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Cast

Liam Neeson

Maggie Grace

Famke Janssen

Olivier Rabourdin

Taken (2008)

7.4 12.2K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.

Plot: rescue, paris, france, kidnapping, prostitution, sex trafficking, albanian, missing daughter, ...

Cast

David Bowie

Jennifer Connelly

Toby Froud

Shelley Thompson

Labyrinth (1986)

7.3 2.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah, a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King. Guarding his castle is the labyrinth itself, a twisted maze of deception, populated with outrageous characters and unknown dangers.

Plot: rescue, race against time, maze, castle, musical, puppet, babysitter, surrealism, ...

Cast

Jeremy Renner

Anthony Mackie

Brian Geraghty

David Morse

The Hurt Locker (2008)

7.3 6.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.

Plot: rescue, sniper, explosive, loyalty, us army, car bomb, tension, disaster, ...

Place: iraq

Cast

Tom Hanks

Aaron Eckhart

Anna Gunn

Holt McCallany

Sully (2016)

7.2 7.8K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

Plot: rescue, new york city, airplane, investigation, pilot, based on true story, emergency landing, flight, ...

Cast

Kevin Costner

Ashton Kutcher

Sela Ward

Melissa Sagemiller

The Guardian (2006)

7.1 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.

Plot: rescue, ocean, coast guard, disaster, death

Cast

Dickie Jones

Cliff Edwards

Christian Rub

Evelyn Venable

Pinocchio (1940)

7.1 6.3K votes

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: G

Story: When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio, is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish.

Plot: rescue, sea, child abuse, based on novel or book, magic, whale, donkey, lie, ...

Place: italy

Cast

Dwayne Johnson

Chris Evans

Lucy Liu

J.K. Simmons

Red One (2024)

7.0 3.1K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After Santa Claus (codename: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security must team up with the world's most infamous tracker in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.

Style: absurd

Plot: rescue, bounty hunter, holiday, kidnapping, santa claus, rescue mission, polar bear, rescue team, ...

Cast

Benicio del Toro

Josh Brolin

Isabela Merced

Jeffrey Donovan

Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

6.9 4.1K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Mexico, United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.

Plot: rescue, central intelligence agency (cia), corruption, usa–mexico border, sequel, shootout, explosion, brutality, ...

Cast

Thandiwe Newton

Zachary Levi

Bella Ramsey

Imelda Staunton

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)

6.9 910 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.

Style: witty

Plot: rescue, chicken, villain, sequel, heist, stop motion, animals, reboot, ...

Cast

Kurt Russell

Patrick Wilson

Richard Jenkins

Matthew Fox

Bone Tomahawk (2015)

6.9 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Western

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: NR

Story: During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

Style: cynical

Plot: rescue, sheriff, prisoner, ambush, poison, redemption, wilderness, gore, ...

Faraway, So Close! (1993)

6.9 180 votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Country: Germany

Duration: 147 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.

Plot: rescue, berlin, germany, angel, urban life, friends

Deepwater Horizon (2016)

6.9 5.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Style: intense

Plot: rescue, sea, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on true story, disaster, explosion, oil spill, trapped, ...

Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone (1989)

6.9 622 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 41 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In order to wish for immortality and avenge his father, Garlic Jr. collects the dragon balls, kidnapping Goku's son Gohan in the process. Goku, Kami, Piccolo, and Krillin unite to rescue Gohan and save the world from being sucked into a dead zone.

Plot: rescue, martial arts, husband wife relationship, fight, immortality, kidnapping, wish, alien, ...

Cast

Ben Whishaw

Hugh Bonneville

Emily Mortimer

Samuel Joslin

Paddington in Peru (2024)

6.8 713 votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family

Country: United Kingdom, Japan

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.

Plot: rescue, sequel, bear, based on children's book, aunt nephew relationship, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, live action and animation, ...

Place: united kingdom

Cast

Bob Newhart

Eva Gabor

Geraldine Page

Joe Flynn

The Rescuers (1977)

6.8 2.7K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 78 min.

Audience: G

Story: Two agents of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society search for a little orphan girl kidnapped by sinister treasure hunters.

Plot: rescue, kidnapping, mouse, cartoon, villain, rescue mission, baby-snatching, bottle, ...

Cast

Mae Whitman

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Lauren Mote

Michael Sheen

Pamela Adlon

Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010)

6.8 1.0K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: India, United States of America

Duration: 76 min.

Audience: G

Story: During a summer stay on the mainland, Tinker Bell is accidentally discovered while investigating a little girl's fairy house. As the other fairies, led by the brash Vidia, launch a daring rescue in the middle of a fierce storm, Tink develops a special bond with the lonely, little girl.

Plot: rescue, london, england, countryside, flying, parent child relationship, magic, fairy tale, ...

Cast

Keanu Reeves

Laurence Fishburne

Carrie-Anne Moss

Hugo Weaving

The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

6.8 10.9K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

Style: philosophical

Plot: dying and death, rescue, mission, man vs machine, underground world, machine town, martial arts, kung fu, ...

Time: future

Cast

Chase Stokes

Lana Condor

Desmin Borges

Callan Mulvey

Valiant One (2025)

6.7 131 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller, War

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: With tensions between North and South Korea, a US helicopter crashes on the North side. The survivors must work together to protect a civilian tech specialist and find their way out without the help of US military support.

Plot: rescue, survival, tension, crash, special forces, behind enemy lines

Cast

George Clooney

Mark Wahlberg

Ice Cube

Spike Jonze

Three Kings (1999)

6.6 2.3K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.

Plot: rescue, gold, gulf war, three kings, treasure map, kuwait, interracial relationship, soldier, ...

Place: iraq

Cast

Charlie Sheen

Lloyd Bridges

Valeria Golino

Richard Crenna

Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)

6.5 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.

Plot: rescue, swordplay, liberation of hostage, secret agent, parody, iraq war, near east

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