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Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Gumby reunites with his band The Clayboys, to perform at a benefit concert for local farmers. Things go awry when Gumby's archenemies, the Blockheads, dognap his pet pooch, Lowbelly! Bad turns worse when the Blockheads kidnap the band and replace them with clones. The battle between the Clayboys and clones is filled with trains and planes, knights and fights, thrills and spills.
2) 10,000 B.C
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter D'Leh finds his heart's passion in the beautiful Evolet. But when a band of mysterious warlords raid their village and kidnaps Evolet, D'Leh leads a small group of hunters to save her. As they venture into unknown lands for the first time, the group discovers there are civilizations beyond their own and that mankind's reach is far greater than they ever knew. At each encounter the group is joined by other...
3) Charlie zone
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A disgraced aboriginal boxer is reduced to backstreet brawls for chump change. But when he's hired to kidnap a runaway teen from a local drug house, the two will bust open a nightmare of violence, betrayal, desperate choices, and dark secrets. For a last-chance fighter who won't stay down and a long-damaged girl who's finally standing up, is staying alive only half the battle? It's a hard-hitting drama about rage, revenge, and redemption in a hellhole...
4) Gone
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When her sister disappears, Jill is convinced the serial killer who kidnapped her two years ago has returned, and she sets out to once again face her abductor.
5) Harum scarum
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A famous movie star, visiting a Middle Eastern country, becomes involved in the intrigue surrounding an attempted assassination and becomes romantically involved with a beautiful Arabian princess.
6) Headshot
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious young man left for dead with a gunshot wound to the head jolts awake after months in a coma. Realizing that the man has lost his memory and identity, young nurse Ailin renames him Ishmael. The two begin to grow close, but their peace is short-lived when Ailin is violently taken by ruthless criminals.
7) Flightplan
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastasted by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possiblity that...
8) The code
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Two thieves try to pull off a dangerous heist with FBI, NYPD, and KGB operatives on their trail, and try to escape with their loot and their lives.
9) Rogue agent
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Robert Freegard posed as an undercover MI5 agent, kidnapping countless victims and extorting them. He evaded capture for years amidst a high-stakes manhunt until a woman who fell for him brought him to justice.
10) Kidnap
Publisher
Aviron Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mom Karla Dyson when her son suddenly disappears. Without a cell phone and knowing she has no time to wait for police help, Karla jumps in her own car and sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers. Karla will stop at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
11) La lectora
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
A college girl is kidnapped by a couple of bad boys who believe she can translate a manuscript to confirm an urban legend. Somewhere in the city lies a treasure. Karen, a stripper, and Cachorro, a young cab driver, hid a briefcase in a secret location to escape an ambush. Now the boys will risk their lives in order to get it, because it contains the hope of a new life.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When the president is kidnapped by a terrorist who seizes control of the White House (Secret Service Code: Olympus), disgraced former presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team rushes to respond, they must rely on Banning's insider knowledge to save the president and prevent an even greater catastrophe.
13) The swordsman
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Korean
Description
After being blinded in a coup against the king, Joseon's greatest swordsman goes into hiding, far removed from his city's anguish. But when traffickers kidnap his daughter, he has no choice but to unsheathe his sword once more.
14) Nancy
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A serial imposter, Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child, and when she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality.
15) The big Lebowski
Publisher
PolyGram Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for another Lebowski who is rich and owes some thugs a lot of money. After Dude comes home one day to find that the thugs have broken in and ruined his favorite carpet, he vows to get even.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1983, a group of childhood friends pulled off the crime of the century: kidnapping one of the richest men in the world, the heir of the Heineken beer empire. The shocking capture, by gunpoint in broad daylight on the streets of Amsterdam, resulted in the largest ransom ever paid for a kidnapped individual. It was truly the perfect crime, until they got away with it. Based on a true story.
17) The drowning
Publisher
Sundance Now
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Jodie's young son vanished from a lakeside picnic, it was presumed he drowned, but Jodie believed he was abducted. Years later, she sees a boy she's certain is her son. Jeopardizing the life she's painstakingly rebuilt, Jodie begins a dangerous and morally dark journey to prove the boy is her son and save him from his abductor.
18) In the blood
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A Caribbean honeymoon for Ava and her husband quickly turns into a nightmare when he is injured on an excursion. Not allowed to ride in the ambulance with her husband, Ava arrives at the hospital to find that he's vanished, and she's the prime suspect. On her own, Ava sets out to take on a vicious local gang she thinks is responsible.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In August of 1987, new parents Joy White and Carl Tyson took their 19-day-old daughter Carlina to Harlem Hospital in New York with a high fever. Ann Pettway, who had suffered a series of miscarriages and was desperate for a child of her own, posed as a hospital nurse and walked out of the hospital with Carlina hidden from view. While Joy and Carl desperately searched for their daughter over the years, Pettway was raising Carlina in Bridgeport, Connecticut,...
Publisher
distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Underscoring the impact of secrets, lies and deception when a husband and wife find themselves in the midst of a crisis after their young daughter is kidnapped. The couple must race against time to find their child, who is believed to have been abducted by a serial killer that symbolically murders his victims 'On the 7th Day.' During their desperate search, they begin to uncover details about their past that threaten to rip their marriage and lives...
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