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Fed up with answering to higher-ups, Nick, Dale, and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business. But a slick investor soon pulls the rug out from under them. Outplayed and desperate, and with no legal recourse, the three would-be entrepreneurs hatch a misguided plan to kidnap the investoŕєєs adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company.
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Heartbroken over the death of her beloved Westley, beautiful Buttercup finally succumbs to the advances of the wicked Prince Humperdinck. Yet, when she's suddenly kidnapped by a motley band of deviants, what gallant hero comes to the rescue? None other than Westley-- alive, well and as wonderful as ever. But before these two can live happily ever after, they must first overcome formidable odds. Will these star-crossed lovers ever fulfill their destiny?...
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When the president is kidnapped by a terrorist who seizes control of the White House (Secret Service Code: Olympus), disgraced former presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team rushes to respond, they must rely on Banning's insider knowledge to save the president and prevent an even greater catastrophe.
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[2022]
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In this Western, the action begins as Kansas Red rescues young Billy from a card-game shootout. The boy asks Red for help protecting his family from outlaw Thorn, who has just kidnapped Billy's mother, Carol. As Red and Billy ride off to rescue Carol, they run into beautiful, tough-as-nails Leslie, who's managed to escape Thorn's men. They race to stop Thorn's wedding to Carol with guns a-blazing but does she want to be rescued?
6) Ransom
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In this action-thriller, Academy Award®-winning superstar Mel Gibson (Best Director, Braveheart, 1995) is Tom Mullen, a wealthy executive, whose charmed life is suddenly shattered when his young son is abducted and held for ransom by a gang of ruthless criminals! That's when Mullen defies the experts and takes matters into his own hands... boldly turning the tables on the kidnappers in a last-chance effort to rescue the boy. A critically acclaimed...
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Based on Dan Brown's international bestselling thriller "The Lost Symbol," the series follows the early adventures of young Ivy League symbologist Robert Langdon, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.
8) Beckman
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[2020]
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Aaron Beckman is finished, done with a life lived in the shadows as a cruel gun for hire. Now, his soul cries out for healing, peace, forgiveness, and grace. In desperation, he appeals to the church and is welcomed by an ailing pastor like a long-lost son. However, his journey towards salvation is cut short when his adopted daughter is kidnapped by a deranged cult leader named Reese.
9) A day to die
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[2022]
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A team of off-book law enforcement officers band together to tackle the city's biggest criminal and save the wife of one of their own.
10) Nick of time
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No sooner does accountant Gene Watson arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers separate Watson from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand and present a devil's bargain: kill a top government official before she leaves a nearby political rally-- or never again see his beloved child.
11) God is a bullet
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When a detective finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a satanic cult, he quits the police and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the charismatic cult leader with the help of the cult's only female escapee.
13) Don't say a word
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[2001]
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When the daughter of a prominent New York psychiatrist is kidnapped, his only hope for her safe return is to pry a 6-digit number from the memory of a troubled teenage girl--and time is running out.
14) The drowning
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When Jodie's young son vanished from a lakeside picnic, it was presumed he drowned, but Jodie believed he was abducted. Years later, she sees a boy she's certain is her son. Jeopardizing the life she's painstakingly rebuilt, Jodie begins a dangerous and morally dark journey to prove the boy is her son and save him from his abductor.
15) Transporter 2
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When ex-Special Forces operative Frank Martin, aka "The Transporter, " is implicated in the kidnapping by Columbian drug dealers of the son of a government narcotics control policymaker, he sets to work recovering the boy and exposing the kidnappers.
16) Screwed
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[2000]
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Desperate for a payback from Miss Crock, his boss from hell, Willard (MacDonald) enlists the help of his hotheaded best friend Rusty (Chappelle) to dognap her precious pooch and hold it for ransom. But when the dog escapes and Miss Crock thinks Willard's the one being held for a price, they get help from the creepy and crazy mortician Grover Cleaver (DeVito) to cash in on the payoff.
17) Summer's moon
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[2009]
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Summer sets out on a cross-country journey to find her estranged father and along the way is befriended by a local handyman who invites her to spend the night, but she awakes the next morning to find herself held prisoner in his basement.
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[2016]
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Arthur Bishop returns as the Mechanic in the sequel to the 2011 action thriller. When the deceitful actions of a cunning but beautiful woman force him to return to the life he left behind, Bishop's life is once again in danger as he has to complete an impossible list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world.
19) Gone
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[2011]
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A nurse is blackmailed to kill a patient under police protective custody, or else her teenage daughter, who has been kidnapped, will be killed. Instead of committing the murder, however, she pursues the kidnappers on her own to save her daughter's life and bring the criminals to justice.
20) Tesnota
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TESNOTA (CLOSENESS, 2017) is the incendiary debut feature from the young and brilliant Kantemir Balagov (Beanpole). 1998, Nalchik, the North Caucasus, Russia. 24-year-old Ilana works in her father’s garage to help him make ends meet. One evening, her extended family and friends gather to celebrate the engagement of her younger brother David. Later that night, the young couple is kidnapped, and a ransom demand delivered. In this close-knit Jewish...
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