Found Footage Movies Like Searching and Missing

14 hand-picked films

Searching and its follow-up Missing tell missing-person mysteries entirely through laptops, phones and the digital lives people leave behind.

If you loved hunting for clues in chats, search histories and video calls, these screenlife films give you more of that, from tense thrillers to quiet dramas, with a few horror films for the brave.

About the film: Searching (2018)

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Profile (2018)
A journalist poses as a convert online to expose an ISIS recruiter, from the producer of Searching
2
C U Soon (2020)
A woman from a dating app vanishes, and her fiance's cousin searches for her online, in Malayalam
3
Unfriended (2014)
The same screen-only style as horror: a group video chat is joined by an unknown user
4
Stay Online (2023)
A volunteer in wartime Ukraine is video-called by a boy looking for his missing father
5
CTRL (2024)
An influencer lets an AI app clean up her digital life, and it takes more control than she wanted
6
Open Windows (2014)
A fan is offered a secret look at an actress through his laptop and pulled into a deadly game
7
#Blue_Whale (2021)
A girl digs through her late sister's online life to find out why she died
8
Megan Is Missing (2011)
A teenager vanishes after chatting with a stranger online, told through video chats and news clips
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Zoom.Mov (2020)
A leaked office video call becomes the mystery of a missing employee, and everyone is a suspect
10
LifeHack (2025)
Four gamer friends plan to steal a tech billionaire's crypto, a heist told on their screens
11
The Den (2013)
A student studying a webcam chat site sees what looks like a murder, and nobody believes her
12
Ratter (2015)
Someone hacks a young woman's laptop and phone and watches her through her own cameras
13
Host (2020)
Friends on a lockdown video call hold a seance for fun, and something answers
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Language Lessons (2021)
Not a thriller: a warm drama about a friendship built over weekly video-call Spanish lessons

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How we pick them: films with the same kind of story, setting, camera style or tone, checked against what fans and critics recommend. Films from the same series are left out. Hybrid = only partly found footage.

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Found Footage Movies Like Searching and Missing

Profile (2018)

C U Soon (2020)

Unfriended (2014)

Stay Online (2023)

CTRL (2024)

Open Windows (2014)

#Blue_Whale (2021)

Megan Is Missing (2011)

Zoom.Mov (2020)

LifeHack (2025)

The Den (2013)

Ratter (2015)

Host (2020)

Language Lessons (2021)

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