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2) 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.
3) First kill
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In order to reconnect with his son, a Wall Street broker takes his family to the cabin where he grew up for a hunting trip. But the trip takes a deadly turn when they become entangled in a heist gone bad that results in the broker's son Danny being kidnapped, forcing his father to recover the stolen loot in exchange for Danny's life.
5) The guilty
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Danish
Formats
Description
When an emergency dispatcher takes a call from a kidnapped woman, he starts racing against time to save her but soon realizes that the crime he is dealing with is much more complex than he originally thought.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthur Bishop returns as the Mechanic in the sequel to the 2011 action thriller. When the deceitful actions of a cunning but beautiful woman force him to return to the life he left behind, Bishop's life is once again in danger as he has to complete an impossible list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world.
7) Split
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.--
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...
11) 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...
12) Room
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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.
"See it you must for the Oscar-caliber Larson and young Tremblay, whose remarkable mother-and-child bond is nothing sort of astonishing to watch."--New York Post
13) Beyond justice
Publisher
Passion Productions
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Christine Sanders (Carol Alt), American millionairess and mother of the grandson of a fanatic Emir (Omar Sharif), hires mercenary Tom Burton (Rutger Hauer) to return her son after the Emir has him kidnapped.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
Lee Byeong-Gu (Shin Ha-Gyun, JSA) is a sensitive, blue collar sad sack hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi films whose life has been derailed by one bad break after another. Yet he knows there's no such thing as bad luck. The only thing that could have made such a mess of his life are ... aliens. Specifically, Andromedans. Nasty, disgusting Andromedan aliens who have infiltrated human society. Sly Andromedans who are planning to destroy our...
15) Frantic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1988
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
When the wife of an American cardiologist is kidnapped in Paris, he sets out to find her but encounters a web of language, locale, and bureaucracy.
16) 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.
17) Snatched
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a young woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, with unexpected results.
18) Judex
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
Français
Description
A mysterious kidnapping of a corrupt banker by a shadowy crime fighter (American magician Channing Pollock) spins out into a thrillingly complex web of deceptions. Combining stylish sixties modernisms with silent-cinema touches and even a few unexpected sci-fi accents.
19) Guns akimbo
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A man looks to save his ex-girlfriend from kidnappers by using his newly-acquired gladiator skills.
20) Michael
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A seemingly meek insurance agent has a secret: he's holding 10-year-old Wolfgang captive in a locked room in his basement. Chronicling a five-month period, the film creates a tense portrait of how the most mundane lives can mask the ugliest truth. With rich cinematic detail and unnerving insight, it's a masterfully executed study of a monster.
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