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 6.9
 15K
Noroi (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."
Style: scary, disturbing, tense, serious, spooky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: found footage, curse, investigation, disappearance, demon, fear, slow burn, journalist, danger, supernatural, uncover truth, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo, kyoto japan
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 4.1
 21K
The Apparition (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Plagued by frightening occurrences in their home, Kelly and Ben learn that a university's parapsychology experiment produced an entity that is now haunting them. The malevolent spirit feeds on fear and torments the couple no matter where they ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, evil spirit, paranormal, disappearance, fear, experiment, haunted by the past, experiment gone awry, danger, domestic disturbance, pandora\'s box ...
Time: year 2012, year 2000, year 1973, 2010s, 70s ...
Place: california, usa
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 5.2
 194
The Crossing (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lola Arendt, 8, vanishes while on vacation on a wild Scottish island. Shattered by her disappearance, her parents, Sarah and Martin, separate. Two years later, Lola is found at the exact same spot. Martin returns to the island to bring her home. His ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: island, disappearance, manipulation, family problems, life is a bitch, uncover truth, dishonesty, twists and turns, father daughter relationship, little girl, death, missing child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland
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Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, computer animated, stylized, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, preschool
Plot: fantasy world, fairy, young heroes, friendship, good versus evil, destiny, heroes, disappearance, friends, youth, heroic mission, escapades ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 60s
Place: africa, connecticut
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I Know Who You Are (2017)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: A man ends up in hospital after a car accident. He does not remember his name, but it is soon discovered he is a famous attorney. To make things worse, the police start to suspect him of having murdered his missing niece.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, disappearance, niece, investigation, police, danger, family relations, memory, murder suspect, memory loss, suspicion, suspicion of murder ...
Place: spain
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 4.7
 3K
Big Legend (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An ex-soldier ventures into the Pacific Northwest to uncover the truth behind his fiance's disappearance.
Style: tense, exciting, bleak, disturbing, scary ...
Plot: sasquatch, bigfoot, disappearance, monster, creature, wilderness, mysterious disappearance, human versus monster, human monster, uncover truth, woods, urban legend ...
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 6.3
 4K
Black Tide (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Dany, the Arnault family’s teenage son has disappeared. The case is assigned to François Visconti, a world-weary and disillusioned detective whose wife has just left him. The policeman investigates to find the missing teenager while he is ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, bleak, psychological ...
Plot: missing child, police officer, alcoholic, disappearance, father son relationship, forest, police, mother daughter relationship, investigation, suspicion, kidnapping, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france
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 6.9
 87K
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, afterlife, hypnosis, supernatural, psychic, supernatural horror, murder, clairvoyance, paranoia, able to see the dead, psychic power ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: usa, chicago
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The Girl on the Train (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes ...
Style: suspense, psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: train, infidelity, murder mystery, obsession, police investigation, adultery, psychopath, whodunit, alcoholic, ex husband ex wife relationship, investigation, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, america, usa
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Mazes and Monsters (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This film was the pinnacle of anti-D&D fearmongering. Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and ...
Style: bleak, dark fantasy, cult classic, fantasy adventure, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world trade center manhattan new york city, delusion, college, quest, mental illness, psychosis, disappearance, tragic event, cave, friendship, breakup, hallucination ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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 7.7
 261K
Coraline (2009)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, ...
Style: gothic, surreal, dark fantasy, dark, scary ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens, family outing ...
Plot: stop motion, children, monster, parallel world, alternate reality, weirdo, doll, secret place, heroine, fantasy world, loneliness, imagination ...
Time: year 2009, future, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oregon, michigan, usa, texas
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The Devil's Backbone (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After losing his father, 10-year-old Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucia School, which shelters orphans of the Republican militia and politicians, and is taken in by the steely headmistress, Carmen, and the kindly professor, Casares. Soon after his ...
Style: suspense, gothic, dark, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, spanish civil war, orphan, child abuse, boarding school, orphanage, supernatural, revenge, children, coming of age, civil war, republican ...
Time: 1930s, year 2001, year 2000, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: spain, portugal, europe, andalusia, madrid ...
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 7.3
 47K
The 4400 (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: 4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, quarantine, missing person, supernatural, murderer, investigation, foreknowledge, cure, danger, abduction, ufo, psychic ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., seattle
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, tear jerker, sad ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: time travel, time, time traveler, love story, love and romance, time paradox, time loop, love affair, true love, tragic love, marriage, couple relations ...
Time: future, year 2009, 20th century, 70s, 90s ...
Place: chicago, usa
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 5.3
 3K
Elsewhere (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to investigate the mystery.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, disturbing, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: missing person, kidnapping, investigation, disappearance, murder, online dating, best friend, internet, amateur detective, life turned upside down, teenage life, sexy girl ...
Time: 21st century
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Bottom of the World (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A mysterious disappearance of a young woman leads her boyfriend on a journey for truth and perhaps his own unknown reality in this dark, hypnotic mystery that transcends the limitations of traditional narrative.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: disappearance, redemption, faith, evil, guilt, sex scene, female nudity, character on the edge, supernatural, danger, characters in danger, adaptation ...
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 5.8
 4K
Meadowland (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the hazy aftermath of an unimaginable loss, Sarah and Phil come unhinged, recklessly ignoring the repercussions. Phil starts to lose sight of his morals as Sarah puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations, falling deeper into her own ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, captivating, rough, stylized ...
Plot: loss of child, missing child, self harm, disappearance, kidnapping, drug use, family relations, extramarital affair, couples, lonely, feeling, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.3
 757
Tomie: Replay (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young girl is hospitalized. When an ultrasound examination reveals that something is moving inside her, a surgeon operates. The surprised surgical staff find themselves face-to-face with--not a baby--the disembodied head of a beautiful girl. Her ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, suspense ...
Plot: disappearance, supernatural, investigation, danger, ghost, bodily dismemberment, mysterious death, mysterious girl, reincarnation, mental institution, body horror, hospital ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan
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 5.5
 352
Down to Hell (1997)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min.
Story: 4 guys kidnap random people from the street, take them to a remote forest and give them 3 choices: run away, kill us or die. The film follows the fate of one of their victims.
Style: rough, exciting, scary, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, revenge, survival, gang, cruelty, disappearance, murder, forest, danger, violence spree, on the run, supernatural ...
Place: japan, asia
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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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The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A woman vanishes. Her husband inquires into the strange circumstances of her disappearance. Did she leave him? Is she dead? As he goes along searching, he plunges into a world of nightmare and violence...
Style: surreal, stylized, experimental, serious, postmodern ...
Plot: male nudity, investigation, disappearance, danger, violence, uncover truth, whodunit, spouse in danger, obsession, violent content, nudity, arthouse horror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, brussels
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Imagining Argentina (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, USA, Argentina
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious ...
Style: serious, bleak, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: politics, disappearance, uncover truth, danger, political unrest, father daughter relationship, compassion, sex crime, revolution, political intrigue, inspiration, basement ...
Time: year 2003, 70s, year 1976
Place: latin america, buenos aires argentina, argentina, europe, venice ...
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 6.2
 4K
Agatha (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In real life, mystery writer Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days in December 1926. To this day, no one knows the details of what she did during that time. The film gives a fictional account of Christie's time away, showing her as a woman ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, psychological, factual ...
Plot: disappearance, missing person, writers, investigation, writer's life, historical figure, uncover truth, private detective, murder, biopic, interwar period, spa ...
Time: 1920s, year 1979
Place: england, europe
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 6.1
 590
Nymph (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An urban husband and wife travel to the jungle and learn just how precious their relationship is.
Style: bleak, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: karma, jungle, couples, love, disappearance, dream, love affair, supernatural, lifestyle, human nature, photography, unfaithfulness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
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Under the Silver Lake (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, atmospheric, surreal, dark comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, surrealism, swimming pool, conspiracy theory, conspiracy, secret society, dog, parrot, disappearance, missing person, party, secret message ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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 7.2
 36K
Marshland (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, detective, enigmatic, serious ...
Plot: police investigation, serial killer, investigation, kidnapping, torture, murder, partners against crime, sexual abuse, murder mystery, murder investigation, brutality, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: spain, iberian peninsula
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 6.6
 16K
Renaissance (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: To find Ilona and unlock the secrets of her disappearance, Karas must plunge deep into the parallel worlds of corporate espionage, organized crime and genetic research - where the truth imprisons whoever finds it first and miracles can be bought but ...
Style: neo noir, enigmatic, black and white, surreal, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: medical research, police investigation, dystopia, cyberpunk, monopoly, distopia, adaptation, brutality, secrets, disappearance, corporation, police detective ...
Time: future, year 2006
Place: paris france, europe
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Out of the Furnace (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, realistic, neo noir, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: revenge, drug dealer, small town, vigilante, brothers, disappearance, character study, ex convict, vigilantism, going straight, mysterious character, loss of sibling ...
Time: year 2013, 80s, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: usa, new jersey, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, indiana ...
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 7.4
 192K
K-PAX (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Style: psychological, touching, cerebral, sentimental, surprise ending ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: alien, mental institution, patient, planet, extraterrestrial, mysterious character, hypnosis, space and aliens, mental illness, psychiatrist, science, investigation ...
Time: future, year 2001, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, persia, new york, greenland, newfoundland ...
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The Hangover Part II (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The Hangover crew heads to Thailand for Stu's wedding. After the disaster of a bachelor party in Las Vegas last year, Stu is playing it safe with a mellow pre-wedding brunch. However, nothing goes as planned and Bangkok is the perfect setting ...
Style: funny, humorous, sex comedy, realistic, bad ending ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: wedding, party, bachelor party, road trip, hung over, strip club, friendship, weed, nudity, mishap, weirdo, memory loss ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, asia, thailand, usa, bangkok thailand ...
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