Movies Like The Vanishing

If you liked The Vanishing (1988), a thriller and mystery movie directed by George Sluizer, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Labor Day (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller
Two strangers are drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a second chance love story.
2
The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also mystery
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
3
Dead of Winter (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
A widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young…
4
Searching (2018)
★ 7.6/10Also mystery and thriller
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one…
5
Nancy (2018)
★ 5.8/10Also mystery and thriller
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
6
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
★ 7.7/10Also mystery and thriller
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
7
Missing (2023)
★ 7.4/10Also mystery and thriller
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all…
8
Fallen Angel (1945)
★ 6.6/10Also mystery
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman…
9
Premonition (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and mystery
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still…
10
Flightplan (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and mystery
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now…
11
Safe Haven (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
12
13 Minutes (2021)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter…
13
Remember (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and mystery
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
14
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror when fate draws him to the sleepy West Virginia town of Point Pleasant, whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous…
15
The Cellar (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery
When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk…
16
Under Suspicion (2000)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and…
17
Overdrive (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and mystery
Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.
18
Young and Innocent (1937)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and mystery
When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.
19
The Company You Keep (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
20
Megan Is Missing (2011)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
Fourteen-year–old Megan and her best friend Amy spend a lot of time on the internet, posting videos of themselves and chatting with guys online. One night Megan chats with a guy named Josh who convinces her to meet him…