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21) Chance
Publisher
BayView Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Two unappreciated domestic servants for a vacationing aristocratic Caribbean family plot to overtake the mansion, but their plans for revenge are tripped up when they stumble upon a shocking family secret.
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.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Talk show host Jerry Langford is kidnapped on his way to the studio by an aspiring stand-up comic who is short on talent but long on ambition. The ransom demand: an appearance on Langford's show to perform his routine.
24) Raising Arizona
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c1999
Language
English
Description
An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of the wealthy Arizona family. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
25) Seized
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hiding out with his son Taylor on the Mexican coast, Nero hopes to put his violent Special Forces career behind him. But after Nero₂s home is attacked and Taylor is abducted, the mysterious Mzamo orders Nero to slaughter the members of three rival crime syndicates. If he fails, Taylor will die. With bullets flying and bodies dropping, Nero must now complete his mission and find Mzamo's hideout, to exact his revenge.
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...
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A family's outing descends into terror when teacher Alan Hoaganraad, his wife Jill, and stepsons Maika and Jordon explore an isolated coastline. An unexpected meeting with a pair of drifters, the enigmatic psychopath Mandrake and his accomplice Tubs, thrusts the family into a nightmare after the duo kidnaps them and embarks on a road trip to hell.
28) 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.
29) Super
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"When sad-sack loser Frank, a short-order cook, sees his ex-addict wife willingly snatched away by a seductive drug dealer, he finds himself bereft and unable to cope. But he decides to fight back under the guise of a do-it-yourself superhero called Crimson Bolt. With a red handmade suit, a wrench, a crazed sidekick named Boltie, and absolutely nothing in the way of superpowers, Crimson Bolt beats his way through the mean streets of crime in hopes...
30) Dumb and dumber
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a pair of dim-witted friends on a cross-country trip to return a case full of money.
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.
32) 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...
33) Spartan
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Secret Service agent Robert Scott is assigned to the kidnapping case of Laura Newton, the missing daughter of a high-ranking political official. Scott is teamed up with rookie agent Curtis. Aided by the FBI and the CIA, the team discovers a human trafficking operation that may lead to Laura's kidnappers. Meanwhile, political operative Stoddard refuses to cooperate with the rescue mission. Scott and Curtis are forced to quit the investigation when...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A group of women are mysteriously abducted. The best team for the job is ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully, who have no desire to revisit their dark past. Still, the truth of these horrific crimes is out there somewhere.
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Follows unapologetic and free-spirited Inez, who kidnaps her six-year-old son, Terry, from the foster care system. Holding onto their secret and each other, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability in a rapidly changing New York City.
37) Everybody knows
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Laura and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the small Spanish village where she was born to attend her sister's wedding. Unexpected events soon lead to a crisis that exposes the family's hidden past. Suspicions mount, loved ones begin to turn on one another, and dark secrets long hidden threaten to come to light, revealing shocking truths.
38) 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.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty as a super-spy in order to train new IMF agents. He is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he has ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, and background operative Zhen , in order to rescue Lindsey, one of his trainees, who was kidnapped...
40) A dark foe
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A guilt-ridden FBI agent, stranded in the painful memory of the abduction of his sister, will have to face-off with the cunning serial killer who took her away.
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