Movies like Missing
If Missing's mix of japan, moral ambiguity and investigation 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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The World of Kanako
2014 · Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima · 118 min6.4
Why you'll like itWith Hiroya Shimizu · Shares: japan, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship · Also a Japanese mystery
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her.
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The Third Murder
2017 · Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda · 125 min6.6
Why you'll like itWith Izumi Matsuoka and Tōru Shinagawa · Shares: japan · Also a Japanese drama
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.
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Kiss the Girls
1997 · Directed by Gary Fleder · 115 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: investigation, serial killer, missing person · Also thriller and crime
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to…
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Death Note
2006 · Directed by Shusuke Kaneko · 126 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: moral ambiguity, serial killer · Also a Japanese mystery
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious…
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Gone Girl
2014 · Directed by David Fincher · 149 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: investigation, disappearance, missing person · Also mystery and thriller
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
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The Clovehitch Killer
2018 · Directed by Duncan Skiles · 109 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: investigation, serial killer · Also drama and mystery
A picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be responsible for the murder of 13…
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Shoplifters
2018 · Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda · 120 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese drama
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence…
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Se7en
1995 · Directed by David Fincher · 127 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: investigation, serial killer · Also crime and mystery
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…
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Shutter Island
2010 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 138 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: investigation, missing person · Also drama and thriller
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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Get Out
2017 · Directed by Jordan Peele · 104 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: disappearance, missing person · Also mystery and thriller
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial…
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Prisoners
2013 · Directed by Denis Villeneuve · 153 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: investigation · Also drama and thriller
After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search…
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The Whisper Man
2026 · Directed by James Ashcroft · 111 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (2020s)
When his young son vanishes, a widower enlists help from his estranged father, a retired detective who put away the serial killer now linked to the case.