Movies: Missing person

In the Mexican narco-war, thousands of mothers search for their missing sons and daughters. In Portraits of a Search, the stories of Natividad, Guadalupe and Margarita intertwine to convey the different forms of confronting the search and uncertainty...

In danger of losing his badge, a big city detective agrees to aid a small town sheriff in a routine missing persons investigation only to discover that at least one girl has gone missing in this sleepy fishing town each year for the last twenty years...

"When will you return?" tells the story of a grandmother (Doña Conchita) who is taking care of her grandson (Tomás) after her son (José) went to the United States in search of the American dream. However, José is part of the group of migrants who dis...

In Michael, Bieke Depoorter examines the life and the disappearance of a man she met on the streets of Portland, Oregon, in 2015. Gifted three suitcases of Michael’s personal items, sketchbooks and essays, his subsequent disappearance turns Depoorter...

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A military dictatorship grips Argentina during the 1970's and 80's, and many people disappear and are killed. Carlos, for reasons unknown, is suddenly released from prison and attempts to navigate his way home....

A young lad delves into the local folk tale of a murderous monk for an upcoming exhibition. While out taking stills for the project, he disappears leaving it up to his brother to find out exactly what happened at Lidwell Chapel....

The saying 'time heals all wounds' couldn't be farther from the truth for the family of Mekayla Bali, the Yorkton teenager who vanished without trace more than three years ago. In the years that followed her disappearance, the feeling of grief, anger...

The director traces Slovenian children who were stolen during WW2....

Three high schoolers investigate the disappearance of a fellow student, Aubrey. She was last seen entering the abandoned back hallways of their school, Asher Academies. There is a legend that the founder of the school, Asher Neal, died in the back ha...

A short and strange tale. The idea for it came about after a rather brief and spontaneous chat about milk cartons....

An examination of the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, the film explores the reasons why Indigenous women are uniquely vulnerable to violence by juxtaposing the stories of some missing or murdered women with the personal testimonies of...

Two detectives search for a missing person, hidden under layers of dark secrets....

An alcoholic private detective faces her biggest challenge yet when a married couple hires her to find their missing daughter. While investigating her disappearance, she'll remember her own story, her mother and the reasons on why she left her family...

An inept and narcissistic reporter attempts to capitalise on a local cold case to launch his career. He soon finds himself alienating a community of colourful and bizarre characters and failing to find any clues—even when they're handed to him....

A detective revisits an old unsolved missing persons case about Albert Barnes, a strange man who one day got up and left without a trace. The evidence leads to more questions than answers and theories suggest what really happened to him....

This film probes the activities of the bezvests.lv NGO that looks for missing persons and instructs others on how to find them. Since they started in 2009, they’ve helped find more than 90 people who had gone missing. It follows volunteers during tra...

A divorced mother who deals with an absentee baby father loses her daughter to the hands of kidnappers. Now she has to depend on her boyfriend and ex-husband for support while trusting the police to help find her daughter....

When 6 friends go on a camping trip only one survives but can't speak....

An unrelieved office worker discovers a missing person poster which sets him on a journey to uncover some hidden secrets....