10 Essential Movies You Need To Tick Off Your Bucket List

Not a film for a cozy night in, The Vanishing is one of the most chilling, bleak movies ever made. We open with a young couple, Rex and Saskia, on a French road trip. When they pull up at a petrol station, Saskia disappears.

The incident haunts Rex, who tries in vain to move on, but can’t shake the trip from his head years down the line. It’s not the loss of Saskia so much as the uncertainty - the mystery is never far from his mind, consuming his life. When a man purporting to be the kidnapper reaches out to him, he can’t help but wade back into the mire, knowing full well what the consequences might be.

The Vanishing is a grim film, like watching a car crash in slow motion. We can see quite clearly how things are going to end up; Rex can, too, but he can’t help but be drawn back into danger.

It’s a suffocatingly tense film with one of the greatest endings in cinema, an image guaranteed to linger with you. Just don’t bother with the US remake, because it’s dreadful.