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1) Family plot
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A cabbie and a psychic work together to search for a missing hier. They become involved with a larcenous jewel merchant and his "Woman in Black" while discovering the family plot.
Publisher
CBS Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Seattle police detective John Kanin (Lou Diamond Phillips) finds his world turned upside down when his girlfriend Ruby (Mia Kirshner) mysteriously disappears one night after leaving his apartment. After months of searching, an anonymous tip leads Kanin back to Ruby's hometown Wolf Lake, a place where the residents are hiding a dark secret.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven years after they defeated Pennywise, he has returned to terrorize the town of Derry once more. When kids start disappearing again, Mike, the only one who stayed in Derry, calls the others to come home. Each damaged by the experiences of the past, they must conquer their fears to destroy Pennywise once and for all.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A thriller set two hundred years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system. A hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain come together for what starts as the case of a missing young woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
5) The forest
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A woman looking for her twin sister in Japan's Suicide Forest confronts a terrifying supernatural force.
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
It was meant to be a perfect getaway, suddenly it became a horrific nightmare. While vacationing aboard a private yacht on the Sea of Cortez, Detective David Ramsey discovers that his wife and friends have suddenly disappeared.
Publisher
Rogue Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
On the day the Riverton Ripper vanished without a trace, seven children were born. Today, they're all turning 16 ... and turning up dead. Keep your heart racing with this suspense-thriller filled with twists, turns and a dark secret that will send your soul searching for cover.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Centers on one man's obsessive recollections of a mysterious children's television program from the 1980s, which almost no one seems to remember. He grows increasingly suspicious of the role it may have played in a series of nightmarish events from his childhood, including the disappearance of his twin brother.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Sam Winchester grew up hunting creepy, demented, unexplainable, unearthly and terrifying things. But law school, safety and normalcy beckon him until Sam's estranged brother appears with troubling news: their father, a man who's been hunting evil for 22 years, has disappeared. So now, to find him, the brothers must hunt what their father hunts and Sam must return to the life he thought he'd left behind.
10) Relic
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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's been clashes with Sam's unabashed enthusiasm to have her grandma back.
11) Oh Lucy!
Pub. Date
2018
Language
日本語
Description
Setsuko is a single, emotionally unfulfilled woman, seemingly stuck with a drab, meaningless life in Tokyo. At least until she's convinced by her niece, Mika to enroll in an unorthodox English class that requires her to wear a blonde wig and take on an American alter ego named "Lucy." This new identity awakens something dormant in Setsuko, and she quickly develops romantic feelings for her American instructor, John. When John suddenly disappears from...
12) Perpetrator
Publisher
Shudder, RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Jonny Baptiste is a reckless teen sent to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie. On the event of her 18th birthday, she experiences a radical metamorphosis: a family spell that redefines her called Forevering. When several teen girls go missing from her new school, a mythically feral Jonny goes after the Perpetrator.
13) Where are you
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A grieving photographer searches for his missing girlfriend through the eyes of his subconscious.
14) Fun size
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Wren, a whip-smart high school senior, is stuck babysitting her annoying little brother, but that all changes when he somehow manages to get loose. Now Wren and her three friends need to find him as they set off on the most unexpected and unforgettable adventure of their lives, as long as mom doesn't find out!
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Persian
Description
With the return of their friend Ahmad from Germany, a group of old college pals decide to reunite of a weekend by the Caspian Sea. The fun starts right away as they quickly catch on the plan of lively Sepideh, who has brought along Elly, her daughter's kindergarten teacher, in hopes of setting her up with recently divorced Ahmad. But seemingly trivial lies, which start accumulating at the seashore, suddenly swing round and come back full force when...
17) Chasing shadows
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
DS Sean Stone has an uncanny ability to identify and predict patterns of human behavior. He knows how people work, but he doesn't understand them. When no one else will work with the socially inept genius, Sean is cast out to the Missing Persons Bureau and partnered with empathetic analyst Ruth Hattersley. Despite the conflict and frustration between them, they make the perfect team as they protect the most vulnerable in society from the evil that...
18) Trenque Lauquen
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
The search for a missing woman unspools in two unexpectedly interconnected parts in Laura Citarella's playful new feature. The missing woman is Laura (Laura Paredes), a biologist cataloging plant species in and around the Argentinean city of Trenque Lauquen. The men searching for her: Rafael, her boyfriend, and Ezequiel, a coworker who has come to mean more to her in recent days. But to uncover the truth of Laura's disappearance, a profusion of mysteries...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The elite murder squad returns. As the detectives solve each case (skeletal remains dug up in the garden, the brutal murder of a pub landlord, a teenage au pair found dead, the double-shooting of a father and son), there's one mystery Detective Inspector David Bradford can't unravel. Where is his wife Sarah? As the other detectives investigate why David is lying to them about the night Sarah disappeared, they begin to think the unthinkable: did the...
20) Hidden: Series 1
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this noir thriller from the team behind Hinterland, DI Cadi John investigates a string of disappearances in the mountains of Wales.
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