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Finding Nemo(2003)

G
| 1h 40min | Animation, Kids & Family
3.9/5 (with 8,745 votes)

Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.

Silent Hill(2006)

R
| 2h 5min | Horror, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 1,850 votes)

Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.

The Vanished(2020)

1h 55min | Thriller, Horror, Crime, Action
3.0/5 (with 126 votes)

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.

Lion(2016)

PG-13
| 1h 58min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 3,003 votes)

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Directed by Garth Davis - With Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priyanka Bose, ...

What Lies Beneath(2000)

PG-13
| 2h 10min | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 786 votes)

When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the man she loves might know more than he's letting on.

The Orphanage(2007)

R
| 1h 45min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 1,276 votes)

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

Flightplan(2005)

PG-13
| 1h 38min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 1,125 votes)

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.

Changeling(2008)

2h 21min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 1,868 votes)

Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

Searching(2018)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Thriller, Mystery, Drama
3.8/5 (with 1,682 votes)

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.

Secret in Their Eyes(2015)

PG-13
| 1h 51min | Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Crime
3.2/5 (with 614 votes)

A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

Shut In(2016)

PG-13
| 1h 31min | Drama, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 317 votes)

A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.

Directed by Farren Blackburn - With Naomi Watts

3096 Days(2013)

1h 51min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 380 votes)

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.

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The Captive(2014)

R
| 1h 52min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
2.9/5 (with 496 votes)

Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.

Cracks(2009)

R
| 1h 44min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 166 votes)

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

The Emerald Forest(1985)

R
| 1h 54min | Action, Adventure, Drama
3.4/5 (with 95 votes)

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.

Loveless(2017)

2h 2min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 321 votes)

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...

Every Secret Thing(2014)

R
| 1h 33min | Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 141 votes)

One clear summer day in a Baltimore suburb, a baby goes missing from her front porch. Two young girls serve seven years for the crime and are released into a town that hasn't fully forgiven or forgotten. Soon, another child is missing, and two detectives are called in to investigate the mystery in a community where everyone seems to have a secret.

My Son(2021)

1h 35min | Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Crime
3.1/5 (with 169 votes)

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.

Hardcore(1979)

R
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 99 votes)

A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search for his runaway teenage daughter who’s making porno films in the pits of Los Angeles.

The Tall Man(2012)

R
| 1h 46min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 499 votes)

When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.

Catch the Fair One(2022)

NR
| 1h 25min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

A Native American boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.

Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka - With Daniel Henshall, Michael Drayer, Lisa Emery, Kimberly Norris Guerrero, Kevin Dunn

No Good Deed(2002)

R
| 1h 37min | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 73 votes)

While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.

Perdida(2018)

1h 43min | Drama, Mystery, Crime
3.1/5 (with 124 votes)

A policewoman whose childhood friend disappeared in Patagonia years ago starts a new search to find answers, and soon finds her own life in danger.

Directed by Alejandro Montiel - With Lusiana Lopilato, Amaia Salamanca, Rafael Spregelburd, Nicolas Furtado, Oriana Sabatini, María Onetto, ...

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974(2009)

1h 42min | Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 111 votes)

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.

Bring Me Home(2019)

1h 48min | Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

Six years after her son went missing, dedicated mother Jung-Yeon still hasn't lost hope - even after her husband's shocking accident while rushing to follow up on a potential sighting. Although she's in mourning, drowned in despair for her losses, she doesn't give up. Just when everything feels like it's in vain, she hears about a young boy living in a fishing community outside the city who seems to resemble her lost son. Facing strange surroundings and corrupt cops covering up child abuse, Jung-yeon may not be able to handle all the obstacles in her way, let alone fend for herself.

Directed by Kim Seung-woo - With Lee Young-ae, Yoo Jae-myung, Lee Won-geun, Park Hae-joon

Strangerland(2015)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
2.7/5 (with 112 votes)

Newly arrived to a remote desert town, Catherine and Matthew are tormented by a suspicion when their two teenage children mysteriously vanish.

Cucuy: The Boogeyman(2018)

1h 25min | Thriller, Horror
3.5/5 (with 36 votes)

When children start disappearing, a rebellious teen under house arrest starts to suspect that a legendary evil, a boogeyman known as the Cucuy, might be responsible.

Ugly(2013)

3.5/5 (with 49 votes)

A team of the best cops in Mumbai is dispatched to find a girl who has gone missing from her father's car. As the hunt for the kidnapper begins, fingers suspiciously point to closer home.

The Imposter(2012)

R
| 1h 39min | Documentary, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 321 votes)

In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

Directed by Bart Layton - With Frédéric Bourdin, Ellenie Salvo González, Ronald Kukulies, Nils Brunkhorst

Journey to the Christmas Star(2012)

3.0/5 (with 73 votes)

13 year old kind-hearted Sonja arrives at a tiny village together with a company of bandits. But there is a curse on the village. A long time ago, the King’s only daughter Goldhair disappeared while searching for the Christmas Star. The Queen died of a broken heart, leaving the shattered King all on his own. From that day on, the King cursed the Christmas Star, thereby causing darkness and grief to descend upon the land. However, an old sage has revealed that Goldhair is still alive, and will return only if the King finds the way back to the Christmas Star. Ever since, the King has been searching for the Christmas Star every Christmas, but all in vain.

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