11 Best Kidnapping Movies that will keep you hooked with a nail-biting suspense (2023)

Well, if you are in the mood for good action, thrill, and suspense then you are in a perfect spot. Listed below are some of the best kidnapping movies that must be on your watchlist. Keep scrolling- 

Top Kidnapping Movies

1. Extraction

It’s Part 2 was recently released so try checking that one too. It revolves around an agent hired to rescue the son of an international crime lord who an underworld gangster has kidnaped. As he starts investigating he finds himself in the world of drug and weapon traffickers.

2. Taken

A former Secret Service agent’s daughter has been abducted by human traffickers while vacationing in Paris. Unknown about her whereabouts, he decides to take the matter into his own hands. 

3. Prisoners

A small town is shocked and disturbed by the continuous abduction of small children. One father and a police officer decide to find the truth by risking their own life. Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman have been cast in the leading role in this one of the best Kidnapping movies.

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4. Room

Joy and her son Jack have been held captive in an underground shelter. One day they both manage to escape and finally taste freedom. Watch this one of the best kidnapping movies to know what happens next. 

5. Buried

Paul, a US truck driver is kidnapped by Iraqi terrorists and taken to an underground area with a claustrophobic situation. Left with one phone and a lighter he must find a way to escape before it’s too late. 

6. Captain Phillips

Maersk Alabama, a container ship is attacked by some Somali pirates while going to Kenya. Now the Captain of the ship must use his tactics to save his crew and the ship. 

7. Split

The film is based on dissociative identity disorder and shows a guy named Kevin with 23 alter egos. He has also kidnapped 3 young girls. Now the girls need to find the personality that helps them to escape. 

8. Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey

Lisa McVey is a 17-year-old girl who has been kidnapped on her way to the house. She uses reverse psychology only to find out that her abductor is a famous serial killer. 

9. Phone Booth

A publicist Stuart Shepard gets in a tricky situation when he answers a call in a phone booth. The caller instructs him to keep doing what is has been told if not he will shoot him the minute he cuts the call. 

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10. Don’t Breathe

Three notorious teenagers enter a house of a blind veteran named Norman in order to steal his money. Believing he is harmless they enter it without taking any precautions only to find out they have been trapped in a dangerous game. 

11. All the Money in the World

Based on a true story of the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, the grandson of J Paul Getty, an oil tycoon. The kidnappers are a dangerous Italian mob operating in Rome. Desperate, his mother decides to take help from his grandfather J Paul for ransom which he refuses to give.