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1) 10x10
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Lewis is a seemingly ordinary person, but under the surface, he hides a singular obsession revenge. The focus of this obsession is Cathy. In broad daylight, he kidnaps Cathy and takes her to his home in the middle of nowhere. But this is no impulse crime and it's clear he has planned this meticulously. He's built a soundproofed cell measuring ten feet by ten feet where he will extract a dark secret from Cathy's past.
3) Cold weather
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
After abandoning a promising academic career in forensic science, self-styled detective Dough returns to Portland, Oregon to live with his more responsible sister Gail. He lands a dead-end job working in an ice factory, but soon finds an opportunity to use his passion and skill in detective work when his ex-girlfriend Rachel goes missing. Enlisting a team of ramshackle slacker-sleuths, Doug leads the way down a complex trail of clues that brings him...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who's being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer's previous victims, and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.
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
On Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Apollo, a kindhearted traveling performer and ingenious cricket, lands in the village of the Funny Little Bugs, the whole kingdom is about to be disrupted. The beloved reigning queen bee Marguerite is soon kidnapped on the orders of her jealous and treacherous cousin Wendy, who sets up a trap to frame Apollo for the crime, causing panic and despair in the hive.
7) 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.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Pistachio Disguisey is a mild-mannered waiter whose life is about to change. A criminal mastermind kidnaps his parents and is forcing his father to steal priceless treasures from around the world. His grandfather informs him he is decended from a long line of disguise artists and now it's up to Pistachio to save the day.
9) 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...
10) 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...
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Based on Dan Brown's international bestselling thriller "The Lost Symbol," the series follows the early adventures of young Ivy League symbologist Robert Langdon, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.
12) The missing
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Maggie is a young plainswoman raising her two daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily is kidnapped by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father offers to help find her. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk in the distance, father and daughter set out to track...
13) Mandy
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Red, a lumberjack living in the depths of the woods, has sequestered himself and his doting girlfriend, Mandy, from the world. Though Mandy is a gentle woman who spends most of her time immersed in a book, she finds herself in a life-threatening situation after being kidnapped by an ill-intentioned cult leader. When stripped from her home by a group of malicious cult members, Red sets out to avenge Mandy's abrupt and inexplicable disappearance.
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 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.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
While Flynn is bidding on a Ming vase, his girlfriend is ready to call their relationship off because he stood her up again. By the time he gets to their meeting place she has left, and once again he is alone and depressed. His employers tell him to take a vacation, and when he dreams about a woman asking him to find her he decides to go to New Orleans. In New Orleans he meets the girl in his dream, is chased by some Russian goons, and meets a professor...
17) Funny games
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Michael Haneke's controversial thriller watches an affluent couple, their child and dog as they arrive at their lakeside vacation home. Settling into their holiday routine, the family is visited by a pair of clean-cut young men in tennis whites and gloves, who inexplicably turn ruthless and brutal, forcing the family into playing their 'funny games.'"--Container.
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
While her mother is away on business, ten-year-old Oliva is left home alone with her older brother Miles when she witnesses her neighbor's kidnapping. But no one believes her - not her brother, not the cops. So Oliva launches her own investigation, putting her life at risk trying to save her neighbor.
Publisher
Urban Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"D has been hired to track down Meier Link, a notoriously powerful vampire who has abducted a human woman, Charlotte Elbourne. D's orders are strict - find Charlotte, at any cost. For the first time D faces serious competition. The Markus Brothers, a family of vampire hunters, were hired for the same bounty. D must intercept Meier and conquer hostile forces on all sides in a deadly race against time. Despised by vampires for his profession and by...
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