Posts Tagged ‘kidnapping’

48 Hrs. (1982)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nolte, Nick | Murphy, Eddie | O'Toole, Annette | McRae, Frank | Remar, James | Kelly, David Patrick | Landham, Sonny | James, Brion | Sherman, Kerry | Banks, Jonathan | Keane, James | King, Tara | Blackburn, Greta | Rose, Margot | Crosby, Denise
Directors: Hill, Walter
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Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect.

Casualties of War (1989)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Penn, Sean | Harvey, Don | Reilly, John C. | Leguizamo, John | Le, Thuy Thu | King, Erik | Gwaltney, Jack | Rhames, Ving | Martin, Dan | Dye, Dale | Larson, Steve | Linton, John | Ruginis, Vyto | Shannon, Al
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.

Romancing the Stone (1984)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Turner, Kathleen | DeVito, Danny | Norman, Zack | Arau, Alfonso | Ojeda, Manuel | Taylor, Holland | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Smith, Eve | Nesnow, Joe | Chávez, José | Muñoz 'Chachita', Evita | García, Camillo | Puebla, Rodrigo | Morayta, Paco
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Joan Wilder is a mousey writer of romance novels. She finds a package from her sister mailed from Colombia in her mailbox. A call from her sister tells her that she has been kidnapped and that bringing the package to Colombia is necessary for her safety and release. Being fairly clueless, she leaves for Colombia to rescue her sister. She is lost within hours of her arrival. She is nearly murdered by one of the men searching for the package when Jack Colton, a fairly low life American rescues her. They begin a journey through the jungle with bullets flying nearby. Is Joan up to all of this? What a way to find out.

Gladiatress (2004)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Phillips, Sally | Fiona Allen | Doon Mackichan | Vibert, Ronan | Marcia Warren | MacGregor, Rory
Directors: Brian Grant
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This sword and sandals movie is an off-the-wall comedy adventure about three unlikely heroines, who set out to save Celtic Britain, by thwarting the Roman invasion in their own unique and outrageous style.

Southland Tales (2006)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Amezcua, Carlos | Armstrong, Curtis | Benz, Robert | Berger, Todd | Campana, Joe | Ciulla, Chris Andrew | Del Rio, Rebekah | Dillar, Aaron | Dunn, Nora | Dunn, Shari | Durrett, Michele | Falcone, Jon | Feinstein, Leila | Gardiner, Jaret | Garofalo, Janeane
Directors: Kelly, Richard
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Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who’s stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Trade (2007)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kline, Kevin | Bachleda-Curus, Alicja | Gaitan, Paulina | Gati, Kathleen | Lychnikoff, Pavel | Crivello, Anthony | Emond, Linda | Ward, Zack | del Castillo, Kate | Ramos, Cesar | Adrian, Evan | Alonzo, Howard | Barela, Richard | Greigh, Bo | Malley, Dale
Directors: Kreuzpaintner, Marco
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Adriana (Paulina Gaitan) is a 13-year-old girl from Mexico City whose kidnapping by sex traffickers sets in motion a desperate mission by her 17-year-old brother, Jorge (Cesar Ramos), to save her. Trapped and terrified by an underground network of international thugs who earn millions exploiting their human cargo, Adriana’s only friend and protector throughout her ordeal is Veronica (Alicja Bachleda), a young Polish woman tricked into the trade by the same criminal gang. As Jorge dodges immigration officers and incredible obstacles to track the girls’ abductors, he meets Ray (Kevin Kline), a Texas cop whose own family loss to sex trafficking leads him to become an ally in the boy’s quest. Fighting with courage and hard-tested faith, the characters of Trade negotiate their way through the unspeakable terrain of the sex trade “tunnels” between Mexico and the United States. From the barrios of Mexico City and the treacherous Rio Grande border, to a secret internet sex slave auction and the final climactic confrontation at a stash house in suburban New Jersey, Ray and Jorge forge a close bond as they give desperate chase to Adriana’s kidnappers before she is sold and disappears forever into this brutal global underworld, a place from which few victims ever return.

Life Less Ordinary, A (1997)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Diaz, Cameron | Hunter, Holly | Lindo, Delroy | Hedaya, Dan | McNeice, Ian | Kanig, Frank | Winkler, Mel | Tucci, Stanley | Decker, Anne Cullimore | Dodds, K.K. | Shalhoub, Tony | Gorham, Christopher | Holm, Ian | Chaykin, Maury
Directors: Boyle, Danny
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Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss’s daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. Two “angels” who are in charge of human relationships on earth, offer some unsolicited help to bring this unlikely couple together. The “angels” are so successful that the daughter soon turns on her father in order to save her captor.

Over the Top (1987)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Loggia, Robert | Blakely, Susan | Zumwalt, Rick | Mendenhall, David | McCarty, Chris | Funk, Terry | Beattie, Bob | Graf, Allan | Schwarz, Magic | Way, Bruce | Keegan, Jimmy | Braden, John | Munafo, Tony | Raney, Randy
Directors: Golan, Menahem
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Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who’s trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his ex-wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son doesn’t think too highly of him until he enters the nation-wide arm wrestling competition in Las Vegas.

Oxygen (1999)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tierney, Maura | Brody, Adrien | Naughton, James | Robins, Laila | Kinney, Terry | Calderon, Paul | Baker, Dylan | Krupa, Olek | Faison, Frankie | Stimac, Slavko | Henderson, Michael | Shepard, Robert | Perez, Eddie | Canfield, Gene | Quinn, Christopher J.
Directors: Shepard, Richard
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A masochistic cop (Maura Tierney), who hides her predilection from her cop husband (Terry Kinney), gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody), who has kidnapped a rich woman (Laila Robins) and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband (James Naughton). Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case.

Order, The (2001)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Heston, Charlton | Milos, Sofia | Thompson, Brian | Cross, Ben | Dobtcheff, Vernon | Gabai, Sasson | Abutbul, Alon | Tomaska, Joey | Malota, Peter | Reginiano, Sharon | Huri, Sami | Widerker, Jack | Leitch, David | Qissi, Abdel
Directors: Lettich, Sheldon
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In the year 1099, during the Crusades in the 11th Century, Christian soldiers arrive in Jerusalem and slaughter the local population. Christian soldier Charles Le Vaillant becomes demoralized by the horrors of war and decides to create a new religious order. This new order brings together, in a peaceful manner, members from the three religions of the region: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. As a self-imposed leader and messiah, Charles writes the sacred texts of the Order. The Christian Crusaders accuse Charles of heresy, and attack him and his disciples. During the attack, the last chapter from the sacred texts becomes lost in the desert. Now, in modern-day Israel, a devout contingent of Le Vaillant’s followers continues to practice his peaceful teachings. But a disciple named Cyrus has a distorted view of the Order’s peaceful intention. Rudy Cafmeyer is a thief and smuggler of valuable historical artifacts. Rudy manages to break into a high security building where he steals a Faberge Egg, the kind decorated with precious stones and manufactured expressly for the Russian Tsars. Needless to say, the alarm goes off, and Rudy has to fight his way out of the building. Despite this theft, Rudy is not really a bad guy. He stole the egg from the personal collection of a powerful Russian mafia boss. Rudy is a loving son who would do anything for his father Oscar “Ozzie” Cafmeyer. Ozzie, an archaeologist and museum curator, discovers the manuscripts that were lost during the crusades. The manuscripts clearly extol interfaith harmony. In those manuscripts, there is also an ancient map of Jerusalem, which shows the location of a mythical Jewish treasure. Ozzie travels to Israel, where Cyrus has him kidnapped. Rudy, who heard the kidnapping take place while talking to Ozzie on the phone, travels to Jerusalem to rescue Oscar. Oscar’s associate, Professor Walt Finley, hands Rudy the key to a safe-deposit box in East Jerusalem before being gunned down by unknown assailants. Israeli Police Chief Ben Ner views Rudy’s arrival with hostility and takes steps to have Rudy deported, but police lieutenant Dalia Barr risks her life and career to help Rudy — she was once a disciple of the Order, but she left when she was 18-years-old. Cyrus uses a car bomb to assassinate the Order’s leader, Pierre Gaudet, and Cyrus steps up his own rhetoric, hoping to inflame his followers. Rudy opens the safe-deposit box and finds a map that shows a series of tunnels and a treasure room beneath Jerusalem. Ben Ner, who has partnered with Cyrus, covets the gold that the underground tunnels lead to, but Cyrus hopes to plant a bomb during Ramadan that will turn the Israelis against the Palestinians. Dalia and Rudy must get to the Order’s monastery, free Ozzie, and prevent an explosion that could push tensions in the area way past the boiling point.