Missing person movies and TV shows – page 5

List of missing person movies

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 5.9
 942
Amber (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The disappearance of 14 year old Amber Bailey sets off a two-year search during which her family will go through unimaginable pressures. As the days, months and years progress the mystery deepens, and strange and terrifying clues come to light, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, captivating, touching ...
Plot: missing person, family relations, parents and children, missing child, family problems, suburbs, teenage girl, reporter, investigation, missing daughter, criminal, murder mystery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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 4.7
 2K
The Keeper (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues.
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, psychopath, missing person, woman in danger, deputy sheriff, riddles and clues, isolation, who done it, captivity, serial killer, mentally unstable ...
Place: asia, usa
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The Little Things (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, action thriller, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, serial murder, cold case, police, investigation, police station, police detective, murder mystery, mysterious man, missing person, murder investigation ...
Time: 2020s, year 1990, year 1985, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, persia
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 7.2
 160K
The Lost Boys (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A mother and her two teenage sons move to a seemingly nice and quiet small coastal California town yet soon find out that it's overrun by bike gangs and vampires. A couple of teenage friends take it upon themselves to hunt down the vampires ...
Style: black comedy, scary, surprise ending, teen, gothic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, small town, supernatural, single mother, goth, teenage boy, amusement park, motorcycle, vampire hunter, blood, fear, home invasion ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
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 4.3
 326
Noctem (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Adrian and Esteban have been missing for a year. The police are at a standstill, despite having found their personal belongings in Cozumel, an island 12 miles away from the Riviera Maya. Alex friend of both, manages to get their cell phones, with ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: found footage, survival horror, missing person, investigation, paranormal phenomena, friendship, police, satanic cult, party, danger, fear, evil ...
Place: mexico, riviera, madrid
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 7.9
 288
MythQuest (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: MythQuest is a Canadian television series that originally aired on PBS in 2001. It stars Meredith Henderson and Christopher Jacot as Cleo and Alex Bellows, two teens whose father Matt disappears into the Cyber Museum, a computer program that, as ...
Style: offbeat, humorous, smart
Audience: kids
Plot: missing person, obsessive quest, cyberspace, rivalry, legends and myths, teenage life, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, escapades, youth, heroes, villain ...
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 6.4
 2K
Missing (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Missing is a Canadian-American crime drama television series based on the 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU book series by Meg Cabot. The series aired on the A network and W Network in Canada, and on Lifetime in the United States from August 2003 to February 2006.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: psychic power, missing person, fbi, supernatural ability, partner, government agency, paranormal activity, workplace, police procedural, supernatural, nypd, a vision ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c.
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 6.6
 81K
Kiss the Girls (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail ...
Style: detective, twist ending, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, kidnapping, twists and turns, woman in danger, police investigation, forensics, violence against women, investigation, killer, murder, profiler ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, north carolina, washington d.c.
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 5.0
 1K
Toad Road (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A disturbing portrait of contemporary youth culture where the lines between reality and fiction are blurred with often frightening results.
Style: surreal, psychological, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban legend, drug abuse, missing person, addiction, woods, drug addiction, group of friends, small town, youth, danger, violence, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, baltimore, pennsylvania, maryland
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 7.0
 27K
The Event (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: The Event is an emotional, high-octane conspiracy thriller that follows Sean Walker, an everyman who investigates the mysterious disappearance of his would-be fiancée Leila, and unwittingly begins to expose the biggest cover-up in U.S. history.
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, suspenseful, non-linear ...
Plot: conspiracy, alien contact, secret movement, twists and turns, president, missing person, space and aliens, extraterrestrial, virus, alien, investigation, hidden truth ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
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Harrison's Flowers (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, realistic, art house ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: genocide, journalism, murder, missing person, photographer, violence, civil war, photograph, blood, battles, vengeance, photography ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 80s
Place: new jersey, balkan, europe, eastern europe, serbia ...
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 6.5
 25K
Pulse (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: ghost, internet, supernatural, afterlife, suicide, missing person, haunting, depression, college student, technology, lifestyle, confined ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, asia
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A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But ...
Style: romantic, touching, atmospheric, epic, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war one, war, love and romance, wartime, life & death, private detective, investigation, obsession, tragedy, relationships, lighthouse, against the odds ...
Time: 2000s, 1920s, year 2004, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, marseille, brittany ...
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 5.6
 11K
Borderland (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: extreme violence, human sacrifice, murder, killing spree, evil, missing person, serial killer, drinking, insanity, bondage, occult, college ...
Place: mexico, latin america, usa, texas
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 8.1
 655K
Into the Wild (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Style: road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, reflective ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: road trip, wilderness, survival, self discovery, freedom, journey, solitude, life philosophy, isolation, travel, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1991 ...
Place: alaska, los angeles, america, astoria oregon, seattle ...
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
Style: serious, scary, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, dracula, vampire, frankenstein, mad scientist, missing person, laboratory, frankenstein's monster, experiment gone awry, investigation, rivalry, hidden identity ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: california, las vegas, venice california
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 5.6
 565
Lose Your Head (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lose Your Head is a psycho thriller about a Spanish party tourist who gets lost in Berlin. The film is inspired by the true story of a young Portuguese man who disappeared some years ago after a night at Berghain.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: gay, gay sex, gay interest, missing person, mistaken identity, gender, chases and races, chase, lgbt, drug, party, travel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
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 3.4
 1K
Bloody Mary (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary -- a supposed urban myth -- the slaughter begins. The legend is real, her vengeance is fatal, and to free her, all you have to do is say her name.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, serious, slasher ...
Plot: urban legend, violence, curses spells and rituals, missing person, ghost, gory, blood, hospital, revenge, doctors and patients, mental institution, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.7
 4K
Love of Siam (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 178 min.
Story: Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy's older sister goes missing on a jungle trip. The shattered family moves away, separating the boys. Years later, now in their late ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gays and lesbians, gay love, lgbt, missing person, gay, gay interest, loss of child, musician, lgbtq, friendship, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
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 3.5
 2K
The Untold (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on actual accounts, The Untold is the story of Harlan Knowles, billionaire and President of Bio-Comp Industries who heads up a team of experts in a quest to locate a company plane that disappeared over the remote forests of the Pacific ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, scary, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: experiment gone awry, sasquatch, grizzly bear, bigfoot, missing person, supernatural, survival, rescue, danger, legends and myths, heroic mission, dangerous animal ...
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Living Memories (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The story of families haunted, despite themselves, by a past that has not died.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, captivating
Plot: missing person, uncover truth, haunted by the past, under the surface, parents and children, couple relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, family problems, couples, lesbian love, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: quebec, canada
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 6.9
 2K
Vanished (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Vanished is an American serial drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox. The series premiered on August 21, 2006 on Fox and its last episode aired on November 10, 2006. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the series begins with the sudden ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Plot: missing person, investigation, mission, haunted by the past, journalist, victim, ransom, suicide, uncover truth, law enforcement, couple relations, loss of son ...
Time: 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia
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 4.6
 641
Flourish (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A tutor recounts a frantic night that culminated in a 16-year old girl's disappearance. Unfolding in front of a video camera direct from a psychiatric ward, Gaby Winters (Jennifer Morrison) recalls a dreadful babysitting job that sent her on a ...
Style: serious, humorous, suspenseful, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: missing person, investigation, abduction, teenage life, isolation, eccentric family, youth, who done it, amateur detective, mentally unstable, murder, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
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 4.4
 3K
Compulsion (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A strange and destructive relationship develops between a chef and her neighbor, a former child actress.
Style: psychological, tense, semi serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, obsession, femme fatale, investigation, cooking and food, destructive relationship, woman in danger, dark humor, mentally unstable, haunted by the past, lesbian, bisexual woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 7.3
 601K
It (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Style: scary, suspense, demonic, spooky, slasher ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: killer clown, supernatural horror, clown, evil clown, small town, stephen king, fear, monster, coming of age, child, missing person, good versus evil ...
Time: year 1989, 2010s, year 2017, 80s, year 1988
Place: maine
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The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
Genre: Family, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: No sooner does an all-American family takes possession of a baronial English manor when all manner of peculiar things occurring, including signs that point to the disappearance of a young girl during a solar eclipse decades before. Bette Davis ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, horror for children
Plot: supernatural, solar eclipse, ghost, danger, missing person, children, halloween, secrets, family relations, past, occult, teenage girl ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: england
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The Girl with the Indian Emerald (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Annie Krüger, a german woman from Munich decides to travel to Jaipur, India in order to find the whereabouts of her father Dr. Krüger. There she meets a charming man called Arun and a ricksaw driver called Karan who will help her in this exotic ...
Style: serious, captivating, stylized, realistic
Plot: missing person, obsessive quest, love story, german woman, opposites attract, unlikely couple, couples, danger, escapades, father, rich man, police inspector ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, munich germany
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The Water Diviner (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
Style: touching, reflective, emotional, dramatic, compassionate ...
Plot: world war one, war, redemption, missing person, courage, family drama, great war, parents and children, family relations, escapades, military, wartime ...
Time: 1910s, year 1919, year 2014, 2010s, 1920s ...
Place: australia, gallipoli, turkey, istanbul turkey, ottoman empire
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 5.8
 22K
The Tunnel (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 2007, in the midst of the drought and water shortages, the NSW State government has unveiled plans to tap into and recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels just beneath the heart of Sydney. However the ...
Style: scary, dark, suspenseful, rough, spooky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, investigation, tunnel, underground, creature, survival, uncover truth, missing person, journalism, hidden truth, urban legend, trapped ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
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 7.5
 12K
The Five (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When they were twelve years old, Mark, Pru, Danny and Slade were out together in the park. Mark’s five-year-old brother, Jesse, was annoying them. They were mean – told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. He was gone. Never seen again. Twenty years ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, detective, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: crime solving, childhood friend, murder, missing person, investigation, crime investigation, police detective, murder mystery, secret, crime scene, forensics, twists and turns ...
Place: britain
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