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Author
Language
English
Description
"Can one man be that unlucky? Elisa Wright is a mom and wife, living a nice, quiet life in a nice, quiet town. She's also convinced her brother-in-law is a murderer. Josh has one dead wife and one missing fiancée, and though he grieved for them he starts dating someone new. Elisa fears for that woman's safety, and she desperately wants to know what happened to her friend, Josh's missing fiancée. Searching for clues means investigating her own family....
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Following a spectacular opening number, a lip-synched rendition of Jane Russell's sultry You Kill Me, the film's hero, in voiceover, sets the tale in motion. He has come to Macao in search of Candy, an old friend who he fears has been kidnapped by a shadowy crime syndicate. He searches the city streets, back alleys, gambling dens, and music halls, but Candy's whereabouts elude him, until a larger, more sinister plot comes into focus.
4) Missing
Publisher
Darkstar Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Description
Depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi tells his young daughter he has found a way out. Pointing to the reward note, he vows to find the infamous serial killer "No Name" claiming he saw the man in the flesh a few days earlier. Kaeda cannot believe her aloof, goofy father. But when he goes missing without a trace, she starts fearing the worst and begins looking for him.
5) Kaili blues
Publisher
Grasshopper Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"In a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili, two preoccupied doctors live ghost-like lives. One of them, Chen, decides to fulfill a family wish and sets off on a train journey to search for his brother's abandoned child, only to find himself in a dreamlike world where past, present, and future - as well as fantasy and reality - become one.
6) Relic
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam rush to their family's decaying country home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence. After Edna returns just as mysteriously as she disappeared, Kay's concern that her mother seems unwilling or unable to say where she clashes with Sam's unabashed enthusiasm to have her grandma back.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, and stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona's orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she...
9) Wakefield
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife and children and neighbors. Wakefield becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact left his family, he has left himself.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
Santiago and Eugenio are best friends who run a thriving electronics store together. One day, Eugenio doesn't come to work, and Santiago delays telling anyone while trying to figure out why. Then Laura, Eugenio's wife, shows up to say that Eugenio has disappeared. Perplexed, the two embark on a journey to find him, only to discover that true happiness can sometimes mean losing everything.
Publisher
[Disney]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the most magical time of the year! This is Sofia's first Winter Holiday in the castle with her new family, but when King Roland goes missing in a raging snowstorm, Sofia leads her mother, Amber, and James on a brave expedition aboard a flying sleigh to find him. The blizzard whirls around them their hopes are nearly dashed; until Princess Aurora appears and reminds Sofia that her animal friends might hold the key to finding her dad and...
12) A simple favor
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A mommy vlogger seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's sudden disappearance from their small town.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Korean
Description
Two young girls are sent to live with relatives while their mother searches for their missing father. When their mother doesn't come back, they are left at their grandparent's house where they finally learn the importance of family.
14) Crawl
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane hits her hometown, Haley ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father. Finding him injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed,...
16) Go for sisters
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Bernice and Fontayne grew so close people said they could 'go for sisters,' but time sent them down different paths. 20 years later, those paths cross: Fontayne is a recovering addict fresh out of jail, and Bernice is her new parole officer. When Bernice's son Rodney goes missing on the Mexican border, his shady associates all in hiding or brutally murdered, Bernice realizes she needs someone to navigate Rodney's world withoutinvolving the police,...
17) Family plot
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A phony psychic and a private eye search for a lost heir, getting mixed up in a diamond theft at the same time. This version has been digitally remastered.
18) Goldstone
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry, and what seems like a simple investigation unearths a web of crime, corruption human trafficking, and the exploitation of aboriginal lands.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
When Edmund is placed in a care facility after taking a bad fall, he discovers that his son has sold his apartment. Determined to reclaim his autonomy, he leaves the facility with Rose, an empathetic nurse still suffering from the loss of her unborn child. However, the unlikely friends must face the consequences when Edmund is reported missing.
20) Get out
Author
Publisher
Inventory Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Jordan Peele's powerful thriller 'Get Out' debuted in 2017 to enormous public and critical acclaim, a 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' for the age of Obama and Trump that scared audiences and skewered white liberal pieties at the same time. Rather than rely on popular archetypes, Peele weaves together the material realities and daily manifestations of horror with sociopolitical fears and elements of true suspense, and combines them with pitch-perfect...
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