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Teen Kidnapping Movies

Name: Teen Kidnapping Movies
Creator: TMDB / IMDB

Films about the kidnapping of teens and children — every parent's worst nightmare.

Teen Kidnapping Movies is a structured movies dataset with 17 entries. Its fields include Title, Year, Director. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.

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Source:TMDB / IMDB

Updated:3/8/2026

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Dataset details

Table scope: All 17 rows
Fields: 8 columns
Source: TMDB / IMDB
Data updated: Mar 8, 2026

Included fields: Title, Year, Director, IMDB Rating, Genre, and 3 more.

The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.

Preview observations

Year span: 1993 to 2024; Across 17 preview rows
IMDB Rating range: 6.2 to 8.1; Across 17 preview rows

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Taken	2008	Pierre Morel	7.8	Action, Thriller	France	93	A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.
Prisoners	2013	Denis Villeneuve	8.1	Drama, Thriller, Crime	United States of America	153	Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.
Room	2015	Lenny Abrahamson	8	Drama, Thriller	Canada	118	Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
The Black Phone	2022	Scott Derrickson	7.5	Horror, Thriller	United States of America	103	Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are...
Man on Fire	2004	Tony Scott	7.5	Action, Drama, Thriller	Switzerland	146	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.
A Perfect World	1993	Clint Eastwood	7.5	Drama, Crime, Thriller	United States of America	138	A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Split	2017	M. Night Shyamalan	7.3	Horror, Thriller	United States of America	117	Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all o...
Extraction	2020	Sam Hargrave	7.3	Action, Thriller	United States of America	116	A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.
The City of Lost Children	1995	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	7.2	Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure	France	112	A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Rush Hour	1998	Brett Ratner	7.1	Action, Comedy, Crime	United States of America	97	When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership a...
No Exit	2022	Damien Power	6.8	Thriller, Mystery, Drama	United States of America	96	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.
Ransom	1996	Ron Howard	6.7	Action, Thriller	United States of America	121	When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
Abigail	2024	Tyler Gillett	6.7	Horror, Thriller	United States of America	109	A group of criminals kidnap a teenage ballet dancer, the daughter of a notorious gang leader, in order to obtain a ransom of $50 million, but over time, they discover that she is not just an ordinary girl. After the kidnappers begin to diminish, one by one, they discover, to their increasing horr...
Taken 2	2012	Olivier Megaton	6.4	Action, Crime, Thriller	France	91	In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
Along Came a Spider	2001	Lee Tamahori	6.3	Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Action	Canada	104	After the harrowing death of his partner, forensic psychologist and best-selling author Alex Cross cannot forgive himself and has retreated to the peace of retirement. But when a brilliant criminal kidnaps a senator's young daughter, he is lured back into action as the kidnapper wants to deal wit...
Don't Say a Word	2001	Gary Fleder	6.3	Thriller, Mystery, Crime	United States of America	113	When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, suffering from PTSD, who knows a secret six digit code number.
Kidnap	2017	Luis Prieto	6.2	Action, Thriller	United Kingdom	95	A mother (in her Minivan) stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.

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