Movies like Missing
If Missing's mix of island and found footage 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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Ring
1998 · Directed by Hideo Nakata · 96 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: island · Also a Japanese horror film
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
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The Ring
2002 · Directed by Gore Verbinski · 115 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: island · Also horror and mystery
Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it.
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Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor
2023 · Directed by Stephen Cognetti · 98 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: found footage · Also horror and mystery
A group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, site of the grisly and unsolved murders of the Carmichael family back in the eighties. After four nights, the group was never heard from again.
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The Blair Witch Project
1999 · Directed by Daniel Myrick · 81 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: found footage · Also horror and mystery
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
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Caveat
2021 · Directed by Damian McCarthy · 88 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: island · Also horror and mystery
A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
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Phoenix Forgotten
2017 · Directed by Justin Barber · 87 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: found footage · Also horror and mystery · From the same decade (2010s)
Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful…
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The Wicker Man
1973 · Directed by Robin Hardy · 93 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: island
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the…
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Ju-on: The Grudge 2
2003 · Directed by Takashi Shimizu · 92 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film
When the cast and crew of a paranormal TV reality program decide to shoot in the house of the original Saeki hauntings, a series of strange events unfold at the location.
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Sweetheart
2019 · Directed by J.D. Dillard · 82 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: island · From the same decade (2010s)
Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn’t take her long to realize she’s completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements, but must also fend off the malevolent force that…