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Why this pick
Costa-Gavras delivers the same urgent, fact-rooted political-thriller force: a family-scale human cost unfolds through an increasingly damning investigation into state power.
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MOVIE1982 2h 2m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Set during Chile's transition from Pinochet, this tense, visually textured drama shares Missing's focus on political fear, compromised institutions, and ordinary people confronting a regime.
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A foreigner’s perspective amid Indonesia's political upheaval creates a similarly claustrophobic blend of personal attachment, mounting danger, and distrust of official narratives.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film opens with Costa-Gavras' statement that the events of the film are true. At first, when Ed Horman arrives in the unnamed Latin American country, which is clearly meant to be Chile, where his son Charles worked, Ed blames his son's and daughter-in-law's radical political views for his disappearance. He is later crushed when discovering that the government he reveres so highly has been involved with Charles's disappearance and possible death as a witness in the killings by the Pinochet Junta, aided by the American government.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jack Lemmon
Ed Horman
Sissy Spacek
Beth Horman
Melanie Mayron
Terry Simon
John Shea
Charles Horman
Charles Cioffi
Ray Tower
David Clennon
Consul Phil Putnam
Richard Venture
U.S. Ambassador
Jerry Hardin
Sean Patrick