Missing child movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant missing child movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic, psychological and suspense films and TV shows about / with missing child, kidnapping, family relations, missing person, family problems, investigation, police, husband wife relationship, child abduction and police investigation plots mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as missing child: The Disappearance (2017), I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989), The Deep End of the Ocean (1999), The Forgotten (2004), The Guilty (2013), The Missing (2014), A Familiar Stranger (2021), Finding Carter (2014), The Family (2016), Someone Was Watching (2003).
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
When Anthony Sullivan disappears on his tenth birthday, his family is devastated. However, as more and more time passes without the police being able to locate him, long-buried family secrets are dragged to the surface, turning the Sullivan family ...
Style:
atmospheric, non-linear, detective, bleak, social ...
Plot:
missing child, family drama, police, investigation, treasure hunt, judge, hopes, parents and children, family secret, grief, dysfunctional family, family conflict ...
Place:
quebec
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
7-year old Steven Stayner is kidnapped a few days before Christmas by Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, emotional, thought provoking, sad ...
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, abused child, pedophile, child abuse, child molestation, captivity, sexual abuse, male rape, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, year 1974, 70s, year 1972, year 1980
Place:
northern california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Michelle Pfeiffer is ferocious in the role of a desperate mother whose 3-year-old son disappears during her high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated. Based on Jacquelyn ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, melancholic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, missing person, family drama, children, family relations, kidnapped, family life, parents and children, family problems, police detective, hostage ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
usa, chicago
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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, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
memory loss, conspiracy, twists and turns, missing child, mind game, delusion, alien abduction, memory, grief, paranoia, husband wife relationship, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Lives are torn apart and relationships fractured forever when a young child goes missing. Five years later, DCI Maggie Brand leads a new investigation and puts at risk her own happy family life.
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, detective ...
Plot:
missing child, police investigation, dead child, law enforcement, life turned upside down, investigation, police procedural, cold case, family drama, secrets, grief, guilt ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 60 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:
suspenseful, serious, detective, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
missing child, child abuse, police, missing person, twists and turns, investigation, police detective, pedophile, abduction, cold case, child abduction, journalist ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, year 2014, 2010s, year 2009 ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 410 min.
TV show
Story:
Nine years after little Marina went missing along a highway near Dunkerque, a young woman with amnesia who looks just like her reappears in practically the same spot.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
missing child, disappearance, amnesia, memory loss, missing person, secret past, accident, female protagonist, amnesiac, uncover truth, memory lapse, identity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A teenager finds out she was abducted as a toddler and returns to her biological family.
Style:
touching, emotional, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
missing child, family reunited, parents and children, life turned upside down, teenage life, introspection, family secret, self discovery, starting over, uncover truth, dysfunctional family, therapy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
This thriller follows the return of a politician’s young son who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier. As the mysterious young man is welcomed back into his family, suspicions emerge — is he really who he says he is?
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
missing child, family drama, kidnapping, lie, twists and turns, suspicion, politics, political campaign, teenager, secret, parents and children, small town ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Chris falls asleep whilst supposed to be watching his little sister, Molly, she goes missing. Finding her colouring book by the river, everyone believes she drowned there and try and move on with their life. But when Chris and his best friend, ...
Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film
Plot:
missing child, kidnapped, hostage, child protagonist, friendship, kidnapping, teenage boy, presumed dead, missing daughter, missing sister, hostage situation, diner ...
Place:
new mexico, colorado
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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, realistic, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
missing person, missing child, kidnapping, single parent, family life, parents and children, family problems, law enforcement, life is a bitch, death in the family, father son relationship, little boy ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city, new york, connecticut
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A family vacation takes a terrifying turn when parents Paul and Wendy discover their young daughter has vanished without a trace. Stopping at nothing to find her, the search for the truth leads to a shocking revelation.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
missing child, sheriff, camping, accidental killing, missing daughter, investigation, twists and turns, disappearance, husband wife relationship, camping trip, danger, swearing ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Luz Cuevas baby daughter Delimar disappeared in 1997 after their house caught fire during a party, The police reported that she was killed in the fire. However, Cuevas suspects that she was kidnapped and that the fire was staged by an outsider. Six ...
Style:
touching, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, hispanic
Plot:
missing child, child abduction, missing daughter, loss of child, mother daughter reunion, husband wife relationship, baby, father son relationship, ex convict, house fire, mother daughter relationship, baby born ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, intense, non-linear ...
Plot:
police investigation, kidnapping, missing child, winter, kidnapped, danger, snow, hostage, little girl, investigation, missing person, missing girl ...
Place:
canada, ontario canada
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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, suspenseful ...
Plot:
missing child, missing son, kidnapping, cyberbullying, abuse, boy, parent child relationship, high school student, uncover truth, police investigation, law enforcement, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similarities between the case and his son's disappearance.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
loss of child, haunted by the past, dead child, missing child, law enforcement, police investigation, dealing with death, uncover truth, corpse, life is a bitch, interrogation, police detective ...
Time:
1950s, year 2009, 2000s, 50s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Set two years after his daughter went missing, The Child In Time follows Stephen Lewis, a children's author, as he struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles and Thelma have ...
Style:
crying
Plot:
missing child, writers, lost child, missing person, missing girl, loss of daughter, supermarket, grief, school, british prime minister, marital separation, mental health ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
One clear summer day in a Baltimore suburb, a baby goes missing from her front porch. Two young girls serve seven years for the crime and are released into a town that hasn't fully forgiven or forgotten. Soon, another child is missing, and two ...
Style:
disturbing, enigmatic, independent film, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
missing child, hostage, teenage girl, suspect, manipulation, police detective, murder mystery, interrogation, child murder, life is a bitch, uncover truth, ex convict ...
Place:
baltimore
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
Style:
mysterious, mind bending, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time loop, investigation, mysterious past, time machine, cave, missing child, time portal, deja vu, small town, disappearance, alternate dimension ...
Time:
year 1986, year 2019, 50s, 80s, year 1953 ...
Place:
germany, chernobyl, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hospital, racism, missing child, kidnapping, vengeance, police detective, lone hero, multiple storylines, police corruption, psychopath, investigation, missing person ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
usa, new jersey, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style:
twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, revenge, serial killer, torture, twists and turns, vigilantism, police investigation, plot twist, brutality, vigilante, cop ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, family relations, supernatural ability, supernatural, obsession, siblings relations, death in the family, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, crumbling marriage, nanny ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.
Style:
disturbing, serious, emotional, psychological, action thriller ...
Plot:
rape, police investigation, child killer, pedophile, missing child, serial killer, danger, uncover truth, haunted by the past, small town, brutality, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This is the tragic and true story of the abduction of Amber Hagerman. Her family and the community's efforts to find her and bring her kidnapper to justice prove to be a groundbreaking movement toward implementing a government-run tracking ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
missing child, injustice, family relations, family problems, parents and children, obsession, society, danger, family in crisis, confined, child abduction, little girl ...
Time:
year 1996, year 2002, year 1997, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
usa, texas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, private detective, twists and turns, investigation, conspiracy, violence, moral dilemma, police investigation, death, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, missing child ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's ...
Style:
psychological, stylized, harsh, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, friendship, parents and children, unlikely criminals, human nature, family problems, family relations, hopes, dealing with death, missing child, complex characters, family drama ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa, france, new york, andalusia, paris france ...
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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, danger, single parent, missing person, faked death, false identity, female protagonist, love, loss of father, world war two, middle aged woman ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place:
eastern europe, havana cuba, cuba
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby's parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
missing child, abandoned baby, family relations, family problems, orphan, isolation, missing person, adoption, violent content, rivalry, legal action, misfit ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
north carolina, appalachia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 58 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, ex husband ex wife relationship, desperation, investigation, uncover truth, saving a life, disappearance, female warrior, husband wife relationship, accusation, relationship problems, child in peril ...
Place:
australia, scotland
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
missing child, overprotective mother, abduction, uncover truth, parents and children, twists and turns, family problems, child abduction, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, danger, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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