Movies about disappearances

List of the best movies about disappearances, selected by visitors to our site: Searching, A Simple Favor, Frantic, American Woman, Emperor, The Water Diviner, The Imposter, Obsession, The Deep End of the Ocean, Crazy Bitches.

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Russia
Duration02:32

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:25

Stephanie, a dedicated mother and popular vlogger, befriends Emily, a mysterious upper-class woman whose son Nicky attends the same school as Miles, Stephanie's son. When Emily asks her to pick Nicky up from school and then disappears, Stephanie undertakes an investigation that will dive deep into Emily's cloudy past.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, France
Duration02:00

The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris and, to find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada

A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, military, history
CountryJapan, USA
Duration01:45

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military, history
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration01:51

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.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, documentary, crime, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:39

It’s 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later, he is found alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain. Disoriented and quivering with fear, he divulges his shocking story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not what it seems. Sure, he has the same tattoos, but he looks decidedly different, and he now speaks with a strange accent. Why doesn't the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It's only when an investigator starts asking questions that this astounding true story takes an even stranger turn.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland’s life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in in love with Sandra Portinari, who bears a striking resemblance to his wife.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

Michelle Pfeiffer is ferocious in the role of a desperate mother whose 3-year-old son disappears during her high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated. Based on Jacquelyn Mitchard's best-selling novel (an Oprah book club selection), the movie effectively presents the troubling dynamics that exist between family members who've suffered such an unsettling loss.

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

7 girls and 1 fab gay guy plan a getaway to a remote ranch for a week of gossip and grub. They start off where they always do, old rivalries in place, extreme vanity covering great insecurities, but with a true love for each other underneath the bickering, sniping and sassing. A number of drinks into night one and a dark secret is revealed. The house they rented is the site of a mass murder of teenage girls 15 years earlier. Blood still stains the floors under replacement carpets. The killer still runs free. The girls take it for what it seems - a fun story for a rainy night by a roaring fire. But after one of them disappears and is discovered dead, the story doesn't seem so fun anymore. 1 by 1, they die, killed by their own vanity. The fun-filled week turns into a race against death. Who will make it out alive?

Markimdb: 4.4
Genreaction, comedy, adventure, military
CountryGermany, USA
Duration01:28

An american woman, in search of her fiance', becomes involved in a revolution of a central-american country.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake (Rose McGowan) moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the local paperboy (Daniel Ross Owens). She thinks this is ridiculous, until she encounters the boy himself. It turns out that he is a cunning and dangerous sociopath, one who may have gruesomely killed her father - and others.

Markimdb: 5
Genredrama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:51

After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, adventure, crime, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mission: He shall find Dr. Solaris, inventor of the Helium laser beam, powerful enough to destroy a whole continent. It seems Dr. Solaris has been kidnapped by a criminal organization. The trace leads to the Cote D'Azur.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genredrama, western, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case, and uncovers evidence that suggests that the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs. When Scott’s estranged son unexpectedly returns home during the investigation, Samantha becomes even more convinced that the Briggs family was involved, and will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy’s death - even putting her own life in jeopardy.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

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.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
CountryUSA

Restless spirits stir this Hollow's Eve, beckoning Ian Cranston, the last blood relative of Ichabod Crane, back to Sleepy Hollow. Thundering hooves unleash a wave of bone-chilling screams as the ghost of the Headless Horseman rides again! Ian must try to save the town and his girlfriend, Karen and determine whether the sword-wielding stalker is their clownish classmate, Brody in costume, or the dark rider himself. If it's truly the Headless Horseman... how do you kill what's already dead?

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

    An idyllic small town is rocked when Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay Lohan), a bright and promising young woman, is abducted and tortured by a sadistic serial killer. When she manages to escape, the traumatized girl who regains consciousness in the hospital insists that she is not who they think she is and that the real Aubrey Fleming is still in mortal danger.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, Belgium, USA

    Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house. She soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.

    Markimdb: 4.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A female American reporter searches for her missing brother against the backdrop of violence and human smuggling across the US/Mexican border.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese...

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genredrama
    CountryNorway, USA
    Duration01:32

    A young couple, Kaia and Andrew, are renovating Kaia's secluded family estate. Their lives are violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia's sister, Christine, and her fiancé, Ira.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:38

    Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genremelodrama, adventure, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Every 40 seconds a person goes missing. In northern Idaho, a group of teenage girls attended a summer camp to help them connect with nature without technology. They were told it would be a summer of change. As the girls' houseboat is suddenly stranded in the middle of the river an odd couple comes to their aid. What was suppose to be an act of kindness turns deadly as the girls find themselves on the run, being pursued through the forest by a brutal and determined killer.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    Paratroopers Captain 'Rip' Murdock and Sergeant Johnny Drake are mysteriously ordered to travel to Washington, DC. When Drake learns that he is to be awarded the Medal of Honor, he disappears before newspaper photographers can take his picture. Murdock follows the clues and tracks him down, where he learns Drake is dead. Further investigations reveal unexpected twists. Rip learns that Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to find out whatever he can. He falls in love with Coral whose husband Johnny is supposed to have killed.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration02:30

    After hearing a child screaming for help from the green depths of a vast field of tall grass, Becky, a pregnant woman, and Cal, her brother, park their car near a mysterious abandoned church and recklessly enter the field, discovering that they are not alone and because of some reason they are unable of escaping a completely inextricable vegetable labyrinth.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, fantasy, melodrama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA

    Based on the successful book series by R.L. Stine, this spooky tale finds 11-year-old Max making a deal with the ghosts who haunt his home. If Max helps them find what was responsible for their parents' disappearance, they'll help him transform from a social nobody to the most popular kid in school.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

      When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genredetective
      CountryUSA

      A private investigator is hired to track down a missing girl on the run from a mysterious Silicon Valley corporation.

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