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Carjacked (2011)
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Carjacked (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A single mom and her child are carjacked by a bank robber who has no intention of letting them go.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: adult
Plot: fugitives, hostage, manipulation, woman in danger, on the road, chases and races, rivalry, danger, single parent, car chase, kidnapping, hijacking, gang, burglar, psychopath, blonde, single mother, voyeur, divorced woman, voyeurism, profanity, confined, strong female presence, child in peril, anti hero ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about danger, kidnapping, chases and races, confined, hostage, rivalry and woman in danger mostly in Thriller, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Carjacked: Brake (2012), Dead Innocent (1997), Kidnap (2017), Lost in the Dark (2007), Beeper (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Brake (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures high-speed mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract needed information for their sinister plot.
Style: twist ending, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: secret agent, secret place, agent as target, kidnapping, terrorism, isolation, captivity, race against time, danger, twists and turns, survival, spy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 286
Dead Innocent (1997)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Suzanne, a single parent and succesful lawyer, returns home to find her daughter missing. About to call the police, she is confronted by a disembodied voice warning her that if she attempts to leave or seek help, her daughter will die. Suzanne ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Plot: kidnapping, mysterious character, danger, chases and races, confined, woman in danger, eye, supernatural being, police, child in peril, strong female presence, violent content ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 39K
Kidnap (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A mother (in her Minivan) stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
Style: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending ...
Plot: kidnapping, strong female lead, abduction, single mother, child in peril, rescue, danger, little boy, missing child, plot twist, female protagonist, determination ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Lost in the Dark (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young girl, who has recently lost her eyesight to a degenerative disease, struggles to outwit an escaped convict who has taken refuge in her grandmother's cabin during a ferocious snowstorm.
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Plot: hostage, child in peril, teenage life, isolation, danger, youth, blind girl, fugitives, kidnapping, brother brother relationship, kidnapped, snow ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.4
 466
Beeper (2002)
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Richard Avery, whose young son is kidnapped while they travel in India. Embarking on a desperate quest to rescue him, and with a beeper providing his only lead, Avery seeks help from unlikely sources, including a drug lord and a beautiful but ...
Style: serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: missing child, kidnapping, drug dealing, rescue, manipulation, child in peril, hostage, confined, parents and children, danger, crime gone awry, doctors and patients ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Wild Card (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young, beautiful wife cheating on her rich, older husband amidst the neon lights of Las Vegas. Four men hired to do a job, but there is a traitor in their midst. Adultery, betrayal, kidnapping and murder lead to the ultimate double cross and no ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, gangster, tough heroes, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, confined, danger, woman in danger, gambling, disorder, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
12 Hours to Live (2006)
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: suspenseful, exciting, serious, disturbing, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, diabetic, woman in danger, police investigation, danger, chase, kidnapped, terminal illness, kidnapping, salvation, weapons, captive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.5
 845
Cold Blooded (2012)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A female police officer has to keep a prisoner from escaping a nearly abandoned hospital unit at the same time his violent partners come looking for him.
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, chases and races, chase, partner, confined, isolation, criminal heroes, reluctant partners, woman with a gun, criminal, cop, strong violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 4.1
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Finish Line (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Minor league stock car racer Mitch Camponella gets closer to his NASCAR dreams when he's hired as private mechanic to a millionaire importer. But Mitch's ambition comes with a heavy price when he realizes that his new boss is a smuggler ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: chases and races, rivalry, arms dealing, unlikely criminals, smuggling, escapades, dream, manipulation, danger, dishonesty, auto racing, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Assassins Run (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Maya becomes the target of the Russian mafia after her husband, a successful American businessman, is killed.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, prison life, rescue, ballet, kidnapping, frame up, woman in danger, twists and turns, betrayal, gangster, on the run, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Road Killers (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a carful of maniacs.
Style: road movie, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: witnessing a crime, gang, psychopath, kidnapping, woman in danger, serial killer, missing person, danger, rescue, family in danger, hostage, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Held for Ransom (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: captivity, ransom, danger, confined, survival, rivalry, psychopath, teenage life, wilderness, murderous pair, chases and races, hijacking ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.5
 676
Banshee (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A kick-ass professional car thief, Sage, (Taryn Manning), steals a classic '66 Charger on a challenge. It turns out the car belongs to a serial killer (is there another kind?), who proceeds to slice and dice her friends because he wants his car ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, race against time, heist, danger, car chase, master criminal, criminal's revenge, car thief, witnessing a crime, hostage, chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.5
 3K
Midnight FM (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Popular TV anchorwoman & late night radio host Sun-Young prepares to work her final radio program. After this program she will prepare to take her ill daughter to America the following morning. During the radio show Ko Sun-Young receives a ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, serious, suspense ...
Plot: kidnapping, chases and races, hostage, child in peril, twists and turns, race against time, radio dj, woman in danger, radio, radio station, vigilantism, justice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Cries in the Dark (2006)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Detective Carrie Macklin and her little sister Elle had always been the closest of friends. But when Elle goes missing after a run-in with a relocated sex offender, it is up to Carrie to find her little sister...who is nine months pregnant. Carrie ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, detective
Plot: murder, law enforcement, police investigation, missing person, police detective, vengeance, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, missing child, infidelity, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.0
 476
Surveillance (2006)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of an security guard whose spotless record at crime prevention marks the horrifying reality of deception, blackmail and murder.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, psychopath, murder, rivalry, dishonesty, manipulation, security guard, police, obsession, xmas, surveillance, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.8
 704
Final Approach (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nightmare: stuck aboard a plane that's been taken over by a group of well-armed terrorists who ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, terrorism, rescue, daring rescue, master criminal, save the day, tough heroes, danger, heroes, one man army, aviation, air disaster ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Nothing to Lose (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Johan has been locked up - wrongly in his opinion - for the murder of his father and little sister. His mother is the only one who can prove his innocence, but he hasn't been able to contact her for years. When he is transferred within the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, hostage, murder, teenage life, delinquent, obsessive quest, confined, mental illness, road trip, court, criminal ...
Place: netherlands, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 6.1
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The Entitled (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family – abduct the socialite children of three wealthy men and collect a ransom of $3-million dollars. Over the course ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, ransom, confined, crime gone awry, partner, danger, unlikely criminals, disorder, breaking point, blood, forest, unemployed ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Down and Dangerous (2013)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An inventive and resourceful cocaine smuggler defends his trade against violent rival traffickers, a monstrous and vengeful killer, and the DEA agents who want to lock him up – all while falling for a stunningly beautiful woman with a taste for ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug, rescue, danger, woman in danger, rivalry, smuggler, chase, smuggling, mexican american border, violent content, conundrum, henchman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 3.9
 473
Tripfall (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare.
Style: serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, psychopath, danger, gang, daring rescue, rivalry, parents and children, chases and races, serial killer, criminal heroes, murderous pair ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.6
 978
Days of Grace (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Mexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World Cups. Three ways to fight in order to survive.
Style: serious, tense, rough, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: rivalry, couple relations, confined, vengeance, law enforcement, dishonesty, lifestyle, police corruption, police detective, couples, hostage, drug dealing ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.9
 10K
Ca$h (2010)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the ...
Style: tense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, intelligent ...
Plot: couples, heist, chases and races, rivalry, moral dilemma, escapades, financial problem, loan, human nature, unlikely criminals, manipulation, cash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hijacking, hostage, train, save the day, race against time, danger, ransom, tunnel, confined, mind game, law enforcement, subway ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.1
 257
Dynamite (2004)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman's life is turned upside down when three armed robbers invade her home.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, family in danger, criminal's revenge, confined, crime gone awry, isolation, teenage girl, kidnapped, woman in jeopardy, mother daughter relationship, fire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Absolute Killers (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thriller - Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. - Edward Furlong, Grace Johnston, Meat Loaf
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Plot: witness protection, on the run, chases and races, danger, gangster, murder, redemption, violence, woman in danger, violent content, u.s. marshal, district attorney ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.5
 722
Layover (2012)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the heiress of a luxury hotel chain is kidnapped at her dingy motel outside Detroit by a band of ruthless sex traffickers, her downtrodden assistant must figure out a way to rescue her.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: russian mafia, abduction, heiress, rescue, danger, white slavery, murder, deception, kidnapping, dog, chases and races, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, detroit, michigan, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
House Under Siege (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Two young boys and a girl commit a diamond robbery on Halloween. During escape the girl is fatally shot. One of the boys knows a doctor (Jeremy London) who has a private clinic in his house. They decide to go to his house instead of the hospital ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: crime gone awry, on the run, confined, dishonesty, rivalry, fugitives, chase, gang, doctor, halloween, home invasion, hostage ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 3.5
 896
Dead Drop (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After surviving a fall from a plane 3000-feet over the ocean, a former CIA operative turned government contractor re-infiltrates a dangerous North Mexican drug trafficking ring to find his own killer. With his memory unraveling, he descends into a ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, betrayal, danger, tough heroes, dishonesty, chases and races, master criminal, working undercover, revenge, car chase, spy, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Because I Love You (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An unlikely romance occurs when a kidnapped victim falls in love with one of her abductors.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: rivalry, kidnapping, single parent, gang, hostage, captivity, confined, love, sexual abuse
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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