Resgate (1977)

Rick, a dope fiend, believes his goal in life is to track down Ginger, a famous porn star who is currently staying in her Beverly Hills hideaway. Rick is obsessed with Ginger, watches her movies obsessively, and deals drugs on the side, all to the chagrin of his lover Tamara. He decides to seek out Ginger while on the road, and along the way picks up Jules, a neurotic virgin.

In Crossbow the spoiler is right in front of you, there in the title. A crossbow is an anachronistic device and does not, at least in my mind, lend itself well to analogy or metaphor. In spite, or, more accurately, precisely because this ominous title hangs over the very start of viewing, the short film remarkably sustains a growing dread throughout its languid narration and slow-moving, though arresting visuals; maximizing its force not through the promise of surprise but through the inevitability of its conclusion.

Após cair em desgraça em Los Angeles devido a uma operação fracassada, Ray Owens (Arnold Schwarzenegger) parte para o interior e assume a posição de xerife em uma pequena cidade na fronteira dos Estados Unidos com o México. O que ele não esperava era que um poderoso chefão das drogas, que escapou recentemente da prisão, quisesse cruzar a fronteira exatamente na cidade onde trabalha. Para enfrentá-lo Ray precisa reunir todo o pessoal que tem à disposição.

A suburban family is held hostage and terrorized by three intruders while their sixteen year-old daughter first hides, then exacts her own brand of terror on the assailants.

English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by “The Tortoise” Crime Syndicate. He is to pay £ 100,000.00 Pounds to stay alive and not be murdered. After his refusal to pay the money, he is quickly killed. Cyrus‘ nephew, Don Micklem, plans to avenge the death of his uncle and sets out on a quest to expose “The Tortoise“…

Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it's up to him to save the kids.

Um condecorado bombeiro de Los Angeles, Lyle Wilder, que uma vez salvou a vida de um bebê em um incêndio, não está num dia bom. Na realidade, os últimos meses têm sido bem desagradáveis. E viver próximo ao que considera uma família perfeita não melhora as coisas para ele, absolutamente. Lyle sente saudades dos velhos tempos, quando ele era herói da cidade e sua família fazia o que ele dizia. Mas tudo o que ele tem agora é o seu próprio ódio, e ninguém para dividi-lo. Exceto seus vizinhos, os Bravertons, um jovem casal que vive muito feliz com duas doces crianças. É só uma questão de tempo até que Lyle transforme-se num terrível e diabólico vizinho.

Philippe Noiret plays a rich, Parisian banker whose daughter, Carolina, is kidnapped by a ruthless organization. They threaten to have her abused by the sadistic clients of a brothel they run if Father doesn’t pay the ransom on time.

A beautiful heiress is kidnapped and held hostage until her wealthy father comes up with a ransom. The heiress develops an attraction to one of her kidnappers, but another member of the gang tries to rape her, leading to a deadly triangle.

Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.

"Heaven's Burning" conta a história de um homem e uma mulher que estão inexplicavelmente juntos, em meio à violência e ao caos. Eles rapidamente se veem fugindo de muitos adversários, mas encontram tempo para se apaixonarem pelo caminho.

A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel through hostile Indian country.

A peddler of Buddhist amulets runs afoul of a powerful gangster by trying to buy the freedom of a woman he loves, with comically complicated results.

A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her hostage to California to retrieve $3M that he took before running. The mafia and Quick's untrustworthy boyfriend are on the trail.

Presos no meio de uma complicada trama de traição, um ex-fuzileiro naval e uma agente do FBI precisam aprender a confiar um no outro para descobrir a identidade de um matador profissional ligado a atividades obscuras do Exército americano.

Jan's fastfood-business is going bankrupt, his girlfriend has left him, and he is being exploited by his live-in father. Therefore, he has nothing to lose when he gets mixed up in the kidnapping of famous rock star Iver Mo. But Jan has never been able to do anything right his whole life, and there are others who want to get their hands on the ransom money.

Paul é um jovem humilde com altas aspirações que não conseguiu um bom trabalho. Frustrado, decide sequestrar três garotos da alta sociedade para pedir uma grande quantia de dinheiro por suas vidas sem saber que está tudo a ponto de sair de controle.

Um grupo de terroristas sequestra um navio de cruzeiro sem saber que o capitão do navio é o pai do comandante do esquadrão Delta Force.

During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.

Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.