Tag Archives: kidnapping

The General (1926)

Posted on February 2, 2023 by Jon Watches Movies

Directors: Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman Writers: Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman

Posted in Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Silent, War | Tagged 1860s, 1926, action, adventure, Al Boasberg, army, Bert Haines, buster keaton, captain, carl davis, charles henry smith, charles smith, civil war, clyde bruckman, comedy, confederacy, confederate, dev jennings, Devereaux Jennings, drama, engineer, general, glen cavender, jim farley, joe hisaishi, kidnap, kidnapped, kidnapping, konrad elfers, locomotive, military, north, paul gerard smith, robert israel, sherman kell, silent, solider, south, spy, The Alloy Orchestra, the general, the great locomotive chase, train, union, war, william pittenger | Leave a comment

Martyrs (2008)

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Pascal Laugier Writer: Pascal Laugier

Posted in Foreign, Horror | Tagged 2008, abuse, afterlife, alex cortes, bruno philip, canada, canadian, foreign, france, french, home invasion, horror, kidnap, kidnapped, kidnapping, martyrs, Morjana Alaoui, murder, Mylene Jampanoi, Nathalie Moliavko-Visotzky, pascal laugier, revenge, richard grandpierre, Sebastien Prangere, Stephane Martin, torture, vision, willie cortes, xavier dolan | Leave a comment

National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

Posted on December 22, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Jon Turteltaub Writers: The Wibberleys (Story by Gregory Poirier and The Wibberley & Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio) (Based on characters created by Jim Kouf and Oren Aviv & Charles Segars)

Posted in Action, Adventure, Mystery | Tagged 2007, abraham lincoln, action, adventure, amir mokri, assassin, assassination, book, bruce greenwood, cave, charles segars, cormac wibberley, david rennie, desk, diane kruger, ed harris, england, fbi, gregory poirier, harvey keitel, helen mirren, hostage, jerry bruckheimer, jim kouf, john schwartzman, john wilkes booth, jon turteltaub, jon voight, justin bartha, kidnapped, kidnapping, london, marianne wibberley, mount rushmore, mystery, national treasure, national treasure 2, national treasure: book of secrets, nicolas cage, oren aviv, oval office, president, puzzle, randy travis, secret, secrets, sequel, ted elliott, terry rossio, the wibberleys, ton turteltaub, treasure, treasure hunter, Trevor Rabin, ty burrell, white house, william goldenberg | Leave a comment

Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)

Posted on November 16, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Hideo Gosha Writers: Keiichi Abe & Hideo Gosha & Eizaburo Shiba

Posted in Action, Drama, Foreign | Tagged 1964, action, brothel, chanbara, drama, eizaburo Shiba, farm, farmer, fight, foreign, Gin'ichi Kishimoto, hideo gosha, Hisashi Igawa, hostage, Isamu Nagato, japan, japanese, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kazuo ota, keiichi abe, kidnap, kidnapping, magistrate, Mikijiro Hira, Miyuki Kuwano, outlaw, peasant, prostitute, ransom, rebellion, ronin, samurai, Sanbiki no samurai, sword, Tadashi Sakai, Tatsuya Ishiguro, tax, taxes, Tetsuro Tanba, Toshiaki Tsushima, village | Leave a comment

Speak No Evil (2022)

Posted on September 24, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Christian Tafdrup Writers: Christian Tafdrup & Mads Tafdrup

Posted in Drama, Foreign, Horror, Thriller | Tagged 2022, christian tafdrup, danish, drama, dutch, Erik Molberg Hansen, family, Fedja van Huet, foreign, horror, Jacob Jarek, Karina Smulders, kidnap, kidnapped, kidnapping, Liva Forsberg, mads tafdrup, Morten Burian, murder, netherlands, Nicolaj Monberg, Sidsel Siem Koch, speak no evil, stone, stoning, Sune Kolster, thriller, tongue, vacation | Leave a comment

Batman Returns (1992)

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Tim Burton Writer: Daniel Waters (Story by Daniel Waters and Sam Hamm) (Based on characters from DC Comics)

Posted in Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama | Tagged 1992, action, adaptation, adventure, batman, batman 2, batman returns, bob badami, bob kane, bruce wayne, butler, campaign, cats, catwoman, children, chris lebenzon, christmas, christopher walken, circus, city, clown, comic book, crime, daniel waters, danny devito, danny elfman, dc comics, deformed, denise di novi, doug jones, drama, election, gotham, holidays, jan hooks, kidnap, kidnapped, kidnapping, kids, mayor, michael gough, michael keaton, michael murphy, michelle pfeiffer, money, monkey, murder, pat hingle, paul reubens, penguin, power plant, rich, sam hamm, sequel, sewer, snow, stefan czapsky, steven brill, superhero, tim burton, villain, vincent schiavelli, wealthy | Leave a comment

Windfall (2022)

Posted on May 30, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Charlie McDowell Writers: Justin Lader & Andrew Kevin Walker (Story by Charlie McDowell & Jason Segel and Justin Lader & Andrew Kevin Walker