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81) The risk agent
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Series
Language
English
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A Chinese national working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off a Shanghai street in broad daylight, and his one-man security detail goes missing. With private investigation illegal in China, Rutherford Risk, a firm specializing in the recovery of hostages, hires two unique outsiders to do their bidding: forensic accountant Grace Chu to follow the money; and John Knox, a civilian with unparalleled training in both combat and culture....
82) Non-stop
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every twenty minutes.
83) The Ambush
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Arabic
Description
From the director of TAKEN and based on a true story. Three soldiers on their final patrol are ambushed by heavily armed militants in hostile territory. Trapped, wounded, and out of communication range, they are running out of options, ammunition, and time. Back at base, their commander receives word of the assault and must lead a daring rescue mission.
85) Lockout
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An ex-government agent falsely convicted of espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum-security prison.
86) Desert one
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Using new archival sources and unprecedented access, master documentarian Barbara Kopple reveals the story behind one of the most daring rescues in modern US history: a secret mission to free hostages of the 1979 Iranian revolution. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
87) Targeted
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English
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"After his successful takedown of a dangerous terrorist, Bob Lee Swagger learns that no good deed goes unpunished. Summoned to court by the United States Congress, Swagger is accused of reckless endangerment by a hardheaded anti-gun congresswoman. But what begins as political posturing soon turns deadly when the auditorium where the committee is being held is attacked. Swagger, the congresswoman, and numerous bystanders and reporters are taken hostage...
88) A Texan's honor
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English
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"Texas, 1874. Years ago, Will McMillan had fought in the open, next to his Captain, Clayton Proffitt. Now he's waging another war undercover, pretending to be a member of the notorious Walton Gang."--Provided by publisher.
89) Pawn
Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An all-night diner. A cop walks in on a robbery in progress. But what happens next, and what happened just before, will change everything you think you know. Now the building is surrounded. There are fingers on every trigger. And one very intense hostage situation is about to take some extremely shocking twists.
90) Blindsided
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A reclusive photojournalist sees things take a sudden turn for the worse when she encounters a sadistic criminal.
91) Mother's day
Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After a bank robbery gone wrong, three brothers go home to hideout only to discover that their Mother lost their house in a foreclosure. The new owners and their party guests become the depraved brothers' unwitting hostages. Their sadistic Mother soon arrives and brilliantly takes control of the situation, ratcheting up the terror. As the hostages struggle desperately to survive the harrowing torture, they realize that there is nothing a Mother won't...
92) Brave Sonora
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
Enrique Osario and his friends sought only justice when they went after the notorious Antonio Valdar, but tales of their bravery rang out across the West, making these humble men the stuff of legend. Enrique hears that his grandfather is working at a plantation outside Hermosillo, a thriving town in Sonora, Mexico. In Hermosillo, Enrique finds that Arriquibar Sosa, who runs the town with an iron fist, has taken his grandfather prisoner. And when he...
95) Heist
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When their attempt to rob a casino goes awry and a shootout ensues, Vaughn and Cox are forced to flee on foot and hijack city Bus 657 and take passengers hostage. Now, in a high speed chase, Vaughn will not only have to outwit the police, but he will have to contend with Pope's maniacal right hand man, Dog, in order to make it through the day alive.
96) Derailed
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Terrorists hold a train hostage, but luckily two of the passengers are a government agent and a high-tech thief.
97) The predator
Language
English
Description
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter, and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.
98) Flypaper
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Tripp walks into a bank at the end of the business day to catch the attention of a pretty teller, his efforts are interrupted as two sets of criminals show up to rob the bank.
99) Hostage
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Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
It's 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg, a professional storyteller and writer, has been taken hostage. He has been abducted from his home in Brooklyn, New York, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His captors, an Arab and an Italian, don't explain why Shaltiel has been chosen, just that his life will be bartered for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners. As his days of waiting commence, Shaltiel resorts to what he does best, telling...
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English
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"At almost six-foot, with a redhead's temper and a shattered hip, Zee has a long list of worries: never-ending bills, her beautiful, gullible sister, her five-year-old nephew, her housebound mother, and her drug-dealing boss. Zee may not be a princess, but Gentry is an actual knight, complete with sword, armor, and a code of honor. Two years ago the voices he hears called him to be Zee's champion. He's barely spoken to her since, but he has kept watch,...
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