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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
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious personal assistant named Guy diplomatically deals with an overbearing, overly demanding boss ... until those demands involve Guy's girlfriend. What transpires next is a hilarious reversal of fortunes that is every employee's dream.
3) Plane
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
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...
Series
Publisher
Warner Classics
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
'They're killing him bit by bit!' Flamboyant, flame-haired 70-plus Augusta Bertram has opened a package containing a finger that recently belonged to her years-ago lover. The victim's kidnappers continue mailing expendable body parts, and Augusta enlists the aid of her stuffy nephew in a mad to-the-rescue adventure across Europe in pursuit of $100,000 in ransom money. The scramble to save a life just might also liberate the nephew's life-starved soul....
5) Hostage
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When ex-LAPD officer Jeff Talley became chief of police in a sleepy town, he thought he'd left behind the traumas of his career as a big city hostage negotiator. But when a random crime escalates into a deadly standoff, Talley finds himself thrust into a situation far more volatile and terrifying than anything he could ever imagine.
6) Heist
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When their attempt to rob a casino goes awry and a shootout ensues, Vaughn and Cox are forced to flee on foot and hijack city Bus 657 and take passengers hostage. Now, in a high speed chase, Vaughn will not only have to outwit the police, but he will have to contend with Pope's maniacal right hand man, Dog, in order to make it through the day alive.
8) Oldboy
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kidnapped and kept in solitary confinement for 20 years, Joe Doucett has suddenly been set free without a word of explanation. Obsessed with finding those who imprisoned him, Doucett wreaks havoc upon his captors, unaware his freedom is part of a plan and his true punishment's about to begin.
9) Blindsided
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
It's New Year's Eve in NYC and everyone's getting ready to party. Watching, waiting, a man called Hollander has a different kind of party in mind. Alone in her high-rise apartment, Sara has no idea that her boyfriend was a thief. But what he stole -and from whom -is about to put her life on the line. Trapped in the penthouse with Hollander and his sadistic partner, these two will kill, maim, and tear the place apart to find a fortune in diamonds.
10) Rogue hostage
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Single father and former Marine Kyle Snowden must save his daughter and other hostages from a dangerous criminal who has trapped them inside a neighborhood store owned by Kyle's polarizing stepfather, Congressman Sam Nelson.
12) The pilot
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Daniel, a drone pilot in Mali, conduts a military operation for which he is tracking down the head of a jihadist network with his team. He finds himself in the middle of a terrible dilemma when he has to make a choice between his duty, the protection of his men in the field, and his family, taken as hostages by terrorists and might get executed if he refuses to cooperate.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a massive hurricane builds, criminals infiltrate a U.S. Mint facility. Their plan: to steal $600 million and escape using a category five hurricane as cover. But a treasury agent and a storm chaser have a plan of their own, desperately racing against time, and the hurricane, to save the hostages and stop the thieves before their town is reduced to rubble.
15) Killer Joe
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Killer' Joe Cooper is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hit man with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris hires Joe to kill his mother in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie as a retainer until he can be paid.
16) Supremacy
Language
English
Formats
Description
A white supremacist (Joe Anderson) shoots a cop on his first day of parole, driving he and his girlfriend to take an entire family hostage. Now, the father (Danny Glover) must use his understanding of the racist mind to keep his family alive.
Author
Language
English
Description
An American Master returns: the author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery sparks "a satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit" (Kirkus, starred review). At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California. "How much is on hand, would you say?" he asked the teller. "I'll want it all."...
18) Captive
Language
English
Formats
Description
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, 20 guests are kidnapped by an Islamic separatist group fighting for their independence. French social worker Therese Bourgoine is among those taken to a jungle island, with the Filipino army in pursuit. As the captors and their hostages journey through dense...
19) Non-stop
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"During a transatlantic flight, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks ... receives a series of cryptic text messages threatening to kill a passenger every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred into an off-shore account"--Container.
20) The ambush
Language
Arabic
Formats
Description
From the director of TAKEN and based on a true story. Three soldiers on their final patrol are ambushed by heavily armed militants in hostile territory. Trapped, wounded, and out of communication range, they are running out of options, ammunition, and time. Back at base, their commander receives word of the assault and must lead a daring rescue mission.
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