Movies and TV shows like The return of Lucas

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The return of Lucas (2016)
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The return of Lucas (2016)
Original name: El regreso de Lucas
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Peru
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The return of Lucas tells the story of a well-off family who loses his eldest son, Lucas, 4 years old on the beach. Elena, his mother, is obsessed with finding him because he feels he is alive and never stops looking for him, neglecting his other children, Catalina and Juan, and her husband, Reynaldo, who took charge of the family and the company. After 20 years of the disappearance of Lucas, a photo of his son arrives at the mother's hands. A new track to follow that renews Elena's hopes of finding her son. Until one day, a young man shows up at the house of the Diaz Ayala family claiming to be Lucas. Will he be his lost son?
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, telenovela
Plot: dysfunctional family, mysterious disappearance, husband wife relationship, investigation, family relations, mother daughter relationship, disappearance, family problems, obsessive quest, uncover truth, boy, family
Place: argentina

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, disturbing and suspense films and TV series with plots about investigation, uncover truth, family problems, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, family relations and crime solving mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The return of Lucas: The Widow (2019), Klangor (2021), Missing Bride (2017), Kidnapped (2021), The Dark Heart (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Widow (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A woman's search to uncover the mysterious disappearance of her husband leads her to the Congo, where she's forced to seek the truth about what happened to the man she loved.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, detective, action packed
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: missing husband, widow, secrets, uncover truth, female protagonist, danger, twists and turns, husband wife relationship, investigation, airplane crash, fake death, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, wales, congo
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Klangor (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: A desperate father looks for his missing daughter.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense
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Missing Bride (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
TV show
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, telenovela
Plot: family secret, crime solving, investigation, mysterious disappearance, mother son relationship, private investigation, family relations, family problems, uncover truth, disappearance
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Kidnapped (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Savannah Duke-Morgan realizes her lifetime dream to bring her husband Brad and her five-year-old daughter Aria back to her birthplace on the Gold Coast of Australia until it turns into her worst nightmare when Aria goes missing from the resort’s ...
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: husband wife relationship, mysterious disappearance, family secret, family life, investigation, relationship problems, life is a bitch, family relations, dysfunctional family, disappearance, family problems, child kidnapping ...
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The Dark Heart (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story: Sanna is the 21-year-old daughter of a rich landowner in southern Sweden. Her father, Bengt, makes his fortune by leasing his vast expanse of inherited land to hardworking family farmers, many of whom struggle to make ends meet. Stern and ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: murder investigation, investigation, puzzle, crime investigation, uncover truth, obsessive quest, male female relationship, family problems, disappearance, sleuth, couple relations, relationships ...
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The Perfect Mother (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 192 min.
TV show
Story: Convinced of her daughter's innocence in a homicide, a devoted mother soon uncovers unsettling truths as the line between victim and perpetrator blurs.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: murder investigation, investigation, uncover truth, framed for a crime, secret, female protagonist, crime investigation, who done it, problem, parents and children, accusation, male female relationship ...
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Lost Without Trace (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Latvia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Anna and Victoria left their homes at 8 a.m. And never came back. An investigator from Saint Petersburg arrived to a small Latvian town in an attempt to find the connection between the two missing women.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, mysterious disappearance, sleuth, police investigation, secret, murder mystery, crime investigation, disappearance, crime solving, police
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The Cry (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 231 min.
TV show
Story: The disappearance of a baby from a small coastal town in Australia is the catalyst for a journey into the disintegrating psychology of a young couple as they deal with an unthinkable tragedy under both the white light of public scrutiny and behind ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, compassionate, tense ...
Plot: missing child, desperation, ex husband ex wife relationship, investigation, uncover truth, saving a life, husband wife relationship, female warrior, accusation, child in peril, dysfunctional family, family problems ...
Place: australia, scotland
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Hollington Drive (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A four-part thriller that focuses on the lives of sisters Theresa and Helen after a kid in their neighbourhood goes missing.
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: children, mysterious disappearance, sisters, disappearance, family problems, sister sister relationship, parents and children, dysfunctional family, child in peril, kids in trouble, missing child, teacher
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Hide and Seek (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: In an ordinary looking apartment, a father and daughter play a game of hide-and-seek. While searching for his daughter, she is nowhere to be found... Later, a video is posted which shows the girl holding a sign with a mysterious set of numbers. But ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, disturbing
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The Bronze Garden (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Architect Fabián Danubio desperately tries to find his daughter, who has inexplicably disappeared leaving no trace.
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Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Alain Delambre, unemployed and 57, is lured by an attractive job opening. But things get ugly when he realizes he’s a pawn in a cruel corporate game.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, tense, captivating ...
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Riptide (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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Style: captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, private investigation, crime solving, problem, mysterious disappearance, secret, crime investigation, uncover truth, disappearance
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57%
The 12 from Oldenheim (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the lives of the inhabitants of Oldenheim, an ancient Dutch village where families have lived for generations. The terror is great when the inhabitants of the village are confronted with a series of mysterious disappearances.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot: village, missing person, mysterious disappearance, investigation, secret, disappearance, small village, society, crime investigation, uncover truth, lifestyle, crime solving ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The lives of the members of the Pons family change suddenly when Frida mysteriously disappears on the night of her father's birthday party.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, novela
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54%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
TV show
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Former Hong Kong Correctional Services personnel Cheung Sing-hei was sent to prison for murdering his stepfather. The key witness of the case turns out to be his cousin and best friend Tong Lap-yin. Ten years later, Sing-hei is released from prison. ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Duration: 86 min.
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TV show
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TV show
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
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Duration: 40 min.
TV show
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Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
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Genre: Drama
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TV show
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
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Blood (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Style: disturbing, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
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38%
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Baba (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
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Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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TV show
Story: What's the worst that can happen to a police officer? Definitely an unresolved investigation. This is what happens on Boxing Day 1999. Charlotte Meyer, an 11-year-old girl, disappears without a trace. Captain Pierre Castaing, in charge of the ...
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Perfect Wife (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Sim Jae-Bok is married with two children. Due to hardships she went through, she has a wild temper. She gets involved in an unexpected case and begins to regain her true self.
Style: enigmatic, disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating
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Place: korea
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The Witnesses (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: When 10 year old girl is kidnapped from the natural history museum, the police questions eight key witnesses to uncover the truth and find the child before it's too late.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, tense
Plot: female psychologist, kidnapping, witness, witnessing a crime, police investigation, investigation, uncover truth, sleuth, forensics, crime solving, abduction, crime investigation ...
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34%
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Apaches (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: A young journalist is forced into a life of crime to save his father and family in this series based on the novel by Miguel Sáez Carral.
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense
Plot: father son relationship, reunited friends, father son reunion, social relations, friendship, family reunited, friends, society, family problems, social problems, family relations, getting home ...
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34%
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