Movies like Taken in Broad Daylight
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Taken in Broad Daylight (2009)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Every 24 hrs. after a child's been kidnapped by a stranger, chances of finding them alive diminishes to almost 100% ... The true and inspiring survival story of kidnapped teen, Anne Sluti, and how she manages to stay alive by manipulating her captor, engineering her own rescue and negotiating her safe release after 6 days of hell.
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, bleak
Plot:
kidnapping, survival, missing person, rescue, confined, rape, showdown, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, kidnapped, obsession, age difference, child abuse, teen social issues, teenage life, escapades, rivalry, good versus evil, child abduction, abduction, fbi, true crime, lifetime, teenage rape, danger, barefoot woman ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
nebraska, montana, wyoming
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Most similar movies to Taken in Broad Daylight
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and rough films with plots about kidnapping, danger, confined, rivalry, captivity, survival and abduction mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Taken in Broad Daylight: Cleveland Abduction (2015), 3096 Days (2013), 12 Hours to Live (2006), Kidnap (2008), Voice of a Murderer (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, true crime, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, confined, rape, abduction, survival ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2013, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
Style:
realistic, rough, disturbing, dark, controversial ...
Plot:
kidnapping, child abuse, rape, psychological torture, life is a bitch, pedophile, survivor, violence against women, abduction, missing child, confinement indoors, rape victim ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
germany, austria
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75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Eighteen-year-old Amy is having a bad day. Not only has she been kidnapped by a deranged gunman, but as a diabetic without her insulin, her chances of survival are diminishing with each tick of the clock. FBI agent Megan Saunders isn't walking ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police investigation, woman in danger, diabetic, chase, hostage, terminal illness, kidnapping, salvation, weapons, kidnapped, strong female presence, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, China
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A fortnight before her eighteenth birthday, Sonia goes missing. Her family receives a call informing them that she has been kidnapped and her estranged father, a US-based businessman, must now follow the kidnapper’s instructions to the letter if ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
stockholm syndrome, woman in danger, kidnapping, hostage, chase, mind game, vengeance, family relations, rescue, confined, rivalry, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The disturbing true-story of Lisa McVey, who was abducted in 1984 but later released by her abuser, only to have people question her story.
Style:
suspenseful, touching, rough, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, kidnapped, true crime, child abduction, psychopath, suspense, kidnapped girl, rape, abduction, autobiography, homicide detective ...
Place:
canada
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100%
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Films like Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
High school teacher Mary Stauffer and her eight-year old daughter, Beth are held captive for 53 days by an obsessed former student. Based on a true story.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
emotional abuse, rape, teacher, mother daughter relationship, missing person, surveillance, escape, captivity, abduction, obsession, isolation, suspense ...
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Three young men decide to make easy money by mass kidnapping. After careful preparations, they hijack the school bus and take 26 children and the driver as hostages. However, the bravery and the wit of the old driver could spoil their plan for the ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
kidnapping, daring rescue, bus, heroes, escapades, rivalry, crime gone awry, confined, rescue, small town, captivity, school ...
Time:
90s
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
One day, the only son of famous news anchor HAN Kyung-bae, disappears without a trace. Soon, the kidnapper calls the mother demanding a $100,000 ransom. The police assign a veteran inspector to the case and assemble a top-notch task force to work ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, psychological, sad ...
Plot:
kidnapping, police investigation, family problems, chase, mind game, blackmail, reporter, death of child, gangsters, serial killer, cell phone, organized crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating, factual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, hostage, suspense, terrorism, survival, kidnapping, rescue, pirate, u.s. navy, ocean, ship captain, ransom ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
somalia, africa, vermont, virginia, kenya ...
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's. Southern beauty pageant winner Dawn Smith is targeted by a sadistic stalker whose obsession with her leads him to kidnap her younger ...
Style:
realistic, serious, mind bending, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, murder, beauty pageant, love, child abuse, riddles and clues, small town life, woman in danger, small town, psychopath, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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3096 Days similar movies
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An industrialist's wife is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, daring rescue, missing person, race against time, survival, crime gone awry, rivalry, confined, escapades, ransom, abduction ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Ukraine
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An inspirational true story. On what seemed like any other day, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to teach a friend. But then the missionaries experience the ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
missionary, kidnapping, abduction, ransom, captivity, missing person, confined, religions or cults, survival, torture, mormon, heroes ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
russia
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24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. To seek justice, a rebel organization kidnaps an ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting, serious
Plot:
kidnapping, racism, terrorism, political conspiracy, state affairs, confined, dishonesty, heroes, conspiracy, hijacking, rivalry, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nigeria, africa
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24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Elliott Gast (Jason Behr) is quickly climbing the corporate ladder of international commerce, negotiating deals to generate large fortunes for giant corporations. His success makes him the target for political extremists who kidnap him and broadcast ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
confined, missing person, isolation, captivity, terrorism, prison life, internet, torture, survival, suspense, hostage, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The film centers around retired police detective Derrick Stanswood (Mann), who is called by a successful doctor about an unsolved case involving his wife Maggy (Cottrel) and their son, Cole (newcomer Kevin Fennell). Chasing after loose ends in a ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, captivity, confined, kidnapping, small town, farm, abduction, suspense, violence, redneck, missing child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Movies like Captain Phillips
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, parents and children, homecoming, family problems, redemption, hopes, child abuse, teenage girl, fish out of water, isolation, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, bleak
Plot:
survival, kidnapping, jungle, captivity, political unrest, rescue, rebellion, race against time, escapades, confined, baby, human spirit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, latin america
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22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before, Charlie is ...
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, track down, on the run, rivalry, special agents, police corruption, law enforcement, vengeance, swat team, armed forces, graphic violence, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Deals with 90 minutes in a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, crime gone awry, missing person, race against time, terrorism, chase, rivalry, car chase, destiny, missing child, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On the afternoon of August 3, 2013, 16-year-old Hannah Anderson was abducted after finishing cheerleading practice in a San Diego suburb. When the bodies of her mother and brother were found in the burned home of family friend James DiMaggio later ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense, dark
Plot:
kidnapping, kidnapped, true crime, father daughter relationship, 16 year old, child abduction, kidnapped child, unsolved crime, teenage girl, forensics, disappearance, suspense ...
Place:
california, san diego california, idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Movies like Cleveland Abduction
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Business mogul David Hawkner and his wife are enjoying a quiet vacation by themselves at their isolated retreat. The serenity is broken when they become the targets of a handsome, crazed killer.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psycho, confined, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, rescue, psychopath, captivity, kidnapping, woman in danger, snow, serial killer, erotic thriller ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When his girlfriend is kidnapped, a drug-addicted ex-cop must overcome his demons and face the sobering task of tracking her down before it's too late. His story dismissed by the police, he's left with no choice but to rely on his own ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
kidnapping, law enforcement, obsessive quest, missing person, murder, drugs, life is a bitch, drug abuse, addiction, flashback, drug addict, fbi ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ma Barker (Theresa Russell) and her sons rob banks, shoot people and wind up at the top of the FBI's "most wanted" list in the 1930s.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
gangsters, heist, missing person, dishonesty, criminal, criminal heroes, confined, special agents, law enforcement, robbery, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, violence ...
Time:
1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fact-based drama about an arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
firefighter, arson, arsonist, investigation, law enforcement, heroes, escapades, rescue, tragic hero, race against time, serial killer, delusion ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
"The Prodigy" tells the story of small-time enforcer Truman Fisher's vicious conflict with a sadistic assassin who has chosen the unwilling Truman to be his successor. The assassin, who goes by the alias Rains and whose exploits have ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, riddles and clues, rivalry, police investigation, law enforcement, gang, psychopath, suspense, murder, assassin, martial arts ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Films like Nine Dead
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the kidnapping of teenager Elizabeth Smart,in June 2002, by two people, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, rough, suspenseful, feminist film
Plot:
kidnapping, child abuse, true crime, religious cult, missing child, false identity, teenage girl, survival, escape, suspense, child rape, captivity ...
Place:
utah, salt lake city utah
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19%
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama, Action
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
bank robbery, gang, criminal heroes, parents and children, amateur detective, confined, survival, law enforcement, rivalry, disorder, kidnapping, airport ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Kidnappers force a young mother (Melissa George) to recover money stolen by her shady husband (Christian Campbell).
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, captivity, criminal, revelation, missing child, trust, family problems, rivalry, betrayal, dishonesty, survival, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
256
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Fresh out of prison, all Ray wants is to get back with Lacy, but she's in a stable relationship now with Elliott, a pacifist, and wants nothing to do with him. When she's kidnapped by Ray's former associates, he and Elliott must team ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, prison, rescue, rivalry, buddies, vengeance, confined, dishonesty, gays and lesbians, daring rescue, friends, missing person ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, rape and murder, who done it, strong violent content, stalking, mentally unstable, police detective, law enforcement, life is a bitch, physical appearance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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