
10 Best Movies Like The Absent One
If you loved The Absent One, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Purity of Vengeance
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Absent One for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenl...

The Keeper of Lost Causes
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Absent One for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Mere...

A Conspiracy of Faith
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Absent One for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q follow a sinister trail that...

Boundless
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Absent One for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
In a moment of cowardice, Detective Carl Mørck sends Rose, his junior colleague in Department Q, to the remote Danish island of Bornholm to answer his old colleague Christian Haber...

Terribly Happy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Absent One for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Robert Hansen, 34, a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. The transfer ...

The Shining
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Absent One for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. ...