| Prisoners (2013) | 8.2 | |
| Misery (1990) | 7.8 | |
| The Collector (1965) | 7.5 | |
| 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) | 7.2 | |
| Inception (2010) | 8.8 |
Kidnapping movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant kidnapping movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing and psychological films and TV shows about / with kidnapping, kidnapped, abduction, confined, murder, danger, rape, captivity, hostage and violence plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as kidnapping: 3096 Days (2013), Cleveland Abduction (2015), Thirteen (2016), Girl in the Bunker (2018), 7 Days (2010), Kidnapping Stella (2019), Cargo 200 (2007), Human Trafficking (2005), Room (2015), Chained (2012).
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List of kidnapping movies
18K
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, saga, rough, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, child abuse, psychological torture, rape, abduction, basement, life is a bitch, violence against women, pedophile, missing child, stockholm syndrome, kidnapped ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
germany, austria
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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, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
kidnapping, true crime, captivity, isolation, violence, missing person, woman in danger, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, abuse, cruelty, rape ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2002, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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10K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
This Five-part BBC psychological drama follows Ivy Moxam, a 26-year-old woman who was abducted when she was 13 and held captive for the next 13 years. The story begins as she escapes the cellar she was being held in and goes to the police station to ...
Style:
realistic, psychological thriller, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
kidnapping, police investigation, trauma, child, investigation, family relations, woman, law enforcement, police, police detective, escape, basement ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in 2006 and based on the true story of Elizabeth Shoaf, this powerful film explores the tension-filled ten days Elizabeth was kidnapped and held prisoner by Vinson Filyaw. Imprisoned in a secret underground bunker hidden deep in the woodland, ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, rough, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, sexual assault, sexual predator, rape of a minor, bunker, rape, pedophile, teenage girl, sex slave, police, impersonating a police officer, age difference ...
Place:
canada
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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:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, abduction, kidnapped, true crime, rape, child abduction, psychopath, kidnapped girl, autobiography, homicide detective, homicidal maniac ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style:
controversial, disgusting, erotic, extreme horror, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot:
torture, atrocity, sexual perversion, sex, fascism, sexual abuse, sexual torture, sadism, brutality, rape, libertine, captivity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944 ...
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Bruno Hamel is a thirty eight year old surgeon. He lives in Drummondville with his wife Sylvie, and their eight year-old daughter Jasmine. Like many happy people, he is leading an uneventful life until a beautiful fall afternoon, when his daughter ...
Style:
gloomy, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
police, vengeance, revenge, kidnapping, rape, rape and revenge, child killer, torture, vigilante, rape and murder, anger, male nudity ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
canada, quebec
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Snatched off the street and held for ransom, a bound and gagged woman uses her limited powers to derail her two masked abductors' carefully laid plans.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, twists and turns, ransom, van, ransom demand, kidnapped woman, wealthy family, danger, couple relations, abduction, criminal, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
central europe, berlin germany
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13K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad.
Style:
psychological, bleak, rough, serious, sadistic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, sadism, murder, sexual abuse, rape victim, sexual perversion, rape, teenage rape, maniac, hostage, sexual torture, sadistic psychopath ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 90s, 20th century
Place:
afghanistan, soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 63 min.
TV show
Story:
When a sixteen-year-old girl from the Ukraine, a single mother from Russia, an orphaned seventeen-year-old girl from Romania, and a twelve-year-old American tourist become the victims of international sex slave traffickers, a specialized team of ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, sex trafficking, captivity, violence against women, slavery, forced prostitution, child prostitution, child abduction, rape of a girl, child rape, corruption ...
Place:
eastern europe, the philippines, thailand, ukraine, europe ...
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477K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, emotional, sad, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, isolation, kidnapped, captive, room, mother son relationship, child born of rape, female protagonist, child protagonist, rape, boy, childhood ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, persia, canada
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23K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, captivity, misogynist, abuse, kidnapping, slave, serial rapist, psychopath, escape attempt, childhood trauma, isolated house, strong violent content ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle, canada
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Two deranged friends bring along another guy to go on a random murder rampage. They kidnapped lesbian lovers, couples and they torture them in any way that the viewer can imagine. Your worst fears will come true in this shocking account of a killing ...
Style:
extreme horror, disturbing, bleak, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
found footage, violence spree, strong violent content, kidnapping, serial killer, sexual humiliation, extreme, gory, brother sister sex, violent, friends, necrophilia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two kidnappers snatch a girl off the streets and imprison her in a remote beach house.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, rape, ransom, psychopath, airport, criminal, flashback, rolls royce, seaside, sadist, beach, hell ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.
Style:
erotic, sexy, disturbing, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
sex crime, woman rapes man, kidnapping, fetish, sex slave, sexual abuse, kidnapped man, male rape victim, female rapist, male rape, making love, rape and revenge ...
Place:
australia
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19K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who ...
Style:
sexy, rough, detective, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, missing child, sexual abuse, child molestation, sex slavery, slavery, child rape, rescue, child molester, forced prostitution, humiliation ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, mexico city, poland, texas, el paso texas ...
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27K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When their daughter is kidnapped by experienced nappers (Bacon and Love), the Jennings' (Theron and Townsend) turn the tables on this seemingly foolproof plan.
Style:
suspense, sexy, clever, scary, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
kidnapping, psychopath, hostage, ransom, asthma, psycho killer, family bonds, happy ending, profanity, blackmail, captive, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, seattle, san francisco, new orleans
Is relevant?
24K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 85 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, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
kidnapping, torture, stalking, violence, serial killer, psychopath, brutality, hostage, captivity, voyeur, stereotypes, isolation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
Style:
sexy, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
abuse, kidnapping, child molester, child prostitution, pedophile, rape, pimp, child abduction, child molestation, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, kidnapped ...
Place:
california, usa, pennsylvania, san diego california, florida
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A recent kidnapping has single mom Susan worried about leaving her daughter Christy at home for an out-of-town trip - until neighbor Teri offers to "babysit," looking in on Christy and spending the night. But Susan rushes home when Christy ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
kidnapping, abduction, neighbor, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, single mother, protective mother, missing child, disappearance, lifestyle, mysterious disappearance, family problems ...
Is relevant?
10K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of Chong Kim who, as a young teen, was abducted into the sex trade, and the complicated moral choices she had to make in order to survive as her situation grew more desperate.
Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, sex trafficking, kidnapping, prostitution, captivity, rape, teenage life, pimp, slavery, smuggling, prostitute, sex slave ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, nevada, las vegas, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, private detective, twists and turns, investigation, conspiracy, violence, moral dilemma, police investigation, death, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, missing child ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, psychopath, obsession, collector, loneliness, confined, woman in danger, danger, mentally unstable, dangerous attraction, stockholm syndrome, serial killer ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
london
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
Style:
sexy, brutal, suspenseful, erotic, psychological ...
Plot:
hostage, kidnapping, twists and turns, bondage, sex, female nudity, woman in danger, abduction, sexual content, woman in jeopardy, confined, love triangle ...
Time:
year 2009, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, england, britain, united kingdom
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Applying his computerlike mind to the subject of dating, transplanted British mathematician David Grant (Tom Broadwell) searches all of Montreal for the perfectly compatible woman. But when he finds her (Caroline Brassard), Grant goes one step ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, psychological manipulation, love, romantic obsession, abduction, kidnapped woman, obsession, star crossed lovers, kidnapped, captive, science ...
Is relevant?
134K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, danger, investigation, woman in danger, 911, youth, psycho, murder, kidnapped, chase, child abduction ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.
Style:
spooky, rough, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, rapist, rape and revenge, sexual abuse, confinement indoors, strong violent content, rape, vengeance, male nudity, gang bang, danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
balkan, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Kidnapped is an American television drama series from Sony Pictures Television which aired on NBC from September 20, 2006, to August 11, 2007. The series returned on Universal HD in 2008.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, fbi, hostage, kidnapped, twists and turns, private detective, missing person, special agent, law enforcement, ransom, confined ...
Place:
new york, scotland, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A pierced and tattooed sadist, Captain Howdy, trolls the Internet for naive teens, luring them to his home to torture and defile them. When Howdy kidnaps and tortures the daughter of police Detective Mike Gage, he is caught. Deemed insane, he is ...
Style:
cult classic, slasher, detective, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, police detective, internet, maniac, vengeance, sadomasochism, goth, vigilante, psychotic, mental institution, torture ...
Time:
90s, 80s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, clever, sexy, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, twists and turns, kidnapping, rape, revenge, isolation, gender, abuse, skin, lgbtq, insanity, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, ancient greece, europe
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