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1) Killer Joe
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
'Killer' Joe Cooper is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hitman with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris hires Joe to kill his mother in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie as a retainer until he can be paid.
2) Tiger house
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After injured gymnast Kelly sneaks a visit into her boyfriend's house, the house is attacked by armed robbers, who don't see Kelly. Kelly decides to take on the robbers herself as they hold her boyfriend and his mother hostage to convince the family patriarch to aid them in a bank scam to protect his family. A savage game of cat and mouse ensues between Kelly and the intruders.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Eric wakes up, tied and gagged in the trunk of a truck, it's instantly clear he's been kidnapped. However, soon he discovers he's accompanied by a young woman, Blake, another hostage. Neither can recall how they ended up there, and together, they desperately try and get help. With no help coming, and as things become more hopeless, it soon becomes apparent that there is more going on than it first seems. The two kidnappers have their own agenda,...
4) Shock wave
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Chinese
Description
When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.
5) Lockdown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this white-knuckle action-thriller, hell on earth erupts as three sadistic criminals take over a precinct and hold the police force hostage. Promising to kill one cop every hour, the three shooters, a rapist, a serial killer, and their psychotic leader, play sadistic games with the terrified cops and a high-strung prostitute. Meanwhile, an FBI agent is racing to rescue the officers, but as time runs out, the hostages may have to fight to save their...
7) Bel canto
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Roxanne Coss becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform at a lavish party for a wealthy industrialist in South America. As a lengthy standoff ensues, hostages and captors form unexpected bonds as they overcome their differences to find their shared humanity.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
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.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For seasoned outlaw Henry and his gang of bandits, a high-stakes bank heist turns bloody when they kill a U.S. Marshal in the process. With one of the largest bounties in the history of the American West on their heads, they make their way south and invade the home of a seemingly innocent and unsuspecting frontier family for refuge. As an unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, this twisted tale leads to seduction, role reversal, and ultimately revenge....
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A gripping game of cat and mouse that will keep you guessing until the very end. An NYPD hostage negotiator forms an unlikely team with an FBI agent to save hostages in a skillfully orchestrated copycat crime at the Federal Reserve Bank, led by a ruthlessly cunning bank robber. With time working against them and innocent lives on the line, they must put their professional differences aside before they get trapped in a twisted web of lies.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding, armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Despite his cool efficiency, the plot quickly spirals out of control, sending Jay and his hostage on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi, as all the while attractions simmer, loyalties shift, and explosive secrets are revealed....
14) Plane
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. To rescue the passengers, Torrance will need Gaspare's help and will learn there's...
15) Money monster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
16) Submergence
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, a Scotsman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away in the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance.
17) Albino alligator
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Brothers Dova and Milo... a couple of small time crooks suddenly in way over their heads! When a holdup goes terribly wrong, the robbers flee to a local bar, desperately taking everyone inside hostage! With no where to run and time running out, it's a deadly situation where every second counts!
Language
English
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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 he feels that it is his sense of duty, refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts...
Series
Criterion collection volume 722
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Formats
Description
A rambunctious dark comedy. An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a B-movie porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodovar's international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world's most beloved and provocative auteurs.
20) Taken 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
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.
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