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Plot Summary:
To rescue his daughter, an unstable Special Forces veteran unleashes his inner beast as he pursues her kidnappers — and soon becomes a suspect himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, perverse
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Azooma (2012)
Plot Summary:
A mother goes to extreme measures against her daughter's attacker after after feeling that the local law enforcement have failed her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
Similar in 87%
Kadaram Kondan (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kadaram Kondan (Conqueror of Kadaram): The pregnant wife of a young doctor is kidnapped and the kidnappers want him to help free a patient who is admitted in the hospital. Who is the patient? And why are the cops and criminals after him?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 77%
Nitro Rush (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the follow up to the box-office hit Nitro (2007), we catch up with Max as he serves time for the role he played in the death of a police officer. When the film begins, Max learns that his 17-year-old son Theo has just been recruited by a criminal organization. Desperate to get him out of this situation, Max escapes from prison. He discovers that Theo and his best friend Charly have fallen under the control of Daphne, an alluring femme fatale, who is taking advantage of the teens’ expert computer skills to plan a bold and risky burglary. Quickly understanding he’ll be unable to persuade his son to walk away from it all, Max joins the team in order to protect them. His driving skills and his athletic prowess will prove to be invaluable assets in this action-packed sequel.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey (2018)
Plot Summary:
Taurus City, The United States of Europe, 2023. Uly, a disillusioned soldier riddled with amnesia, returns home from a war in the Middle East, knowing only that he must desperately comb the city to find his beloved wife, Penelope. Fate fills this endless night with a series of chance meetings. Whether it be the wealthy Alcyde, the beastly cyclops Popov, Aeo the Gyspy, or Cici the Sorceress, good or evil that they be, each encounter fills in a missing piece of Uly's memory, so that he can finally face his past.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bastard (2012)
Plot Summary:
The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child. In particular Nikolas' mother appears to be hiding something. When a video of the missing Nikolas surfaces, showing him tied up in a cellar, the trail leads to his school. The 13-year-old Leon and Mathilda strike the psychologist as conspicuous and provocative. Shortly afterwards, Meinert encounters the children with Nikolas' parents at the local swimming pool and her suspicions are confirmed: the parents are entangled in an insidious father-mother-child game with the possible suspects Leon and Mathilda. Now it is up to the psychologist to resolve the dark mystery of Nikolas' disappearance and save the child.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense
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Breathless (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the DR, hardened cop Manolo tries to take down an infamous drug cartel; meanwhile, his daughter has fallen in love with Lorenzo, a construction worker who's unwittingly gotten embroiled in the drug cartel's dealings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, 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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Collision (2022)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of one fateful day, a corrupt businessman and his socialite wife race to save their daughter from a notorious crime lord.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Guilt by Design (2019)
Plot Summary:
The film centers around a juror on a high-profile case who is blackmailed into fixing the verdict after his daughter is kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Jazba (2015)
Plot Summary:
After her daughter is kidnapped, a lawyer is forced to defend a criminal in exchange for her daughter's freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, twisted
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A Crooked Somebody (2017)
Plot Summary:
An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Level Up (2016)
Plot Summary:
Gamers enter virtual reality video game contest for money only to realize things are not the way they seem.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Cleaner (2021)
Plot Summary:
When middle-aged house cleaner Buck Enderly takes on an eccentric new client, he gets roped into locating her estranged son. Buck tracks down the disturbed young man but in another twist of fate becomes an accomplice to a violent crime. Buck must then decide whether to hide the truth from his family or come clean with everyone and move on with his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on real-life crimes that terrorized Hong Kong in the 1990s, Logan (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) is the head of leading a notorious human trafficking gang, abducting the children of Hong Kong's elite. Police forces decide to send in Sky (Louis Koo), a Hong Kong undercover agent whose mission is to infiltrate and save the hostages, all while bringing the gang and their leader to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Deadly Excursion (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her daughter charter a sail boat while on spring break only to discover the captain has plans to make sure they never return home.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Last Mark (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a young woman witnesses a mob hit, a seasoned assassin and his psychotic partner must track her down before she turns them in, but she proves to be the hardest mark to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Division (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the 90s, Rio de Janeiro was shaken by a wave of kidnappings. Security forces call controversial agents to help save the city from thugs and also from the police itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political thriller
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Stolen by Their Father (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mother whose two young daughters are kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband—and her all-consuming fight to get them back.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 77%
Your Move (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man must go to extreme lengths to discover what happened to his kidnapped wife and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, action adventure, crying
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Stolen from the Suburbs (2015)
Plot Summary:
A single mother from the suburbs searches for her kidnapped daughter before human traffickers sell her on the international market.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 79%
Miami Heat (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yuri, a retired special forces agent, is reluctantly forced into utilizing his old skills when his daughter, Julia, gets kidnapped by a human trafficking conglomerate just days before Christmas in Miami.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 76%
Cyber Case (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman uses geotagged pictures to help rescue her kidnapped brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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We Have Your Husband (2011)
Plot Summary:
American-born Jayne Valseca, her husband Eduardo, the son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, and their two children live an idyllic life on their 1,000 acre ranch outside of a peaceful Mexico town. But in the summer of 2007, their peaceful life is turned into a real-life nightmare when Eduardo is ambushed and kidnapped by strangers. With kidnapping becoming a pervasive and lucrative business in Mexico, Jayne is at the mercy of the kidnappers when they demand millions for the husband's safe release. She's pushed to the limit to do everything she possibly can to raise the money necessary to bring Eduardo back alive. As Eduardo is starved and tortured, he looses hope of ever seeing his family again but despite the dire and bleak times, Jayne refuses to give up and decides to turn the tables on the kidnappers and makes demands of her own. The film is based on a true story from the book, We Have Your Husband: One Woman's Terrifying Story of a Kidnapping in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing
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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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Papanasam (2015)
Plot Summary:
A cinephile tries to protect his family by hiding a heat-of-the-moment murder committed by his daughter by taking cues from the films he has watched. With the victim the son of a cop, can he get away with it?.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspense thriller
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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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Klangor (2021)
Plot Summary:
A desperate father looks for his missing daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Your Honor (2022)
Plot Summary:
An incorruptible judge has spent his career fighting organized crime. However, the tables are turned when his son is guilty of a hit-and-run case.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
On the afternoon of August 3, 2013, 16-year-old Hannah Anderson was abducted after finishing cheerleading practice in a San Diego suburb. When the bodies of her mother and brother were found in the burned home of family friend James DiMaggio later that day, an AMBER Alert was issued, and a frantic multi-state manhunt for Hannah began. For a week she was kept prisoner by the increasingly unstable DiMaggio as they made their way across the state. One week later, the two were found in Idaho and DiMaggio was killed in a shootout with FBI agents, leaving Hannah as the sole survivor. As the dust settled, questions began to emerge about the nature of the relationship between Hannah and her kidnapper...and what really happened?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark
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E.U. (2009)
Plot Summary:
After ten years behind the bars in Taiwan, Kong Sai-Hao finally returns to Hong Kong. Besides hoping to find his daughter Yau-Yau to mend their relationship, he also plans for revenge. On one hand, he pretends to surrender to triad boss To Yik-Tin, the man who caused him to be jailed. On the other hand, he tries to gain trust from police officers Chung Lap-Man and Lee Pak-Kiu. Pak-Kiu refuses to have a criminal as his friend, but Lap-Man becomes a undercover cop in Sai-Hao's gang. Along with Sai-Hao, they overrule Yik-Tin and take over the mafia, and the two develop a misconceived mentor-student relationship. Unfortunately, Lap-Man gets fired from the police force before he can finish his mission in the mafia. He becomes Sai-Hao's people and turns his back against the police force.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing