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1) Taken 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
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.
2) Hostage
Pub. Date
[2005]
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 and terrifying than anything he could ever imagine.
3) Captive
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Brian Nichols, on the run as the subject of a city-wide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son, takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren's bestselling inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life. While reading aloud, Ashley and her would-be killer each face crossroads where despair and death intersect hope.
4) Argo
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still felt today. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a mid-level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
5) The marine 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A relaxing five-star holiday turns into an all-out battleground for Marine recon sniper Joe Linwood when a group of local rebels seizes control of the hotel, taking the billionaire owner and a group of guests, including Joe's wife, hostage. With the victims in danger of being brutally murdered, Joe takes matters into his own hands in order to save his wife from certain death.
Series
Language
English
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Description
John McClane is off-duty on Christmas Eve in the nation's capital when a team of terrorists, in town to rescue a drug lord from justice, has taken over a major international airport, holding thousands of travelers hostage. Amidst a blinding blizzard, McClane must race against time to defeat the terrorists and their murderous leader while also contending with an inept airport police chief, the stubborn head of the Army's anti-terrorist squad, and the...
8) Die hard
Language
English
Description
John McClane, a New York cop, flies to L.A. on Christmas Eve to visit his wife at a party in her company's lavish high-rise. Plans change once a group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber, seize the building and take everyone hostage. McClane slips away and becomes the only chance anyone has in this beginning-to-end heart-stopping action thriller.
"John McClane, policier new-yorkais, est venu rejoindre sa femme Holly, dont il est separé depuis plusieurs...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Working the late shift at a remote diner turns into an unrelenting nightmare for waitress Noreen when she and six customers learn of a nearby murder spree that's connected to a mysterious stranger who just walked in the door. A hostage situation quickly erupts, resulting in shocking outbursts of violence and even more startling revelations they could have never anticipated.
10) Funny games
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
At their lakeside vacation home, Ann, George and their son have unexpected visitors: two well-spoken, well-bred young men wearing polite smiles and preppy sportswear. The visitors want to play a game. "You bet that you'll be alive tomorrow at 9:00, and we bet that you'll be dead. OK?" As the terrorized family fights to survive, each plan is thwarted, each option closed, each hour closer to what could be the last.
11) A dangerous man
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After serving six years for a murder he didn't commit, ex-Special Forces operative Shane Daniels gets released from prison. Back on the street, he wields a devastating combination of street-fighting smarts and martial arts skills when he suddenly finds himself in a deadly showdown with international drug merchants and the local corrupt cops. They're about to discover just how dangerous one man can be when they stand between him and his newfound freedom....
12) Die hard
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his family. As he waits for his estranged wife's office Christmas party to break up, German terrorists occupy the building, and McClane wages a one-man war to stop them.
13) Airheads
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Desperate for recognition, a struggling rock band sneaks into a radio station in an attempt to get their demo played on the air. Things turn hilariously chaotic when they pull out water machine guns and inadvertently take over the radio station while it's on the air.
14) Hostage
Pub. Date
[2005]
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 and terrifying than anything he could ever imagine.
15) Shoot to kill
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A city cop and a wilderness expert team up to capture a psychopathic thief and murderer who has escaped into the wild.
Series
Criterion collection volume 722
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
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 world₂s most beloved and provocative auteurs.
17) Metro
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Roper, a hostage negotiator, catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.
19) Sin elección
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Reina la exaltación en el primer vuelo sin escalas de Londres a Sídney. Se rumorea que en primera clase viajan algunos famosos, así que todo el mundo está pendiente del acontecimiento más importante en la historia de la aviación. Mina, una de las azafatas, trata de concentrarse en el trabajo para olvidar sus problemas personales. De pronto uno de los pasajeros sufre un ataque al corazón y muere. En la cartera del fallecido Mina encuentra una...
20) Alien raiders
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Something terrible is happening at Hastings Market - something inhuman. Caught up in the grisly horror inside the market are shoppers who have been turned into hostages. A dedicated commando band of raiders are on a search-and-destroy mission to stop the intruders dead cold no matter where they hide. A nerve-shredding battle for human survival against aliens that invade our world by invading our bodies.
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