THEME EXPLORATION

missing daughter

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

Yi Yi
2000 · Edward Yang

Personal Column
1939 · Robert Siodmak

The Hangover
2009 · Todd Phillips

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007 · Sidney Lumet

Full Moon
1998 · Fredi M. Murer

Life and Nothing But
1989 · Bertrand Tavernier

Forget About Nick
2017 · Margarethe von Trotta

Night Moves
1975 · Arthur Penn

Stolen Assignment
1955 · Terence Fisher

Trail of the Pink Panther
1982 · Blake Edwards

And Quiet Rolls the Dawn
1979 · Mrinal Sen

The Missing Nail
2019 · Peter Greenaway

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Denis Villeneuve Canada

His film 'Prisoners' presents a haunting exploration of a father's desperate search for his missing daughter, examining the moral boundaries parents cross when faced with abduction.

David Fincher United States

'Gone Girl' deconstructs the missing daughter/wife narrative through an unreliable perspective that challenges audience assumptions about disappearance and identity.

Lynne Ramsay United Kingdom

'You Were Never Really Here' deals with a traumatized protagonist haunted by his inability to save a missing girl, exploring psychological devastation and parental failure.