Topic: Kidnappings · Disappearances

Direction Nic Pizzolatto · Cary Joji Fukunaga

Cast Matthew McConaughey · Woody Harrelson · Michelle Monaghan · Michael Potts

Plot TV Series (2014). 8 Episodes. Two detectives, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, lives become entangled during a 17-year hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana... True Detective is a new...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yutaka Sada · Takashi Shimura

Plot It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan,...

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Jodie Foster · Anthony Hopkins · Scott Glenn · Ted Levine

Plot Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), a young and ambitious FBI agent, enlists the aid of criminally insane ex-psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to help track down a vicious serial killer...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Charlton Heston · Janet Leigh · Orson Welles · Marlene Dietrich

Plot An unseen man sets the timer on an explosive device. The clock starts ticking down as soon as he stashes it in the boot of a fancy-looking car. Immediately afterwards,...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Natalie Wood · Jeffrey Hunter · Ward Bond

Plot Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), a case-hardened Civil War veteran, returns to his brother Aaron's (Walter Coy) Texas home in 1868. When Rev. Samuel Johnson Clayton (Ward Bond) arrives to raise...

Direction Matt Duffer · Ross Duffer · The Duffer Brothers · Shawn Levy

Cast Winona Ryder · David Harbour · Matthew Modine · Finn Wolfhard

Plot TV Series (2016-Present Day). Hawkins, Indiana, in the 80s. When a young boy vanishes, the small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little...

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Edward G. Robinson · Lauren Bacall · Lionel Barrymore

Plot Frank McCloud is an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida in order to meet Nora Temple, the wife of a friend of his who died in...

Direction Park Chan-wook

Cast Choi Min-sik · Yoo Ji-tae · Kang Hye-jung · Ji Dae-han

Plot 'Oldboy' features Choi Min-sik as a Korean businessman who is suddenly kidnapped and confined in a cell with only a television set. He makes various efforts to escape and even...

Direction Joel Coen

Cast Frances McDormand · William H. Macy · Steve Buscemi · Peter Stormare

Plot Poor Jerry Lundegaard. He's deep in debt. His wealthy father-in-law has no respect for him. He cheats customers at the car dealership where he works. And now he's hired a...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Terence Stamp · Samantha Eggar · Mona Washbourne · Maurice Dallimore

Plot Freddie Clegg isn't sure if he can carry out his plan for "her" until he stumbles across an isolated house for sale in the English countryside, the house he spots...

Direction Lenny Abrahamson

Cast Brie Larson · Jacob Tremblay · Joan Allen · William H. Macy

Plot Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the...

Direction Alejandro Amenábar

Cast Ana Torrent · Fele Martínez · Eduardo Noriega · Nieves Herranz

Plot Why is death and violence so fascinating? Is it morally correct to show violence in movies? If so, is there a limit to what we should show? That's the subject...

Direction Brad Ingelsby · Craig Zobel

Cast Kate Winslet · Julianne Nicholson · Jean Smart · Angourie Rice

Plot TV Series (2021). 7 Episodes. Mare Sheehan (Kate Winslet) is a detective in a small Pennsylvania town who investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling...

Direction Otto Bathurst

Cast Rory Kinnear · Lindsay Duncan · Lydia Wilson · Tom Goodman-Hill

Plot A twisted parable for the Twitter age, Black Mirror taps into the collective unease about our modern world. The first episode is a political thriller in which fictional Prime Minister...

Direction Mugita Kinoshita · Norio Nitta

Plot TV Series (2021). 13 Episodes. Kotogawa is an eccentric, reticent 41-year-old taxi driver who has no relatives and does not have much to do with others. He does have conversations...

Direction Bruno Stagnaro

Cast Luis Brandoni · Peter Lanzani · Luis Luque · Julieta Ortega

Plot TV Series (2017-2018). 2 Seasons. 15 Episodes.

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Gabriele Ferzetti · Monica Vitti · Lea Massari · Dominique Blanchar

Plot A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle...

Direction Denis Villeneuve

Cast Hugh Jackman · Jake Gyllenhaal · Viola Davis · Maria Bello

Plot When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far...

Direction Frantisek Vlácil

Cast Josef Kemr · Magda Vásáryová · Nada Hejna · Jaroslav Moucka

Plot A minor Czech clan falls afoul of the King in medieval times, against the backdrop of Christianity replacing Paganism.

Direction Baran bo Odar · Jantje Friese

Cast Louis Hofmann · Anna König · Roland Wolf · Oliver Masucci

Plot TV Series (2017-2020). 3 Seasons. 26 Episodes. A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers. Their search for a culprit unearths a small town’s sins and...