The Vanishing (1988)

This one also has an English-language remake, but it’s not as good as the original. This film explores the effects that a kidnapping can have, in an unrelenting manner. The movie follows Rex and his girlfriend, Saskia, on their holiday in France. At a rest stop, Saskia gets out and then never returns. Years later, Rex is still obsessed with his missing girlfriend and his life deteriorates.

The movie gets more and more bleak when we learn about who the kidnapper was, and how he toys with Rex over the years with postcards and promises of the truth, only to never reveal himself. Finally, he does and offers Rex the same thing he offered Saskia, with grim results. This film show’s you how quickly your life can chance, and how fucked up people can be, and you’ll never know.