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Escape Plan: The Extractors (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin's girlfriend is also captured. Now he and his team must pull off a deadly rescue mission to confront ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, exciting, action packed ...
Plot: abduction, group of criminals, prison, murder, teamwork, liberation, death, gunfight, computer cracker, vengeance, businessman, fight scenes ...
Time: 2010s
Place: latvia, hong kong, los angeles, eastern europe
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The Hurricane Heist (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, action thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: natural disaster, hurricane, disaster, tornado, robbery, heist, evacuation, betrayal, conspiracy, destruction, criminal, danger ...
Time: year 1992, 2010s, year 2015, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
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 5.8
 20K
Life of Crime (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.
Style: sexy, independent film, suspense, ironic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, abduction, mistress, adultery, character study, relationships, dysfunctional family, ransom, hostage, cons and scams, trophy wife, attempted rape ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit, bahamas
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 3.2
 402
Death Train (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man is supposed to guard a shipment of diamonds being sent by rail. But a man robs the train and kills the men guarding the diamonds. The robbers derail the train and hope to get away with their crime. The robbers get caught in Mexico and are sent ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, train, on the run, save the day, hostage, danger, undercover, gunfight, die hard, hijacking, railway, subway ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico
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 6.2
 474
Black Fox (1995)
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A former slave affects peace between Indian tribes and homesteaders in 1860s West Texas.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
Plot: native american white relationships, modern western, apache, modern west, gunfight, black, interracial relations, hostage, indian war, heroes, lone wolves, society ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: texas
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 6.7
 98K
Violent Night (2022)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.
Style: christmas horror, entertaining, captivating, humorous, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, santa claus, christmas eve, bloody violence, holiday, hostage situation, graphic violence, snow, extreme violence, dark humor, killer santa claus, holiday horror ...
Time: 10th century, 2020s
Place: connecticut, washington d.c.
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Strawberries in the Supermarket (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Country: Serbia and Montenegro, Germany, Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An ex-soldier storms a supermarket and takes all the cashiers captive because one of them insulted his grandmother.
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, satirical, realistic
Plot: hostage, store, hostage situation, vengeance, love affair, criminal, satire, surrealism, male female relationship, relationships, psychiatry, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, former yugoslavia
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 6.6
 5K
Cold War (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: They say Hong Kong is the safest city in Asia. But tonight, a police van has been hijacked along with the arms, equipment and the five officers aboard, one of the hostages being the only son of police deputy commissioner M.B. Lee! With the chief ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police corruption, hostage, rescue, missing person, danger, hijacking, police chase, triad, police investigation, police detective, father and son, con trick ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
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Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: prison, prison escape, teamwork, conspiracy, martial arts, hostage, betrayal, danger, security system, survival, hand to hand combat, secret place ...
Time: 2010s
Place: chechnya, shanghai, bangkok thailand, atlanta georgia
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 7.0
 653
Lovesickness (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A three-part look at the ironies of love, with stories that involve a young boy, a hostage situation, and a divorced elderly couple caught in a love triangle.
Style: humorous, semi serious, emotional, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love affair, true love, love triangle, obsession, couples, hostage, wedding, unfulfillment, family problems, love, tragic love, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: puerto rico, latin america
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 7.0
 15K
In Bar (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of young high society friends, aged between 18 and 25, are gathered at a friend's bar that they regularly frequent for the night. But when they finish of their last beer and prepare to head home they find themselves held captive at ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, serious, rough, art house ...
Plot: gang, vigilantism, captivity, rivalry, confined, murder, sexual abuse, injustice, life is a bitch, vengeance, escape attempt, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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A Killing Affair (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Peter Weller (Robocop) stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she ...
Style: independent film, suspense, neo noir, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: mountain, collision, widow, murder, drifter, small town, underdog, intrigue, danger, vengeance, rivalry, fall in love ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
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 4.4
 6K
Extreme Ops (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, chase, avalanche, skiing, danger, extreme sports, isolation, save the day, leadership, on the run, rescue, rivalry ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: austria, antarctic, europe, former yugoslavia
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 4.8
 4K
Firestorm (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Firefighter Jesse Graves has to save ornithologist Jennifer and other people caught in a forest fire, which was set up by the lawyer of convicted killer Earl Shaye, who escaped from the prison with several of his inmates posing as firefighters to ...
Style: cliffhanger, anamorphic, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, prison, firefighter, firefight, natural disaster, fire, hostage, survival, fugitives, forest fire, violence, firefighting ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: wyoming
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 4.4
 365
Getting Even (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A soldier-of-fortune steals some Russian nerve gas from Afghanistan, and brings it to the U.S. to be analyzed. A greedy millionaire rancher finds out about it and sets out to steal it.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic mission, heroes, rivalry, confined, chases and races, escapades, danger, race against time, chase, terrorism, psychopath, disaster ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: usa, texas, dallas texas
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 4.6
 24K
Captivity (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The sought-after images of top model, Jennifer, adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a charity event, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, and ...
Style: scary, psychological, disturbing, rough, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, stalking, torture, serial killer, survival, psychopath, hostage, stereotypes, danger, isolation, escape, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 5.7
 661
Suite 16 (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris finds himself trapped inside. With nowhere to go and the cops closing in on the hotel fast, he wanders into "Suite 16" in a fit of despair. ...
Style: serious, psychological, bleak, sexual, rough ...
Plot: hotel, strong sexual content, gay, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, sexual manipulation, voyeur, gay subtext, femme fatale, on the run, witnessing a crime, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: french riviera, europe
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Parts of the Family (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Beyond the front door of an old, decrepit house is buried a horrible and tragic past. One horryfing and gory night a family of four is brutally hacked to pieces. The only survivor is the young and beautiful housekeeper, Ella. When she steps out of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, rough, parody ...
Plot: murder, deadly creature, survival, confined, supernatural, chaos, isolation, experiment gone awry, gory, danger, escapades, vengeance ...
Place: europe, belgium
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Boeing, Boeing (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine as long as they only come home every third day. But when there's a change in their working ...
Style: sex comedy, sexy, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: aviation, newspaper man, womanizer, american abroad, pilot, reporter, space, love, airline, hostage, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 60s
Place: persia, europe, france, paris france
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 6.0
 1K
Dead Silence (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Three escaped convicts take a group of deaf students hostage but their teacher is Marlee Matlin!
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: deaf, kidnapping, fugitives, die hard, kidnapped, asthma, hostage, rescue, on the run, bus, special agent, mind game ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, pennsylvania, new york state, canada
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 5.8
 12K
Airport '77 (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle while taking VIPs and valuable art to Philip Stevens new museum. But when hijackers take off the plane and knock everyone out with sleeping gas the plane crashes in the sea. The passengers survive but a ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, airplane, underwater, rescue, airport, survival, aviation, bermuda triangle, airplane accident, hijacking, airplane hijack, frogman ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place: washington d.c.
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 5.5
 3K
Best Men (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his girlfriend. En route to the wedding, one of the men asks to stop by a bank to ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wedding, heist, crime gone awry, friendship, bank robbery, chase, tragedy, swat team, spy, marriage, explosions, on the run ...
Time: 90s
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 3.8
 4K
Hijacked (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, save the day, danger, secret agent, hijacking, confined, rivalry, air disaster, police officer, murder, erotica ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.5
 95K
Under Siege (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This action-packed thriller takes place on the soon-to-be-decommissioned USS Missouri. Disgruntled ex-CIA operative Strannix, his assistant Krill and their group of terrorists seize the battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned ...
Style: suspense, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, terrorism, one man army, u.s. navy, ship, hostage, one against many, terrorist plot, violence, terrorist, sociopath, race against time ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: hawaii, pacific ocean, honolulu hawaii, pentagon
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The Terrorists (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that ...
Style: surprise ending, fast, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot: hijacking, airplane, terrorist, hostage, terrorism, diplomacy, aviation, 007, judiciary, undercover agent, violent content, tough heroes ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: scandinavia, oslo norway
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 6.5
 139K
Cliffhanger (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, France, Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who ...
Style: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: climbing, mountain climbing, heist, mountain, rocky mountains, wilderness, rock climbing, villain, snow, redemption, rescue, survival ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s
Place: colorado, antarctic
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Little Big Soldier (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of a farmer forced into conscription, who has been looking to get out of the army ever since. His great chance arrives when he stumbles upon a wounded general from an enemy state, and he kidnaps him, intending to claim credit for the ...
Style: stylized, humorous, exciting, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ancient history, pow, ancient, medieval, survival, rivalry, kung fu, dark hero, tragic hero, barbarian, antiquity ...
Time: middle ages, ancient times, 5th century
Place: china, asia, ancient china
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 5.8
 9K
House Arrest (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce after 18 years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement until they'll sort out their ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: divorce, childhood, family relations, family problems, parents and children, family life, love, hostage, kidnapping, couples, bullying, youth ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: hawaii, ohio
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 4.8
 2K
The Defender (2004)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against.
Style: serious, rough, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, undercover, state affairs, daring rescue, danger, save the day, chases and races, law enforcement, conspiracy, undercover agent, shootout, spy ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: romania, europe, new york, washington d.c.
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 5.2
 7K
Sniper 2 (2002)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Berenger) is back - and this time he has teamed up with death row inmate B.J. Cole (Woodbine) on a suicide mission to the Balkans. Their target: a rogue general accused of running ethnic cleansing missions. But when Becket ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: rescue mission, sniper, military, terrorism, death row, betrayal, assassination, soldier, hitman, danger, undercover, dishonesty ...
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