Films about child abduction

Films about child abduction
List of the best films about child abduction according to visitors: No Exit, Prisoners, Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey, Room, Trade, 3096 Days, Cleveland Abduction, Unbreakable, Gardens of the Night, Loveless.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Stranded at a rest stop in the mountains during a blizzard, a recovering addict discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people inside the building which sets her on a terrifying struggle to identify who among them is the kidnapper.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

    When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryCanada

    From the producer behind “Girl in the Box” and “Girl in the Bunker,” comes the disturbing true-story of Lisa McVey, who was abducted in 1984 but later released by her abuser, only to have people question her story

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryCanada, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:32

    Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryGermany, USA, Mexico
    Duration02:00

    A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:51

    A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:50

    After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama
    CountryRussia, France, Belgium, Germany
    Duration02:08

    Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears...

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:22

    The story of a busy man, who fills his time travelling to Africa, South America and the Middle East. His passion for his job has distanced him from his loved ones. He’s been divorced for three years and has since seen his son very little. When the latter disappears, he is forced to stand still, and soon discovers things about his ex-wife and, above all, his son. A terrible feeling of guilt overwhelms him and he decides to find his son at all costs...

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountrySpain, USA
    Duration02:23

    A man imprisons the woman he's still obsessed with after years apart, then finds the tables turned on him.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:33

    A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Mexico, Luxembourg
    Duration02:26

    Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama
    CountryMexico

    Cagalera and Moloteco are two teenagers from San Gregorio Atlapulco who are desperate to get out and move up and away from oppressive circumstances. When they hear of an opportunity to buy a spot in the electrician’s union, which could transform their lives, they quickly devolve into the criminal, adult underworld of Mexico City in a bid to buy their freedom.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his action against a biker gang went horribly wrong and it cost the life of his boss' son. He is recently widowed and is left with a 9-years-old daughter,Maddy. He decides to quit the turbulent and demanding life of thrill for Maddy's sake and retires to a small town. His daughter fights off a boy who was bullying her at school and this sets in motion a round of events that end in his direct confrontation with the local Meth drug lord. His past history with the biker gang also enters the arena, making matters more complex. But he has a mission in his mind to protect his daughter and he is ready to pay any cost that it demands.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, New Zealand
    Duration02:15

    After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, fantasy
    CountryRussia

    The young family who moved to a new apartment on the outskirts of the city. The nanny hired by them for the newborn daughter quickly gained confidence. However, the older boy, Egor, talks about the frightening behavior of a woman, but his parents do not believe him. The surveillance cameras installed by the father for comfort only confirm everything is in order. Then one day, Egor, returning home, finds no trace of either the nanny or the little sister, and the parents are in a strange trance and do not even remember that they had a daughter. Then Egor, together with his friends, goes in search, during which it turns out that the nanny is an ancient Slavic demon, popularly known as Baba Yaga.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror
    CountrySouth Korea

    After moving into a new house, a young girl begins displaying strange and disturbing behavior until, one day, she disappears behind a closet. While the devastated father is left with no clue about his daughter’s disappearance, an exorcist shows up to help.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Belgium, USA

    A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryCanada

    Following the death of her mother, a young woman returns home to Niagara Falls and becomes entangled in the memory of a kidnapping she claims to have witnessed as a child.

    Markimdb: 2.8
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA

    Victoria is a young mother trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts and a motorcycle to take out a series of violent gangsters—or she may never see her child again.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryDenmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
    Duration02:10

    An old note is found in a bottle in Jutland which has travelled across the ocean for a long time. The note is hard to decipher, but when the Danish investigators from Section Q receive it, the odd personalities within the section find a new angle on it and try to unveil yet another old and diabolic case even though the lead is cold.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Russia
    Duration02:32

    After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.

    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany

    When a man's only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script of dialogue.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    Cops involved with covering up a murder by getting rid of their body cam video footage find themselves haunted by an evil spirit.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, India
    Duration02:00

      Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Australia
      Duration02:18

      A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, family, crime
      CountryDenmark

      The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money (in American dollars and gold bars) in one of their commando bunkers, when they were defeated in 1945; the only problem it's in Jutland. Egon, Benny and Kjeld "appropriate" a car and drives to Jutland along with Kjelds wife and child Yvonne and Borge. They look forward to fooling the the people in Jutland, but of course, things don't go quite as planed. It ends with Benny, Kjeld, Borge and Yvonne sitting in the train back to Copenhagen, were they are overtaken by Egon in his car on the road next to the track. This is the last time the Olsen gang goes to Jutland.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryFrance, USA, Turkey, United Kingdom
      Duration01:33

      While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his best years possibly behind him, the job may be more than he can handle.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUSA

      After unapologetic and fiercely loyal Inez kidnaps her son Terry from the foster care system, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability, in a rapidly changing New York City.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada, Thailand

      Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market, embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, fantasy
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:45

        A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA

        After Bobby and his best friend Kevin are kidnapped and taken to a strange house in the middle of nowhere, Bobby manages to escape. But as he starts to make a break for it, he hears Kevin’s screams for help and realizes he can’t leave his friend behind.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genreaction, thriller, fantasy
        CountrySouth Africa, China, USA
        Duration02:23

        An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.

        Markimdb: 3.9
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA

        After the mysterious disappearance of their mother, estranged brothers reunite and discover an unknown supernatural force.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        One clear summer day in a Baltimore suburb, a baby goes missing from her front porch. Two young girls serve seven years for the crime and are released into a town that hasn't fully forgiven or forgotten. Soon, another child is missing, and two detectives are called in to investigate the mystery in a community where everyone seems to have a secret.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.

        Markimdb: 3.2
        Genrehorror, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:53

        Incensed by the tabloid culture which celebrates it, the L.A. Slasher publicly abducts a series of reality TV stars, while the media and general public in turn begin to question if society is better off without them. A biting, social satire about reality TV and the glorification of people who are famous for simply being famous, "L.A. Slasher" explores why it has become acceptable and even admirable for people to become influential and wealthy based on no merit or talent - purely through notoriety achieved through shameful behavior.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:19

        A ransom scheme turns into a nightmare for a group of kidnappers who become victims of a horrifying secret that must be paid every spring.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France

        Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom

        A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genredrama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Malta
        Duration01:39

        Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Greece
        Duration01:50

        A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, adventure, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:51

        While on a family vacation, rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.




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