Movies about missing children

List of the best films about missing children, selected by visitors of our site: Searching, American Son, The Vanished, Loveless, My Son, It, Hypnotic, My Son, Dark Encounter, Yara.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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: 5.8
Genredrama
CountryUSA

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA

A family vacation takes a terrifying turn when parents Paul and Wendy discover their young daughter has vanished without a trace. Stopping at nothing to find her, the search for the truth leads to a shocking revelation.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryRussia, France, Belgium, Germany
Duration02:08

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears...

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:22

The story of a busy man, who fills his time travelling to Africa, South America and the Middle East. His passion for his job has distanced him from his loved ones. He’s been divorced for three years and has since seen his son very little. When the latter disappears, he is forced to stand still, and soon discovers things about his ex-wife and, above all, his son. A terrible feeling of guilt overwhelms him and he decides to find his son at all costs...

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:22

    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.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    A detective investigates a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program.

    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany

    When a man's only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script of dialogue.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appear to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don't realize is that these 'beings' will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl's disturbing disappearance.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryItaly

    The murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio shocks the little town of Brembate di Sopra, Italy. To bring the culprit to justice, prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri only has one tenuous lead: a bit of DNA that's not much help without a database to compare it to. Based on a true story.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryIndia

    Rhythm, a pregnant woman, is traumatised by nightmares about the unsolved kidnapping of her first child, Ajay. Soon, she embarks on a harrowing mission to solve the mystery of Ajay's disappearance.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryIndia

    A forensic analyst and an investigation officer are on a chase to hunt down a gruesome serial killer and crack one of the most famous cold cases in the history of their departments.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.

    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: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredrama, history
      CountryCanada, Hungary, United Kingdom, Germany

      A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySpain, Argentina

      Like every day, Marcelo gathers her children on the floor of his ex-wife. As each day play "to see who gets there first" them down the stairs, him in the elevator, a diversion that your ex-partner does not like. But when one day Marcelo plays the downstairs children are not. They are not anywhere. The fear begins to emerge when a phone call will catapult the horror: a kidnapper puts a price for the release of their children

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryFrance, Belgium

      Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishing of a child, and a big ravaging storm.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryItaly, USA
      Duration02:06

      A down-on-his-luck PI is hired by his old flame to investigate a murder. But while the case at first appears routine, it slowly reveals itself to be a complex interwoven web of crimes, suspects and dead bodies.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Mexico, Luxembourg
      Duration02:26

      Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy
      CountryChina
      Duration01:55

      A legendary demon hunter, tracking down the beasts that enter the human dimension, assisted by a lawman protege and a motley group of friendly monsters.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:19

      When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his daughter who has gone missing.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration02:09

      A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

      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.




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