Tag Archives: kidnapping

Freedomland

IMDB Rating: 5.00
4501 votes

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When her son disappears and is believed to be dead, a single mother blames an African-American man from the projects for the kidnapping, creating a racial controversy. An African-American detective (Jackson) and a white missing child researcher team up to investigate the case, which they discover may be more complicated than they expected.
Actors
Lorenzo CouncilSamuel L. Jackson
Brenda MartinJulianne Moore
Karen CollucciEdie Falco
Also posted in 2006, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Firewall

IMDB Rating: 5.80
11566 votes

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With his family held for ransom, the head security executive for a global bank is commanded to loot his own business for millions in order to ensure his wife and children's safety. He then faces the demanding task of thwarting the kidnapper's grand scheme, which makes him look guilty of embezzlement.
Actors
Jack StanfieldHarrison Ford
Bill CoxPaul Bettany
Beth StanfieldVirginia Madsen
Also posted in 2006, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

House of 9

IMDB Rating: 5.50
1435 votes

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Nine strangers - a priest; a dancer; a designer; an aspirant rapper; a former tennis pro; a woman on probation; an unsuccessful composer and his wife; and a detective - are randomly abducted, drugged and locked in a house by a wealthy maniac. They are informed through a public address system that there are seventy-five cameras following them, and only one will survive and win US$ 5,000,000.00 to keep quiet. The psychological game begins, with fear and greed affecting the participants.
Actors
Father DuffyDennis Hopper
LeaKelly Brook
FrancisHippolyte Girardot
Also posted in 2005, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Skeleton Key

IMDB Rating: 6.40
15242 votes

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A young woman helping care for an invalid in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of morbid going-ons centered around a group of Hoodoo (Not Voodoo, it's different. Hoodoo is an old African American magic that only works if you believe in it.) practitioners.
Actors
Caroline EllisKate Hudson
Violet DevereauxGena Rowlands
Ben DevereauxJohn Hurt
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Syriana

IMDB Rating: 7.20
27052 votes

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A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company's law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.
Actors
ArashKayvan Novak
Bob BarnesGeorge Clooney
Mohammed Sheik AgizaAmr Waked
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Transporter 2

IMDB Rating: 6.00
13915 votes

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In Miami, the professional driver Frank Martin is working temporarily for the Billings family, transporting their son Jack while his driver is on vacation. Mr. Billings is an important member of the government and Mrs. Audrey Billings trusts on Frank, who promises to protect the boy. When Jack is kidnapped by a mercenary hired by the Colombian cartels, Frank faces the criminals and the Miami police force trying to rescue the kid. When the boy returns to his family, Jack discloses the real and lethal intention of the abduction of Jack.
Actors
Frank MartinJason Statham
GianniAlessandro Gassman
Audrey BillingsAmber Valletta
Also posted in 2005, Action, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

IMDB Rating: 7.70
8079 votes

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A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.
Actors
Pete PerkinsTommy Lee Jones
Mike NortonBarry Pepper
Melquiades EstradaJulio Cedillo
Also posted in 2005, Adventure, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Western | Comments (0)

Carlito’s Way: Rise to Power

IMDB Rating: 4.90
1142 votes

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In the 60´s, the Puerto Rican Carlito Brigante, the Afro-American Earl and the Italian Rocco become best friends while in prison. When they are released, Rocco intermediates a heroin business with a family of the Italian Mafia leaded by Artie Bottolota Sr. Carlito negotiates with the lord Leroy "Hollywood Nicky" Barnes the area where the trio could operate in his neighborhood and sooner the three friends become powerful. Later, Carlito dates and has an affair with the beautiful Leticia. When Earl decides to move to Barbados with his girlfriend and leave the heroin business, his stupid younger brother causes a situation with the Italian mobsters, and Carlito and Rocco have to resolve the mess to save their lives.
Actors
Carlito BriganteJay Hernandez
EarlMario Van Peebles
Nacho ReyesLuis Guzmán
Also posted in 2005, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

Alien Abduction

IMDB Rating: 2.20
340 votes

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Written and directed by Eric Forsberg, this unabashedly low-budget sci-fi flick has a young woman being abducted by aliens on a camping trip—and then going through an even harder ordeal when she wakes up in a brutal military hospital for the rehabilitation of abductees.
Actors
JeanMegan Lee Ethridge
Rescue WorkerMark Elias
ToddGriff Furst
Also posted in 2005, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

King Kong

IMDB Rating: 7.80
77047 votes

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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.
Actors
Ann DarrowNaomi Watts
Carl DenhamJack Black
Jack DriscollAdrien Brody
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)