A spoiled rich girl hatches a plot with her hippie friends to "kidnap" her so they can get a large ransom from her wealthy father.
Social & External
The people behind it
Brigitte Skay
Babel
Claudio Giorgi
Eva
Benjamin Lev
Claudio
Nuccia Cardinali
Rosalba Neri
Stella
Umberto Raho
Babel's Father
Luana Brown
Darla Abrem
Lorenzo Piani
Fulvio Pellegrino
Police Inspector
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Five years apart, they reunite as lovers, but when family-demands force Xiao Chen to marry, Lu Feng feels betrayed—and vows revenge.
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A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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When their daughter is abducted by experienced kidnappers, the Jennings turn the tables on their seemingly fool-proof plan.
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When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for payback to regain his lost two years. He's hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her stepdaughter (the daughter of a dying millionaire). He discovers that he is being set up on multiple levels and will soon face a longer sentence if he doesn't prove the truth.
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. They rebel against the armed intruders and try to take back their academy by any means necessary.
Nikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.
Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After managing to escape, Shaun must now figure out a way to turn the tables on the desperate thieves and save her captive children.
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
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An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
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A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
