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Vanished (2026)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
When a romantic getaway to Paris takes a dark turn with the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend Tom aboard a train to the south of France, Alice is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering shocking secrets about the man she thought she knew.
Style:
suspense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
missing person, disappearance, investigation, train travel, conspiracy, danger, female protagonist, trust, identity, betrayal, deception, secret life, cat and mouse, cold case, european, isolation, police procedural, amateur sleuth, moral ambiguity, female empowerment, duplicity, melancholy, flashback, train journey, flashbacks
Time:
contemporary
Place:
south of france
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Most similar movies to Vanished
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, dark and twisted films and TV series with plots about investigation, betrayal, moral ambiguity, female protagonist, cat and mouse, deception and conspiracy mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Vanished: The Tattoo (2017), Secrets to Kill For (2025), Down Cemetery Road (2025), Secrets Exposed (2022), After the Flood (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: Cyprus, Greece
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
greece
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
conspiracy, investigation, private investigator, suspicion, secrets, disappearance, missing person, obsession, danger, death, paranoid, identity ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
england
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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77%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
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Story:
Joanna finds an unidentified man dead in a lift in a underground car park after a devastating flood, police assumes that he became trapped as the waters rose, but she is obsessed with discovering what happened to him.
Style:
psychological, tension, suspense, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
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Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime drama
Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A woman gets thrust into a web of lies, betrayal and danger when she discovers her husband's secret life. As his hidden world threatens to unravel everything, she must take matters into her own hands to protect herself and her daughter.
Style:
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Plot:
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10K
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
paris france, london, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
A rootless genius, Iris Nixon, steals an enigmatic code from a charming philanthropist and disappears. A tense countdown ensues as she races to unravel the code's mystery.
Style:
suspense, tense, neo noir, twist ending
Plot:
countdown, cat and mouse, obsession, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, manipulation, anti hero, heist, surveillance, hi-tech, moral dilemma, identity ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Story:
A thriller film directed by Sunil Kumar Desai, starring Sai Dhanshika, Tanya Hope and Thakur Anoop Singh in the lead roles.
Style:
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Plot:
female protagonist, investigation, danger, moral ambiguity, revenge, violence, cat and mouse, motive, female empowerment, urban, chase, conspiracy ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A literature teacher suspects that a well-respected surgeon has drugged her and begins a legal case against him.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
52%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
52%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, twisted
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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48%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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2020s
Similarity:
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Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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TV show
Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Country: Ireland, UK
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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