Missing son movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant missing son movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic and psychological films and TV shows about / with missing son, missing person, family relations, missing child, father son relationship, disappearance, investigation, husband wife relationship, photograph and bare chested male plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as missing son: The Drowning (2021), A Mother's Instinct (2015), Without a Trace (1983), Mother (2019), Missing (2012), The Forgotten (2004), The Missing (2014), The Lost Son (1999), Echoes from the Dead (2013), Into Thin Air (1985).

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 5.5
 3K
The Drowning (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: Since losing her son eight years ago, Jodie has been rebuilding her life but when she catches sight of Daniel, she is convinced she has found her missing son.
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: missing child, loss of son, missing person, family relations, female protagonist, investigation, secret identity, missing son, mysterious disappearance, mental disorder, bereavement, secret ...
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A Mother's Instinct (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a woman’s son goes missing and the prime suspect is released due to lack of evidence, she and her teenage daughter decide to play vigilante.
Style: psychological, bleak, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing son, cyberbullying, missing child, boy, parent child relationship, high school student, uncover truth, crime investigation, law enforcement, family relations, suspicion ...
Time: 21st century
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Without a Trace (1983)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the case of young New Yorker Etan Patz, who disappeared in the early 1980s, this film casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who make her ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: missing person, kidnapping, missing child, single parent, parents and children, family life, family problems, law enforcement, life is a bitch, death in the family, father son relationship, child abuse ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city, new york, connecticut
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 6.6
 2K
Mother (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: This is the 2019 feature film currently in post-production. Not the 2017 Oscar nominated short from the same director.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: older woman teenage boy relationship, teenager, motherhood, missing son, female protagonist, loss of son, teenage boy, women, dangerous attraction, sexual attraction, fatal attraction, loss ...
Time: 2010s
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 6.9
 10K
Missing (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Becca Winstone learns that her son, Michael, disappears while studying abroad, and it's a race against time when she travels to Europe to track him down. A surprising turn of events reveals just how far one mother will go to protect her ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: missing child, kidnapping, conspiracy, investigation, parents and children, spy, heroes, danger, retired, family relations, disappearance, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
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 5.8
 68K
The Forgotten (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: memory loss, conspiracy, psychiatrist, memory, missing child, mind game, delusion, twists and turns, abduction, grief, alien, experiment ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 8.2
 30K
The Missing (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 943 min.
TV show
Story: A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.
Style: detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot: investigation, missing child, missing person, police detective, twists and turns, abduction, pedophile, police, child abuse, journalist, child abduction, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, year 2014, year 2006, year 2009 ...
Place: france
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 6.4
 2K
The Lost Son (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is ...
Style: erotic, detective, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: pedophile, private investigator, sexual abuse, real world, supernatural horror, prostitution, sex crime, murder, private detective, boy, pornographic video, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s
Place: london, england, latin america, europe, mexico
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Echoes from the Dead (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: On a foggy day, Julia‘s six-year-old son Jens is called missing. Despite a thorough search, the boy is never found. Twenty years later, Julia’s father receives one of the shoes Jens was wearing the day he disappeared. Who sent it? Why? Is the ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: missing child, survival, single parent, danger, missing person, faked death, false identity, loss of father, love, female protagonist, world war two, nordic ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place: eastern europe, havana cuba, cuba
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 6.9
 467
Into Thin Air (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their ...
Style: mind bending, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, missing son, survival, grief, family relations, private detective, investigation, college, kidnapping, teenage life, school, siblings relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: maine, colorado, usa
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 7.8
 265K
Changeling (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, sentimental, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, investigation, fighting the system, missing child, missing person, police corruption, uncover truth, disorder, trial, kidnapped child, corruption ...
Time: 1920s, year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, year 1935 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, canada, seattle
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Don't Talk to Strangers (1994)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Unhappy marriage causes divorce. Brosnan (new husband) and wife attempt to build a new life, and move to a new state. However, the ex-husband follows and the story unfolds from there.
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, action thriller, crying ...
Plot: divorce, boy, kidnapping, strong female lead, manipulation, secret, rivalry, fight, female protagonist, police investigation, police, father son relationship ...
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 6.9
 235
Naufragio (1978)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: One woman lives waiting for his son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a co-worker and friend. This last woman begins to idealize her friend's ...
Plot: bare chested male, male pubic hair, tattoo, prostitute, rain, missing son, single woman, disappearance, sailor, rape, city, cooking ...
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Concrete Canyons (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A sheriff searches for his son, accused of murder and on the run.
Style: suspense, exciting, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: father son estrangement, fish out of water, missing son, female detective, investigation, small town sheriff, conspiracy, abduction, murder suspect, innocent, learning the truth, young girl ...
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I Come with the Rain (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Spain, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia the disappearance of his only son, Shitao, whom he has not seen in person since the boy was ten. Now ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, missing person, investigation, private detective, haunted by the past, medieval, murder, danger, warrior, moving, violent content, rock ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, the philippines, asia
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Missing Brendan (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: George takes a trip to Vietnam to find his missing son. George's son Bob and Bob's son Patrick accompany George on the trip. George's son, Brendan, has been Missing in Action since the Vietnam War. Julie, an archeologist, joined the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: missing person, family relations, vietnam war, haunted by the past, parents and children, human nature, family life, village, culture clash, expedition, love, missing son ...
Place: vietnam, chicago, asia, usa, honolulu hawaii
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 5.8
 2K
My Son (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The story of a busy man, who fills his time travelling to Africa, South America and the Middle East. His passion for his job has distanced him from his loved ones. He’s been divorced for three years and has since seen his son very little. When the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, touching ...
Plot: kidnapping, divorced couple, missing child, ex husband ex wife relationship, investigation, aggression, breaking and entering, torture, snow, mountain, kidnapper, missing son ...
Time: year 2017
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In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Style: detective, touching, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: guilt, investigation, army, military, army investigation, war crime, cover up, murder investigation, character study, uncover truth, parent child relationship, loss of son ...
Time: year 2007, year 2004, 21st century
Place: iraq, new mexico, afghanistan, persia, tennessee ...
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 4.7
 510
Stray (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Igor is ready for anything for the sake of Polina’s happiness, and in order to compensate for the loss of her son, the couple opens up to a new child. But instead of an ordinary boy from a shelter, a mystical creature that can recreate the ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, demonic ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, death of child, anxiety, evil power, dark power, family problems, foster child, foster home, mysticism, adopted son, marital problem, memories ...
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 7.5
 242K
The Impossible (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of ...
Style: emotional, suspense, heartbreaking, motivational, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, tsunami, ocean, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, vacation, family in danger ...
Time: year 2004, year 2012, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand, southeast asia, asia
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 7.6
 35K
Loveless (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening ...
Style: melancholic, bleak, psychological, heartbreaking, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: divorce, missing child, disappearance, dysfunctional family, search party, dysfunctional marriage, selfishness, anger, broken family, sex scene, parent child relationship, missing person ...
Time: year 2012, year 2017, 2010s, 90s, year 2015
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
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 6.2
 33K
I Came By (2022)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A rebellious young graffiti artist, who targets the homes of the wealthy elite, discovers a shocking secret that leads him on a journey endangering himself and those closest to him.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, serious, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: missing son, hidden door, pregnant girlfriend, graffiti, shock, street artist, fear, painter, hidden room, friends, human trafficking, friend ...
Time: 2020s
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Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into ...
Style: christmas classics, sweet, touching, claymation, christmas special ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: stop motion, christmas, holiday, reindeer, imaginary kingdom, winter, toys, xmas, christmas season, island, snow, misfit ...
Time: 60s
Place: fictional island
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 6.6
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Crossroads (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 283 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the family of lawyer Sofie and Commissioner Thomas that is struck by fate. Their five-year-old son, Arthur, disappears without a trace. This tragedy makes Sofie question her life. She ends her career as a criminal lawyer and starts ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling
Plot: lawyer, investigation, problem, advocate, vanished man, crime investigation, secret, female lawyer, mysterious disappearance, private investigation, career change, missing son ...
Place: france
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 6.6
 98
Nachttocht (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 63 min.
Story: 12 year old Thomas ( Abel Claassen) and his quest for friendship and love. He takes rowing lessons and grows rather fond of his teacher...who, according to his mother, is unlike the bully trainers in the other clubs...he really knows how to work ...
Style: crying
Plot: man boy relationship, coming of age, homoerotic fight, homoeroticism, friendship between boys, gay interest, homoerotic friendship, male nudity, teenage boy, bare chested male, age-gap relationship, boyhood ...
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 6.6
 63
Pure Life (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France, French Guiana, Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 1949, a French explorer goes on a solitary expedition in the Amazon forest. He leaves behind him a diary that reflects the meaning of Pure Life and his encounters but leaves the mystery of his own disappearance unsolved.
Style: captivating
Plot: explorer, travelogue, wildlife, expedition, amazon, amazon river, amazon jungle, nature, amazon rainforest, biopic, river, missing son ...
Time: year 1949
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Little Crusader (2017)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Knight Borek is searching for his missing son. Enthralled by the stories of children's crusades, little Jan has run away from home. Borek's crusade is a journey into his own subconscious, where he is forced to confront his greatest fear.
Style: art house, road movie
Plot: medieval, crusader, knight, horse riding, father son relationship, quest, horse, missing child, missing son
Time: middle ages
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 6.3
 41
David (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A mentally handicapped young man decides to leave the security of his family in order to search the purpose of his existence; whether it is freedom, sexual experience or death.
Plot: missing son, virgin, missing person, virginity, masturbation, male masturbation, male virgin, husband wife relationship, family relations, mentally challenged
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 6.3
 151
Lily in Winter (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lily Covington, a Manhattan housekeeper, embarks on a trip to the rural Alabama town of her youth. To Lily's surprise, her employer's nine-year-old son Michael stows away for the ride. Together, Lily and Michael realize just how alike and ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, emotional, touching, feel good ...
Plot: black, youth, family relations, interracial relations, switching roles, nanny, society, on the run, missing person, racism, kidnapping, bittersweet ...
Time: 90s
Place: alabama, new york, usa, southern usa, manhattan new york city
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Father’s Chair (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, on the road, couples, family problems, life turned upside down, disorder, crumbling marriage, self discovery, parents and children, relationship vs career, father son relationship, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
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