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1) Kidnapped
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Italiano
Description
A gang of thieves hijack a man's car after botching their getaway from a robbery. They take a woman prisoner and command the man to drive them to safety. The man must try to cope with the bad situation he is in as well as trying to get help for a sick child that he is caring for.
2) Oldboy
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped and kept in solitary confinement for 20 years, Joe Doucett has suddenly been set free without a word of explanation. Obsessed with finding those who imprisoned him, Doucett wreaks havoc upon his captors, unaware his freedom is part of a plan and his true punishment's about to begin.
3) Hostage
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When ex-LAPD officer Jeff Talley became chief of police in a sleepy town, he thought he'd left behind the traumas of his career as a big city hostage negotiator. But when a random crime escalates into a deadly standoff, Talley finds himself thrust into a situation far more volatile than anything he could ever imagine.
4) Taken 2
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself taken hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.
5) John Q
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A blue-collar worker facing financial hardship finds his son needs a heart transplant, but trouble ensues when the HMO refuses to pay for it.
6) Non-stop
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every twenty minutes.
8) The rock
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Language
English
Description
An FBI chemical weapons expert joins forces with a former British spy to rescue the hostages held on Alcatraz island by a group of Marines who have missiles loaded with poison gas.
10) Rogue hostage
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
Single father and former Marine Kyle Snowden, on a routine stop for his job in Child Protective Services, becomes trapped inside his stepfather Sam Nelson's store by a group of mercenaries armed with a bomb. Kyle, his daughter Angel, and and several others have been taken hostage by the crew of Eagan Raize, the son of Sam's former business partner. Eagan's seeking revenge against Sam, who he blames for destroying his father's life, and he doesn't...
11) Ambulance
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive.
12) Iron eagle
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Language
English
Description
A retired Air Force colonel and a young pilot undertake a seemingly impossible mission to rescue the young man's father, who has been wrongfully imprisoned in a Middle Eastern country.
13) The predator
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter, and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Former renegade pilot Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) is coaxed out of retirement in a Buddhist temple by a beautiful CIA agent to undertake a do-or-die mission to rescue U.S. hostages in Iraq. Topper and his Hot Shots follow an action-packed trail booby-trapped with spoofs of Apocalypse now and the Rambo movies and filled with famous faces in hilarious cameos.
16) A holiday heist
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
A group of college students stay at school over Christmas to work at a special exhibit in the college's fine art gallery. The students have little in common to each other. When they decide to hold an unplanned Christmas Eve dinner in the gallery, they stumble into a trio of bumbling thugs planning a Holiday Heist of the exhibit. As the students are held hostage, they are forced to learn about themselves and each other, the spirit of Christmas, and...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because of his sense of duty refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts to stop the criminals...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
As a massive hurricane builds, criminals infiltrate a U.S. Mint facility. Their plan: to steal $600 million and escape using a Category Five hurricane as cover. But a treasury agent and a storm chaser have a plan of their own, desperately racing against time, and the hurricane, to save the hostages and stop the thieves before their town is reduced to rubble.
Publisher
4 Digital Media
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When Eric wakes up, tied and gagged in the trunk of a truck, it's instantly clear he's been kidnapped alongside a young woman, Blake, another hostage. Neither can remember how they got there, but it's clear there is no help coming, and as things become more hopeless, it soon becomes apparent that there is more going on than it first seems.
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