'The Vanishing'

This film seemed eerily familiar, but I'd never seen it. So I dug deep and found that it's basically the same plot line to Kurt Russell's 1997 magnum opus, Breakdown.

I saw Breakdown in theaters and I thought it was pretty good at the time. Russell and his wife are driving across the country in a movie. The car breaks down in the desert. The wife hites a ride for help. Russell catches up to her, but she missing. Apparently all kidnapped.

In The Vanishing, the signicant other is captured just to be (we assume) raped and murdered by a college professor, who has more than a little set of problems going in his life.

The film actually focuses less on the couple and more on the murderer. It's a great little fictionalized peak into the world of a serial killer. Plus, it's French.