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Plot Summary:
In a desperate bid to reunite with his daughter, an armed man bursts into the medical center where his estranged wife works and kidnaps her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller
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Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up (1992)
Plot Summary:
The bank president in a small California town isn't quite the upstanding citizen he appears to be--he's a corrupt killer, who has just kidnapped the wife and daughter of the local sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Vetri Vizha (1989)
Plot Summary:
Vetri Vizha is a 1987 Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role of the protagonist. Prabhu Ganesan, Amala, Sasikala and Kushboo Sundar played supporting roles. The story was of an amnesiac who struggles to find his past after memory loss. Salim Ghouse played the Villain role.Dubed in Telugu as Vijethalu realesed in 1989.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Crime of Crimes (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Latino family new to Los Angeles find itself in trouble when the husband is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. His pregnant wife winds up in the hospital, and his little daughter is kidnapped by a child molester.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Point Men (2023)
Plot Summary:
A story about a diplomat and a national intelligence service agent who struggle and risk their lives on foreign soil to save Korean hostages that have been abducted in the Middle East.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Hour (1991)
Plot Summary:
A former cop's ex-wife marries a stockbroker, who it turns out has cheated the Mafia out of a large sum of money. They kidnap the wife to force the husband to pay the money back. The ex-cop has to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Open Road (2013)
Plot Summary:
Angie, a young Brazilian artist, abandons her old life and embarks on a journey around the country. Running from her past, and searching for her foundation in life, Angie finds not only herself but love in its many forms.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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Christian Brothers (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the daughter of a minister gets kidnapped, Christy is called upon to rescue her. Although he manages to save her, he himself gets embroiled in the kidnapper's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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Shooting Heroin (2020)
Plot Summary:
A small town community comes together to eradicate the heroin epidemic from its midst by whatever means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, independent film
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Beast of Burden (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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Pursuit (2022)
Plot Summary:
Detective Breslin crosses paths with Calloway, a ruthless hacker desperate to find his wife, who has been kidnapped by a drug cartel. When Calloway escapes police custody, Breslin joins forces with a no-nonsense female cop to reclaim his prisoner. But is Calloway’s crime-boss father somehow involved in this explosive situation?.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Disappearance of Cari Farver (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dave Kroupa is shocked when his new girlfriend, Cari Farver, starts sending him demanding texts. When Dave ends the relationship, he finds himself on the receiving end of an onslaught of twisted messages from Cari, who has abruptly disappeared. Dave’s ex-girlfriend, Liz, also begins receiving harassing texts from Cari, resulting in a dangerous situation for them both. Meanwhile, Cari’s mother Nancy continually searches for her, keeping the pressure on the police who eventually uncover a shocking discovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Zero Hour (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Zero Hour tells the story of the La Parca (Zapata 666), a fearsome assassin who is forced to kidnap a private clinic to save the love of his life, Ladydi (Amanda Key). They soonreached the police and a media circus with them, who make our character into a national hero.La Parca finds that saving the life of Ladydi be difficult, but escaped with his followers will be an almost impossible task. Time starts to run out, and what seemed like a perfect plan will end in a frantic ending where La Parca is forced to confront past mistakes, and discover that their worst enemies are closer than he imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, exciting, suspense, crime drama, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Grandmaster (2012)
Plot Summary:
Chandrashekhar lives alone in a dark and violent city. Even with crime occurring all around him, he withdraws from all responsibility and lives quietly. Soon, change is forced upon him in order to catch a serial killer. Like a grandmaster who anticipates his opponents moves well in advance, he proceeds forward. But only once, just once, he makes a fatal mistake.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, suspense thriller, captivating, exciting, realistic, detective
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Gone in the Night (1996)
Plot Summary:
A couple is unjustly accused of the murder of their daughter. Based on a true story and book of the same title.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: dark
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Amber Alert (2016)
Plot Summary:
A 20 year old man takes a bus full of young children hostage in exchange for money to help his sick mother. Meanwhile a detective must over come doubt from family and co-workers while she tries to negotiate with the hostage taker.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Taken Heart (2017)
Plot Summary:
When her daughter is kidnapped in Belize and held hostage to be used for human organ trafficking, Kate Johnson goes on a crusade to infiltrate the cartel and rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Reprisal (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jacob, a bank manager haunted by a violent heist that took the life of a coworker, teams up with his ex-cop neighbor, James, to bring down the assailant. While the two men work together to figure out the thief’s next move, Gabriel, the highly-trained criminal, is one step ahead. When Gabriel kidnaps Jacob’s wife and daughter, Jacob barrels down a path of bloodshed that initiates an explosive counterattack and brings all three men to the breaking point.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: intense, tense, serious, suspense, entertaining
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211 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by one of the longest and bloodiest real-life events in police history, Officer Mike Chandler and a young civilian passenger find themselves under-prepared and outgunned when fate puts them squarely in the crosshairs of a daring bank heist in progress by a fearless team of highly-trained and heavily-armed men.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, rough, suspense, suspenseful
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Bloody Friday (1972)
Plot Summary:
Womansing thug Klett is sprung from the courthouse by two accomplices, then sets about planning the big heist of a local bank, equipped with a cache of high-powered weapons he's acquired from an American army outpost. Together with his faithful protégé, who reluctantly on-boards his young girlfriend and her AWOL brother, the quartet bumble their way through the supposedly full-proof plan that aims to deliver them a cool million in cash and a new life in Australia. Predictably, things deteriorate quickly at every turn. (from IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, action thriller, poliziottesco, cult film
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Extortion (2017)
Plot Summary:
A doctor desperately tries to save his wife and their 5 year old son after their vacation in the Bahamas takes an unexpected turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, colorful, feel good, colourful, low-budget
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Day of Disaster (2007)
Plot Summary:
The "Los Alfaques" campground is a much-loved, much-visited holiday destination. Reveling holidaymakers, families, groups, couples and singles. Lots of skin, fun and frolicking on the beach. The blazing sun, the rush of the waves, the carefree racket kicked up by the children are what make "Los Alfaques" a seaside paradise. Nothing seems able to destroy this idyllic scene. People on holiday: relaxation, fun and harmony. But holidays bring to light problems which are normally put up with or suppressed in the day-to-day routine. On holiday, feelings, anxieties, hopes and wishes are, so to speak, lived and experienced under intensified conditions. When, in situations like these, life itself is thrown into deadly danger, every decision must be made directly in the face of eternity. Everything unspoken and unfinished threatens to become a lifelong curse. In extreme situations, human beings turn to what is really important to them. The otherwise-so-obvious option of making good for.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Shikkar (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of Shikkar takes place at Chittazha, a mountainous terrain where bamboo reeds flourish. After much wandering from place to place, Balraman (Mohanlal) a lorry driver has finally settled down with his daughter (Ananya) at Chittazha. Peace evades the man as his past catches up with him, and Balaraman has to take risky everything to safeguard his own life and that of his daughter's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, captivating
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Night of the Wolf (2008)
Plot Summary:
During a live broadcast of a talk show on a TV channel, a group of armed Chechens terrorists take several hostages. The terrorists demand the hostage drama is transmitted live worldwide. Meanwhile, behind the scene, the police negotiator and a special police unit working to try to rescue the hostages alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 618
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, action thriller
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Saving Mr. Wu (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this suspenseful crime thriller, Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped by six unpredictable criminals disguised as police officers. The story is based on the 2004 real-life celebrity kidnapping case in China.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, psychological, tense
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The Saratov Approach (2013)
Plot Summary:
An inspirational true story. On what seemed like any other day, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to teach a friend. But then the missionaries experience the unimaginable - they are kidnapped, beaten, and held for ransom. While their families, friends, and the world pray for their safe release, Tuttle and Propst are tested physically, emotionally, and most of all spiritually.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Ukraine
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, spiritual
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Proof of Life (2000)
Plot Summary:
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, tense, romantic, realistic, sentimental, entertaining, action packed
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The Trough (2018)
Plot Summary:
Yu Chau is a cop who has gone so deep undercover within the triad. He can no longer tell which side of the law he's on. When he accidentally kills one of his pals in an operation, he runs off into the boonies to lick his wounds. Upon his return, he teams up with fellow officers Jim and Jackie to catch a triad Boss, only to unveil collusion with government officials at the highest level. Yu Chau once again faces the dilemma of taking the law into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Adanga Maru (2018)
Plot Summary:
A sincere cop, who's suspended from the department for locking horns with a few influential people in the society, starts taking revenge against those who finished off his dear ones.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Informant (2008)
Plot Summary:
McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Burning Sea (2021)
Plot Summary:
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie