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1) Kidnapped
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
A gang of thieves hijack a man's car after botching their getaway from a robbery. They take a woman prisoner and command the man to drive them to safety. The man must try to cope with the bad situation he is in as well as trying to get help for a sick child that he is caring for.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
עברית
Description
When four masked men violently break into the Danon family home, taking them hostage, the family of four are shaken to the core and their lives are changed forever. The kidnappers demand that Yael, the matriarch of the family and a brilliant surgeon, kill the Israeli Prime Minister during a routine surgery. If the Prime Minister does not die, Yael's family soon will. Desperate to save her family, Yael uses her wits to delay the decision until the...
3) Submergence
Publisher
Columbia (Usa)
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, a Scotsman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away in the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
6) Plane
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. To rescue the passengers, Torrance will need Gaspare's help and will learn there's...
7) Trespass
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Blu-ray disc ;
Language
English
Description
What happens when a man with everything, a beautiful wife, a teenage daughter and a wealthy estate is confronted with the reality of losing it all? That is what Kyle Miller must come to terms with as he and his family become the victims of a vicious home invasion. Led by Elias and Jonah, a gang of cold-blooded thugs holds Kyle and his loved ones hostage as they carry out their plans to take everything that Kyle holds dear, including his life.
8) Deadlock
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ron Whitlock [is] a wanted criminal leading a team of mercenaries on a mission of vengeance. Convinced that the government is working against them, the merciless group brutally seizes an energy plant and holds everyone inside hostage. With a nearby town on the brink of massive flooding and destruction, it's up to one retired elite army ranger Mack Karr to save thousands of innocent lives before it's too late." --container
9) Die hard
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Thirtieth anniversary edition ; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
John McClane, a New York cop who flies to L.A. on Christmas Eve to visit his wife at a party in her company₂s lavish high-rise. Plans change once a group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber, seize the building and take everyone hostage. McClane slips away and becomes the only chance anyone has.
10) Bel canto
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Blu-ray version.
Language
English
Description
When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people are thrown together, including American opera star Roxanne Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Language
English
Description
When a young Pakistani man graduates from Princeton and embarks on his career on Wall Street, he finds himself stuck in the midst of a struggle between his own dream, a hostage crisis, and the calls of his family back home.
13) Captain Phillips
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, which was the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
14) Shanghai Express
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Marlene Dietrich plays the notorious adventuress Shanghai Lily, who has been jilted by Captain Donald Harvey (Clive Brook). During the Chinese civil war, the couple meet on a train which is attacked by Chinese rebels. Dietrich becomes involved with a rebel leader in order to save the man she still loves.
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