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Plot Summary:
A seemingly perfect family secretly kidnaps wealthy people for ransom to maintain their high standard of living and social status. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
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Murder by the Lake: The Return (2018)
Plot Summary:
Micha Oberländer investigates the fatal head-shot of Johannes Leitner on "Galgeninsel" with the service of Hannah Zeiler, who lies unconscious besides the corpse. She sought privately to let him clarify the fate of her father, but was followed and knocked down. *Hannah's former mentor Ernst Gschwendner assumed suicide, but later suspects Hermann Zeiler may still be alive. As the dirty truth is unearthed, Oberländer must conclude to change Hannah's life permanently and it's truth time for the Zeilers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Bound and Gagged: A Love Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
Leslie's husband Steve is a brute and she wants out, at least she thinks she does. Her lover Elizabeth agrees that Steve needs to go away, so they plot his murder. Meanwhile their friend Cliff can't seem to get used to the idea that his wife has left him, and he tries to kill himself. The murder doesn't go as planned, the suicide doesn't go as planned, and Elizabeth, Leslie, and Cliff find themselves on the run from a very angry Steve. Trouble is, Leslie isn't so sure she wants to leave, so Elizabeth is compelled to compel her to accompany them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Dear Child (2023)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious woman's escape from her harrowing captivity points investigators toward the dark truth behind an unsolved disappearance 13 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 286 min
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Six Four (2023)
Plot Summary:
A dark and compelling story of kidnap, corruption, betrayal, and an uncompromising search for the truth when Chris and Michelle O’Neill’s teenage daughter goes missing.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration:
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Jack Taylor: Nemesis (2010)
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This episode is actually called Nemesis. Jack Taylor: Nemesis Iain Glen returns in the second of three new crime dramas, based on the novels by Ken Bruen, about a former Garda officer now working as a private investigator after being fired from the force. Jack is asked to locate a former enemy who has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. Working against the clock, he crosses paths with a tough-as-nails rival private eye, while also supporting Kate as she prepares for a major operation. Meanwhile, Darragh finally comes into his own as Jack's new assistant.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Brookside: The Lost Weekend (1997)
Plot Summary:
A special, video only story set on the Brookside close. On Friday 14th November 1997, a five night a week storyline ended in a cliffhanger and this video completes the story - a tale of kidnapping extortion and violence. The action-packed episode features faces from the show's past including Sheila Grant (Sue Johnston) and wayward son Barry Grant (Paul Usher), and is written by series creator Phil Redmond.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
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The Cicada's Eighth Day (2010)
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Kiwako Nonomiya is devastated after Takehiro Akiyama, the married man she has been having an affair with, manipulates her into getting an abortion by promising to marry her and then refusing to divorce his wife. Kiwako then learns of Takehiro's wife's pregnancy. One morning, while Takehiro and his wife Etsuko are away, Kiwako sneaks into their home to get a look at their six-month-old child. Without a thought for the consequences, she carries the baby away. Kiwako then raises the child as her own, while being a fugitive from the law.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 43 min
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Kidnap Capital (2015)
Plot Summary:
Imagine leaving everything you have, everyone you know, everyone you love, behind. Having to cross half a continent on foot, atop freight trains, inside truck trailers. Swimming across wild rivers. Crossing borders illegally. Walking across the Arizona desert. Being shot at, robbed and beaten. Raped. Surviving it all. Crossing into the USA, after life in the poorest parts of Central America. Succeeding. Now. In the “promised” land, you don’t belong, legally; or socially. You don’t understand the language. No one knows you arrived, no one knows you exist. Imagine…. being Nobody. Then imagine a bag being shoved over your head. Getting your clothes stripped from you. Getting tossed in a closed room with a dozen others. A loaded gun is pointed at your head. You are forced to call back home and beg for money, a ransom for your life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
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Next of Kin (2018)
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Whip-smart general practitioner Dr. Mona Harcourt lives in London with her political lobbyist husband Guy and her family. When a bomb goes off in London on the same day that her brother, Dr. Kareem Shirani, is abducted in Pakistan, Mona's charmed life is shaken to its core.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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Gallowglass (1993)
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Joe is saved by Sandor from committing suicide in front of an oncoming tube train. Sandor now demands his absolute loyalty and teaches Joe that he is now a 'gallowglass', a servant of a chief.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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The Stickman (2022)
Plot Summary:
Tells the love story of game developer Tamer and bankeress Peri, who meets in an extraordinary way and are trapped in a dangerous yet beautiful game.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min
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Seesaw (1999)
Plot Summary:
British series starring David Suchet.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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24 Japan (2020)
Plot Summary:
Japanese adaptation of the American TV Series "24". Genba Shido is the director of Team A in the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). He is excellent at his job and a reasonable person, but he often has to make drastic decisions to save lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, political thriller
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NCIS: Sydney (2023)
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The brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multi-national taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: detective
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Unconditional Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young criminal kidnaps a couple's young son and then blackmails them into committing his crime instead of asking for a ransom.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Cargo (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of the international refugee crisis, depicting a world where greed, violence and exploitation compete with hopes and dreams amid a constant fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Kidnapping Game (2020)
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Yu Hai's game studio runs into divestment from investor Shen Hui. Yu encounters Shen's bastard daughter Lu Jie. The two plot together a fake kidnapping case and falls in love. Real Lu Jie is found dead days after and cops reveal greater dangerous while investigating.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Full Circle (2023)
Plot Summary:
An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
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Missing Persons (1993)
Plot Summary:
Missing Persons is a short-lived American crime drama television series, set in Chicago. It followed a fictitious missing persons unit; each episode usually following the investigation into three or more cases. It ran on ABC from August 30, 1993 to February 17, 1994. It was produced by Gary Sherman Productions in association with Stephen J. Cannell Productions, and often used local Chicago-based actors, as well as occasional big-name guest stars such as Nina Foch, Eddie Bracken and Lois Smith. Semi-regulars included Ian Gomez, Irma P. Hall, Laura Cerón and Valerie Harper. Unlike most series from Cannell's company, he did not create or co-create this series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: detective
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Thirteen (2016)
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This Five-part BBC psychological drama follows Ivy Moxam, a 26-year-old woman who was abducted when she was 13 and held captive for the next 13 years. The story begins as she escapes the cellar she was being held in and goes to the police station to report her ordeal to D.S. Lisa Merchant and D.I. Elliott Carne. But as she narrates and relives her experiences with the police, cracks begin to appear in Ivy's version of events leading the officers and her family to question her story. Will she ever reveal the truth about what she experienced in her captor's house?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, scary, psychological thriller
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Kidnapped (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kidnapped is an American television drama series from Sony Pictures Television which aired on NBC from September 20, 2006, to August 11, 2007. The series returned on Universal HD in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective, anime
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The Yard (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a fateful domestic clash, a devoted mother finds herself in prison and fighting to survive in hopes of reuniting with her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, queer cinema
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Oliver Twist (1999)
Plot Summary:
Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this adaptation traces the childhood of an orphan whose mother dies giving birth to him in an English work-house in the 1820s.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 386 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period piece, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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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
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The Moorside (2017)
Plot Summary:
Drama about the search in 2008 for missing Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews and the surprising revelations the investigation unearthed.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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Sex Traffic (2004)
Plot Summary:
Boston based Kernwell Industries is an American defense contractor. One of those contracts is to deploy 3,000 peacekeepers to the International Peacekeeping Coalition's work in the Balkans. Because of the near epidemic problem of sex trafficking of young Balkan women, Kernwell has decided to support the charity, Worldwide Federation Against Forced Migration. Kernwell's head of charities is Madeleine Harlsburg, the wife of the company's CEO, Tom Harlsburg. Although it does not have a pristine reputation as a good social corporate citizen, Kernwell hits a bigger public relations problem when it is learned that one of those 3,000 peacekeepers was caught trying to buy the services of a teen-aged prostitute in Sarajevo. Although not named to the media, that person is Sergeant Callum Tate, who swears he was trying to save that woman. In reality, Tate has evidence of a larger conspiracy of sex trafficking.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 189 min
Plot tags: bleak, thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (2005)
Plot Summary:
Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: touching, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, sensual, erotic
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I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989)
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7-year old Steven Stayner is kidnapped a few days before Christmas by Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive sexual abuse the entire time. Finally, at fourteen, he returns home to his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, emotional, thought provoking, sad, tense, bleak, serious, realistic
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The Witnesses (2021)
Plot Summary:
When 10 year old girl is kidnapped from the natural history museum, the police questions eight key witnesses to uncover the truth and find the child before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Line of Fire (2003)
Plot Summary:
Line of Fire is a crime drama television series that was broadcast on ABC for 11 episodes in the winter of 2003-2004. It starred Leslie Bibb and Jeffrey D. Sams as two rookie FBI agents assigned to the bureau's Richmond, Virginia branch, where their story parallels that of a local mob boss, Jonah Malloy. When a fellow agent is murdered in a shootout with the gangsters, the head of the FBI branch declares an all-out war on the criminal underworld. The following episodes weaved intricately between Bibb and Sams' federal agency and Paymer's gang, though the two storylines rarely met head-on, except when occasionally focusing on an undercover agent. The show was canceled after just 11 episodes in June 2004, though 13 episodes in all were produced. Mob boss Jonah Malloy's signature line was "That's that with that." The Parents Television Council took a clip from the series for their TV's Worst Clips from years 2001 to 2004. The clip used depicted graphic sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective