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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives...
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Warner Classics
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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'They're killing him bit by bit!' Flamboyant, flame-haired 70-plus Augusta Bertram has opened a package containing a finger that recently belonged to her years-ago lover. The victim's kidnappers continue mailing expendable body parts, and Augusta enlists the aid of her stuffy nephew in a mad to-the-rescue adventure across Europe in pursuit of $100,000 in ransom money. The scramble to save a life just might also liberate the nephew's life-starved soul....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As a massive hurricane builds, criminals infiltrate a U.S. Mint facility. Their plan: to steal $600 million and escape using a Category Five hurricane as cover. But a treasury agent and a storm chaser have a plan of their own, desperately racing against time, and the hurricane, to save the hostages and stop the thieves before their town is reduced to rubble.
6) Plane
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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In the white-knuckle action movie PLANE, pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. To rescue the passengers, Torrance will need...
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English
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"Homicide detective Eve Dallas races to untangle a twisted family history while a hostage's life hangs in the balance--in the new In Death novel by New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb"--
"The woman’s body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong—like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes,...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Alan Partridge, the famous local radio DJ and TV host, finds himself at the center of a siege, when a disgruntled fellow DJ decides to hold their station hostage after learning that he's getting fired when the new owners decide to convert the station to talk radio.
9) Hard hit
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Korean
Description
While driving his children to school one morning, a bank manager receives a call demanding a ransom and claiming that a bomb will go off if anyone exits the car.
10) Black butterfly
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With a serial killer in the shadows of a remote Colorado town, down-on-his-luck writer Paul invites drifter Jack to his isolated cabin where Jack's increasingly violent behavior brings both men's secrets to light.
12) Bel canto
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together, including American opera star Roxanne Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan.
13) Targeted
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 12
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"After being accused of reckless endangerment and forced to answer to the U.S. Congress, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger must protect political hostages in a once-in-a-lifetime standoff"--
14) Hotel Mumbai
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dramatized portrayal of the 2008 terrorist attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbia, India.
15) Captain Phillips
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, which was the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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