| Elsewhere (2009) | 5.3 | |
| In Her Skin (2009) | 6.4 | |
| About Elly (2009) | 7.9 | |
| Missing (1982) | 7.7 | |
| The Dead Girl (2006) | 6.5 |
Missing person movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant missing person movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, psychological and disturbing films and TV shows about / with missing person, disappearance, murder, investigation, police, serial killer, police officer, flashback, murder mystery and death plots mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as missing person: Searching (2018), In Her Skin (2009), The Missing (2014), The Vanishing (1988), About Elly (2009), Gone Girl (2014), Elsewhere (2009), Winter's Bone (2010), The River (2012), Five Days (2007).
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191K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her. A thriller that unfolds entirely on computer screens.
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, detective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, missing person, father daughter relationship, social media, missing child, mysterious disappearance, internet, search and rescue, disappearance, instagram, presumed dead, missing daughter ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, future, year 2015, year 1971 ...
Place:
persia, california, pittsburgh
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
missing person, obsession, family in crisis, mental disorder, envy, murder, loss of daughter, death of daughter, female psychopath, dead teenager, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 90s, year 1999
Place:
australia, new zealand
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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: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, twists and turns, missing person, gas station, obsession, road trip, disappearance, murder, literary, police investigation, character study ...
Time:
20th century, near future, 80s, year 1988
Place:
france, europe, holland, netherlands, california
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
missing person, iranian, matchmaking, family relations, friendship, guilt, journey, parents and children, wedding planning, love and romance, couple relations, couples ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, maghreb, asia
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1.2M
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: 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, dark ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
missing person, kidnapping, disappearance, amateur detective, investigation, sexy girl, murder, online dating, best friend, internet, teenage life, life turned upside down ...
Time:
21st century
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157K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and ...
Style:
depressing, atmospheric, harsh, dark, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
poverty, small town, missing person, female protagonist, family in crisis, bail, rural setting, life is a bitch, down on your luck, coming of age, family crisis, uncle niece relationship ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
missouri, usa, california
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17K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
The River follows the story of wildlife expert and TV personality Emmet Cole. Emmet set course around the world with his wife, Tess, and son, Lincoln, while filming what would become one of the most popular shows in television. After he goes missing ...
Style:
mockumentary, horrifying, cliffhanger, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
missing person, amazon river, research, twists and turns, jungle, supernatural, adventurer, disappearance, found footage, expedition, mysterious place, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south america, brazil, latin america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
missing person, amateur detective, investigation, mind game, police detective, life is a bitch, law enforcement, missing child, murder mystery, mysterious character, family problems, sergeant ...
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
An unconventional thriller that takes place over three summers — 1993-95 — in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, enigmatic, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
missing person, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, gay, kidnapped girl, kidnapped woman, small town, gay relationship, family relations, society, teenager, abduction ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on the first book in Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestselling thriller series about Department Q THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES tells the story of the two policemen Carl Mørck and Assad who become involved in a five-year-old case concerning a missing ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, serious ...
Plot:
police investigation, missing person, cold case, police detective, murder mystery, unsolved crime, under the surface, false identity, uncover truth, police partner, homicide detective, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. However, when a troubled young woman with a checkered past enters her life, old psychic wounds ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
missing person, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, loss of child, obsession, haunted by the past, loss of daughter, social misfits, isolation, family relations, misfit, missing child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
train, murder mystery, obsession, infidelity, police investigation, adultery, psychopath, investigation, missing person, female protagonist, flashback, learning the truth ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, america, usa, london
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, ...
Style:
sexy, surreal, teen, independent film, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
missing person, coming of age, teenage girl, recurring dream, sex, mother daughter relationship, mysterious disappearance, disappearance, dysfunctional family, teenage life, gay interest, loss of mother ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1991, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Fictional drama based on actual events, about two teenage girls who encounter an Internet predator.
Style:
mockumentary, suspenseful, twisted, sexual, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, internet, teenage girl, pedophile, best friend, rape, missing person, teenage life, rape of a girl, psychopath, blood, sexual assault ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
missing person, investigation, prostitute, murder, uncover truth, family relations, life is a bitch, outdoor sex, violence against women, dead body, promiscuous daughter, child abuse ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, southern california
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19K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspense, depressing, sad ...
Plot:
loneliness, jealousy, missing person, marriage, nervous breakdown, street life, attic, midlife crisis, mental disorder, hiding, neighbor, absent father ...
Place:
grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, mind bending, realistic
Plot:
missing person, obsession, attorney, missing woman, murder, mysterious man, dangerous attraction, love affair, rivalry, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
delaware
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young woman (Sandra Bullock) mysteriously disappears, sending her boyfriend Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) on a years-long quest to find her. Not even a new love (Nancy Travis) can keep him from his obsessive search. All the while, the calculating ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missing person, obsession, kidnapping, kidnapped, psychopath, buried alive, spider, killer, slow burn, serial killer, hostage, missing girl ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, washington state
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Without a Trace was an American police procedural television drama series that originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, missing person, murder investigation, kidnapping, police detective, female detective, partners against crime, fbi, law enforcement, fbi investigation, federal bureau of investigation, fbi agent ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
Style:
perverse, suspenseful, suspense, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot:
serial killer, missing person, investigation, disappearance, true crime, prostitute, missing child, depression, murder, mother daughter relationship, search and rescue, psychopath ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
long island, usa
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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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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Holly & Nathan Teller live in a small town in Pennsylvania. Holly is on the cheerleading team and has a close relationship with her younger brother Nathan, who is subjected to bullying at school. Nathan is taken for a car ride one day by ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
missing person, amateur detective, uncover truth, investigation, small town, haunted by the past, social relations, danger, riddles and clues, secret place, woman in danger, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, black and white ...
Plot:
missing child, missing person, investigation, kidnapping, danger, imaginary friend, missing daughter, missing girl, kindergarten, journalism, family relations, single parent ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 70s
Place:
london, england, britain, america, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When his girlfriend goes missing, David must track down her whereabouts after he realizes she's not who she was pretending to be.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, entertaining ...
Plot:
missing person, girlfriend, mind game, missing girl, photograph, double life, chase, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, government agent, twists and turns, danger, rape victim ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, vancouver
Is relevant?
274K
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, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, fighting the system, serial killer, trial, missing child, disorder, missing person, police corruption, uncover truth, society, corruption ...
Time:
1920s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2008, year 1935 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, canada, seattle
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
missing person, train, uncover truth, riddles and clues, danger, taxi driver, post september 11 2001, fbi agent, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, investigator, private investigator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, new york
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Style:
suspense, sexy, erotic, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot:
obsession, trapped, captive, psychopath, stockholm syndrome, kidnapping, kidnapped, missing person, held captive, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, attempted escape, man hits a woman ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
oceania, berlin germany, germany, europe
Is relevant?
22K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the air, but he soon discovers ...
Style:
suspense, enigmatic, surprise ending, mind twisting, psychological horror ...
Plot:
missing person, amnesia, memory loss, death, alone, police, suspicion, memory, boat, arrest, radio, car accident ...
Place:
connecticut, canada, usa
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