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Point Last Seen (1998)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fact-based story about a tracker who searches for a little girl who was lost in the desert, but suffers internally because her own children were kidnapped by her ex-husband.
Style:
suspense, tense, emotional, intense, realistic, psychological, melancholic, cliffhanger, period piece
Plot:
search and rescue, desert, kidnapping, motherhood, rescue, female protagonist, determination, survival, obsession, isolation, grief, hopes, investigation, law enforcement, kidnapper, dehydration, flashback, moral dilemma, small town, children, mother, barbie, kidnapped, daughter, ex husband ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, realistic, suspense and emotional films with plots about survival, isolation, moral dilemma, small town, grief, kidnapping and hopes mostly in Drama, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like Point Last Seen: Cradles for Cash (2019), Ikshu (2022), Where Are My Children? (1994), Flood! (1976), Not Without Hope (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Kelly's newborn baby is stolen from the hospital where she works, she teams up with Gloria, also a victim of baby abduction, to get her child back from a black market adoption ring.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
kidnapping, motherhood, protective mother, female protagonist, child abduction, problem, life is a bitch, abduction, rescue mission, danger, hospital, justice ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
95%
2K
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Ikshva, a 16-year-old boy seeks help from a police officer to find his missing parents. An uninvited guest and local goons turn his fate around. Will he find his parents?
Style:
crime drama, emotional, intense, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
police investigation, teenage protagonist, coming of age, family drama, corruption, desperation, family secret, loss, small town, youth, determination, resilience ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, crime drama, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
single mother, motherhood, mother love, missing child, family drama, kidnapping, resilience, determination, wrongful arrest, injustice, fbi investigation, trauma ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 60s
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
61%
670
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
Style:
tense, tension, suspense, emotional, grim ...
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, flood, small town, survival, evacuation, moral dilemma, destruction, heroism, pandemic, dam, helicopter ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
texas
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
Style:
tense, intense, emotional, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
hopes, sea, survival, endurance, desperation, isolation, shipwreck, coast guard, lifeboat, rescue, trauma, friendship ...
Similarity:
54%
18K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last ...
Style:
emotional, suspense, tense, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
rave, rave party, father son relationship, missing daughter, missing person, desert, fatherhood, family bonds, family drama, loss, disappearance, grief ...
Place:
morocco, north africa
Similarity:
51%
3K
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An ex-military doctor finds herself in a deadly battle for survival when the Irish mafia seize control of the hospital at which she works. When her son is taken hostage, she is forced to rely upon her battle-hardened past and lethal skills after ...
Style:
tense, intense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hospital, hostage, struggle for survival, war veteran, military, survival, medical, irish mob, hostage situation, problem, soldier, mobster ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
For Kathiravan, who lost his left leg in an accident,his 8-year-old daughter is his world. She is diagnosed with a congenital heart problem and 7 Million INR is needed to save his daughter. Unable to raise such a huge amount, he plans to kidnap ...
Style:
tense, emotional, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
single father, desperation, child illness, family drama, bereavement, disability, loss of family member, physical disability, loss of wife, accident, fight, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1993, Maureen’s six-year-old daughter Amina is snuck out of the country by her ex-husband, Karim. After years of unsuccessful attempts to find her, Maureen intersects with a professional retriever of internationally abducted children who ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot:
motherhood, missing child, abduction, female protagonist, resilience, family drama, determination, mother daughter reunion, private investigator, moral ambiguity, betrayal, child abduction ...
Time:
90s
Place:
middle east, syria
Similarity:
47%
706
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, a handful of survivors must achieve the impossible: Land the airplane.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
air disaster, airplane, survival, disaster, crash landing, flying, aviation, airline, plane crash, airplane accident, exploding airplane, survivor ...
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A woman hires a contract-killer when her ex-husband kidnaps her son.
Style:
suspense, tension, dark, crime drama, emotional ...
Plot:
kidnapping, abduction, contract killer, motherhood, female protagonist, ex husband, rescue mission, desperation, danger, family conflict, rescue, revenge ...
Similarity:
47%
528
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Armenia, Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
«Spitak» tells the story of the most devastating and largest (in terms of casualties) Armenian earthquake that happened on December 7, 1988. This day went down in history as the day of a horrible disaster, which claimed the lives of over 25,000 ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, emotional, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
natural disaster, tragedy, hopes, grief, loss, disaster, tragic event, destruction, family tragedy, hell on earth, survival, mourning ...
Place:
armenia, russia, soviet union, moscow russia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A deadly patchwork of destructive cyclones is on an apocalyptic path of convergence at a populated Midwest city center. There, the twisters will merge into one mega tornado that threatens to obliterate the cities for hundreds of miles around.
Style:
intense, apocalyptic, tense, suspense, fast paced ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
tornado, disaster, natural disaster, destruction, extreme weather, survival, mass destruction, chaos, man versus nature, evacuation, panic, spectacle ...
Place:
midwest
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After being implicated in a terrorist attack, Santi, a taxi driver, is taken hostage by one of the perpetrators.
Style:
intense, tense, psychological, realistic, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorist, terrorism, hostage, taxi driver, jeopardy, terrorist attack, bomb, bomb threat, threat, danger, characters in danger, death threat ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
44%
858
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Cockpit is a story based on true incidents. The story follows a flight that is going from Mumbai to Calcutta and gets hit from bad turbulent weather.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
pilot, crash landing, aviation, flying, air disaster, problem, social problems, car accident, airplane trip, airline, courage, survival ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
kolkata, india, mumbai india
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 1925, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly epidemic.
Style:
tense, inspirational, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
danger, epidemic, perseverance, cold, arctic, rescue mission, winter, snow, heroism, survival, bravery, youth ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The story of a mother whose two young daughters are kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband—and her all-consuming fight to get them back.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, kidnapping, child kidnapping, family bonds, protective parent, domestic abuse, domestic violence, motherhood, abduction, marital problem, kidnapped child, family relations ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
True life drama about a working mum (Henner) whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her (Savant) and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, intense, realistic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
justice, stalking, serial killer, obsession, female protagonist, biopic, danger, courtroom, working mom, legal battle, protection, motherhood ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Julius Fonteneau has decided to take the law into his own hands after his daughter has gone missing. His only friend supports him while his wife resents him and the police are growing suspicious of his intentions. He must determine right from wrong ...
Style:
suspense, tense, intense, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, kidnapping, vigilante, murder, violence, husband wife relationship, psycho killer, blood, deception, moral dilemma, missing child, grief ...
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
41%
173
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Israel, Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
motherhood, domestic drama, character study, identity, female protagonist, gender roles, intimate, realism, family secret, trauma, friendship, intimacy ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Best buds since childhood, Ben and Matt have grown apart with age. Even when Ben is diagnosed with diabetes, Matt struggles to support his friend like he should. Then, while vacationing at the lake, Matt is awakened by screams and groans coming from ...
Style:
realistic, tense, intense, emotional, suspense
Plot:
capture, swimming, lake, diabetes, friendship, survival, loyalty, panic, determination, isolation, fear, moral dilemma ...
Place:
vermont
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Aviator Marie Vallières de Beaumont goes on a journey to find her lover Bill Lancaster after his plane disappears in the Sahara. After her plane is forced down in the Ténéré she meets Lieutenant Antoine Chauvet of the French Camel Corps who ...
Style:
atmospheric, sentimental, serious, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot:
desert, aviation, obsessive quest, missing person, escapades, love and romance, disobey, aviator, journey, female protagonist, man versus nature, search and rescue ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
sahara, africa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A refugee struggles hard to find an identity for himself in order to accomplish his dreams.
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, realistic, road movie ...
Plot:
refugee, identity, character study, humanity, resilience, empathy, soul searching, social issues, migration, journey, hopes, realism ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Searching for Nidhi in Madurai's streets, Aryan faces mounting danger and tension at every turn. Time runs short as he navigates growing chaos to stay alive.
Style:
tense, suspense, fast paced, emotional, neo noir
Plot:
missing person, desperation, search and rescue, survival, investigation, cat and mouse, streetwise, panic, chaos, obsession, loyalty, male protagonist ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An American entrepreneur is closing a deal in Saudi Arabia in 1977. After a fallout with his influential Saudi partners, they have him arrested. Due to the US policy of noninterference in SA, the embassy won't help him. He must escape.
Style:
suspense, intense, tension, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot:
escape, wrongful imprisonment, desert, corruption, survival, hostage, betrayal, embassy, prison break, political conflict, diplomacy, conspiracy ...
Time:
70s
Place:
saudi arabia, middle east
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Brian Cook has been firefighter for over 15 years, but he is now facing the biggest battle of his life - not the fire in the field, but the fire burning inside.
Style:
emotional, inspirational, intense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
firefighter, character study, resilience, post traumatic stress, heroism, trauma, mental health, bravery, sacrifice, courage, redemption, intimate ...
Similarity:
38%
14K
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A taxi driver finds himself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy after his car is confiscated by a corrupt police officer.
Style:
realistic, tense, road movie, suspense, melancholic ...
Plot:
taxi driver, corruption, working class, small town, social commentary, police brutality, conspiracy, determination, justice, resilience, moral dilemma, survival ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A doctor's (Stefano Accorsi) life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.
Style:
medical drama, emotional, psychological, tense, intense ...
Plot:
ambulance, hospital, accident, surgeon, trauma, couples, paramedic, loss, grief, guilt, relationships, investigation ...
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
To rescue his daughter, an unstable Special Forces veteran unleashes his inner beast as he pursues her kidnappers — and soon becomes a suspect himself.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, kidnapping, ex soldier, war veteran, child abduction, vigilante, ptsd, post traumatic stress disorder, criminal, fighting crime, kidnapped, family problems ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Adventure, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Two bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime thriller, crime drama, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
boat, kidnapping, river, hijacking, hostage situation, danger, pursuit, chase, suspicion, criminal underworld, loyalty, survival ...
Time:
70s
Place:
mississippi
Similarity:
36%
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