Missing person movies and TV shows – page 4

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 4.1
 789
Ghoul (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the tradition of Stephen King’s Stand by Me, Chiller’s original film Ghoul – based on the celebrated novel by author Brian Keene — tells the story of three damaged children who set out to find who, or what, is behind a rash of local ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, suspense
Audience: pre-teens, teens
Plot: missing person, youth, riddles and clues, investigation, buddies, danger, friendship, teenage life, kids in trouble, coming of age, family problems, small town ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish ...
Style: tense, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hacker, investigation, twists and turns, rape, journalist, sexual abuse, strong female lead, amateur detective, age difference, violence against women, missing person, lesbian ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2010, year 1966, year 1964 ...
Place: scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe, australia
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A View of Love (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, ...
Style: atmospheric, captivating, psychological, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Plot: missing person, haunted by the past, uncover truth, teenage crush, couples, couple relations, investigation, french algerian war, childhood love, repressed memory, family relations, women ...
Time: 80s, 60s
Place: algeria, france, europe, provence, nice france
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Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Russia, 1959. A KGB major investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of nine student hikers in the Ural Mountains. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the ...
Style: bad ending, harsh, serious, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, death, uncover truth, student, missing person, investigation, natural disaster, danger, rocky mountains, hiking, escapades, group of friends ...
Time: year 1959, 1950s, 20th century
Place: russia, soviet union
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Saving Private Perez (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: La vida ha llevado a Julián Pérez por caminos equivocados, pero el destino le presentará a este hombre la oportunidad de encontrar su redención cuando es enviado a la misión más peligrosa y noble de toda su vida, una misión ordenada por la ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, slapstick, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: missing person, rescue, obsessive quest, danger, dark humor, escapades, heroism, mission, unlikely hero, friendship, drug, mafia ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: iraq, latin america, middle east, mexico, turkey ...
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Little Boy Blue (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: incest, sexual abuse, missing person, dysfunctional family, murder, forced sex, parents and children, older woman younger man relationship, haunted by the past, family problems, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, asia, usa, vietnam
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Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn't fully understand, Now on the eve of her 18th birthday, plagued by horrific nightmares and the disappearance of her father, Heather ...
Style: gothic, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: occult, ghost town, ghost, female protagonist, mysterious place, supernatural, missing person, zombie, nightmare, alternate reality, parallel universe, demon ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: portland oregon, west virginia
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 5.7
 12K
The Flock (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This film is about a hyper-vigilant employee of the department of public safety who, while training his young female replacement, has to track down a missing girl who he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he is investigating.
Style: rough, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: missing person, investigation, danger, kidnapping, murder, obsession, law enforcement, special agent, serial killer, sex maniac, retirement, trailer park ...
Place: new mexico
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 6.8
 3K
A Secret (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, missing person, holocaust, wartime life, occupation, against humanity, haunted by the past, family disapproval, boy, mafia, war, youth ...
Time: 20th century, post world war two, 1940s, 50s
Place: europe, israel, paris france, france
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 4.9
 2K
Resistance (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It is 1944 and the D-Day invasion has failed, Germany's army have successfully invaded England and the Nazi war-machine is now heading west towards Wales. A group of women in an isolated Welsh village near the English border wake up to ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, period drama ...
Plot: missing person, wartime life, life is a bitch, war, danger, espionage, undercover, world war two, alternate history, alternate universe, strong female presence, village ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1944
Place: england, madagascar
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Texas Killing Fields (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: missing person, teenage girl, murder, serial killer, partners against crime, dysfunctional family, partner, police partner, life is a bitch, uncover truth, woman in jeopardy, torture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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 6.7
 74K
The Gift (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, scary, psychological ...
Plot: psychic, mental illness, investigation, clairvoyant, small town, extrasensory perception, psychic power, murder, tarot card, fortune teller, violence, macabre ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
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Cleveland Abduction (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, true crime, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, rape, missing person, cruelty, abduction ...
Time: 2010s, year 2002, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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Bordello of Blood (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy ...
Style: scary, black comedy, humorous, surprise ending, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, femme fatale, prostitute, private detective, sexy female vampire, afterlife, brothel, missing person, supernatural, hospital, violence, dark humor ...
Time: 90s
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 5.5
 14K
The Shrine (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of young journalists investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice, but their ambitious ways may lead them to becoming the cult's next victims.
Style: demonic, atmospheric, satanic, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, missing person, village, journalist, demon, investigation, survival, folk horror, danger, escapades, social relations, society ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place: europe, poland
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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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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman ...
Style: neo noir, detective, dark, stylized, clever ...
Plot: private detective, african american, missing person, jazz club, black, gangster, murder, jazz, racism, home invasion, private investigator, cop ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
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 8.4
 30K
Unforgotten (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 'Unforgotten' follows modern police team DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan, who gradually unravel long-forgotten secrets which have a dramatic impact on their investigation and the four potential suspects. The slow revelation of the ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, crime drama, tense ...
Plot: murder investigation, murder mystery, murder, police investigation, investigation, police, cold case, missing person, female police detective, uncover truth, father daughter relationship, haunted by the past ...
Time: future, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place: england, london
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 4.8
 7K
Don't Blink (2014)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ten people arrive at a secluded mountain resort to find it completely deserted. With no gas for the return trip, the visitors are forced to stay and investigate the mystery surrounding the abandoned lodge.
Style: twist ending, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: missing person, mountain, danger, resort, disappearance, pregnancy, group of friends, suicide, abandoned building, road trip, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, wilderness ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.5
 3K
Tangled (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dangerous attraction, couples, missing person, obsession, investigation, love triangle, uncover truth, police investigation, psychopath, mysterious character, teenage life, police detective ...
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 5.6
 221
Finding Kelly (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The surprisingly intricate, nimble plot is about a couple of kids who play amateur detectives one summer in the hopes of collecting a $5,000 reward offered to anyone able to find a missing 17 year old girl. The girl and boy are best friends who have ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, tense ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: missing person, amateur detective, uncover truth, young heroes, heroes, buddies, youth, missing child, danger, investigation, child's point of view, amateur sleuth ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england
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 7.5
 91K
The Wicker Man (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Style: twist ending, creepy, controversial, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: folk horror, religion, paganism, ritual, occult, disappearance, investigation, island, female nudity, human sacrifice, secret society, nudity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: scotland, fictional island, europe, united kingdom, scottish highlands
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The World of Kanako (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Showa Fujishima is a former detective. One day, his daughter Kanako, who is a model student, disappears. To find his daughter, he investigates more carefully into his daughter's life. He quickly realizes that his daughter is no saint, but there ...
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, enigmatic, twisted ...
Plot: bullying, dysfunctional family, secret life, addiction, japanese schoolgirl, suicide, wench, missing person, investigation, yakuza, cruelty, juvenile delinquent ...
Place: japan
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Skinwalker Ranch (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to livestock mutilation, but maybe most notable was the disappearance of ranch owner Hoyt Miller’s ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, mockumentary ...
Plot: ufo, mysterious disappearance, deadly creature, missing person, investigation, danger, farm, paranormal phenomena, found footage, supernatural power, village life, alien invasion ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, utah
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 5.7
 13K
In the Blood (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: one woman army, martial arts, female martial artist, tough girl, missing person, woman kills a man, danger, spouse in danger, kidnapping, vigilante, attempted rape, female warrior ...
Time: 21st century
Place: puerto rico, caribbean, dominican republic
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The Chestnut Man (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A young woman is found brutally murdered in a Copenhagen playground. Above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. Adapted from the acclaimed novel.
Style: brutal, enigmatic, tense, psychological, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, murderer, investigation, murder mystery, murder investigation, forest, police, serial murder, missing person, crime solving, female detective ...
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The Monkey's Mask (2000)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Monkey's Mask is a 2000 thriller film directed by Samantha Lang. It stars Susie Porter and Kelly McGillis. Porter plays a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect (McGillis) in the disappearance of a young woman. The film ...
Style: sexy, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, noir ...
Plot: lesbian, femme fatale, lesbian sex, sex, missing person, private detective, murder, dangerous attraction, love affair, uncover truth, investigation, manipulation ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia
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 5.4
 337
Hitched (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After a homemaker discovers that her husband is a philanderer, she imprisons him in their soundproof basement and reports him missing to the police.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: captivity, infidelity, missing person, husband wife relationship, secret place, family problems, crumbling marriage, isolation, unfaithful husband, torture, vengeance, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. ...
Style: semi serious, dark comedy, captivating, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: adultery, missing person, deception, woman with a gun, escapades, family problems, family secret, disturbed individual, stage play, criminal, mysterious disappearance, mafia ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Story: The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother’s Hunt for Justice tells the story of Mari Gilbert’s search for the truth behind what happened to her daughter Shannan, a sometime escort who disappeared after a ‘date’ on Long Island. After Shannan ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial murder, missing child, mysterious disappearance, missing person, evidence, serial killer, who done it, murder mystery, unsolved crime, murder investigation, chase, society ...
Place: usa, long island
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