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Behind the shoulders of a married couple Nick and Amy Dunn 5 years of a happy family life. Young people are planning to arrange a friendly party on this occasion, shortly before which Amy disappears somewhere.
The Dunns’ entire apartment is covered in blood. It is noticeable that there was a struggle between two people. In addition, Amy’s husband found numerous mysterious clues at home, by which he can find his wife. The protagonist of the film begins his own investigation into the disappearance of his wife. Initially, he assumes that the author of the mysterious notes is Amy and she was not kidnapped, but she herself staged her disappearance. The police consider Nick himself the main suspect in the disappearance of Amy, who is completely confused during the search for his wife.
There have been many films made about “accidental” missing people and other mysterious crimes, similar to 2014’s Gone Girl. We will present you the best examples of world cinema about the mysterious events taking place in the lives of ordinary people.
10 Basic instinct | 1992
Famous former rock musician Johnny Boz is killed. He was found dead in his bed. Detective Nick Carrena was assigned to investigate this crime. He meets a young successful writer Katherine Tramell and suspects the woman of the murder of a rock star. The thing is that her latest book has recently been published, in which there is a detailed description of such a murder. During the interrogation, this smart and sexy beauty behaved provocatively. Katherine knows how to manipulate men who melt under her spell.
9. What lies behind | 2000
The daughter of Norman and Claire Spencer went to college. The couple stayed in the house alone and Claire somehow changed strangely. This happened after she saw her new neighbor, who regularly quarreled with his wife, plunging something in a rolled carpet into the car. Now the main character has a mania. It seems to her that everywhere people are killing each other. After she saw her husband’s student Madison, who went missing, the woman told Norman about it, but he did not pay any attention to her words. Claire goes to see a psychiatrist, who gives her strange advice to try talking to a ghost.
8. Life of David Gale | 2002
The film tells about a man of principle, a caring father, a famous scientist who fought for the abolition of the death penalty in America all his adult life. One day, he ends up in jail. Police believe it was David who killed activist Constance Harraway. He was given capital punishment. After 3 days, Gale should be put in an electric chair and he decides to finally talk with journalist Bitsy Bloom, who, in the course of the conversation, understands that David is innocent of the murder of the activist. She decides to get to the bottom of the truth and save Gale.
7. Trans | 2013
Simon has a responsible job. During auctions, he guards valuable paintings. If the guy feels the slightest danger, he must hide another masterpiece in a safe. But the robbers still manage to neutralize him with a blow to the head. Doctors diagnosed Simon with amnesia. Only he knows the location of the painting, which the robbers never managed to get. They secretly take the guard out of the hospital and try to torture him to find out where the masterpiece is. It doesn’t give anything. Then in the room where Simon is kept, the hypnotist-therapist Elizabeth appears. Her main task is to restore the memory of the main character of the film.
6. Captives | 2013
After the disappearance of his 6-year-old daughter and her friend Keller Dover, he is not himself. A lot of time has passed, and the police have no leads. Initially, Detective Locky managed to arrest the owner of a dilapidated van parked near the Keller house on the day the girls disappeared, but the police have no significant evidence against this man and he is released. Dover decides to look for his daughter himself and is ready to do anything to get his girl home again.
5. Game | 1997
Successful businessman Nicholas Van Orton has another birthday coming up. He must be 48 years old. At that age, the father of the protagonist of the film committed suicide. Nicholas’ brother gives him a certificate, according to which Van Orton becomes a participant in a strange game. First, he signs an agreement with its organizer that he agrees to comply with all its conditions. The protagonist of the film at that moment did not even imagine what terrible trials awaited him ahead, and that he would have to risk his life in order to reach the end of the game.
4. Girl on the train | 2016
Jason and Jess Rachel were considered the perfect couple by a woman who watched them during her train rides. These people love each other, they are happy and prosperous. Rachel herself had recently divorced and felt lonely. Once a woman saw that something very bad was happening in the courtyard of a married couple’s house. Rachel managed to make out this unpleasant picture in just a minute, when the train stopped for a while. The family marital idyll was destroyed right before the eyes of the woman. After that, Jason’s wife disappeared. The main character of the film decides, by all means, to find her. Rachel didn’t want to go to the police.
3. Girl with dragon tattoo | 2011
Long ago, industrial magnate Henrik Wagner’s niece mysteriously disappeared. 40 years have passed since that time. The girl disappeared on the territory of the island belonging to the family of the magnate. Henrik believes his niece was murdered. He wants to get to the bottom of the truth and find out what really happened. Wagner entrusts the investigation of the disappearance of the girl to the disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the talented, but very strange hacker Lisbeth Salander.
2. Best offer | 2012
The film is about Virgil Oldman, who runs a famous auction house. He has a partner Billy, with whom he periodically engages in the implementation of ingenious scams. The victims of their fraud are sellers and buyers.
Oldman has his own villa with a secret hall that houses numerous artistic masterpieces. Once, the protagonist of the film anonymously met a mysterious woman who wanted to buy back paintings and other valuable works of art that once belonged to her family.
Oldman began to look for them in his collection and found the parts that once consisted of a mysterious mechanism. It was said that the help of otherworldly forces was needed to launch it. Virgil turns to his brilliant friend Robert for help, and the men work together to uncover all the secrets of this mysterious mechanism. Now the protagonist of the film is interested not only in antiques.
1. Side effect | 2013
Emily went into a deep depression after her husband was sent to jail. The girl was constantly sitting on large doses of a sedative. At first she felt better. After four years in prison, the husband of the main character of the film returned home. His wife began bouts of depression again. Even strong drugs no longer helped her cope with stress. Emily ends up in a psychiatric hospital. She is going to be involved in an experiment to test new drugs that suddenly had the most unexpected effect on a woman.