{"title":"Best Missing Person Movies","theme":"missing person","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/missing-person","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":29,"listedFilms":22,"frames":2529,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"fedora","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":6.16,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01356,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0022,"observedInFrames":198},{"element":"vintage car","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":5.51,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00377,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00068,"observedInFrames":55},{"element":"trench coat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.42,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00397,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00164,"observedInFrames":58},{"element":"leather jacket","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.06,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00541,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00262,"observedInFrames":79},{"element":"hat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.97,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00335,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00171,"observedInFrames":49},{"element":"doorway","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.67,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00301,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00181,"observedInFrames":44},{"element":"necktie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.67,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00459,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00275,"observedInFrames":67},{"element":"table lamp","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.56,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00527,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00338,"observedInFrames":77}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.837,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.21}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.442,"ratio":0.97},{"hue":"blue","share":0.193,"ratio":1.11},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.129,"ratio":1.69},{"hue":"red","share":0.109,"ratio":0.72}],"meanSaturation":0.213,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.414,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"The Thin Man","year":1934,"director":"W.S. Van Dyke","cinematographer":"James Wong Howe","exemplarScore":1.255,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-thin-man-1934"},{"rank":2,"title":"The Third Man","year":1949,"director":"Carol Reed","cinematographer":"Robert Krasker","exemplarScore":1.153,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-third-man-1949"},{"rank":3,"title":"A Very Long Engagement","year":2004,"director":"Jean-Pierre Jeunet","cinematographer":"Bruno Delbonnel","exemplarScore":0.871,"framesIndexed":68,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/a-very-long-engagement-2004"},{"rank":4,"title":"Angel Heart","year":1987,"director":"Alan Parker","cinematographer":"Michael Seresin","exemplarScore":0.767,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/angel-heart-1987"},{"rank":5,"title":"Psycho","year":null,"director":"Alfred Hitchcock","cinematographer":"John L. Russell","exemplarScore":0.459,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/psycho"},{"rank":6,"title":"A Working Man","year":2025,"director":"David Ayer","cinematographer":"Shawn White","exemplarScore":0.389,"framesIndexed":134,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/a-working-man-2025"},{"rank":7,"title":"I'm Still Here","year":2024,"director":"Walter Salles","cinematographer":"Adrian Teijido","exemplarScore":0.389,"framesIndexed":212,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/i-m-still-here-2024"},{"rank":8,"title":"Close Encounters Of The Third Kind","year":1977,"director":"Steven Spielberg","cinematographer":"Vilmos Zsigmond","exemplarScore":0.329,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977"},{"rank":9,"title":"Where’d You Go Bernadette","year":2019,"director":"Richard Linklater","cinematographer":"Shane F. Kelly","exemplarScore":0.327,"framesIndexed":47,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/whered-you-go-bernadette-2019"},{"rank":10,"title":"The Fall Guy","year":2024,"director":"David Leitch","cinematographer":"Jonathan Sela","exemplarScore":0.297,"framesIndexed":98,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-fall-guy-2024"}],"outlier":{"title":"Radius","year":2017,"exemplarScore":0.05,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}