Films about kidnapping

2001 anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

2003 American adventure fantasy comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski

2004 American film directed by Sam Raimi

2012 film directed by Marc Webb

2014 film directed by Marc Webb

Apocalypto () is a 2006 epic historical action-adventure film produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Farhad Safinia. The film features a cast of Indigenous and Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Gerardo Taracena, Jonathan Brewer, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez, Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza, Ricardo Diaz Mendoza, and Israel Contreras. Set in Yucatán around the year 1511, Apocalypto portrays the hero's journey of a young man named Jaguar Paw, a late Mesoamerican hunter and his fellow tribesmen who are capt

2003 film directed by Park Chan-wook

1998 film directed by Brett Ratner

1956 film by John Ford

1994 film by James Cameron

1992 film directed by Michael Mann

1920 film by Robert Wiene

2002 film by Louis Leterrier, Corey Yuen

2016 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

1992 American animated film directed by Phil Roman

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, André the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Billy Crystal and Carol Kane. Adapted by William Goldman from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his kidnapped true love Princess Buttercup from the evil Prince Humperdinck. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson.

1938 film by Alfred Hitchcock

2020 film directed by Tim Hill

2010 film by Robert Rodriguez, Ethan Maniquis

1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock

1967 film directed by Leonid Gaidai

1958 film by Orson Welles

2008 film directed by Raja Gosnell

2024 superhero film by J. C. Chandor

2001 film by Robert Rodriguez

2011 film directed by John Singleton

2012 film by Olivier Megaton

Bugonia is a 2025 black comedy thriller film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Will Tracy. An English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan, the film follows two young men who kidnap a powerful CEO, suspecting that she is secretly an alien who wants to destroy Earth. A co-production of the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Korea, and the United States, the film stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone.

2022 film directed by Jared Stern

1996 film by Renny Harlin

2009 Dutch body horror film directed by Tom Six

1989 film directed by Brian De Palma

1963 film by Akira Kurosawa

1985 film by Ridley Scott

1966 film by Richard Brooks

Red One is a 2024 American Christmas action comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Chris Morgan. It stars Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, J. K. Simmons, Kiernan Shipka, Bonnie Hunt, Nick Kroll, Kristofer Hivju, and Wesley Kimmel. The film tells the story of Head of North Pole Security Callum Drift, who teams up with black-hat hacker Jack O'Malley to locate a kidnapped Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Principal photography for the film began in October 2022 and concluded in February 2023, with filming locations including Atlanta.

2003 film by Robert Rodriguez

1986 film by Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang

2006 South Korean film directed by Bong Joon-ho

1932 film by W. S. Van Dyke

1964 film directed by Philippe de Broca

2006 film directed by Richard Loncraine

2025 film directed by Jafar Panahi

1973 film by Gérard Oury

2015 film directed by Florian Gallenberger

2007 film by Gavin Hood

2000 film directed by Taylor Hackford

2004 film by Joe Johnston

2011 US stoner comic fantasy film by David Gordon Green

2011 film by Robert Rodriguez

2012 film directed by Mabrouk El Mechri

2014 film directed by Scott Frank

1989 film by Pedro Almodóvar

2018 film by Gustav Möller

1978 film by Sidney Lumet

2022 film directed by Aaron Nee and Adam Nee

2002 CGI-animated film

2019 film directed by Lino DiSalvo

1993 film directed by George Sluizer

2001 film directed by Gary Fleder