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1) Alone
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the Pacific Northwest wilderness, the film follows recently widowed Jessica who, fleeing the city in a desperate attempt to cope, is kidnapped and locked away in a mysterious man's cabin. Her escape from the clutches of this murderous captor land her in the heart of the untamed wilderness, with only her wits to rely on for survival as her pursuer closes in.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.
5) The prince
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A retired Las Vegas crime boss and single father is forced to team up with his best friend to return to the crime world when his daughter is kidnapped by an old rival.
6) Point blank
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Samuel, a happily married nurse working in a Paris hospital. When his very pregnant wife is kidnapped before his helpless eyes, everything falls apart. After being knocked unconscious, his cell phone rings: he has three hours to get a man under police surveillance, out of the hospital. Samuel quickly finds himself pitted against rival gangsters and trigger-happy police in a deadly race to save the lives of his wife and unborn child.
Series
Criterion Collection volume 948
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A kid, home sick from school, grudgingly allows his grandfather to read him a dusty storybook, which is how we meet the innocent Buttercup, about to marry the nefarious Prince Humperdinck though her heart belongs to Westley. A mysterious pirate, a vengeful Spaniard, and a good-natured giant interrupt the wedding plans.
8) Oldboy
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kidnapped and kept in solitary confinement for 20 years, Joe Doucett has suddenly been set free without a word of explanation. Obsessed with finding those who imprisoned him, Doucett wreaks havoc upon his captors, unaware his freedom is part of a plan and his true punishment's about to begin.
9) Rapt
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stanislas Graff, a powerful industrialist, is kidnapped one morning from in front of his building by a group of gangsters. So begins a nightmare where he's humiliated, abused, and treated inhumanely. Although he resists, allowing his kidnappers no hold over him, he accepts everything without rebelling or any kind of cry or complaint; he responds with dignity to barbarity. Outside, his world slowly collapses when his true nature is revealed.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When an American academic in Pakistan is kidnapped by anti-American radicals, the CIA thinks popular young Pakistani professor Changez is involved. But as Changez tells his story about his life in the US to an American foreign correspondent, the truth becomes harder to pin down.
12) Homecoming
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A former small-town golden boy and his new girlfriend come back to visit his hometown over Christmas break and discover his high school sweetheart has developed an unhealthy obsession for him. Her desperation slowly but surely becomes apparent, and all hell breaks loose as she does everything it takes to get him back.
Description
A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive in a classic tale of love and adventure. The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. Along the way he meets an accomplished swordsman and a giant,...
14) Taken 2
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
15) The prey
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Franck is serving a prison sentence after successfully robbing a national bank. Before he got caught he managed to hide the money. Now, more than just the police are looking for it. His cellmate Jean-Louis promises to look after Franck's family when he gets out, but a man named Manuel tells Franck that Jean-Louis is a suspected serial killer. Upon learning that his family might be in danger, Franck escapes from prison while police officer Claire and...
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Sylvia discovers her six-year-old daughter has been picked up at school by an unknown woman, police summon her husband Bernardo to the station for question. There Bernardo confesses his extra-marital affair with the beautiful young Rosa, whom detectives believe to be involved in the kidnapping.
17) The lost city
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (apprxoimately 1 hr., 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Loretta Sage's novels are filled with ancient tombs and daring adventures, but that doesn't mean she's prepared for them in real life. When she is kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who wants her to locate a legendary lost city, Loretta's handsome cover model, Alan, sets off on a heroic but hapless rescue mission. Thrust into...the jungle, the unlikely pair must work together to survive the elements--and each other--to find the city's fabled...
18) Julia
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Julia is a 40-year-old alcoholic on the constant decline. She spends the nights partying, usually not knowing where she is when she wakes up. Because of that, she loses her job. Her only friend, Mitch, a recovering alcoholic himself, makes her go to an AA meeting, where she meets her neighbor, Elena. Elena tells Julia that she wants to kidnap her son who is living with his very rich grandfather and go back to Mexico with him and she needs Julia to...
19) Olympus has fallen ; written by Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt ; directed by Antoine Fuqua
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the president is kidnapped by a terrorist who seizes control of the White House (Secret Service Code: Olympus), disgraced former presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team rushes to respond, they must rely on Banning's insider knowledge to save the president and prevent an even greater catastrophe.
20) Confess, Fletch
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case, he must clear his name while searching for the stolen art collection of his father-in-law who was kidnapped by a mob demanding the collection as ransom.


