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1) Chaos
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Korean
Description
After a successful Japanese businessman's trophy wife vanishes, sadistic ransom demands arrive and the police are summoned. As the true nature of the stakes for the captor and his captive unfold, Chaos transforms from a precision neo-noir to a macabre thriller and ultimately into a sexual gothic.
2) Trapped
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
A couple find their world has been turned upside down when they're taken hostage and held in different cities while their young daughter, who has severe asthma, is kidnapped by the same band of ruthless criminals and held for a large ransom. It seems that the criminals have a foolproof plan. Unable to contact the police, the criminals demand a massive ransom, but if the payment is not arranged in 24 hours, the girl will be killed.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Rebels in a politically volitile Latin American country have kidnapped Alice Bowman's husband for ransom--$3 million. Terry Thorne is the hostage retrieval expert who becomes Alice's only hope in navigating a high-stacks game where terrorists value money over life.
4) Taken 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself taken hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.
6) SPLIT
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him, as well as everyone around him, as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.
7) The imposter
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In 1994, a thirteen-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive and well thousands of miles away in Spain. He tells a story of kidnap and torture when he returns. While his family is excited to bring him home, all is not quite as it seems. Is the boy really who he claims to be, or is he an imposter giving the family false hope for their child's return?
8) Tom & Thomas
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The city of London is preparing for Christmas. Two nine-year-old boys, Tom and Thomas are unaware of each other's existence, yet they have always somehow sensed that the other is there. Tom runs away from the Boys Home where he was brought up. Child smugglers come after him, but he manages to escape. He goes into the Science Museum where he meets Thomas visiting the place with his father. The premonition he has felt all along turns out to be real:...
10) Ruthless people
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Sam Stone (DeVito) is ruthless. When his shrill wife Barbara (Midler) is nabbed by inept kidnappers, Sam cries tears of joy and refuses to pay the ransom.
11) Pray
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
日本語
Description
Down on their luck and desperate for money to buy drugs, Mitsuru (Tetsuji Tamayama) and Maki (Asami Mizukawa) have the perfect plan. They decide to kidnap a young girl and hide out in an abandoned school, until their demands are met. Everything is going according to plan, until they realize they have made one gross miscalculation. Their hostage died a year ago today and now it's their turn.
12) The clearing
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Wayne and Eileen have raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. When Wayne is kidnapped by ordinary guy, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned upside down. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents and their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Pistachio Disguisey is a mild-mannered waiter whose life is about to change. A criminal mastermind kidnaps his parents and is forcing his father to steal priceless treasures from around the world. His grandfather informs him he is descended from a long line of disguise artists and now it's up to Pistachio to save the day.
14) Room
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
15) Bashing
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
日本語
Description
A young woman from Japan working as a volunteer in Iraq is kidnapped. When she returns home, she and her family become the targets of ridicule and humiliation by everyone she meets, until the only place she wants to be is where she once was.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
Unable to afford proper care for his sister dying from kidney failure, Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun - Lady vengeance, JSA, Save the green planet) turns to the black market to sell his own organs, only to end up cheated of his life savings. His girlfriend (Bae Doo-na - The host, Barking dogs never bite, Linda Linda Linda) urges Ryu to kidnap the daughter of wealthy industrialist Dong-jin (Song Kang-ho - Lady vengeance, The host, JSA, The foul king), who recently...
17) Savages
Publisher
Universal Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry, raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town, until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them.
18) Life of crime
Publisher
Roadside Attractions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he'd actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and twists.
19) Spartan
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Secret Service agent Robert Scott is assigned to the kidnapping case of Laura Newton, the missing daughter of a high-ranking political official. Scott is teamed up with rookie agent Curtis. Aided by the FBI and the CIA, the team discovers a human trafficking operation that may lead to Laura's kidnappers. Meanwhile, political operative Stoddard refuses to cooperate with the rescue mission. Scott and Curtis are forced to quit the investigation when...
20) Battle in heaven
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cast entirely with non-professionals, Battle in heaven tells the story of Marcos (Marcos Hernandez), the middle-aged chauffeur of Ana (Anapola Mushkadiz), daughter of a Mexican general. Marcos is the only member of Ana's household who knows she leads a double life. Although a child of Mexico's political elite, Ana amuses herself by working as a prostitute in a high-end brothel. But, Marcos also has a secret. He and his wife (Berta Ruiz) kidnapped...
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