Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "extortion", "teenage-girl"

1. The Equalizer (2014)

R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him cannot stand idly by when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour

Votes: 419,824 | Gross: $101.53M

2. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

R | 229 min | Crime, Drama

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams

Votes: 377,557 | Gross: $5.32M

3. Taken (I) (2008)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.

Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser

Votes: 634,301 | Gross: $145.00M

4. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne are dragged into the Quantum Realm, along with Hope's parents and Scott's daughter Cassie. Together they must find a way to escape, but what secrets is Hope's mother hiding? And who is the mysterious Kang?

Director: Peyton Reed | Stars: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer

Votes: 227,943 | Gross: $214.50M

5. A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

When a massive fire kills their parents, three children are delivered to the custody of cousin and stage actor Count Olaf, who is secretly plotting to steal their parents' vast fortune.

Director: Brad Silberling | Stars: Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Meryl Streep, Liam Aiken

Votes: 221,045 | Gross: $118.63M

6. Commando (1985)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A retired Special Forces colonel tries to save his daughter, who was abducted by his former subordinate.

Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells

Votes: 174,819 | Gross: $35.10M

7. The Goldfinch (2019)

R | 149 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.

Director: John Crowley | Stars: Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Wright

Votes: 26,992 | Gross: $5.33M

8. Panic Room (2002)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly-purchased house's safe room when three men break-in, searching for a missing fortune.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam

Votes: 296,827 | Gross: $96.40M

9. The Crucible (1996)

PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, History

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen

Votes: 40,163 | Gross: $7.34M

10. The Haunted Mansion (2003)

PG | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A realtor and his wife and children are summoned to a mansion, which they soon discover is haunted, and while they attempt to escape, he learns an important lesson about the family he has neglected.

Director: Rob Minkoff | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly, Terence Stamp

Votes: 56,892 | Gross: $75.85M

11. Phenomena (1985)

R | 116 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro

Votes: 30,031

12. Flower (I) (2017)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother.

Director: Max Winkler | Stars: Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn, Tim Heidecker, Adam Scott

Votes: 10,410 | Gross: $0.33M

13. Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)

R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A teen comes into possession of a new laptop and soon discovers that the previous owner is not only watching him but will also do anything to get it back.

Director: Stephen Susco | Stars: Colin Woodell, Stephanie Nogueras, Betty Gabriel, Rebecca Rittenhouse

Votes: 38,345 | Gross: $8.78M

14. Live by Night (2016)

R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.

Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina

Votes: 59,809 | Gross: $10.38M

15. Going Places (1974)

R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two thugs harass assault, steal, murder, Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor, on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Christian Alers

Votes: 9,944 | Gross: $0.77M

16. Crossing Over (2009)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama

Crossing Over is about illegal aliens of many nationalities in the Los Angeles area and the authorities and individuals dealing with them.

Director: Wayne Kramer | Stars: Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Jim Sturgess

Votes: 24,524 | Gross: $0.45M

17. Close (I) (2019)

TV-MA | 94 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A female bodyguard is hired to protect an heiress on the run from assassins.

Director: Vicky Jewson | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Sophie Nélisse, Indira Varma, Eoin Macken

Votes: 27,157

18. Fast Food Nation (2006)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama

An examination of the health risks involved in the fast food industry as well as its environmental and social consequences.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama

Votes: 25,145 | Gross: $1.00M

19. Empire Falls (2005)

TV-14 | 99 min | Drama, Romance

A decaying New England town is the backdrop for its unique citizens, led by unassuming restaurant manager Miles Roby.

Stars: Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt, Paul Newman

Votes: 6,329

20. The Opposite of Sex (1998)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

Director: Don Roos | Stars: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett

Votes: 21,761 | Gross: $5.88M

21. Rollercoaster (1977)

PG | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A blackmailer threatens to sabotage roller coasters at various American amusement parks if he isn't paid a huge ransom.

Director: James Goldstone | Stars: George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda

Votes: 6,911

22. The Drowning Pool (1975)

PG | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Harper's a big-city PI, who travels to Louisiana to help an old girlfriend who's worried her husband will find out she's been cheating on him.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton

Votes: 6,187

23. Wise Blood (1979)

PG | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

Fresh out of the army, Hazel Motes attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Brad Dourif, John Huston, Dan Shor, Harry Dean Stanton

Votes: 6,459

24. Julie Darling (1982)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.

Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Sybil Danning, Isabelle Mejias, Paul Hubbard

Votes: 823

25. Roller Boogie (1979)

PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Skaters band together to keep their roller-disco open.

Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Beverly Garland, Roger Perry

Votes: 2,058 | Gross: $13.25M

26. Houseguest (1995)

PG | 113 min | Comedy

In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.

Director: Randall Miller | Stars: Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Kim Greist, Kim Murphy

Votes: 7,496 | Gross: $26.33M

27. Boarding School (1978)

R | 98 min | Comedy

This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...

Director: André Farwagi | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Gerry Sundquist, Stefano D'Amato, Gabriele Blum

Votes: 593 | Gross: $0.31M

28. I Saw What You Did (1965)

Approved | 82 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Teenagers Libby and Kit innocently spend an evening making random prank calls that lead to murderous consequences.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Leif Erickson, Sara Lane

Votes: 3,441

29. Flowers of Evil (2013)

TV-MA | 325 min | Animation, Drama, Thriller

Takao worships the class beauty, Nanako, from afar. When he is alone in the classroom one day after school, he notices her bag of gym clothes on the floor. He can't resist picking it up. He... See full summary »

Stars: Mariya Ise, Patrick Mölleken, Yôko Hikasa, Shinichiroh Ueda

Votes: 1,391

30. Serie Noire (1979)

Not Rated | 116 min | Crime, Drama

Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like ... See full summary »

Director: Alain Corneau | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant, Bernard Blier

Votes: 3,506

31. Kitten with a Whip (1964)

Approved | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A rising political star faces scandal and blackmail when the young woman he tries to help turns out to be a juvenile delinquent.

Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Ann-Margret, John Forsythe, Peter Brown, Patricia Barry

Votes: 1,530

32. Glass Houses (2020 TV Movie)

90 min | Thriller

Teenage babysitter Carrie Dawson has a chip on her shoulder on the heels of a humiliating family scandal. When she finds out that neighborhood Queen Bee Madeline Cooper may be to blame, she... See full summary »

Director: Sarah Pellerin | Stars: Bree Turner, Aviva Mongillo, Steve Byers, Kira Guloien

Votes: 516

33. Retribution (2015)

Not Rated | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A banker and his kids are held hostage in their own speeding car by a bomb-making extortionist.

Director: Dani de la Torre | Stars: Luis Tosar, Javier Gutiérrez, Elvira Mínguez, Fernando Cayo

Votes: 11,094

34. Uncertainty (2008)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A young couple, in love and facing a life-changing decision, find one seemingly ordinary July 4th cleaved in two by the flip of a coin on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins, Assumpta Serna, Olivia Thirlby

Votes: 6,668 | Gross: $0.04M

35. Blue Nude (1978)

92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Rocco is a young Italian living in New York. He is desperate for a job and willing to do anything, including being in porn movies, just like his friend Lilly.

Director: Luigi Scattini | Stars: Gerardo Amato, Susan McBain, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Renato Romano

Votes: 103

36. Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

Matt and George investigate a series of strange occurrences involving Newcomers, who are found to be programmed to carry out someone's dirty work. The method by which they are brainwashed ... See full summary »

Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas

Votes: 787

37. Little Girls (1966)

70 min | Crime, Drama

Four young teenage girls are betrayed by a supposed "friend" and sold to a perverted nightclub owner who ties them up, whips them and then forces them into prostitution.

Director: Gilbert Wolmark | Stars: Joël Barbouth, Hamera Belmecki, Willy Braque, Pascale-Corinne Deville

Votes: 95

38. Horny Working Girl: From 5 to 9 (1982)

66 min | Comedy

Beautiful young Chieko is hired as assistant manager at the office of a large corporation. Her boss is an oversexed married man whose advances and behavior make her uncomfortable. When she ... See full summary »

Director: Katsuhiko Fujii | Stars: Junko Asahina, Nami Misaki, Yuki Yoshizawa, Shin'ichi Arai

Votes: 55

39. Girls' Dormitory (1953)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Detective Marco is assigned to investigate a murder that has occurred at an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls. The victim is a popular, wealthy girl found strangled in her bed.... See full summary »

Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Jean Marais, Françoise Arnoul, Denise Grey, Jeanne Moreau

Votes: 132

40. Above Everything Else (1991)

122 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A newsreporter is involved in an extramarital affair with a city mayor, and things get worse when he suffers a heart attack. The scandal shatters her career, and her life is at risk when ... See full summary »

Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Dina Bonnevie, Tonton Gutierrez, Nanette Medved, Ronaldo Valdez

Votes: 19

41. Le divin enfant (2001 TV Movie)

Unrated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama

Marc is a 39-year-old Catholic priest, a model for his entire parish. He is one of the few enthusiastic advocates of priestly celibacy. But trouble comes knocking at his door one day.

Director: Stéphane Clavier | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Marthe Villalonga, Adrien Aumont, Agathe Teyssier

Votes: 64

42. The Governess

Short, Comedy, Crime | Pre-production

A young woman is extorted by a petty crook into stealing from her employer to pay off her late father's debts, but is further horrified to discover that her employer and his family are hiding a very dark and dangerous secret.

Director: Martin Horlacher | Stars: Craig Walker, Gareth James, Jaydan Danes, Hunter Clarke

43. Dallas (1978–1991)
Episode: Digger's Daughter (1978)

TV-PG | 49 min | Drama, Romance

Bobby Ewing and Pamela Barnes shock their respective families when they reveal they have married. This revelation renews an age-old feud between the two families, and J.R. Ewing, Bobby's ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Day | Stars: Barbara Bel Geddes, Jim Davis, Patrick Duffy, Larry Hagman

Votes: 414

44. Supergirl (2015–2021)
Episode: Confidence Women (2019)

TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

While a new villain is under arrest at the DEO, Supergirl uses him to try and understand who is responsible for the recent attacks. Meanwhile, Andrea and Lena think back on their tumultuous past.

Director: Shannon Kohli | Stars: Melissa Benoist, Chyler Leigh, Katie McGrath, Jesse Rath

Votes: 1,496

45. Poldark (1975–1977)
Episode: Episode #2.8 (1977)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, History, Romance

At George Warleggan's behest Sid Rouse categorically harasses Drake and his smithy, and Rowella announces to a horrified Rev. Whitworth that she is with child.

Stars: Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Jill Townsend, Ralph Bates

Votes: 26