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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.
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.
3) 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.
6) 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...
7) 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:...
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.
9) 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.
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.
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...
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.
13) 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.
Series
The Criterion collection volume 271
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton, Max's hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy, Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. Riton gets kidnapped by a mob boss in the hopes that there will be an exchange for the money, but nothing turns out as anyone has it planned.
15) Rapt
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Nominated for four Cesar Awards (including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor), Lucas Belvaux's edge-of-your-seat thriller -- inspired by the 1978 kidnapping of French industrialist Edouard-Jean Empain -- features a career-defining performance by Yvan Attal (Munich, My wife Is an actress) as a millionaire playboy who is abducted and held for ransom for 60 days.
16) Marebito
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
日本語
Description
Masuoka (played by cult filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto, director of Tetsuo and star of Ichi The killer), is a solitary cameraman obsessed with the desire to understand fear. He watches grisly footage of a man committing suicide in the subway, and desperate to understand the madman's intentions, Masuoka returns to the scene inadvertently opening a door into a bizarre and horrifying underworld. Here among the ghosts and creatures he finds a strange and...
17) Big Jake
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
2003, c1971
Language
English
Description
When his grandson is abducted by a band of outlaws, Big Jake McCandles returns to his home for the first time in 18 years, intent on beating the police to the kidnappers.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A group of women are mysteriously abducted. The best team for the job is ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully, who have no desire to revisit their dark past. Still, the truth of these horrific crimes is out there somewhere.
19) Lady vengeance
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
After being wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young child, a beautiful young woman (Lee Young-ae) is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her own daughter. While in prison she gains the respect and loyalty of her fellow cellmates, all the while plotting her vendetta on the man responsible (Oldboy's Choi Min-Shik). Upon her release she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but what she discovers is a truth so horrifying,...
20) Alone
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Set in the Pacific Northwest wilderness, the film follows recently widowed Jessica who, fleeing the city in a desperate attempt to cope, is kidnapped and locked away in a mysterious man's cabin. Her escape from the clutches of this murderous captor land her in the heart of the untamed wilderness, with only her wits to rely on for survival as her pursuer closes in.
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