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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
67 films tagged kidnapping, showing 50
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2025 · Thriller
A Chicago construction foreman who used to be a Royal Marine goes after the traffickers who took his employer's daughter, working his way up through the Russian mob. One fight after another.
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2025 · Crime
A New York music mogul has staked everything on buying his label back when a kidnapper calls for a ransom, and the boy taken turns out to be his driver's son rather than his own. He has to decide whether to pay.
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2025 · Crime
In Indianapolis in 1977, a man wires a shotgun to a mortgage broker's son's neck, walks him home at gunpoint and calls a radio station to explain why. Taken from a real standoff, and mostly one apartment with the police outside.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A woman drives into northern Minnesota in a snowstorm to scatter her husband's ashes, stops at a cabin for directions, and sees blood on the snow. From there it is her, the couple who live there, and the girl in their basement.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A wealthy couple keep a violent nineteen-year-old chained in their cellar and set about making him a better person, and the housekeeper they hire finds him down there. Mostly one house, and uncomfortable throughout.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
An ice-road trucker flies to Nepal to scatter his brother's ashes and ends up on a tour bus that armed men take over halfway along a mountain road. Straightforward action, most of it on the road.
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2025 · Thriller
In 1970 a plane out of Tokyo is hijacked by radicals demanding to be flown to Pyongyang, and Seoul's spy agency sends its best fixer to get the hostages back. A black comedy, mostly about the men on the ground.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
A maid of honour who secretly works as a spy has to save her best friend's wedding when mercenaries take the whole party hostage on a private island. Broad comedy with fights in it.
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2006 · Action
A young man from a forest village is taken captive in a raid and marched to a Mayan city, and then he runs. Most of the film is a chase through the jungle, very violent, in Mayan with subtitles.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A window cleaner is working her way down the side of a Canary Wharf tower when activists storm the gala inside and take everyone hostage, her brother among them. She is stuck on the outside.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
Mercenaries take over the hotel hosting a G20 summit in Cape Town, and the US president, an army veteran, slips loose with a handful of other leaders. Corridors, guards and fights, all in one building.
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2025 · Thriller
A bomb on a Tokyo-bound bullet train will go off if the train drops below 100 km/h, and the crew have to keep it moving while the government refuses the ransom. It plays out on the train and in the control room.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
An oceanographer whose father was killed by a shark goes diving for sunken treasure off Thailand, and pirates take the boat. They send the divers back into the water to fetch what they came for.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
A woman hiking in the Tennessee mountains is taken by a large figure in a porcelain doll mask and wakes up in a crib in a nursery. Most of it is her in that house, made to play along with the game.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary written as a letter to David Cunio, an Israeli actor taken hostage on 7 October 2023. The director had once cast him in a film about a kidnapping, and builds this out of that old footage.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A former French special-forces operator, out of a job since an accident, has his pregnant wife taken and is pulled into a conspiracy while looking for her. A Netflix action thriller that keeps moving.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A surgeon facing a medical negligence charge gets a call telling him his daughter has been taken, and spends the film racing to get her back. There are only three people on screen in the whole thing.
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2022 · Horror
A woman arrives late at night at the house she has rented in a rundown part of Detroit and finds a stranger already staying there. The first stretch is two polite people working out what to do, and it does not stay polite.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
An Asháninka boy is taken from his village by Shining Path guerrillas and turned into one of their fighters. Peruvian, based on a true story, and told from the boy's side.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
A wedding on an island is raided and a retired thief's partner is taken hostage, so his old crew has to break into a casino and empty a penthouse safe to get her back. A heist run under orders, watched every step.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
In the years after the fall of Saigon, men hijack Vietnamese passenger planes to get out of the country, and the air marshals aboard are the only ones trained to stop them. Based on real hijackings.
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2025 · Thriller
A bank assistant manager who cannot feel pain goes after the robbers who took his co-worker hostage, using the one advantage his body gives him. Fast, funny and gruesome about it.
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2025 · Action
A mute handyman in a Southeast Asian city loses his daughter to child traffickers, and the police captain is working for them. He goes after her himself, and it is fight after fight.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A film star trying to get his career back is abducted along with two others by a group who believe that sacrificing three people will save humanity. Played for laughs, with a big cast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
Here Peter Pan is a killer who steals children away to Neverland, and when he takes her younger brother Wendy Darling goes looking for him. A straight slasher: chases, hiding places and a lot of blood.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
Four months into dating, a couple go away for a weekend in the country, and after he says he is not looking for anything serious she leaves him cuffed to the bed. Two people arguing in one farmhouse.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A retired encounter cop is pulled back in when his old girlfriend, now a police officer, needs help freeing a kidnapped businessman, and his suspicious wife insists the whole family comes along. A loud comedy with a rescue attached.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
An Indian Army colonel in Kashmir refuses to trade captured militants for his kidnapped son, and years later the boy comes home grown and loyal to the men who took him. A family drama inside an action thriller.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A woman's ex-husband abducts their young daughter and takes her to the Middle East, and years of searching lead nowhere. She teams up with an ex-Marine who recovers stolen children.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Horror
A reporter's daughter is taken in Cairo, and eight years later she is back with the family, partly mummified and not alone inside. Loud possession horror that moves between Egypt and New Mexico.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
A billionaire's bodyguard, framed for his boss's murder, boards a cargo ship under a dead assassin's name and finds a hold full of trafficked people. Once he is aboard it is fights in corridors, at sea.
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Little-known
2026 · Crime
A widowed crime writer's eight-year-old son is taken, and he turns to his estranged father, a retired detective, for help. The case starts to line up with one from decades ago, a convicted serial killer called the Whisper Man.
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Little-known
2026 · Comedy
A narcotics detective and his ex-wife's new husband, a vet, cannot stand each other, and then she and their daughter are taken by a drug gang. The two of them bicker their way through the rescue.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2026 · Comedy
The adopted son of two British secret agents washes out of MI7, learns he is of Indian origin, and is sent to Goa to get a woman out of a crime boss's factory. A broad spy comedy, played for laughs throughout.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
A background check on a Hong Kong police chief in 2017 opens the file on an operation that went wrong in 1994, when the city's old money, the triads and the British were all pulling at each other. Two timelines and a lot of names.
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Little-known
2026 · Action
A drifter turns up in a small Texas town in 1988, where a bar owner and his daughter are being squeezed by the crime boss who owns the place. Fights and shootouts, escalating a step at a time.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2019 · Horror
The boy from the Overlook Hotel is now a drinker in his forties working at a hospice, when a girl with the same gift starts writing to him about the people who hunt children like her. Long, and slow to get going.
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2007 · Crime
A London midwife has the diary of a girl who died in childbirth translated, and it points her at a Russian family who run more than a restaurant. Quiet and slow, then suddenly not, more than once.
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2024 · Action
A girl is stolen from a green, hidden place and grows up among the warlords of the wasteland, working her way back toward home. Told in chapters over many years, with long stretches of vehicles chasing each other.
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2018 · Comedy
A couple who take their weekly game night seriously turn up for a murder-mystery party thrown by his brother, and the fake kidnapping goes wrong. It runs fast and is played for laughs throughout.
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2007 · Mystery
Two private investigators from a working-class Boston neighbourhood are hired to look for a missing four-year-old in the places the police cannot reach. A detective story that keeps turning into an argument about what is right.
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2024 · Horror
Two young missionaries knock on the door of a polite man who says he is interested in their church, and he keeps them talking. Almost all of it is three people in one house, arguing about belief.
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2008 · Action
A billionaire who sells weapons is taken prisoner in Afghanistan and builds himself a way out, then keeps building once he gets home. Light on its feet, with as much workshop as fighting.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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1998 · Comedy
A very relaxed man in Los Angeles is mistaken for a millionaire with the same name, and would like a new rug. What follows is a kidnapping plot he keeps wandering out of.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2003 · Mystery
Three men who grew up on the same Boston street are pulled back together when one man's daughter is found dead and another is the detective on the case. Heavy and slow, and mostly about the three of them.
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2003 · Thriller
A man is locked in one room for fifteen years without being told why, then let out with a few days to find whoever did it. Violent and strange, and it moves like something is chasing it.
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2003 · Adventure
A blacksmith's apprentice teams up with a pirate who has lost his ship to get the governor's daughter back from a crew that cannot be killed. Big, silly, and full of sword fights.
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2013 · Thriller
Two little girls vanish from a street on Thanksgiving, and while a detective works the case one of the fathers decides the police are moving too slowly. Long, dark and rainy, and it gets ugly.
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2015 · Drama
A woman and her five-year-old son live in a single locked room, which is the only world he has ever known. Told from the boy's side of it, in a small space with two people.
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2022 · Action
Two men in 1920s India, one working for the British and one hunting for a girl taken from his village, become close friends without knowing who the other is. Three hours of dancing, fighting and no physics at all.
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