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1. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
Lieutenant Frank Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy.
Director: David Zucker | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson
Votes: 122,432 | Gross: $86.93M
2. Ruthless People (1986)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime
A couple cheated by a vile businessman kidnaps his wife in retaliation, not knowing that their enemy is delighted that they did.
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater
Votes: 30,569 | Gross: $71.62M
3. Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Connie, unwed and pregnant, is heading to Boston by train when she meets wealthy newlyweds Hugh and Patricia. The train crashes, and when Connie comes to in the hospital, she is mistaken for Patricia, who died in the crash with Hugh.
Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser, Miguel Sandoval
Votes: 8,486 | Gross: $10.07M
4. Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier, Martita Hunt
Votes: 10,251
5. After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After he escapes from a mental hospital, a former boxer works for a widow. When she asks him to get involved in a kidnapping, he has second thoughts.
Director: James Foley | Stars: Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern, Rocky Giordani
Votes: 4,204 | Gross: $2.68M
6. The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.
Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga, Julie Carmen
Votes: 6,854 | Gross: $13.83M
7. Susie Searches (2022)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
An awkward college student who seizes the opportunity to bolster her popularity and her under-the-radar true-crime podcast by solving the disappearance of a classmate.
Director: Sophie Kargman | Stars: Kiersey Clemons, Alex Wolff, Jim Gaffigan, Ken Marino
Votes: 837
8. The Love Factor (1969)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A race of sexy women from Angvia, a planet in another dimension, comes to Earth to kidnap women to repopulate their planet.
Director: Michael Cort | Stars: James Robertson Justice, Charles Hawtrey, Robin Hawdon, Anna Gaël
Votes: 1,023
9. Sex with a Smile (1976)
R | 100 min | Comedy
Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor. In one sketch, Marty Feldman plays a bodyguard, hired by her father to ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Barbara Bouchet, Edwige Fenech, Dayle Haddon, Alberto Lionello
Votes: 485
10. Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
60 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Private detective Philip Marlowe solves many crimes in Los Angeles during the 1930s.
Stars: Powers Boothe, Billy Kearns, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Ken Pogue
Votes: 484
11. Heartbreak Hotel (1988)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A teen tries to set up a band at his school, when his mother, who was a big fan of Elvis Presley, gets in a wreck. He and his band members decide to kidnap Elvis to meet her.
Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: David Keith, Tuesday Weld, Charlie Schlatter, Angela Goethals
Votes: 1,535 | Gross: $5.51M
12. They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping (1993 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama
In a small California town, three young men decide to make money by hijacking a school bus full of children and demanding a ransom for the safe return of the kids.
Director: Vern Gillum | Stars: Karl Malden, Tim Ransom, Travis Fine, Tom Hodges
Votes: 315
13. Abdullah (1980)
136 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Abdullah is a devout Muslim who lives in a small hut the middle of a desert in Persia, and looks after a well so that it provides water to thirsty travelers. One day a friend, Ameer, ... See full summary »
Director: Sanjay Khan | Stars: Raj Kapoor, Sanjay Khan, Sanjeev Kumar, Zeenat Aman
Votes: 233
14. Battle of the Psychics (2007–2021)
48 min | Mystery, Reality-TV
A television battle show in which psychics compete for the title of the best psychic.
Stars: Marat Basharov, Mikhail Porechenkov, Ilona Novosyolova, Konstantin Getsati
Votes: 299
15. Sherina's Adventure (2000)
TV-G | 112 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Adventure of a little girl who just moved to a new town and meet a new friends.
Director: Riri Riza | Stars: Sherina Munaf, Derby Romero, Didi Petet, Ucy Nurul
Votes: 1,029
16. The King Kong That Appeared in Edo (1938)
50 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
In part one of this silent two-part film, an ape nicknamed King Kong by its master kidnaps the daughter of a wealthy man as part of a revenge plot by one of his lackeys. The story concludes in King Kong Appears in Edo: The Episode of Gold (1938).
Director: Sôya Kumagai | Stars: Eizaburô Matsumoto, Fuminori Ôhashi, Reizaburo Ichikawa, Reiko Mishima
Votes: 65
17. The White Cockatoo (1935)
Passed | 73 min | Mystery
Sue Tally waits for a brother she hasn't seen in twenty years to meet her in a French hotel. By proving her identity, she'll share in a $2,000,000 inheritance. But others are anxious to get a share of the money too.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Jean Muir, Ricardo Cortez, Ruth Donnelly, Minna Gombell
Votes: 242
18. Nag-aapoy na Damdamin (2023– )
25 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Two well-established families get embroiled in a complicated struggle rooted in grief, anger, and a passionate desire for revenge. The husbands and wives set their elaborate plans in motion... See full summary »
Stars: Jane Oineza, Kian Co, Tony Labrusca, Ria Atayde
19. Rhythm on the Range (1936)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the ranch where he works. He tries to... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Bing Crosby, Frances Farmer, Bob Burns, Martha Raye
Votes: 363
20. Hide and Seek (1964)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Cambridge astrophysicist on routine business in London finds it frustratingly difficult to return a wallet of money to an Eastern European friend, a task complicated by a puzzling if scatterbrained society girl.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Curd Jürgens, Janet Munro, George Pravda
Votes: 195
21. Catastrópico (2017)
TV-PG | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A spoiled Hollywood actress struggles back to civilization after the crash of her private jet botches a kidnap attempt, leaving her stranded in the jungle with her irritating assistant and her inept hijacker pilot.
Director: Jorge Hazoury | Stars: Brie Gabrielle, Johnny Sky, William Liriano, Jimmy Jean-Louis
Votes: 42
22. King Kong Appears in Edo: The Episode of Gold (1938)
Adventure, Drama, Horror
In part two of this silent two-part film, an ape nicknamed King Kong by its master has kidnapped the daughter of a wealthy man as part of a revenge plot by one of his lackeys. The conclusion of the story from The King Kong That Appeared in Edo (1938).
Director: Sôya Kumagai | Stars: Eizaburô Matsumoto, Fuminori Ôhashi, Reizaburo Ichikawa, Reiko Mishima
Votes: 22
23. The Mystic Hour (1934)
Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A hero in a robbery comes up against a crime boss and the crooked guardian of the girl he loves.
Director: Melville De Lay | Stars: Charles Hutchison, Lucille Powers, Montagu Love, Charles Middleton
Votes: 64
24. Safe Return (2007 Video)
12 min | Short, Drama
When the teenage daughter of a powerful senator is kidnapped by a down-on-his-luck drifter, the captive and captor strike up an unlikely friendship while waiting for a large ransom from the... See full summary »
Director: Michael Stogner | Stars: Chelsea Connell, Tony Jones, Travis McHenry, Harper Wagner
25.
Darkwing Duck (1991–1992)
Episode:
Darkly Dawns the Duck: Part 1
(1991)
TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Short, Action
Introduces Darkwing Duck (hero), Launchpad McQuack (sidekick), Taurus Bulba (villian), and Gosalyn Waddlemeyer (spirited orphaned child). Taurus Bulba needs Gosalyn for the arming code combination to the Ramrod.
Directors: Tad Stones, Alan Zaslove | Stars: Christine Cavanaugh, Jim Cummings, Tim Curry, Eddie Deezen
Votes: 303
26.
The Hunger (1997–2000)
Episode:
No Radio
(1997)
TV-MA | 27 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A bored wife cheats on her wealthy husband with a sleazy guy. When a loan shark threatens him, the lover "kidnaps" her and demands ransom from her husband. This reveals the true nature of her and her husband's strange relationship.
Director: Howard A. Rodman | Stars: Terence Stamp, Bruce Ramsay, Amanda De Cadenet, James Rae
Votes: 97
27.
It Takes a Thief (1968–1970)
Episode:
Fortune City
(1970)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Al and Mona, driving from Vegas to Los Angeles, are involved in a minor accident. When Al awakens with a minor head injury, he finds himself in an abandoned Old-West town and Mona is ... See full summary »
Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Timothy Carey, Broderick Crawford
Votes: 49
28.
The Master (1984)
Episode:
Failure to Communicate
(1984)
TV-14 | Action, Adventure, Drama
Max Keller and John Peter McAllister travel back to Max's old haunts where his father, Patrick, who's a drunken alcoholic lawyer lives and works with his blind assistant, Laura Crane, still... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Timothy Van Patten, Shô Kosugi, Doug McClure
Votes: 22
29.
The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode:
The Night of the Plague
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Western
While Jim attempts to rescue the governor's daughter from a band of kidnappers, Artie discovers one of the bandits is the carrier of a deadly plague.
Director: Irving J. Moore | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Lana Wood, Cliff Norton
Votes: 124
30.
Conspiracy? (2004– )
Episode:
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
(2004)
Documentary
The leading alternative to the theory that John Wilkes Booth and a few others conspired to murder Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and William Seward is a Confederate conspiracy. The details... See full summary »
Stars: Tom Kane, William Davis, Kevin Ging, Charles Higham
Votes: 11
31.
Frontline/World (2002– )
Episode:
Children of the Taliban
(2009)
Documentary
Director: Daniel Edge | Star: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
32.
Castle (2009–2016)
Episode:
Cops & Robbers
(2011)
TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Castle and Martha are held hostage during a bank robbery and Beckett has to try to get them and the other hostages out.
Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Jon Huertas
Votes: 1,828
33.
The Tom Woods Show (2013– )
Julian Assange's Brother on the Family's Struggle
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News
Stars: Tom Woods, Gabriel Shipton
34.
Bloodstained Skies (2023– )
The Core of Rage: Chapter 2
(2023 Podcast Episode)
18+ | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
35.
Inch High, Private Eye (1973)
Episode:
High Fashion
(1973)
TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Inch High come through with a plan to stop a fashion designer, whose intentions are to kidnap his only competitor.
Director: Charles Nichols | Stars: Jamie Farr, Kathy Gori, Ted Knight, Bob Luttrell