Searching vs The Good Boy

The Good Boy has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.6/10 for Searching). Searching is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 1h 50m. Searching is the older of the two (2018 against 2026). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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SearchingThe Good Boy
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 7.8/10
Year20182026
Length1h 42m1h 50m
GenresDrama, Mystery, ThrillerDrama, Mystery, Thriller
Country––
DirectorAneesh ChagantyJan Komasa
Main castJohn Cho, Melissa Disney, Ben Cain, Sean O'Bryan, Michelle LaStephen Graham, Anson Boon, Andrea Riseborough, Savannah Steyn, Jessica Johnson

Synopsis

Searching

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

The Good Boy

Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.

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