Director: Barnaby Thompson
Cast: Kaley Cuoco, Sam Claflin, Karin Viard, Matthias Schweighöfer, Simon Abkarian
Vanished is a 2026 American-British drama thriller series directed by Barnaby Thompson, set against the romantic backdrop of Paris and the French countryside. When a couple's getaway turns sinister, the story spirals into a gripping mystery of identity, deception, and desperate pursuit across Europe.
What is Vanished about?
Alice and her boyfriend Tom are meant to be enjoying a blissful escape to Paris. Instead, Tom disappears without a trace somewhere on a southbound train cutting through rural France. Alice is left alone on a foreign platform, shaken and without answers. As she tries to piece together what happened, she begins uncovering layers of Tom's life that contradict everything she thought she knew about him — unexplained contacts, hidden routines, and connections she cannot account for. Determined and increasingly frightened, Alice refuses to accept official explanations and pushes deeper into a world of danger and deceit. Each revelation reframes the man she loved and raises the stakes of her search.
Cast & crew
Kaley Cuoco leads the series as Alice, bringing the same high-wire intensity she established in earlier thriller work to this European-set production. Sam Claflin plays the elusive Tom. The supporting cast includes the accomplished French actress Karin Viard and German star Matthias Schweighöfer, alongside Simon Abkarian, lending the Paris setting an authentic multinational texture.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, Vanished holds particular appeal as a tightly wound psychological thriller set almost entirely across France — a country deeply familiar to the large Iranian community in Paris and greater Europe. The series taps into the universal anxiety of trusting a partner completely, only to have that certainty shatter. It plays without Persian dubbing or subtitles, streaming in its original English audio, which makes it ideal for diaspora viewers comfortable watching in English and looking for internationally produced genre content with a European mood.
Where & how to watch
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