Missing wife movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant missing wife movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller and tense films and TV shows about / with missing wife, missing person, disappearance, husband wife relationship, murder, investigation, police officer, obsession, missing woman and twists and turns plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, China and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as missing wife: Gone Girl (2014), The Lost Wife of Robert Durst (2017), Breakdown (1997), The Disappearance (1977), Vanishing Act (1986), All Good Things (2010), Fractured (2019), Frantic (1988), Lost in the Stars (2022), Runaway from Home (2010).
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, murder mystery, missing person, manipulation, infidelity, investigation, marriage, femme fatale, revenge, missing wife, adultery ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Young and wide-eyed, Kathie falls in love with charming yet quirky real estate scion Robert Durst, only to find their marriage turning stranger, darker and more disturbing as time passes.
Style:
suspense, thought provoking, serious, crime drama, dark ...
Plot:
disappearance, unsolved crime, jealous husband, missing wife, domestic violence, murder, schizophrenia, husband wife relationship, family business, missing person, suspicion, true crime ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
usa
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68K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never ...
Style:
psychological, road movie, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, violence, chase, road trip, couples, highway, conspiracy, desert, uncover truth, murder, danger, car breakdown ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, new mexico, usa, massachusetts, arizona
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Thriller about a contract killer whose wife has disappeared. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a "shy" or hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.
Style:
neo noir, surprise ending, independent film
Plot:
missing person, missing wife, professional, killer, professional killer, assassin, hitman, wife, exploitation, snow, murder, betrayal ...
Place:
montreal, london
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Genre: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the Rocky Mountains, Harry Kenyon seeks out his missing wife Chris in the Winter Parade. Harry meets Lieutenant Rudameyer and tells that him he is from San Francisco and has just married Chris, from Philadelphia, in Las Vegas. They traveled to ...
Style:
suspense, tension, psychological thriller, atmospheric, creepy ...
Plot:
missing person, disappearance, identity, police investigation, impostor, doubt, isolation, paranoia, honeymoon, confrontation, character study, winter ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Style:
sexy, suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
murder, missing person, disappearance, childhood trauma, dysfunctional marriage, abusive husband, mentally unstable, overbearing parent, divorce, twists and turns, investigation, violent ...
Time:
80s, year 2000, year 1982, future, year 2010 ...
Place:
new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, vermont, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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111K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological thriller, bleak, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
hospital, paradox, riding accident, loss of control, organ trafficking, disappearance, desperation, rescue, insanity, missing child, loss of family, tragedy ...
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61K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
espionage, missing wife, missing person, spy, investigation, hotel, chase, kidnapping, renaissance, hotel room, illuminati, violence ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, eastern europe, middle east
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
He Fei's wife, Li Muzi, disappears during their anniversary trip. When she reappears, he insists that she is not his wife. As Chen Mai, a top lawyer gets involved in this bizarre case, more mysteries start to emerge.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
unsolved crime, husband and wife, missing woman, identity, mysterious disappearance, husband wife relationship, missing wife, wife, vanished man, woman, male female relationship, investigation ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"Looking For My Wife" tells the story of a popular music critic Seong-hee (Ji Jin-Hee) who sets out to find his runaway wife Young-Shim (Kim Gyu-Ri) and the people who accompany him in his search. The only clues Seong-hee has is a goodbye ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, life turned upside down, obsessive quest, uncover truth, missing wife, partner, couples, buddies, disorder, bittersweet, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, as Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives.
Style:
dark comedy, absurd, hilarious, crying, complex
Plot:
orgasm, weatherman, toad, neighbor, flowers, sewer, friendship, missing wife, tunnel, father son relationship, snow, sandwich ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
Fiona Fitzgerald is a woman with early onset Alzheimer's Disease who goes missing. Is she wandering around in an Alzheimer's haze or did something go very wrong with husband Kevin's drug dealing business. The only cop he can turn to, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, crime drama, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, family drama, missing wife, missing person, social problems, needing money, drug, female protagonist, alzheimer's disease, mental illness, drug dealer, mysterious disappearance ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
EMULSION tells the story of a dejected salesman who is inadvertently drawn into a dangerous blackmail scheme that forces him to fight for control a life he never thought was worth living. Painting a murky film noir world where no one is exactly as ...
Style:
suspense, noir, psychological thriller, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
grief, missing wife, obsession, tragedy, tragic past, life is a bitch, disappearance, bereavement, kidnapped woman, obsessive quest, loss of wife, kidnapping ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The story of Drew Peterson, who is charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, rough
Plot:
missing person, police officer, missing wife, murder, murder suspect, couple relations, husband wife relationship, funeral, woman killed, couples, cop, patrolman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, illinois
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Turkey, Hungary
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
One night, when all the women are abducted from the village, Sabri Firildak and his friends enter a magical forest to get their wives back.
Style:
entertaining, thought provoking, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
missing woman, kidnapping, satire, magic, abduction, wizards and magicians, kidnapped woman, teamwork, woods, humour, anthropomorphism, magical creature ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Ryōsuke Sagara is an ordinary salaryman and he works for a mid-size shipping company. He is a good-natured person. His family consists of his wife Maho, high school student daughter and elementary school student son. Maho works part-time at a ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
missing daughter, missing woman, kidnapping, vanished man, missing girl, secret, search and rescue, disappearance, wife, social media, missing child, missing person ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, UK, Vietnam
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by mysterious figures.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
chase, kidnapping, danger, abduction, amnesia, conspiracy, friendship, pursuit, identity, rescue mission, memory loss, martial arts ...
Place:
vietnam
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The setting is Carpathia. The year is 1851. When Elvira gets kicked out of an Inn for a slight monetary discrepancy, she is rescued by a local who takes her to stay at the castle in the hills high above the village. The fact that she happens to ...
Style:
parody, humorous, not serious, witty, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sex, castle, ghost, mad scientist, supernatural, disorder, master and servant, supernatural ability, danger, cliche, curses spells and rituals, hypnosis ...
Time:
1850s
Place:
romania, paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A soldier searching for his missing wife breaks into a high-tech facility, believing she's been caught in a human trafficking ring. But beyond its walls, he finds a surreal, futuristic fantasy park where reality and illusion blur. As he ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, surreal, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
human trafficking, manipulation, most dangerous game, moral ambiguity, virtual reality, amusement park, cat and mouse, obsession, conspiracy, survival, dystopia, identity crisis ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An abandoned piece of farmland in rural Tennessee may hold the key to multiple missing person cases spanning over forty years.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, mockumentary, independent film ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
found footage, supernatural, missing person, held captive, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, missing child, children, dark secret, suburban life, rural area, kidnapping ...
Time:
year 1988
Place:
tennessee, st. louis missouri
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160
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats ...
Style:
slapstick comedy, raunchy comedy, slapstick, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
marriage for money, wedding, wedding present, domestic drama, teenage boy, money, man hits a woman, manipulative behavior, old man, promiscuous man, mayor, jealousy ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
europe, paris france
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Arjun and Kayal, an Indian couple living in Azerbaijan, set out on a journey to visit her parents. Their peaceful trip takes a terrifying turn when Kayal mysteriously disappears. With time running out, Arjun must navigate a web of danger and ...
Style:
suspense
Plot:
failed marriage, marital discord, criminally insane, gas station, missing wife, strained relationship, flashback, cheating wife, truck driver, fight, husband wife relationship, truck ...
Place:
azerbaijan, tbilisi
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he encounters Mae, a hardened and ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, amnesia, repressed memory, survival, memory lapse, memory loss, amnesiac, plot twist, pandemic, doctor, post apocalypse ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.
Style:
detective, spooky, mind bending, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
amateur detective, investigation, riddles and clues, new house, strangler, whodunit, mysticism, murder, estate, a vision, twists and turns, haunted by the past ...
Place:
europe, england, london, united kingdom
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73K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, girls' night, kids
Plot:
elderly, cocoon, life & death, alien, space and aliens, chase, benign alien, fountain of youth, alien invasion, first contact, extraterrestrial, cancer ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century
Place:
florida, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of a thirties bank employee whose wife becomes a luxury prostitute. The same would happen with the next woman who knows. Xouan a promoter says he belongs to a particular class of people and asks him to work together.
Style:
disgusting
Plot:
greek, athenian, drunkard, supermarket, pimp, cockroach, bank clerk, funeral, prostitute, vodka, sex, horny wife ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hellas, greece, athens greece
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Newlyweds spend the night at a haunted mansion, having had car trouble. When the wife disappears, the husband's rich father sends a team of parapsychologists to get the wife back. Except for the leader, each of the team has a special power... ...
Style:
independent film, sexploitation film
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, virgin, ritual, car trouble, possession, female masturbation, female nudity, woman on top, erotica, sex, seduction ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. ...
Style:
absurd, folk tale, psychotronic, dark comedy, slapstick ...
Plot:
new love, locked in, absurdism, fish out of water, missing person, father daughter relationship, drowning, scientist, professor, doctor, mother daughter relationship, dog ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
europe, prague, central europe, czech republic
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, China
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Max and Sally, the heroes of popular Czech animated series are leaving the TV in order to become a regular boy and girl.
Style:
metafiction, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, absurd, urban fantasy
Plot:
babysitter, human becomes animal, fictional kingdom, child, man disguised as a woman, dual role, fictional country, police officer, director, doppelganger, disappearance, school principal ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
central europe, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young clerk is delegated to sort out the affairs of a certain property. It is an old castle belonging to the city with a garden, in which nobody is really interested, but the tenants of the property do not pay rent and taxes, do not work and do ...
Style:
psychotronic, light, captivating, humorous, crying ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, fish out of water, small town, missing person, husband wife conflict, teacher, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, employer employee relationship, jealous woman, rivalry, school, family relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, central europe
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