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Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her.
2) Pray
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 77 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Down on their luck and desperate for money to buy drugs, Mitsuru (Tetsuji Tamayama) and Maki (Asami Mizukawa) have the perfect plan. They decide to kidnap a young girl and hide out in an abandoned school, until their demands are met. Everything is going according to plan, until they realize they have made one gross miscalculation. Their hostage died a year ago today and now it's their turn.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 129 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Korean
Description
Unable to afford proper care for his sister dying from kidney failure, Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun - Lady vengeance, JSA, Save the green planet) turns to the black market to sell his own organs, only to end up cheated of his life savings. His girlfriend (Bae Doo-na - The host, Barking dogs never bite, Linda Linda Linda) urges Ryu to kidnap the daughter of wealthy industrialist Dong-jin (Song Kang-ho - Lady vengeance, The host, JSA, The foul king), who recently...
4) Rapt
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 123 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Nominated for four Cesar Awards (including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor), Lucas Belvaux's edge-of-your-seat thriller -- inspired by the 1978 kidnapping of French industrialist Edouard-Jean Empain -- features a career-defining performance by Yvan Attal (Munich, My wife Is an actress) as a millionaire playboy who is abducted and held for ransom for 60 days.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, ©1999, ©2005
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (230 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
8MM : A dramatic story of one man's obsessive search for the truth about a six-year old crime--and his ultimate discovery of the truth about himself. 8MM2 : Entering a seamy underground world of peep shows, nude clubs, and live Internet sex is David Huxley, an aspiring politician who has everything to lose. Secretly filmed in a steamy three-way with his fiancee Trish and a gorgeous young model, David is desperate to find the extortionist who's demanding...
6) Marebito
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
Masuoka (played by cult filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto, director of Tetsuo and star of Ichi The killer), is a solitary cameraman obsessed with the desire to understand fear. He watches grisly footage of a man committing suicide in the subway, and desperate to understand the madman's intentions, Masuoka returns to the scene inadvertently opening a door into a bizarre and horrifying underworld. Here among the ghosts and creatures he finds a strange and...
Language
English
Formats
Description
A valet car park develops a scam to burglarize the houses of restaurant customers. Things go smoothly until he robs the wrong man and discovers a woman being held captive. Afraid of going to jail, he calls the police who find nothing when they investigate. Now the valet must endure the wrath of the kidnapper who seeks revenge on him while desperately trying to find and rescue the captive woman he left behind.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 112 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Korean
Description
After being wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young child, a beautiful young woman (Lee Young-ae) is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her own daughter. While in prison she gains the respect and loyalty of her fellow cellmates, all the while plotting her vendetta on the man responsible (Oldboy's Choi Min-Shik). Upon her release she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but what she discovers is a truth so horrifying,...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who's being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer's previous victims, and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.
11) M:i:III
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Second-disc collector's edition ; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this pulse-racing, mind-bending action thriller, Ethan Hunt confronts the toughest villain he's ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience.
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
While Flynn is bidding on a Ming vase, his girlfriend is ready to call their relationship off because he stood her up again. By the time he gets to their meeting place she has left, and once again he is alone and depressed. His employers tell him to take a vacation, and when he dreams about a woman asking him to find her he decides to go to New Orleans. In New Orleans he meets the girl in his dream, is chased by some Russian goons, and meets a professor...
Language
English
Formats
Description
The stakes have never been higher. Ethan faces his deadliest adversary yet - a sadistic weapons dealer named Owen Davian. With the support of his IMF team, Ethan leaps into spectacular adventure from Rome to Shanghai as he races to rescue a captured agent and stop Davian from eliminating his next target, Ethan's wife.
14) Ruthless people
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When loathesome millionaire Sam Stone's wife is kidnapped by inept kidnappers, Sam cries tears of joy and refuses to pay the ransom. And when the abductors threaten to kill the abrasive heiress, Sam celebrates!
15) No Time to Die
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
16) Raising Arizona
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
17) 10,000 BC
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter D'Leh finds his heart's passion in the beautiful Evolet. But when a band of mysterious warlords raid their village and kidnaps Evolet, D'Leh leads a small group of hunters to save her. As they venture into unknown lands for the first time, the group discovers there are civilizations beyond their own and that mankind's reach is far greater than they ever knew. At each encounter the group is joined by other...
18) Hunt to kill
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Jim's teenage daughter is kidnapped, he is forced to lead a band of ruthless killers into the wilderness to retrieve their share of a missing heist score. In order to rescue his daughter, he must use his unique brand of survival skills to outsmart the kidnappers before it is too late.
19) My gal Sunday
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A newlywed couple proves their crime-solving prowess when their political ties and successful private-eye business suddenly puts them in grave danger. When their parents are taken hostage by a vengeful kidnapper looking for justice for the wrongful murder conviction of his brother, the duo must work together to uncover the clues that will save their parents' lives, and put their own on the line.
20) Proof of life
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rebels in a politically volitile Latin American country have kidnapped Alice Bowman's husband for ransom--$3 million. Terry Thorne is the hostage retrieval expert who becomes Alice's only hope in navigating a high-stacks game where terrorists value money over life.
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