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, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, psychological and suspense films and TV shows about / with kidnapping, kidnapped, confined, danger, hostage, abduction, murder, serial killer, captivity and rape plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as kidnapping: Cleveland Abduction (2015), 3096 Days (2013), Gardens of the Night (2008), Twisted Seduction (2010), Room (2015), Human Trafficking (2005), Girl in the Bunker (2018), Cargo 200 (2007), Thirteen (2016), The Book of Revelation (2006).

List of kidnapping movies

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Cleveland Abduction (2015)
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, true crime, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, rape, missing person, cruelty, abduction ...
Time: 2010s, year 2002, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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 6.5
 16K
3096 Days (2013)
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, twisted, teen, controversial ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, child abuse, rape, psychological torture, abduction, life is a bitch, basement, pedophile, violence against women, missing child, hostage, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, austria
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Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018)
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, rough, suspenseful, touching, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, true crime, abduction, child abduction, kidnapped, rape, psychopath, kidnapped girl, autobiography, homicidal maniac, homicide detective ...
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Gardens of the Night (2008)
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: bleak, serious, sincere, teen, depressing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: kidnapping, child prostitution, child molester, pimp, child molestation, rape, abuse, child abduction, pedophile, haunted by the past, pedophilia, child abuse ...
Place: california, usa, pennsylvania, san diego california
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Twisted Seduction (2010)
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, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, psychological manipulation, love, kidnapped woman, romantic obsession, abduction, obsession, kidnapped, star crossed lovers, romancing a criminal, male female relationship ...
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 8.1
 447K
Room (2015)
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, suspense, psychological, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: kidnapping, isolation, captive, kidnapped, mother son relationship, escape, rape, room, child born of rape, abduction, survival, imprisonment ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, persia
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Human Trafficking (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 253 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, violence against women, slavery, sex trafficking, captivity, forced prostitution, child prostitution, sex slavery, child abduction, prostitute, child rape ...
Place: eastern europe, the philippines, thailand, europe, asia ...
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Girl in the Bunker (2018)
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, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, rape of a minor, sex slave, sexual assault, bunker, sexual predator, pedophile, teenage girl, pedophilia, police, impersonating a police officer, rape ...
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 7.1
 11K
Cargo 200 (2007)
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: rough, bleak, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, sadism, sexual abuse, murder, rape victim, sexual perversion, life is a bitch, psychopath, perversion, rape, teenage rape, psycho killer ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 90s, 20th century
Place: afghanistan, soviet union, russia
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 9K
Thirteen (2016)
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: detective, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot: kidnapping, police investigation, child, family relations, woman, police, law enforcement, police detective, trauma, nypd, parents, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
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The Book of Revelation (2006)
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, disturbing, surreal, psychological, serious ...
Plot: sex crime, kidnapping, female rapist, woman rapes man, sexual abuse, sexual humiliation, male rape victim, sex slave, male rape, rape and revenge, fetish, kidnapped man ...
Place: australia
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 9K
Eden (2012)
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: psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, prostitution, sex trafficking, rape, slavery, teenage life, life is a bitch, pimp, sex slave, prostitute, captivity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 21st century
Place: new mexico, nevada, usa, las vegas
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 6.1
 26K
Trapped (2002)
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: suspenseful, suspense, sexy, scary, clever ...
Audience: kids
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, asthma, psychopath, blackmail, brutality, captive, chase, betrayal, marriage, crime gone awry, family bonds ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa, seattle, oregon
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 18K
Trade (2007)
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: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, detective ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, slavery, missing child, sexual abuse, sex slavery, child molestation, sexual assault, rape victim, forced prostitution, child rape, rescue ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new jersey, mexico city, el paso texas, poland, texas ...
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 7.6
 291K
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
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, detective, thought provoking, surprise ending ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, private detective, twists and turns, moral dilemma, police investigation, missing child, moral ambiguity, tragic event, murder mystery, immorality, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
Is relevant ?
 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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I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: 7-year old Steven Stayner is kidnapped a few days before Christmas by Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, emotional, sad ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing child, child abuse, pedophile, child molestation, captivity, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, danger, parents and children, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1980, year 1974, year 1972
Place: northern california
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Kidnapping Stella (2019)
Genre: Crime, 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, atmospheric, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, abduction, twists and turns, van, ransom demand, kidnapped woman, love, wealthy family, couple relations, danger, ransom, locked door ...
Place: berlin germany, central europe
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
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: erotic, controversial, disturbing, psychological, disgusting ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: torture, sex, fascism, atrocity, sexual perversion, brutality, libertine, rape, world war two, kidnapping, sexual abuse, bdsm ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 21K
Chained (2012)
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: disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, captivity, slave, misogynist, kidnapping, serial rapist, psychopath, abuse, childhood trauma, escape attempt, isolated house, slavery ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 5.3
 2K
Caged (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, scary, bleak, serious ...
Plot: kidnapping, abduction, captive, captivity, woman in danger, confined, organ trafficking, basement, farmhouse, danger, expedition, kidnapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kosovo, europe, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 12K
The Collector (1965)
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: tense, disturbing, serious, suspense, dark ...
Plot: kidnapping, psychopath, obsession, dangerous attraction, collector, confined, loneliness, woman in danger, danger, missing person, mentally unstable, serial killer ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: london
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 9K
7 Days (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
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: suspense, serious, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: vengeance, police, revenge, rape, kidnapping, rape and revenge, child killer, torture, vigilante, anger, rape and murder, haunted by the past ...
Place: canada, quebec
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 6.7
 129K
The Call (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 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, surprise ending, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, investigation, danger, woman in danger, 911, psycho, murder, youth, chase, child abduction, panic ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
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: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, sexy, suspense ...
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, twists and turns, abduction, bondage, female nudity, woman in danger, sex, confined, violence, woman in jeopardy, love triangle ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, england, united kingdom, britain
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 6.6
 75K
Joy Ride (2001)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Style: suspense, scary, psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: kidnapping, prank, truck driver, road trip, psychopath, truck, paranoia, twists and turns, brother brother relationship, revenge, murder, on the road ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, salt lake city utah, wyoming, san diego california, colorado ...
Is relevant ?
 4.7
 3K
Broken (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After dating a wonderful man, Hope comes back home, sees her daughter Jennifer and goes to sleep. She wakes-up in the woods with a psychopath...
Style: disturbing, bleak, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, captivity, survival, psychopath, brutality, danger, torture, family in danger, confined, vengeance, parent child relationship, redneck ...
Is relevant ?
 4.3
 2K
Rogue River (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When a young woman takes a trip down Rogue River, her car mysteriously disappears. Lost without transport or communication, she accepts the hospitality of a stranger who offers her shelter for the night at his cabin. With no other options available, ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, scary, rough, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapped woman, survival, confined, danger, strong violent content, police officer killed, brother sister incest, extreme violence, hostage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
Is relevant ?
 6.0
 24K
No One Lives (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they seem.
Style: scary, psychological, slasher, splatter, brutal ...
Plot: kidnapping, psychopath, serial killer, serial murder, murder, hunt down, hostage, massacre, danger, strong violent content, woman in danger, trap ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a ...
Style: brutal, suspense, bloody, splatter, creepy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: kidnapping, mad scientist, insanity, violence, body horror, victim, experiment gone awry, surgery, confined, evil doctor, psychopath, sadism ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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