The Italian thriller Vanished into the Night, starring Riccardo Scamarcio and Annabelle Wallis, follows a father, Pietro, who’s desperate to find his children after they disappear from home in the middle of the night. While Pietro’s convinced the abduction’s related to his massive gambling debt, the truth behind the kidnapping is much, much closer to home. Finished the film and looking for more shows about characters on a mission to save people who’ve seemingly vanished without a trace? Read on for movies and series to check out next.
After 24-year-old Shannan disappears one night, her mother, Mari (Amy Ryan), is determined to find her at all costs. But when the police don’t make Shannan’s disappearance a priority, Mari takes matters into her own hands — sparking a shocking investigation within an insular gated community in Long Island, New York. Lost Girls is based on the true story of the Gilgo Beach murders.
Read more about the film in this guide.
In this thriller, Allison Janney plays Lou, a bitter survivalist with a mysterious past who prefers to go it alone. But when a young girl — the daughter of her next-door neighbor Hannah (Jurnee Smollett) — is kidnapped, the two women go full scorched-earth to rescue the child.
Extraction — based on the graphic novel Ciudad by Ande Parks, Joe Russo, and Anthony Russo — stars Chris Hemsworth as Tyler Rake, a black-ops gun for hire who ends up on a life-threatening mission in Bangladesh to save the son of an incarcerated Indian drug lord.
Starring Candela Peña and Tristán Ulloa, the investigative thriller based on a true story follows two parents after they report their daughter, Asunta Basterra Porto, missing. As the cops track down clues, they begin to suspect there’s more to Asunta’s disappearance than they were led to believe. The Basterra-Portos were known to their loved ones as a picture-perfect family … so what, exactly, do Asunta’s parents have to hide?
To learn more about The Asunta Case and the real story behind it, check out this guide.
