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Plot Summary:
The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organisation, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
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Lace II (1985)
Plot Summary:
While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min
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Pamela's Prayer (1998)
Plot Summary:
This period piece motion picture portrays the unique and heartfelt story of Pamela Bucklin from her birth in 1969 to her wedding day in 1991. When her mother dies at birth, Pamela is raised by her father, Wayne. He makes a commitment to pray with his daughter each and every night. He also raises her with a very high standard of purity before marriage. In an age when purity is scoffed at by the world, and even in some Christian circles, this movie presents the message with inspiration and perspective. Also, the prayerful commitment of Wayne Bucklin is an example for all who are in a parental role.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Rolling Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
While he is serving time in prison, a man's wife dies and his children disappear. When he gets out of prison, he starts to search for his kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
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What Happened to Bobby Earl? (1997)
Plot Summary:
Rose Earl is proud as a peacock when Bobby, her eldest, whom she raised, like his kid brother Michael, to become moral men an model citizens, is the first member of the modest family ever to get accepted at college. It will take a while till she starts getting aware of it, but after he joins a respectable fraternity Bobby becomes ever more influenced by his roomy, the ambitious Tom Stahl, who promises him the world as they form an unbeatable team.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
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Reality (2023)
Plot Summary:
On June 3, 2017, 25-year-old Reality Winner returns from running errands to find two FBI agents at her home in Augusta, Georgia. An Air Force veteran and yoga instructor, Winner spends the next two hours being questioned about her work as an intelligence contractor — specifically, whether she leaked a classified document about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, independent film, adaptation directed by original author
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Where Are My Children? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Sam's Son (1984)
Plot Summary:
Michael Landon's semi-autobiographical sketch of his earlier life. It's the story of Gene Orowitz, a high school student struggling with his identity, who finds success as a javelin thrower on the track team.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I Was Lorena Bobbitt (2020)
Plot Summary:
Meet the once-battered woman who overcame years of abuse and a sensational televised trial to become an advocate for victims of domestic violence everywhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
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Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story (2011)
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In 2008, New York mother Tiffany Rubin faced every parent's worst nightmare when her six year old son Kobe vanished into thin air. Upon learning that Kobe had been kidnapped by his biological father and taken to South Korea, Tiffany seeks the assistance of American Association for Lost Children representative Mark Miller, who guides her through the arduous process of traveling to Korea, and getting Kobe back.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: emotional, suspenseful, touching, serious, realistic
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Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
The take-down of an infamous leader of a small polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, who ordered assassinations of his opponents.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1992)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" in which Betty Broderick is on trial for the murder of her ex-husband and his new wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Rockaway (2017)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events, a man recounts the summer of '94, when he and his brother plotted revenge against their abusive father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story (1996)
Plot Summary:
A female is harassed and takes the case to court.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
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Stolen Child (2012)
Plot Summary:
Amanda and Jason are happy marriage now, after years of frustration have finally managed to take a beautiful girl from a country in Eastern Europe through an international adoption agency. But when the doctor will perform a DNA test to small, finds that there have been irregularities in the adoption process.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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Into Thin Air (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their son's van is found in Maine brandishing stolen plates, they fear the worst. Now, it's up to a private detective to uncover the chilling truth in this absorbing drama based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: mind bending, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Have You Seen My Son (1996)
Plot Summary:
A woman fears for her son's health when her ex-husband kidnaps him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Empty Cradle (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jane Morgan gives birth to her baby at the hospital. When she wakes up the next morning, the hospital tells her, that her son died at birth. However from ultrasound reading she had before, she knew she was having a girl. Now the hospital is stone-walling her, saying she is just in denial, due to her loss. Now she is trying to fight the system, to find evidence of the apparent mistake by the hospital. Only it wasn't the hospital's mistake. Nurse Rita Donohue is the one who made the switch. She faked a pregnancy to hang on to her roving boyfriend. But she grabbed the wrong baby, her boyfriend wants a son, so now she's faking a second pregnancy, and making plans to get another baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense
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Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story (1995)
Plot Summary:
True life drama about a working mum (Henner) whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her (Savant) and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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If Looks Could Kill (1996)
Plot Summary:
The true story of John Hawkins as featured on America's Most Wanted.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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When Andrew Came Home (2000)
Plot Summary:
A mother searches for five years to find her kidnapped son in this fact-based drama. Unexpectedly the boy is found, but the reunion is not as she hoped. She now has to deal with five years of abuse that the boy suffered at the hands of his kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sad
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?nos (2017)
Plot Summary:
Creation of the Slovak republic in 1993 and first years of its existence are marked with mafia connected to the highest places of the new government. True story about the hijacking of the son of the first president of the Slovak republic.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: political thriller, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Held Hostage (2009)
Plot Summary:
Michelle a single mother is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to saving her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping (1993)
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Three young men decide to make easy money by mass kidnapping. After careful preparations, they hijack the school bus and take 26 children and the driver as hostages. However, the bravery and the wit of the old driver could spoil their plan for the perfect crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Trafficked: A Parent's Worst Nightmare (2021)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison Riley disappears. When the police refuse their requests, her parents, Joanna and Case, reluctantly hire John Belton, a private investigator with a reputation for questionable procedures and a dark past. Quickly, Belton realizes that Allison was coerced by a young handsome boy she met on social media and had been trafficked, and they are on a race against time to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing
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100 Days in the Jungle (2002)
Plot Summary:
100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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October (1994)
Plot Summary:
In October 1970, one group from the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped the British Consul in Montreal. Few days later, a second group did the same with one of the Minister of the Quebec Government. If the first was released, the second was murdered. This is the story of the second group from the stand point of the political kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: political, sad, psychological, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Prosecuting Casey Anthony (2013)
Plot Summary:
"Prosecuting Casey Anthony" reveals Florida prosecutor, Jeff Ashton’s inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony’s mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing her daughter, despite what many thought to be overwhelming evidence of guilt. The movie is seen from Ashton’s (Lowe) perspective and it takes viewers behind-the-scenes of both the investigation into Caylee’s tragic death and the ensuing trial, shedding new light on the many questions of what happened to the two year-old girl, how Ashton and his fellow prosecutors built their case and why a woman so shrouded in suspicion was proclaimed innocent. With in-depth information about the case and the accused, "Prosecuting Casey Anthony" examines what the prosecution got right, what they got wrong and why Ashton remains convinced of Casey Anthony’s guilt.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, captivating, realistic, emotional, detective, bleak, gloomy
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Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows the tumultuous relationship—in and out of court—of Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, Amber Heard.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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The Gabby Petito Story (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows Gabby's tragic murder. Centering in her complicated relationship with her fiancé Brian Laundrie and what may have gone wrong during their cross-country trip. The disappearance of Gabby Petito captured America’s attention, setting off a nationwide search for the 22-year-old travel blogger after her parents reported her missing in September 2021, when she failed to return home following her cross country “van-life” trip with her fiancé Brian Laundrie. Non-stop coverage on the news drove amateur sleuths to dissect Gabby’s social media posts for clues about what happened to her during her trip, leading to the eventual discovery of her body in Wyoming. As the one-year anniversary of her tragic death approaches, the movie will bring to life Gabby and Brian’s doomed love story, including the warning signs that Gabby’s life was in danger, the ensuing search for her, the eventual discovery of her murder and ultimately, Brian’s suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Girl in the Bunker (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in 2006 and based on the true story of Elizabeth Shoaf, this powerful film explores the tension-filled ten days Elizabeth was kidnapped and held prisoner by Vinson Filyaw. Imprisoned in a secret underground bunker hidden deep in the woodland, Elizabeth finds herself at the mercy of an erratic and dangerous fantasist who dreams of one day making her his wife... While a massive police hunt unfolds above ground, it falls to Elizabeth to somehow outwit her captor if she is to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, rough, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, disturbing, dark