Shadowplay

Chasing Sleep

May 2001 •English

A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.

Alternate Ground

November 2021 •English

When a teenage boy is found after disappearing overnight, his unexplained behavior causes concern within the family, and a lack of medical answers leads to a revelation of alien abduction.

I Remember You

May 2017 •Icelandic

After an older lady hangs herself in a church, a new psychiatrist discovers she was obsessed with the disappearance of his eight-year-old son, who vanished three years earlier. Meanwhile, three city dwellers are restoring a house when they realize it is haunted.

Die Toten von Hameln

May 2014 •German

Choir director Johanna Bischoff and her girls choir go to a concert in their hometown Hameln. Shortly before the scheduled performance disappear four of the girls and the organist David.Sie were on a hike in a cave of the Ith - the fabled mountain, in which 700 years ago the Pied Piper is said to have led the children. Seeking help, Johanna turns to her ex-boyfriend Jan Faber, head of the police station in Hameln.

The Fourth Kind

November 2009 •English

Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.

Beautiful

August 2009 •English

After another teenager disappears from the idyllic suburb of Sunshine Hills, Suzy, the girl-next-door of every boy's dreams, persuades Daniel, a fourteen-year-old with an obsessive crush, to help her uncover the truth.

Noroi: The Curse

August 2005 •Japanese

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."

Black Tide

July 2018 •French

When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.

Domino One

March 2005 •English

Reportage November

October 2022 •Swedish

A mysterious death of a mother and the disappearance of her child leads a group of freelance journalists to the outback of Sweden. The group of four, led by the famous journalist Linn Söderqvist, will make a reportage about the happening, and try to find something the police missed. Equipped with cameras and supplies to survive in the forest for days, they wander out in the woods to find the truth.

Stir of Echoes

September 1999 •English

After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.

Ile Alatau

January 2021 •Kazakh

A story of four childhood friends who mysteriously disappeared while camping in the rural mountains of Trans Ili Alatau. The following events were recorded on Sultan's videocamera, who was making his student thesis project on a local plant called the Asafoetida.

The Bar

February 2017 •Spanish

In downtown Madrid, a series of mysterious gunshots trap a motley assortment of people in a decrepit bar.

The Lady in the Morgue

April 1938 •English

A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.

Hail, Caesar!

February 2016 •English

When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

Aftersun

May 2022 •Catalan

Summertime. In a camping, three little girls listen to an old mysterious story about a missing kid. They start to investigate.

Missing

February 1982 •English

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.

Iota

April 2004 •English

Sam is a mute 5-year-old girl who lives with her father and twin sister April in a house near the beach. On Christmas Eve, April disappears. Exactly one year later something strange happens ...

Lantana

October 2001 •English

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.

Brick

March 2006 •English

After a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body was found. Vowing to solve her murder himself, he must infiltrate high-school cliques that he previously avoided. His search for the truth brings him before some of the school’s roughest characters.