Kidnapping
see all genres ›Abduction is the least welcome form of flattery in films depicting hostages held for ransom, revenge or twisted kicks.
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Doctor Blood's Coffin
After being expelled from medical school in the big city, Dr. Peter Blood returns to his childhood home in Porthcarron, a remote village in Cornwell, where he is free to continue his dangerous and unauthorized experiments on people. While his father, the small town's doctor,...Watch Movie
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Curse of the Faceless Man
In an excavation site scientists uncover the body of a gladiator from the ruins of Pompeii, stone-encrusted with a bronze medallion bearing a strange Etruscan inscription. Carlo Fiorillo, Italian archaeologist, speculates the robust body may hold some life; medical researcher...Watch Movie
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The Adventures of Dollie
D.W. Griffith's cinematic debut was already laced with dramatic irony, dynamic staging and deft parallel editing. The film opens with mother and daughter enjoying a summer day by the water. A gypsy merchant disrupts their idyll, first offering items for sale and then trying to...Watch Movie
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Oldboy
Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is locked up in a strange, private prison for 15 years. No one will tell him why he's there and who his jailer is, but he is kept in reasonably comfortable quarters and has a TV to...Watch Movie
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The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq
In 2011 dyspeptic French author Michel Houellebecq went off-grid for a while (it eventually turned out he'd just had internet connectivity problems), sparking widespread rumors that his "disappearance" was due to some sinister plot. Guillaume Nicloux's droll cinematic fiction...Watch Movie
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The Wild Geese
Screen legends Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris star as a team of aging mercenaries hired by a wealthy industrialist for one final mission: Recruit and train a squad of desperate commandos, parachute into an unstable African nation, snatch its deposed President from a maximum...Watch Movie
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The Boss
Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film (the final part of his Milieu Trilogy) is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld. A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the members of one mafia family except for Cocchi....Watch Movie
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Rat Pfink a Boo Boo
When sexy Ceebee Beaumont, main squeeze of rockabilly superstar Lonnie Lord, is kidnapped by the Chain Gang, Lonnie and his friend Titus Twimbly leap into leotards and swing into action as Rat Pfink and Boo Boo, champions of downtrodden women and children everywhere! The...Watch Movie
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Naked Fury
A gang of thieves led by American Eddy (Reed de Rouen) kill a security guard during a botched safe robbery and flee with his daughter (Leigh Madison) as a hostage. They hide out in a dangerously unstable old warehouse for a couple of days awaiting their getaway ship to sail, but Johnny (Kenneth...Watch Movie
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Captive
In this relentless thriller, French star Isabelle Huppert brings passion and courage to her portrayal of a hostage caught in a seemingly hopeless situation. At a beach resort in the Philippines, twenty guests are kidnapped by an Islamic separatist group fighting for their independence. French...Watch Movie
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The Last Time I Saw Macao
A wonderfully mysterious, shape-shifting feature from celebrated filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO is a detective tale that blends film noir, documentary footage and personal travelogue to intoxicating effect. Following a...Watch Movie
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Ashanti
Michael Caine stars as Dr. David Linderby, half of a married U.N. medical team vaccinating native villages in West Africa. But when his skinny-dipping wife (supermodel Beverly Johnson) is abducted by a depraved Arab slave trader (two-time Academy Award® winner Peter Ustinov), there's no time for...Watch Movie
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Captive
Two Russian soldiers, the seasoned and laconic Rubakhin and the cheerful and frivolous rifleman Vovka, walk over the mountains and through the gorges of Chechnya searching for a guide to lead their convoy out of an ambush. Only a local who knows the trails can do it, but the locals are enemies,...Watch Movie
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Syndicate Sadists
Umberto Lenzi was a notorious director of some of the most sadistic and brutal horror films to come out of Italy. But like so many of his fellow filmmakers, he was also fluent in the violent Italian cops and mobsters genre known as "poliziotteschi." SYNDICATE SADISTS is one of...Watch Movie
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Rapt
One morning, the rich and powerful industrialist Stanislas Graff is kidnapped outside his home by a commando group. Completely cut off from the rest of the world and only aware of what the kidnappers tell him, Stanislas cannot understand why his friends and family are taking their time to pay the...Watch Movie
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Hench
Toby and Oskar are henchmen - glorified body movers who hold their client's kidnapping victims in their dark basement until the ransom arrives. When the ransom for their latest victim, Gretchen, never arrives, their lives slowly begin to turn upside down. As she drives a wedge between our two...Watch Movie
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Unable to afford proper care for his sister dying from kidney failure, Ryu turns to the black market to sell his own organs, only to end up cheated of his life savings. His girlfriend urges Ryu to kidnap the daughter of wealthy industrialist Dong-jin, who recently laid him...Watch Movie
