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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
63 films tagged missing person, showing 50
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Little-known
2025 · Mystery
A man arrives at a remote estate in the Western Ghats, saying he has come for the rare dogs its missing owner brought back from Malaysia. He is not the only visitor asking after the man who vanished.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
A police officer transferred to Kashmir takes the case of a boy who vanished during a magic show, and moves his family into an old villa where things are not right. A ghost story and a police case at once.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A former soldier takes her small son to the US consulate in Frankfurt, and when she comes back for him he is gone. Staff say he was never checked in, so she hides in the building and searches it herself.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A woman meets a musician while out hiking, and an affair starts after she goes to one of his concerts. He then turns distant and disappears, and the film stays with her.
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Little-known
2025 · Mystery
Bodies have been turning up headless in a lake by a village in 19th-century Vietnam, and the villagers blame a spirit in the water. When a young woman goes missing, her aunt sends for a detective who does not believe in spirits.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A father crosses rural Georgia looking for his daughter, a photographer who vanished while shooting football grounds, moving from one pitch to the next. Three hours, shot in very low resolution, and slow throughout.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
A young woman trained in martial arts comes to Rome looking for her missing sister, starting with the Chinatown restaurant she thinks was holding her. Local gangsters take an interest fast.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
In a crumbling mansion in north Calcutta, a young woman holds the household together after her husband disappears weeks into their marriage. She opens the house up for Durga Puja, and the first guest changes the mood of it.
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2025 · Horror
Five friends retracing the steps of a missing sister shelter from the rain in a visitor centre, where something kills them all and the night starts over. Each loop brings a different threat, and they have to last until morning.
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2025 · Thriller
An accountant who keeps books for criminals is pulled in when a federal official is murdered with "find the accountant" written on his arm. He calls in his estranged brother, who kills people for a living.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
An investigator sent to find a missing journalist discovers her research into Bengal in 1946 has been sealed or erased, and follows it back to the riots themselves. It runs long, cutting between then and now.
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Little-known
2025 · Mystery
A pastor whose marriage and career are both coming apart becomes convinced that a man on parole has taken his son, and then that God is telling him what to do about it. A cold thriller that stays very close to him.
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Little-known
2018 · Thriller
A young man getting by on delivery work runs into a girl from his old neighbourhood, and when she comes back from a trip abroad she has a rich, easy-going friend with her. Very slow, and it holds a lot back.
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2026 · Mystery
Enola is in Malta for her wedding to Tewkesbury, with Sherlock there and openly against it, when he disappears in the middle of a case of his own. A dying soldier's last word is all she has to go on.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
A young man searching for his missing grandfather, an exorcist, follows the trail to a notorious haunted mansion, with two women helping him and a tangled love life of his own. It is a horror comedy, big and loud, in Telugu.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
The daughter of the man counted as the 58th victim of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre tells the story of a father whose body was never found. It mixes archive footage with acted scenes, all of it animated over the top.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
Four former Spanish intelligence agents are killed on the same day, and an operative codenamed Zeta is sent after the one who is still missing, with a Colombian officer alongside him. A spy thriller, and the hunt keeps widening.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
The ghosts living in a hotel ask a lawyer to sue its owner for building on their graveyard, and in return they will help him find his missing grandmother. A courtroom haunting played for laughs.
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Little-known
2026 · Crime
A boy vanishes without a trace from a small town in northern Poland, and a prosecutor starts looking for him. It follows on from an earlier film about the same man.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
Pirati leads a Kinnar community in a Nepalese village, caught between leaving with the man she loves and staying to look for a woman who has gone missing. The search and the community are the whole of it.
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2017 · Science fiction
A police officer whose job is retiring old synthetic humans turns up a buried secret and goes looking for a man who disappeared thirty years earlier. Slow, very large, and mostly quiet.
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2007 · Mystery
Two private investigators from a working-class Boston neighbourhood are hired to look for a missing four-year-old in the places the police cannot reach. A detective story that keeps turning into an argument about what is right.
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2024 · Drama
In Rio in 1971, a mother of five keeps the household running after soldiers take her husband away for questioning under Brazil's dictatorship. It stays close to the family and covers many years.
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2010 · Drama
Twins in Montreal open their mother's will and find two letters: one for a father they thought was dead, one for a brother they never knew about. They go looking, and it keeps cutting back to her life.
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2017 · Horror
In a small Maine town where children keep going missing, a group of misfit kids works out that something lives under the streets and wears a clown's face. As much a summer-holiday adventure as a horror film, with the scares on a schedule.
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2015 · Drama
A five-year-old falls asleep on a train and wakes thousands of miles across India, and grows up adopted in Australia. The first half is a small boy alone in a huge country; the second is a man at a computer.
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2012 · Comedy
On a small New England island in 1965 a scout and a girl who has had enough of her family run off together, and the whole place goes looking for them. Neat, funny and told like a storybook.
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2025 · Thriller
Sixteen years after his group of revolutionaries fell apart, a paranoid burnout has to move fast when his teenage daughter goes missing and an army colonel comes looking. Long, loud and often very funny.
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2013 · Thriller
Two little girls vanish from a street on Thanksgiving, and while a detective works the case one of the fathers decides the police are moving too slowly. Long, dark and rainy, and it gets ugly.
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Little-known
2018 · Mystery
A father's sixteen-year-old daughter does not come home, and he starts looking by opening her laptop. The whole thing plays out on computer and phone screens.
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2016 · Drama
Two Portuguese priests sail to Japan in the 1600s to find their missing teacher, in a country where practising their faith is punished by death. Long and quiet, with almost no relief in it.
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2011 · Mystery
A disgraced journalist is hired by a rich old man to find out what happened to his niece forty years ago, and a young hacker ends up working the case with him. Long, cold, and some scenes are hard going.
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2016 · Comedy
A hopeless private eye and a man who breaks bones for a living end up working the same missing-girl case in 1977 Los Angeles. It is a detective story played for laughs, with the two of them bickering the whole way.
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Little-known
2007 · Horror
A woman moves back into the seaside orphanage she grew up in to reopen it as a home for children, and her young son starts talking about friends nobody else can see. An old-fashioned ghost story built on quiet, not jump scares.
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2025 · Horror
At 2:17 one morning, seventeen children from the same class get out of bed and run off into the dark, and the town starts looking for someone to blame. Told in chapters, each following a different person.
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Little-known
2018 · Thriller
A hired man who finds missing girls, and carries a hammer to work, is sent after a senator's daughter. Eighty-five minutes, barely any dialogue, and it looks away from the violence as often as at it.
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2016 · Animation
A rabbit becomes the first of her kind on the police force in a city run by animals, and gets forty-eight hours to crack a missing-mammal case with a con-artist fox as her only lead. Bright, quick, and built like a detective story.
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1987 · Mystery
A shabby New York private eye is hired by a client he cannot read to find a singer who vanished after the war. It slides out of detective work and into something else.
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2005 · Mystery
A high school loner investigates his ex-girlfriend's disappearance among the cliques and dealers of a Californian suburb, talking like a 1930s detective. The slang takes a while to tune into.
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2008 · Mystery
A single mother in 1928 Los Angeles reports her son missing, and months later the police return a boy she says is not hers. Slow, and the real fight is with the department.
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2020 · Mystery
Sherlock Holmes's much younger sister goes to London to find their missing mother, dodging both her brothers on the way. Light and quick, and she talks straight to camera.
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2022 · Mystery
Now working as a detective, Enola takes the case of a matchstick factory girl whose sister has disappeared. Bigger and faster than the first, with the same address to camera.
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2014 · Thriller
A man's wife vanishes on their fifth wedding anniversary, and the television coverage turns him into a suspect well before any evidence does. Told from both sides, his present and her diary.
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2010 · Thriller
Two US marshals travel to an island asylum in 1954 to find a patient who has vanished from a locked room, and a hurricane closes the way back. Nobody on the staff answers a question straight.
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2014 · Mystery
A permanently stoned Los Angeles private eye in 1970 takes a case from an ex-girlfriend and loses track of it almost immediately. Very hard to follow, deliberately.
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2005 · Mystery
A small-time thief falls into a screen test, gets sent to a private eye for research, and lands in a real case. Narrated badly on purpose, and very fast.
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Little-known
2014 · Mystery
Two detectives with opposite politics are sent to the Guadalquivir marshes in 1980 to find two missing teenage sisters. Flat, hot country shot from overhead.
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Little-known
2023 · Mystery
A teenager's mother disappears on holiday in Colombia, and the search happens entirely on the daughter's laptop in Los Angeles. Every shot is a screen.
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1960 · Horror
A secretary drives out of Phoenix with forty thousand dollars of her employer's money and stops for the night at a motel off the highway. It changes course completely partway.
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2009 · Comedy
Two friends go looking for the classmate who vanished after they survived a brutal engineering college, and the search takes them back through their student years. Broad jokes and songs, then it turns serious.
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