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61) The price we pay
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After robbing a pawn shop and taking a woman hostage, two thieves seek refuge at a remote farmhouse where they soon discover a secret dungeon.
62) Assault on VA-33
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Theatrical version.
Language
English
Description
While decorated veteran and PTSD sufferer Jason Hill is on a routine visit to the local VA hospital, organized terrorists infiltrate the building and take hostages, including a decorated general, and Hill's wife Jennifer. The highly-trained veteran is outnumbered, but he must become the last line of defense, taking on a building full of armed insurgents before it's too late.
63) Stand off
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, coincidentally owned by the same mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including Maguire, who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the police, the SAS, and the mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament...
64) Non-stop
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
[English/Spanish/French dialogue version].
Language
English
Description
During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every twenty minutes.
65) First Sunday
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Best friends and criminals Durell Washington and LeeJohn are two thieves who haven't got a prayer. Sentenced to 5,000 hours of community service, Durell's life quickly goes from bad to worse. Realizing that the Lord helps those who help themselves, he eventually decides to help himself to the neighborhood church's building fund. Accompanied by LeeJohn, the two down-on-their-luck men are dismayed to discover the cash has already been stolen, so they...
66) No good deed
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Cello-playing cop Jack Friar searches for a teenage runaway on Turk Street and ends up in the home of an elderly couple. The house also turns out to be the headquarters for a gang of criminals who are planning a bank robbery, and Jack is quickly held hostage. When Jack is left alone with the leader's girlfriend, a master manipulator of the gang, he teaches her to play the cello and the two share a mutal attraction. Jack can't decide if she's for real...
67) Top secret!
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An American rock star teams up with a scientist's daughter to rescue her father before the enemy can force him to make a devastating weapon.
68) Hostage
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When ex-LAPD officer Jeff Talley became chief of police in a sleepy town, he thought he'd left behind the traumas of his career as a big city hostage negotiator. But when a random crime escalates into a deadly standoff, Talley finds himself thrust into a situation far more volatile and terrifying than anything he could ever imagine.
69) Die hard
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's Christmas time in L.A. and on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building there's an employee party in progress. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber, who plans to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi's high-tech safe. Gruber and his henchmen pretend to be politically motivated in order to throw the authorities off track. Gruber has no intention...
70) Taken 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself taken hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.
71) Non-stop
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Blu-ray combo pack [edition].
Language
English
Description
"During a transatlantic flight, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks ... receives a series of cryptic text messages threatening to kill a passenger every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred into an off-shore account"--Container.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
New York detective Lt. John McClane is the only hope when terrorists seize a Los Angeles high-rise and take hostages; McClane battles a team of terrorists holding thousands of holiday passengers hostage at the airport in Washington, D.C.; McClane is the target of a psychopathic terrorist planning to blow up New York City if he does not get what he wants; McClane must stop a criminal from bringing down the country's computer infrastructure.
73) Half past dead
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Alcatraz, "The Rock", has just re-opened. The first criminal to go to the electric chair is also sitting on a secret worth $200 million. An invading group of commandos isn't about to let that fortune go up in smoke. Already having an undercover FBI agent in Alcatraz, the situation has to be neutralized and he has to rescue a Supreme Court Justice held hostage. Now, he has to convince his convict "partner" and the other inmates to fight on the right...
74) Die hard
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
New York City detective John McClane, who's in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly, when terrorists take control of the building her office party is in.
75) Funny games
Series
Criterion collection volume 975
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Michael Haneke's most notorious production, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating 'games, ' the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the game's threat of bloodshed is made stomach-churningly real, the...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In Suddenly a trio of assassins, led by a cold-blooded psychopath, hold a family and a local sheriff hostage while waiting for their target. In The man with the golden arm fresh out of prison for heroin possession, a professional card dealer struggles to become a jazz drummer while his gambling boss, neurotic wife, and villainous dope dealer all conspire against him. In Fear in the night a young man has a horrific nightmare wherein he commits a murder,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Georgia Peaches: Two sisters operating an auto repair shop and their moonshine-running boyfriend are extorted into becoming undercover government agents to outwit the Dragon Lady of the Southern crime belt.
Smokey bites the dust: Follows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals cars and then destroys them with the sheriff's daughter by his side.
Great Texas dynamite chase: Candy and Ellie Jo are a...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Die hard: New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly. While McClane waits for Holly's office party to end, terrorists take control of the building. As their sinister leader, Hans Gruber, and his savage henchman round up hostages, McClane gets ready to blast a few rounds of his own and launch a one-man war.
Die hard 2: John McClane is off-duty on Christmas Eve in the nation's capital...
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