The Big Picture Sometimes, when a story is good enough to check out, the language barrier is no obstacle at all. This is the case with the Italian thriller Vanished Into The Night, a new Netflix title that managed to rise all the way to #2 among the most-watched movies on the platform and become the #1 foreign language movie on the platform this week. The story centers around a couple that's faced with a worst-case scenario: their kids are kidnapped in the middle of the night.
It's pretty easy to understand why tensions hit an all-time high in Vanished Into The Night. Parents will do anything in order to protect their children, which means that Riccardo Scamarcio and Annabelle Wallis' characters will be faced with some impossible demands from kidnappers, and they'll have to meet them if they ever want to see the children again. That's when the twists start to come.
First, a man demands 150,000 Euros in cash to return the kids home safely, which is a hefty amount to come up with during the night. The problem is, Pietro is already 250,000 Euros deep in debt due to a gambling addiction. So, obviously, this makes the scenario extra difficult for Pietro and Elena and will make them all the more desperate.
Is 'Vanished Into The Night' Based On a Real Story? Vanished Into The Night is a fictional story directed by Renato De Maria, a prolific Italian filmmaker who previously helmed Italian Gangsters and the acclaimed documentaryCaterina Caselli: One Life, One Hundred Voices. De Maria also previously worked with Netflix on two different titles: The Ruthless and Robbing Mussolini. The screenplay is written by Francesca Marciano and Luca Infascelli .
The popularity of Vanished Into The Night is yet another example of how Netflix subscribers are slowly but steadily getting used to seeing subtitles on their screens. Over the last few years, the language barrier didn't stop TV shows like Squid Game and Money Heist from becoming some of the biggest hits from the streamer's catalog, and the same is true for international movies.