Rapt (2009), High and Low (1963), Little Miss Marker (1934), Two Rode Together (1961), All the Money in the World (2017), Along Came a Spider (2001), Proof of Life (2000), Ransom (1956) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ransom movies.
Storyline: Philandering industrialist Stanislas Graff (Yvan Attal) is kidnapped, with his ransom set at 50 million euros. After his finger is chopped off to prove the abductors' seriousness, his wife, Francoise (Anne Consigny), meets with the board of directors to discuss how to raise the money quickly -- but evidence of Stanislas' adultery and gambling make the company reluctant to pay. As rumors spread that Stanislas staged the kidnapping to take care of his debts, public sentiment turns against him.
Plot Keywords: kidnapping, crime, drama, thriller, french film, based on true events, wealthy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A wealthy businessman is told his son has been kidnapped and he will have to pay a very large sum for him to be returned safely. It is then discovered that his son is safe at home: the kidnapper took his chauffeur's son by accident. The kidnapper says this makes no difference: pay up or the child dies. This leaves him with a moral dilemma, as he really needs the money to conclude a very important business deal.
Plot Keywords: crime, suspense, drama, thriller, kidnapping, moral dilemma, social class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Little Martha Jane, aka Little Miss Marker is left with the bookmaker Sorrowful Jones by her dad as part of a bet on a horse race. Sorrowful and his group of fellow bookies take to her, reluctantly at first, but their cynical ways start to rub off on her. Will a party set at Camelot bring back her faith in humanity?—Miss Eli
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, classic, black and white, 1930s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The US Army is under pressure from the desperate relatives of white prisoners of the Comanches to secure their rescue. A cynical and corrupt marshal, Guthrie McCabe, is persuaded by an army lieutenant to assist in the negotiations with the Comanches; however, just two captives are released, and their reintegration into white society proves highly problematic.—David Levene <D.S.Levene@durham.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: western, race relations, ransom, revenge, justice, moral dilemma, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rome, 1973. Masked men kidnap a teenage boy named John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer). His grandfather, Jean Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), is the richest human in the world, a billionaire oil magnate, but he's notoriously miserly. His favorite grandson's abduction is not reason enough for him to part with any of his fortune. All the Money in the World (2017) follows Gail, (Michelle Williams), Paul's devoted, strong-willed mother, who unlike Getty, has consistently chosen her children over his fortune. Her son's life in the balance with time running out, she attempts to sway Getty even as her son's mob captors become increasingly more determined, volatile and brutal. When Getty sends his enigmatic security man Fletcher Chace (Mark Wahlberg) to look after his interests, he and Gail become unlikely allies in this race against time that ultimately reveals the true and lasting value of love over money..
Plot Keywords: kidnapping, ransom, true story, family conflict, wealth, power struggle, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Detective/psychologist Alex Cross loses his partner in an out of control 'bust.' He stops working and cannot forgive himself. He is drawn back to work reluctantly when a senator's daughter is kidnapped and the kidnapper seems to want to deal with Alex personally.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, mystery, detective, kidnapping, psychological, serial killer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Americans Alice and Peter Bowman have traveled from third world country to third world country working on humanitarian projects. They are currently in Tecala, a country nestled in the Andes, as Peter, an engineer, has been hired by QUAD Carbon, an oil company - the moral "enemy" - to lead a project to construct a dam to prevent what is the constant flooding in the country. Alice and Peter eventually learn that QUAD Carbon cares nothing about the dam, which is just a smoke-screen to get an oil pipeline approved and built. Despite loving each other, they have had problems in the marriage of late because of being in Tecala, where Alice has not been able to find her place, and needing to deal with the aftermath of Alice's recent miscarriage. On his way to work one day, Peter, along with a group of others, are random kidnap victims of left wing guerrillas, the Liberation Army of Tecala (ELT), whose reason for being has changed from a political agenda to a monetary one, primarily getting ...
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, drama, kidnapping, rescue, south america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the kidnapping of his son, an executive, Dave Stannard (Glenn Ford), prepares to cave in to the demand of a $500,000 ransom. When the police chief (Robert Keith) and a reporter (Leslie Nielsen) tell him that, paying or not, he is unlikely to see his son again, Stannard snaps. Instead of paying the ransom, he decides to use the money as a bounty to capture the kidnappers. While everyone, including his wife (Donna Reed), berates him for his decision, Stannard stands by his ploy.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, kidnapping, ransom, police, investigation, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The inside story of the planning, execution, rousing aftermath, and ultimate downfall of the kidnappers of beer tycoon Alfred "Freddy" Heineken in 1983, which resulted in the largest ransom ever paid for an individual.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, true story, kidnapping, suspense, netherlands ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: To payoff his second girlfriend's debt, hitman Melvin Smiley undertakes a kidnapping job with his usual associates. In a world of prospective Jewish in-laws and late movie fees, the hitman falls in love with the victim and must settle the score with those out to double-cross him.
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, crime, thriller, gangster, violence, gunfight ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: TAKE DOWN focuses on the reckless sons and daughters of international billionaires, who have been sent by their frustrated parents to an exclusive, tough-love boot camp on a remote island, where they will be taught basic survival skills in the hope it will teach them to take responsibility for their lives. When they are taken hostage and held for a billion dollar ransom by a group of sophisticated kidnappers, the young captives suddenly need every ounce of their brief training to survive.—Sasha Gibson
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, kidnapping, billionaire, mystery, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Emily has always been the rich brat who tries to pull every imaginable stunt to get attention. But one day, as she fakes her own kidnapping and locks herself in the trunk of a car, a thief steals the car, with her inside. She is attracted by his reckless lifestyle and the situation makes her kidnapping the more real and frightening for her father.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, comedy, crime, drama, romance, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1930s, cantankerous bookie Sorrowful Jones (Walter Matthau) reluctantly takes a young child (Sara Stimson) as collateral for a wager, but finds he's stuck with the adorable waif when her penniless father drowns himself. When Jones' Mafia boss nemesis Blackie (Tony Curtis) forces him to be a partner in an illegal casino hidden in the home of indebted heiress Amanda (Julie Andrews), he struggles to outmaneuver the dangerous kingpin, all the while making a bumbling attempt at fatherhood.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, children, gambling, horse racing, new york, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the rich and arrogant Malcolm King (Anthony Anderson) informs his wife, Renee (Kellita Smith), that he plans to divorce her, she becomes intent on taking as much of his money as possible in the settlement. Malcolm devises a way to keep his fortune, but it involves staging his own kidnapping. Unfortunately for Malcolm, numerous people, including the scheming Corey (Jay Mohr), are already planning on abducting him, and there are various inept attempts to procure the wealthy man's money.
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, kidnapping, ransom, wealthy, dark humor, american movie ...
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