Movies like Missing
If Missing's mix of kidnapping, amateur detective and fbi stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Missing's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Searching
2018 · Directed by Aneesh Chaganty · 102 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: computer screen, found footage, social media · Also drama and mystery
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…
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Mercy
2026 · Directed by Timur Bekmambetov · 100 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping, screenlife · Also thriller and mystery · From the same decade (2020s)
In the near future, a detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced AI Judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Directed by Jonathan Demme · 119 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping, fbi · Also thriller and drama
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for…
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Insomnia
2002 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 118 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: fbi · Also thriller and drama
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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The Gift
2015 · Directed by Joel Edgerton · 108 min6.7
Why you'll like itWith Tim Griffin · Also thriller and mystery
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.
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Eagle Eye
2008 · Directed by D.J. Caruso · 118 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: fbi · Also mystery and thriller
Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met.
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Split
2017 · Directed by M. Night Shyamalan · 117 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping, teenage girl
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others.
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Rear Window
1954 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 113 min8.3
Why you'll like itAlso thriller and mystery
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.