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1) Rapt
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Stanislas Graff, a powerful industrialist, is kidnapped one morning from in front of his building by a group of gangsters. So begins a nightmare where he's humiliated, abused, and treated inhumanely. Although he resists, allowing his kidnappers no hold over him, he accepts everything without rebelling or any kind of cry or complaint; he responds with dignity to barbarity. Outside, his world slowly collapses when his true nature is revealed.
2) Big Jake
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Big Jake McCandles, is a husband who hasn't seen his wife in over 18 years. But he returns home after his grandson is kidnapped by a vicious outlaw gang. While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles, Jake saddles up with an Indian scout and a box of money--even though paying a ransom isn't how Jake plans to exact good old frontier justice.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of kidnappers abduct the daughter of a wealthy socialite and hide out in an abandoned school in the middle of the woods. But feelings of guilt soon overtake the kidnappers, dividing the group and putting their entire plan into jeopardy. The evening further spirals out of control when their poorly-chosen hideout becomes a hunting ground for a mysterious creature that requires springtime ritualistic sacrifices.
4) The Mexican
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 3 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jerry has to do one last errand for the mob before they let him find employment elsewhere--he has to go to Mexico and recover a rare and very valuable pistol "The Mexican", which is said to be cursed. While his girlfriend, Samantha, objects to Jerry taking the assignment, he isn't in much of a position to argue. Once in Mexico, Jerry finds the pistol easily enough, but making his way back to the States proves to be an unexpected challenge. Meanwhile,...
5) Obsession
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1959, affluent businessman Michael Courtland and his wife are celebrating their tenth anniversary when his daughter and wife are kidnapped and held for ransom. The effort to rescue the girl and her mother ends tragically, and Courtland merely exists, his days consumed with guilt. Many years later, still grieving over his loss, he returns to Florence, the city where he first met his wife, and he meets a young woman who bears a remarkable resemblance...
Series
Criterion collection volume 24
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Special ed.; Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (143 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A botched kidnapping of a Japanese executive's son turns into a race-against-time.
9) Ransom
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the son of a wealthy businessman is kidnapped, he defies the experts and turns the tables on the kidnappers in a last-chance effort to rescue his boy.
10) Cavite
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Letterbox version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Flying back to his home country, an American man is informed that his mother and sister have been kidnapped and will be killed if he doesn't comply with certain demands.
11) The imposter
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1994, a thirteen-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive and well thousands of miles away in Spain. He tells a story of kidnap and torture when he returns. While his family is excited to bring him home, all is not quite as it seems. Is the boy really who he claims to be, or is he an imposter giving the family false hope for their child's return?
12) Spy kids
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When their international spy parents are kidnapped by children's television program host Fegan Floop, Carmen and Juni Cortez must criss-cross the globe in a quest to save their parents.
13) The collector
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A withdrawn butterfly collector decides to add to his collection by kidnapping a beautiful girl and locking her up in hopes that she will fall in love with him.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two families have been fighting over a desirable piece of meadowland. One of them escalates the rivalry by sending a postcard from a non-existent woman to lure the other family away. What follows is an all out war.
15) Ruthless people
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When loathesome millionaire Sam Stone's wife is kidnapped by inept kidnappers, Sam cries tears of joy and refuses to pay the ransom. And when the abductors threaten to kill the abrasive heiress, Sam celebrates!
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Fortieth anniversary collector's edition.
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (approximately 884 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After resigning from a top-secret position, a man is abducted from his London home and kept prisoner in a mysterious place known only as The Village. Residents of The Village, known only by numbers, are held captive on account of their valuable knowledge. The prisoner--Number Six--must protect his mind in order to preserve his humanity while he struggles to discover the identity of Number One and achieve freedom by escaping from the repressive grasp...
18) In old Arizona
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a Robin Hood-style bandit, The Cisco Kid, falls for a beautiful woman, he may also be falling into a trap, since the woman is also involved with the military man who seeks to capture The Kid - dead or alive.
19) Kidnapped
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson's coming-of-age adventure is back and breathtaking, in this widely heralded presentation bursting with scoundrels and scallywags, villains and heroines, and two memorable heroes who will stop at nothing in their quest for justice.
20) Point blank
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Samuel is a happily married nurse working in a Paris hospital. When his very pregnant wife is kidnapped before his helpless eyes, everything falls apart. After being knocked unconscious, his cell phone rings: he has three hours to get a man under police surveillance, out of the hospital. Samuel quickly finds himself pitted against rival gangsters and trigger-happy police in a deadly race to save the lives of his wife and unborn child.
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