doyle: Never have I seen such a mixture of strength and beauty and grace.
But see the research by SevenSidedDie below which clearly shows "Never have I..." is preferable.
