Assumed dead movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant assumed dead movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic and tense films and TV shows about / with assumed dead, presumed dead, blood, flashback, husband wife relationship, murder, death, danger, gun and telephone call plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as assumed dead: Ismael's Ghosts (2017), Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971), Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988), Mirage (2020), Hacker (2019), The Unnamed (2016), The Impossible (2012), The Bastard Executioner (2015), Mindhorn (2016), The Americanization of Emily (1964).

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Ismael's Ghosts (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The film tells the tale of a widowed film director who is in the middle of making a film about an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. While he has started a new life with Sylvia, he still mourns the death of a former lover, Carlotta, who ...
Style: erotic, exciting, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot: sex scene, female nudity, husband wife reunion, beach, emotional breakdown, party, sea, seaside, filmmaking, husband wife relationship, nudity, love triangle ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: tel aviv israel, prague, paris france
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Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
Style: scary, rough, atmospheric, slasher, grindhouse ...
Plot: disappearance, paranoia, sect, danger, orgy, journalism, investigation, autopsy, medical examiner, delusion, reporter, hospital ...
Time: 60s, 70s, future
Place: prague, czechoslovakia, czech republic, europe, italy ...
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Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: starting over, midlife crisis, circus, parents and children, hopes, family relations, father daughter relationship, time travel, orphan, hotel, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: africa, singapore, paris france
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 6.0
 565
Mirage (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Claire lost her husband Gabriel during the tsunami in 2004. His body was never found. 15 years later, Claire has a new life with Lukas and her son Zack. After a decade of mourning and professional purgatory, she has just landed a dream job in Abu ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot: secret service, espionage, terrorism, mission, ex husband ex wife relationship, ex couple relations, danger, uncover truth, investigation, deception, confronting the past, blackmail ...
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 5.3
 691
Hacker (2019)
Genre: Action, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 13-year-old Benjamin discovers that his mother didn’t die in an accident as he was led to believe. The trail leads to high-ranking officials in the Danish Secret Service. "Trust no one!", he is told.
Style: captivating, exciting, dark, tense
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: prodigy, computer genius, computers and web, hacker, computer hacker, computer program, computer nerd, geek, foster home, political intrigue, computer cracker, uncover truth ...
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 9.0
 6K
The Unnamed (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The coffin of an expatriate worker with manipulated identity intense the identity crisis when another person's corpse is found inside.
Style: suspense, captivating
Plot: slave trade, identity crisis, corpse, uncover truth, presumed dead, secret, slave trader, secret identity, wine, death of son, truck driver, funeral ...
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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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The Bastard Executioner (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A blood-soaked, medieval epic that tells the story of Wilkin Brattle, a 14th century warrior, whose life is forever changed when a divine messenger beseeches him to lay down his sword and lead the life of another man: a journeyman executioner. Set ...
Style: bleak, historical drama, melancholic, rough, costume drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: medieval, executioner, sword and shield, betrayal, corruption, brutality, forbidden love, society, intrigue, disguise, violence, law ...
Time: 14th century, medieval times
Place: wales
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Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Western
Country: France, Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 1863, a convoy in the American West, Martha Jane needs to learn how to take care of horses to drive the family wagon. Except she ends up wearing pants and cutting her hair. The scandal that its stark character provokes will force to face all the ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, touching, tense, anime
Plot: teenage girl, female protagonist, chase, military, gold mine, gold, disguise, golddigger, promise, chore, dead mother, car trunk ...
Time: 19th century
Place: france
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Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Hungary, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive as they discover all the games that they've played before.
Style: suspense, thrilling, scary, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: game of death, trapped, escape room, quest, puzzle, survival, most dangerous game, hostage, survival horror, teamwork, trap, struggle for survival ...
Time: 2020s
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 6.3
 14K
Mindhorn (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A washed up actor who played Mindhorn, a secret agent with a bionic eye, returns to the Isle of Man, the area where his most famous role was set, to help catch a killer.
Style: parody, captivating, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Plot: murderer, conspiracy, amateur detective, husband wife relationship, betrayal, mental illness, paranoia, revenge, deception, corruption, kidnapping, heroes ...
Time: 2010s, year 1989, 80s
Place: london
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The theatrical movie spin-off of the ABC’s Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries will follow Essie Davis’ private detective as she embarks on a global adventure to find missing treasure, solve murders and break aviation records... After freeing a ...
Style: captivating, intellectual, detective, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: riddles and clues, treasure hunt, female detective, imprisonment, talented, private detective, mind game, artifact, young girl, tomb, twists and turns, escapades ...
Time: 1920s, year 1929, year 1918
Place: london, jerusalem, australia, palestine, scotland yard ...
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The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: During the build-up to D-Day in 1944, the British found their island hosting many thousands of American soldiers who were "oversexed, overpaid, and over here". That's Charlie Madison exactly; he knows all the angles to make life as ...
Style: dark comedy, realistic, witty, black and white, cute ...
Plot: world war two, military, wartime, love, satire, world war, war, u.s. navy, naval officer, love affair, mental illness, swing ...
Place: london, england, france, europe
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 6.4
 24K
Krrish (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: In Singapore, Krishna is forced by circumstances to use his superpowers and become a masked superhero named Krrish, before getting drawn towards his lost legacy.
Style: exciting, serious, atmospheric, stylized, entertaining ...
Plot: secret identity, save the world, good versus evil, superhero, megalomaniac, self discovery, undercover, supernatural, danger, supernatural ability, master villain, inheritance ...
Time: year 2006
Place: india, asia, singapore
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 6.8
 58K
Arctic (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek ...
Style: minimal cast, suspense, touching, disturbing, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, snow, arctic, helicopter crash, man versus nature, polar bear, fish, very little dialogue, ice, snowstorm, struggle for survival, winter ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place: antarctica
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 6.5
 5K
City Hunter (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Nicky Larson is tasked to recover the perfume of Cupid, a perfume that would make anyone who uses it irresistible.
Style: entertaining, humorous, light, colorful, stylized ...
Plot: private detective, private investigator, gangster, murder, womanizer, presumed dead, partner, gang, sex, fistfight, psychotherapist, chase ...
Place: france, monaco
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 4.6
 207
Darkness (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: haunted by the past, homecoming, countryside, secret past, hallucination, secret, childhood trauma, old dark house, painting, woman rapes man, political unrest, changing the past or future ...
Time: 2000s, 1940s, 21st century
Place: central europe
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Arthur Newman (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, touching, suspense ...
Plot: golf, self discovery, hidden identity, false identity, on the road, past, missing person, unlikely couple, father son relationship, chance meeting, escapades, family problems ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
Style: psychotronic, slasher, suspense, surreal, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, alien invasion, monster, kaiju, alien, ufo, sexploitation, aviation, airplane crash, undead, macabre, evil alien ...
Time: 60s
Place: japan, osaka japan
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Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, humorous, captivating, tense ...
Plot: time travel, world war two, conspiracy, death of brother, secret, brother brother relationship, nazism, soldier, scientist, employer employee relationship, chase, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, year 1944, year 1996, 90s ...
Place: germany, czechoslovakia, central europe, prague, europe ...
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 5.2
 591
Karate Girl (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In Okinawa, Ayaka Kurenai was born in the world’s greatest legendary Karate family. When she was a child, her family was attacked by a mysterious gang that seeks legendary black belt. Her father Soujiro Kurenai was killed and her younger sister ...
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, stylized, suspense
Plot: karate, female martial artist, pretty girl, teenage girl, pretty woman, martial arts, kidnapping, japanese man, schoolgirl, japanese schoolgirl, sibling relationship, fight ...
Place: japan, okinawa japan, okinawa
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The Vault of Horror (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by ...
Style: anthology, surprise ending, slasher, grindhouse, dark fairy tale ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, painting, greed, buried alive, strangled to death, dream within a dream, artist, brother sister relationship, hanged man, supernatural power, husband wife relationship, female vampire ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, haiti, london
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The Village of Simpletons (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A vignette of stories from the small town of Pölhölä, known as the Village of Simpletons.
Plot: eccentricity, rural setting, town, summer, presumed dead, village idiot, scheming, village, old age, father son relationship, search party, missing person ...
Time: 80s
Place: finland
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China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Gunslinger Clayton Drumm (Testi) is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major ...
Style: spaghetti western, independent film, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: skinny dipping, hitman, hired killer, ranch, prostitute, old west, hanging, dead body, attempted rape, horse riding, brothel, jail cell ...
Time: year 1978
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You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti ...
Style: dark comedy, psychotronic, surreal, absurd, spoof ...
Plot: fictitious kingdom, female nudity, switching bodies, astrologer, prophet, actress, brain, brain transplant, king, absurdism, human brain, conspirator ...
Place: central europe, czech republic
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 4.2
 465
Yaraana (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Lalita (Madhuri Dixit) is married under duress from her maternal uncle, Madhi (Tej Sapru) to a cruel and possessive man, JB (Raj Babbar).
Style: remake of american film
Plot: drunken woman, faked death, kidnapping, on the run, escape, obsession, mirror, forced marriage, deception, beggar, new identity, starting over ...
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Kill the Wickeds! (1967)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A robber decides to hide his loot in a ghost town, helped by his girlfriend and his one remaining man. Keeping it though may be a problem, with the lone inhabitant, an old lady, a mysterious stranger, a recent widow and a former gang member all more ...
Style: spaghetti western
Plot: woman with a gun, cowboy, torture, drinking, fire, money, revenge, old woman, female gunfighter, girl fight, caravan, wagon train ...
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Reaction Time (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A family confined to a villa in which they live. Outside an unnatural fog that burns people that enter in contact with it. No possibility for communication with the outside, only a hypothesis about a possible cause of the phenomenon. In complete ...
Style: allegory, bleak, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: family relations, abusive relationship, parents and children, fog, dystopian future, characters in danger, supernatural, vestiges of humanity, survival, murder, revenge, human existence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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 7.6
 2K
Paanch (2003)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The film is "loosely" based on the 1976-77 Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders in Pune. It has been refused a clearance certificate by the censor board, twice on six grounds - the film glorifies violence; it shows the modus operandi of a crime ...
Style: suspense, avant garde, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: kidnapping, fake kidnapping, friendship, friendship between men, deception, suspect, betrayal, duplicity, rebellion, manipulation, fictional band, rebellious youth ...
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Zahradnictv?: Rodinn? p??tel (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Melodrama set in Czech Republic during the Germain occupation.
Style: captivating, sentimental, melancholic, suspenseful, romantic ...
Plot: world war two, secret, love triangle, hospital, horse riding, friendship between men, baby, doctor, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, blood, conspiracy ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1944, year 1945 ...
Place: europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, czech republic
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