Missing person movies and TV shows – page 2

List of missing person movies

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 7.9
 57K
About Elly (2009)
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, captivating, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: missing person, matchmaking, family relations, friendship, guilt, journey, iranian, parents and children, couples, couple relations, love and romance, teacher ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, persia, maghreb
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Come and Find Me (2016)
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, psychological ...
Plot: missing person, girlfriend, mind game, chase, double life, government agent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, danger, twists and turns, missing girl, photograph, neighbor ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: vancouver, los angeles
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging ...
Style: scenic, atmospheric, surreal, stylized, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, unsolved mystery, coming of age, adolescence, sexuality, boarding school life, private school, folk horror, wilderness, surrealism ...
Time: 1900s, year 1900, victorian era, near future, edwardian era ...
Place: australia, oceania, south australia
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Berlin Syndrome (2017)
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, psychological thriller, disturbing, atmospheric, exciting ...
Plot: trapped, psychopath, captive, stockholm syndrome, kidnapped, kidnapping, obsession, attempted escape, missing person, held captive, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, man hits a woman ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: berlin germany, oceania, germany, europe
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 6.0
 7K
Hush (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young couple on a motorway journey are drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a truck driver when they see something disturbing in the back of his vehicle.
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, slasher ...
Plot: missing person, truck, witnessing a crime, psychopath, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, kidnapping, serial killer, murder, on the run, rescue, on the road, physical abuse ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.2
 17K
Absentia (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
Style: slasher, suspense, disturbing, realistic, detective ...
Plot: missing person, fbi, memory loss, fight, survival, life & death, memory, investigation, fbi agent, brain damage, husband wife relationship, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
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All Good Things (2010)
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: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: murder, disappearance, mentally unstable, overbearing parent, divorce, abusive husband, investigation, dysfunctional marriage, missing person, twists and turns, justice, obsession ...
Time: 80s, year 2010, future, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, vermont ...
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 6.3
 34K
The Silencing (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, action thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, hunter, forest, missing person, sheriff, manhunt, murder investigation, missing daughter, investigation, dead girl, small town, disappearance ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: canada, chicago
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Banshee Chapter (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, The Silence of The Lambs -- finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government ...
Style: scary, lovecraft, disturbing, spooky, psychological ...
Plot: found footage, missing person, experiment, drug use, uncover truth, cosmic horror, experimental drug, ghost, desert, female protagonist, drug, missing friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
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The Missing Person (2009)
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, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, private detective, uncover truth, riddles and clues, danger, train, post september 11 2001, fbi agent, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, private investigator, investigator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
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 7.0
 13K
Aquarius (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: In the late 1960s, a Los Angeles police sergeant with a complicated personal life starts tracking a small-time criminal and budding cult leader seeking out vulnerable women to join his “cause.” The name of that man is Charles Manson.
Style: tense, stylized, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly
Plot: police detective, hippie, missing person, police investigation, murder, charles manson, policewoman, party, drug, police station, name calling, teenage girl ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, year 1969, year 1968, 60s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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The Ambulance (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Josh meets a young woman who shortly afterwards collapses and is rushed to hospital in an ambulance. He follows after her only to find that there is no record her being admitted, and he soon learns that her room mate also vanished after being picked ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, detective, tense ...
Plot: missing person, conspiracy, abduction, police investigation, obsession, police detective, hospital, ambulance, missing woman, chase, psychopath, investigation ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 7.2
 12K
Channel Zero (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by Brian Russell’s Creepypasta tale, Channel Zero: No-End House tells the story of a young woman named Margot Sleator, who visits the No End House, a bizarre house of horrors that consists of a series of increasingly disturbing rooms. ...
Style: anthology, suspense, spooky, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: supernatural, missing person, small town, kidnapping, child in peril, paranormal investigation, mysterious disappearance, private investigation, abduction, crime investigation, disappearance, investigation ...
Time: 2010s
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 8.3
 111K
The Leftovers (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't ...
Style: captivating, mind bending, offbeat, serious, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: life turned upside down, society, disappearance, haunted by the past, apocalypse, missing person, post apocalypse, depression, small town sheriff, chief of police, small town, worldwide chaos ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, syria, new york state, new york
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 4.9
 554
The Moment (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fearing she may be responsible, a mental patient (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to unravel the mystery behind her ex-lover's (Martin Henderson) disappearance.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, mind bending, captivating ...
Plot: missing person, uncover truth, riddles and clues, dangerous attraction, lovers, photojournalist, danger, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, mental institution, sanity, mind game ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.8
 20K
Absentia (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia.' As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on ...
Style: scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, lovecraft, serious ...
Plot: tunnel, missing husband, supernatural, missing person, sister sister relationship, investigator, grief, cosmic horror, woman in danger, evil force, hopes, creature ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 3.2
 267
Green River (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: There is no turning back. Whether we trust our friends, others or ourselves our decision determines the fate of the future. Green River's story deals with the agonizing truth of the actions we take in times of crisis.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, missing person, missing girl, amateur detective, isolation, torture, paranoia, killer, peace, war veteran, radio, pistol ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.4
 7K
The Big Bang (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets of Los Angeles to the desolate desert of New Mexico, Cruz must contend with a brutal Russian Boxer, ...
Style: neo noir, serious, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: missing person, private detective, strip club, private investigator, woman on top, female nudity, striptease, bad cop, police corruption, boxing, coitus, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa, los angeles
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 5.6
 12K
The Woods (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents.
Style: atmospheric, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot: boarding school, missing person, witch, witchcraft, gory, forest, supernatural, isolation, danger, school, macabre, bullying ...
Time: year 2000, 60s, 20th century, year 1965
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The Fourth Kind (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, mockumentary ...
Plot: ufo, alien abduction, hypnosis, found footage, alien encounter, space and aliens, paranormal activity, alien invasion, investigation, disappearance, space, alien ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa, california
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Hide and Seek (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A desperate, childless couple kidnap a pregnant woman and lead her husband to believe that she is dead.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: pregnancy, kidnapping, surrogate mother, missing person, obsession, captivity, female psychopath, family problems, mentally unstable, woman in danger, psychopath, danger ...
Time: 90s
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 5.6
 5K
Perdida (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A policewoman whose childhood friend disappeared in Patagonia years ago starts a new search to find answers, and soon finds her own life in danger.
Style: suspense, psychological, realistic, intense, twisted ...
Plot: kidnapping, girlfriend, twists and turns, school trip, missing child, uncover truth, investigation, missing person, missing girl, media coverage, search party, storytelling ...
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
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: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: missing child, missing person, investigation, kidnapping, danger, imaginary friend, kindergarten, journalism, family relations, missing daughter, single parent, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 1965, 60s
Place: london, england, britain, america, europe ...
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The Disappeared (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: missing person, haunted by the past, family relations, parents and children, religions or cults, teenage life, destiny, disappearance, brother, ghost, kidnapping, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, london
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 4.2
 2K
Border Run (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A female American reporter searches for her missing brother against the backdrop of violence and human smuggling across the US/Mexican border.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: missing person, border, woman in danger, illegal immigration, uncover truth, investigation, danger, dishonesty, journalism, u.s. mexico border, siblings, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, arizona, mexico
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 6.1
 2K
Cold Weather (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A guy who moves back to Portland, Oregon becomes involved in the mystery of his ex-girlfriend's disappearance.
Style: mumblecore, tense, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: missing person, investigation, brother sister relationship, who done it, amateur detective, partner, homecoming, buddies, private detective, missing girl, coming of age, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, portland oregon
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 4.8
 10K
Abandon (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, tricky, stylized ...
Plot: college, missing person, obsession, investigation, student life, plot twist, police detective, uncover truth, boyfriend, twists and turns, paranoia, stalker ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa, athens greece, cambodia, sardinia, amsterdam
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 4.1
 116
The Falls (2003)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a smoke-filled dive in Buffalo, NY, David Marx tells us his tale of obsession, betrayal, and murder - leading him to an uncertain fate "underneath Niagara Falls." David tells us how his beautiful redheaded ex-girlfriend, Jennifer ...
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, femme fatale, amateur detective, murder, investigation, uncover truth, ransom demand, danger, rivalry, betrayal, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.8
 161K
A Simple Favor (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Mommy vlogger Stephanie joins her best friend Emily's husband, Sean, to investigate her sudden disappearance from their small town.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, enigmatic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: missing person, investigation, ruse, deception, murder, murder investigation, blackmail, female friendship, dark past, missing woman, small town, death ...
Time: 2010s
Place: new york, london, michigan, connecticut
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 7.0
 11K
Under the Sand (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Style: bleak, enigmatic, melancholic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: love, disappearance, obsession, relationships, delusion, tourist, love and romance, coping, haunted by the past, couple relations, mentally unstable, female masturbation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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