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51. Escapade in Japan (1957)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Family
American Dick Saunders has just been transferred to Tokyo after a two year stint in Manila. His wife Mary Saunders has accompanied him on the pretense to set up their home, with their ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Teresa Wright, Cameron Mitchell, Jon Provost, Roger Nakagawa
Votes: 583
52. Crossroads (2021– )
283 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Criminal lawyer Sophie and her husband Thomas, a police inspector, are a happy family with their son Arthur. After a fateful day turns her life upside down, Sophie decides to join the police force.
Stars: Alexia Barlier, Thomas Jouannet, Cyril Lecomte, Mariama Gueye
Votes: 202
53. Starhunter (2000–2004)
45 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In 2275, a team of bounty hunters tries to stop a conspiracy involving alien DNA. In 2300, bounty hunter Travis Montana searches for his lost son.
Stars: Tanya Allen, Stephen Marcus, Michael Paré, Murray Melvin
Votes: 901
54. Missing (2012)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
When a woman's son goes missing under suspicious circumstances, she will do anything it takes to find him.
Stars: Ashley Judd, Cliff Curtis, Adriano Giannini, Nick Eversman
Votes: 9,665
55. So Long, My Son (2019)
185 min | Drama
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Jingchun Wang, Mei Yong, Xi Qi, Roy Wang
Votes: 5,309
56. My Boy Jack (2007 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I.
Director: Brian Kirk | Stars: David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, Kim Cattrall, Carey Mulligan
Votes: 5,664
57. All My Sons (1948)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Film-Noir
During WW2, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever but years later his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Louisa Horton
Votes: 2,424
58. Windwalker (1980)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1797 Utah, an aged Cheyenne patriarch helps his kin to fight off a raiding party of rival Crow warriors and he tells his grandchildren the story of their family.
Director: Kieth Merrill | Stars: Trevor Howard, Nick Ramus, James Remar, Serene Hedin
Votes: 1,229 | Gross: $18.64M
59. The Dead (2010)
R | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An American mercenary, the sole survivor of a plane crash, has to run the gauntlet across Africa, battling with the living dead.
Directors: Howard J. Ford, Jonathan Ford | Stars: Rob Freeman, Prince David Osei, David Dontoh, Ben Crowe
Votes: 9,652
60. Concrete Canyons (2010 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Ex-Sheriff Ben Sloane from Greeley County, Colorado heads to Chicago to investigate and clear his estranged son of suspected murder.
Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Scott Patterson, Polly Shannon, Emilie Ullerup, Andrew Dunbar
Votes: 313
61. Little Accidents (2014)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
In a small American town still living in the shadow of a terrible coal mine accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws together a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy in a web of secrets.
Director: Sara Colangelo | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Randy Springer, Jacob Lofland, Beau Wright
Votes: 3,853
62. Under the Tree (2017)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
When Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson | Stars: Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann
Votes: 5,477 | Gross: $0.07M
63. Chicuarotes (2019)
TV-14 | 95 min | Crime, Drama
A group of teenagers in Mexico City set out to enrich their lives.
Director: Gael García Bernal | Stars: Benny Emmanuel, Leidi Gutiérrez, Gabriel Carbajal, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Votes: 3,377
64. Don't Talk to Strangers (1994 TV Movie)
R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller
After Jane's first marriage collapses, she and her new husband Patrick Brody attempt to build a new life and move to a new state. However, her ex-husband follows them with a view to revenge.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Shanna Reed, Terry O'Quinn, Keegan MacIntosh
Votes: 790
65. London River (2009)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Mystery
Two strangers come to discover the fate of their respective children in the 2005 terrorist attacks on London.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem
Votes: 3,882 | Gross: $0.00M
66. W pustyni i w puszczy (2001)
111 min | Adventure, Family
Two young children, 14-year-old Stas and 8-year-old Nel, are kidnapped for ransom by Muslim leader called Mahdi.
Director: Gavin Hood | Stars: Adam Fidusiewicz, Karolina Sawka, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Artur Zmijewski
Votes: 990
67. Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
Not Rated | 82 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven
Votes: 1,589
68. Stray (2019)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Igor is ready for anything for the sake of Polina's happiness and, in order to make up for the loss of her son, the spouses decide to adopt. But instead of an ordinary boy from the shelter, their family gets not just a "difficult" child .
Director: Olga Gorodetskaya | Stars: Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Sevastian Bugaev, Yan Runov
Votes: 514
69. Haunted (2002)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
After having a near-death experience, ex-cop-turned-private-eye Frank Taylor learns that he has the ability to see and communicate with restless ghosts of murdered people who ask for his ... See full summary »
Stars: Matthew Fox, Russell Hornsby, Lynn Collins, Michael Irby
Votes: 650
70. Screamtime (1983)
R | 89 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A trilogy of three improbable stories of horror and the supernatural are combined into this low budget thriller: "That's the Way to Do It," "Dreamhouse,," and "Do You Believe in Fairies?"
Directors: Michael Armstrong, Stanley A. Long | Stars: Vincent Russo, Michael Gordon, Marie Scinto, Kevin Smith
Votes: 1,015
71. Black Tide (2018)
Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The disappearance of a boy sends an alcoholic cop on the track of a suspicious teacher while falling for the grieving mother.
Director: Erick Zonca | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Sandrine Kiberlain, Élodie Bouchez
Votes: 3,629
72. Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019)
112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Desperate measures are taken by a man who tries to save his family from the dark side of the law, after they commit an unexpected crime.
Director: Sam Quah | Stars: Yang Xiao, Zhuo Tan, Joan Chen, Philip Keung
Votes: 1,890
73. Shades of Sin (2004)
50 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Maranhense young woman and a carioca tourist photographer fall for each other and get separated by destiny and a woman obsessed with his family's wealth.
Stars: Gabriela Senra, Reynaldo Gianecchini, Giovanna Antonelli, Taís Araújo
Votes: 647
74. I Come with the Rain (2009)
Not Rated | 114 min | Thriller
Ex-Los Angeles cop turned private eye travels to Hong Kong in search of the missing son of a billionaire.
Director: Anh Hung Tran | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Lee Byung-hun, Takuya Kimura
Votes: 3,299
75. Dirkie (1969)
G | 81 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
After a plane crash a young boy and his dog wander through the Kalahari desert.
Director: Jamie Uys | Stars: Wynand Uys, Jamie Uys, Lady Frolic of Belvedale, Wilhelm Esterhuizen
Votes: 482
76. The Drifting Classroom (1987)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An international school in Kobe, Japan is catapulted into the future after a time-slip occurs.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Yasufumi Hayashi, Aiko Asano, Vajra Barzaghi, Leana D'Aloisio
Votes: 294
77. Girls of the Sun (2018)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, War
A Kurdish female battalion prepares to take back their town from extremists.
Director: Eva Husson | Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Emmanuelle Bercot, Zübeyde Bulut, Sinama Alievi
Votes: 2,835 | Gross: $0.02M
78. Guilty Bystander (1950)
Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.
Director: Joseph Lerner | Stars: Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Mary Boland, Sam Levene
Votes: 1,084
79. Cattle Drive (1951)
Approved | 77 min | Western
A cowboy finds the spoiled son of a railroad magnate lost in the deserted hills and teaches him survival skills and hard work values.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames
Votes: 774
80. Go for Sisters (2013)
Unrated | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Fontayne is enlisted by Bernice - her estranged old friend and current parole officer - along with a disgraced cop to search for Bernice's son, who went missing on the Mexican border.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: LisaGay Hamilton, Yolonda Ross, Edward James Olmos, Hilary Barraford
Votes: 655 | Gross: $0.06M
81. Captain Conan (1996)
129 min | Drama, War
The war exploits of French captain Conan and his men during World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Torreton, Samuel Le Bihan, Bernard Le Coq, Catherine Rich
Votes: 2,453
82. My Son (2017)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama, Thriller
The disappearance of his child sends a man on a dark path to find the truth.
Director: Christian Carion | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Laurent, Olivier de Benoist, Antoine Hamel
Votes: 1,551 | Gross: $0.01M
83. The Lost Son (1999)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Menges | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Nastassja Kinski, Katrin Cartlidge, Marianne Denicourt
Votes: 2,008
84. The Chameleon (2010)
R | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An FBI Agent is hot on the tracks of Frédéric Fortin who has taken up the identity of a woman's long lost son, completely convincing the police and the boy's family of his identity.
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: Marc-André Grondin, Ellen Barkin, Famke Janssen, Emilie de Ravin
Votes: 2,024
85. Siddharth (2013)
G | 96 min | Drama
A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.
Director: Richie Mehta | Stars: Rajesh Tailang, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Anurag Arora, Shobha Sharma Jassi
Votes: 768 | Gross: $0.06M
86. The Oath (2016)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A troubled father working as a doctor decides to go to extreme measures to save his daughter from the devastating influence of her drug-dealer boyfriend.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Baltasar Kormákur, Hera Hilmar, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Margrét Bjarnadóttir
Votes: 2,453
87. Hierro (2009)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After her son goes missing, a broken mother returns months later to the island of El Hierro to identify a body. She finds out her son is not the only one missing.
Director: Gabe Ibáñez | Stars: Elena Anaya, Bea Segura, Mar Sodupe, Andrés Herrera
Votes: 3,404
88. Johnny Trouble (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Katherine Chandler lives in an apartment house that has been purchased by the local college for a boy's dormitory. She refuses to vacate, certain that her son, who was a wild boy and ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Ethel Barrymore, Cecil Kellaway, Stuart Whitman, Carolyn Jones
Votes: 172
89. Silver Bells (2005 TV Movie)
TV-G | 95 min | Drama, Family
Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.
Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Anne Heche, Tate Donovan, Michael Mitchell, Courtney Jines
Votes: 1,343
90. Shadow (I) (2021)
115 min | Drama
Years after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that the police cannot solve while she is moving in a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child whom she believes is still alive.
Director: Bruno Gascon | Stars: Ana Moreira, Miguel Borges, Vítor Norte, Tomás Alves
Votes: 213
91. The Weapon (1956)
77 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
Directors: Val Guest, Hal E. Chester | Stars: Steve Cochran, Lizabeth Scott, George Cole, Herbert Marshall
Votes: 436
92. A Mother's Love (2019–2021)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A mother leaves her small hometown in the countryside for Rio de Janeiro to search for a son that was stolen from her.
Stars: Adriana Esteves, Humberto Carrão, Regina Casé, Taís Araújo
Votes: 306
93. Missing Kenley (2022)
Documentary
This is the heartbreaking story of the 1992 missing Canadian college student, Kenley Matheson. He disappeared from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, without a trace. Years later, suspects emerge, stories surface, and the RCMP does nothing.
Stars: Erin Smith, Sandra Fraser, Kayrene Willis
Votes: 163
94. L'homme en colère (1979)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man goes to Canada looking for his son. The corpse of his son is later discovered by the Canadian police.
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet, Hollis McLaren
Votes: 358
95. Pureza (2022)
101 min | Drama
In the '90s, a mother looks for her missing son and finds farms with slave labor practices in the Amazon region.
Director: Renato Barbieri | Stars: Dira Paes, Matheus Abreu, Flavio Bauraqui, Sergio Sartorio
Votes: 305
96. Lily in Winter (1994 TV Movie)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Family
In 1957, New Yorkers report the kidnapping of their son, who follows his nanny on a train taking her home to Alabama.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Natalie Cole, Brian Bonsall, Marla Gibbs, Cecil Hoffman
Votes: 152
97. Azaad (1955)
163 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After her widower dad, Kedarnath, passes away, Shobha goes to live with his friend, Charandas, and his wife, Shanta, who had their son go missing as a child. Years later Shobha is now ... See full summary »
Director: Sriramulu Naidu S.M. | Stars: Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Pran Sikand, Raj Mehra
Votes: 178
98. Naufragio (1978)
101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A woman (Murguía) lives waiting for her son (Alonso) who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares his letters and her grief with a ... See full summary »
Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Stars: José Alonso, María Rojo, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Carlos Castañón
Votes: 240
99. Salut l'artiste (1973)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
Nicolas is an actor who only manages to get small roles in films, theatre and commericals. His domestic life does not fare much better as his mistress leaves him and he tries to return to his wife who is pregnant by another man.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Françoise Fabian, Jean Rochefort, Evelyne Buyle
Votes: 319
100. Little Crusader (2017)
87 min | Drama, History
Knight Borek is searching for his missing son. Enthralled by the stories of children's crusades, little Jan has run away from home. Borek's crusade is a journey into his own subconscious, where he is forced to confront his greatest fear.
Director: Václav Kadrnka | Stars: Karel Roden, Ales Bílík, Matous John, Jana Semerádová
Votes: 115