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 suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, realistic and disturbing films and TV shows about / with missing person, disappearance, murder, police officer, police, investigation, husband wife relationship, flashback, mother daughter relationship and serial killer plots mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres shot in USA, France, Norway and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as missing person: Searching (2018), Gone Girl (2014), Elsewhere (2009), Cruel Summer (2021), In Her Skin (2009), The Girl in the Park (2007), The River (2012), The Missing (2014), The Vanishing (1988), Winter's Bone (2010).

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 7.6
 179K
Searching (2018)
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, suspenseful, surprise ending, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: missing person, father daughter relationship, found footage, social media, missing child, internet, mysterious disappearance, search and rescue, disappearance, facebook, instagram, missing daughter ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2017, year 2019, year 2015 ...
Place: persia, california, pittsburgh
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 8.1
 1.1M
Gone Girl (2014)
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, clever, twist ending ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder mystery, missing person, psychology, infidelity, manipulation, investigation, femme fatale, adultery, marriage, missing wife, psychopath ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: peru, america, usa, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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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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 7.4
 20K
Cruel Summer (2021)
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, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, tense ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: missing person, gay, kidnapped woman, small town, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, lesbian, family relations, popularity, cold case, mysterious character, social relations ...
Time: 90s
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 6.4
 5K
In Her Skin (2009)
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, envy, murder, loss of daughter, obsession, family problems, family in crisis, female psychopath, death of daughter, parents and children, mental disorder, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 90s, year 1999
Place: australia
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The Girl in the Park (2007)
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, emotional, touching ...
Plot: missing person, mother daughter relationship, older woman younger woman relationship, child abduction, female protagonist, loss of child, obsession, loss of daughter, haunted by the past, social misfits, isolation, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.8
 17K
The River (2012)
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: scary, serious, suspenseful, cliffhanger, stylized ...
Plot: missing person, jungle, research, amazon river, supernatural, twists and turns, adventurer, mysterious place, expedition, danger, fear, videotaping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south america, brazil, latin america
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 8.2
 30K
The Missing (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 943 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: detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot: investigation, missing child, missing person, police detective, twists and turns, abduction, pedophile, police, child abuse, journalist, child abduction, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, year 2014, year 2006, year 2009 ...
Place: france
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 7.7
 43K
The Vanishing (1988)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France, West Germany
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, bleak, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, twists and turns, missing person, obsession, road trip, macabre, murder, insanity, police investigation, mind game, secrets ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, near future, 80s
Place: france, europe, holland, netherlands
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Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)
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, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: police investigation, missing person, police detective, cold case, false identity, police partner, unsolved crime, under the surface, uncover truth, investigation, murder mystery, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen
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 7.1
 150K
Winter's Bone (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
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, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: poverty, missing person, small town, family in crisis, female protagonist, bail, dysfunctional family, down on your luck, mental illness, rural setting, family crisis, uncle niece relationship ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa
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 6.3
 28K
The Vanishing (1993)
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, intense, suspense ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, obsession, buried alive, psychopath, serial killer, kidnapped, slow burn, hostage, killer, redneck, marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, washington state
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Alien Abduction (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary, tense ...
Plot: alien abduction, ufo, alien, found footage, alien encounter, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, abduction, missing person, escapades, danger, wilderness ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
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Wish You Were Here (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy's mysterious disappearance. When Alice's sister Steph returns ...
Style: psychological, serious, tense, captivating, twisted ...
Plot: missing person, tourist, holiday, uncover truth, struggle, age difference, inspiration, backpacking, mobster, pregnant wife, profanity, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cambodia, australia, asia
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YellowBrickRoad (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary, psychological horror ...
Plot: urban legend, missing person, woods, wilderness, survival, insanity, danger, obsession, haunted by the past, escapades, social relations, small town ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 2008, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new england, new hampshire, usa
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 6.3
 18K
Wakefield (2016)
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, sad, depressing, suspense ...
Plot: jealousy, loneliness, marriage, missing person, street life, attic, nervous breakdown, midlife crisis, hiding, absent father, neighbor, widow ...
Place: manhattan new york city
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Gone in the Night (2022)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Upon arriving at a remote cabin in the redwoods, Kath and her boyfriend find a mysterious younger couple already there — the rental has apparently been double-booked. They decide to share the cabin with these strangers until the next morning, but ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: missing person, vacation, secret, mysterious disappearance, remote location, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, vacation gone wrong, mystery woman, cabin in the woods, undercover, couple relations, puzzle ...
Place: oakland california, california
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White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
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, independent film, stylized, cynical ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: missing person, coming of age, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, recurring dream, female nudity, mysterious disappearance, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, gay interest, disappearance, 17 year old ...
Time: year 1988, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.8
 688K
Get Out (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: racism, hypnosis, kidnapping, brainwashing, interracial romance, survival, paranoia, missing person, african american, female villain, revenge, african american protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, future, 21st century
Place: indiana, brooklyn new york city, new york
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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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 6.2
 25K
Lost Girls (2020)
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: suspense, suspenseful, compassionate, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: serial killer, missing person, investigation, prostitute, missing child, disappearance, depression, true crime, search and rescue, killer, psychopath, police ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: long island, usa
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 6.3
 19K
Radius (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
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, mystical, enigmatic, surprise ending, captivating ...
Plot: missing person, police, memory loss, alone, suspicion, suicide, amnesia, memory, death, car accident, radio, boat ...
Place: connecticut
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 6.6
 3K
Five Days (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, missing person, police detective, mind game, amateur detective, life is a bitch, law enforcement, missing child, murder mystery, family problems, sergeant, mysterious character ...
Place: england, europe
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 6.9
 2K
Snow Angels (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland
Duration: 341 min.
TV show
Story: Two days before Christmas, while Sweden is paralyzed by a heavy snowstorm, five-week-old baby Lukas inexplicably disappears from his home. Experienced police officer Alice thinks that something is not right in the parents' stories.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: missing person, deaf child, social realism, child neglect, murder investigation, police, winter, partner, who done it, buddy cop, police detective, law enforcement ...
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Drew Peterson: Untouchable (2012)
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, realistic, serious, tense, rough
Plot: missing person, murder, police officer, missing wife, murder suspect, couple relations, husband wife relationship, funeral, woman killed, couples, cop, patrolman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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Megan Is Missing (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Fictional drama based on actual events, about two teenage girls who encounter an Internet predator.
Style: mockumentary, disturbing, suspenseful, twisted, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, internet, rape, teenage girl, psychopath, teenage life, danger, missing person, best friend, murder, deathtrap, rape of a girl ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.8
 265K
Changeling (2008)
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, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, investigation, fighting the system, missing child, missing person, police corruption, uncover truth, disorder, trial, kidnapped child, corruption ...
Time: 1920s, year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, year 1935 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, canada, seattle
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 6.6
 16K
The Dead Girl (2006)
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, murder, serial killer, investigation, prostitute, uncover truth, life is a bitch, family relations, promiscuous daughter, child abuse, loss of daughter, parents and children ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
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 5.9
 46K
Gone (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jill Parrish is trying to rebuild her life after surviving a terrifying kidnapping attempt. Though she is having a difficult time, she takes small steps toward normalcy by starting a new job and inviting her sister, Molly, to move in with her. ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, twist ending, tricky, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, serial killer, woman in danger, twists and turns, tough girl, sisters, haunted by the past, revenge, police investigation, danger, paranoia ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
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 4.1
 2K
Riddle (2013)
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, rough, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: missing person, uncover truth, investigation, college, small town, amateur detective, haunted by the past, social relations, riddles and clues, secret place, danger, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania
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