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22 films tagged missing person
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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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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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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.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2018 · Mystery
A cheerful mom who runs a small parenting vlog befriends the glamorous mother of her son's classmate, and then that friend doesn't come back from a work trip. A mystery played with jokes and very good clothes.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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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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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.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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