Movies and TvShows featuring "held-for-ransom" theme.
When a ruthless gang threatens a peaceful railroad camp, a sharpshooter, an undercover accountant, and an orphan boy must band together to save the day.
The Clan is a movie based on a true story about a family in Argentina who kidnaps people for ransom during the 1980s. The film explores the dynamics within the crime family and the aftermath of living under a military dictatorship.
No Deposit, No Return is a family comedy movie released in 1976. The story revolves around two children who are kidnapped by a masked kidnapper and held for ransom. The millionaire father refuses to pay the ransom, leading to a series of comedic misadventures as the children try to escape from their captor.
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the merry men help him escape in time to foil an intended ambush on King Richard as he returns from the Crusades.
An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret organization.
A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to play the victim of his bogus kidnapping. The movie is based on the novel Geimu No Na Wa Yuukai ('The name of the game is kidnapping') by popular mystery novelist Keigo Higashino.
A television reporter goes on a business trip to Ireland and gets involved in an extramarital affair. When her lover goes missing in a war zone, she must navigate the dangerous world of war correspondents to find him. Along the way, she struggles with her feelings for her widower fiancé and the consequences of her actions.
The film is a black comedy about a group of people who try and work their way out of an unfortunate set of circumstances.
In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss the Monk will hold them for ransom. WWI complicates things.
A rich and famous self-help guru's controversial philosophy of extreme selfishness is put to the ultimate test when his only daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom.
In Hollywood Flies, a woman is held at gunpoint and forced into a dangerous journey. She must navigate through various crimes, dramas, and survival situations. The story involves a nightclub owner, a road trip, a heist, and the search for stolen money.
When his daughter is kidnapped, a private investigator must protect her from a criminal gang. With the help of a CIA agent, he fights to save her and bring the criminals to justice.
Anita Gray is the spoiled daughter of a millionaire. Returning home from a party, her car breaks down and she is picked up by a stranger, who sells her his car for a diamond bracelet. The car has been stolen and the police arrest her, but she escapes and takes refuge on a freighter bound for China. She has no money and has to work her way there. Her father learns of her destination and hires Hamlin to bring her safely home.
A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.
A drifter/hitman is hired by a local business man to kidnap the local oil baron. The hitman had been reared in squalor, suffering the abuses of his whoring mama. When the baron escapes his assistant must chase him while the hitman takes care of a few loose ends.
When a popular influencer gets kidnapped and held for ransom, she grips the media's attention by helping the criminals rob luxurious mansions.
In the course of a failed bank robbery , Charlotte is taken hostage in her husband's bank , as is Sophie , her husband 's lover . The two hostage- takers Max and Felix hope that the bank director will pay ransom for at least one of the two women , but they are wrongtremendously, because Charlotte 's husband wants to keep the loot for himself and get rid of the two women ...
Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.
Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. Torrent goes to work for Olcott. Torrent fights with Stark and Stark quits and goes to work for Engle. Rustlers are stealing horses. Carson suspects Olcott and Olcott suspects Carson. Sheriff prevents war between them. Torrent stops wild horse stampede. Starks spills beans on Engle. Torrent kills Engle and wins Patsy Olcott.