En el año 2009, en aguas internacionales a 145 millas de la costa de Somalia, en el cuerno de África, el buque carguero “Maersk Alabama”, al mando del capitán de la marina mercante estadounidense Richard Phillips, fue abordado y retenido por piratas somalíes, siendo el primer barco norteamericano secuestrado en los últimos doscientos años.
Un investigador farmacéutico amenaza con matar a los pasajeros del avión en el que viaja, lo que da paso al caos, desesperación y miedo, no solo dentro del avión, también en el planeta.
Bill Marks, un veterano agente del servicio aéreo de los Marshalls, se siente bastante quemado tanto con el mundo como con su profesión: no entiende su labor como un deber para salvaguardar vidas, sino como un rutinario trabajo de oficina a bordo de un avión. Sin embargo, un día, en un viaje trasatlántico de Nueva York a Londres recibe una serie de misteriosos mensajes de texto, en los que se le pide que inste al gobierno a hacer una transferencia de 150 millones de dólares a una cuenta secreta, pues, en caso contrario, un pasajero moriría cada 20 minutos. El juego del gato y el ratón se desarrollado a 40.000 pies de altura y con la vida de 200 pasajeros pendiente de un hilo.
In this violent spaghetti western a murderous robber hijacks a payroll train, murders everyone aboard and then stashes his loot. A gunslinger learns about it and decides he wants the money for himself and so hatches an elaborate plot to get at it. He lures the crook into a rigged poker game, and afterward a gunfight ensues. The quick-drawing gunman makes short work of the robber, then teams up with an insurance agent to look for the hidden fortune. Unbeknownst to them, the robber had an ace up his sleeve...
Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.
Un ladrón sudafricano llamado Tsotsi vive bajo una norma de violencia. Él y su banda de ladrones merodean las calles de Johannesburgo día y noche atacando a aquellos que se rehúsan a darles lo que piden. Tras disparar y robarle el auto a una mujer, él descubre que un bebé está en el asiento trasero. Pero lejos de lastimarlo, se lo lleva a su casa y cuida de él. El niño se convierte en catalizador del duro rufián para volverlo más humano.
German terrorists kidnap the crew of an aeroplane as they leave the airport. The terrorists demand the release of two of their colleagues, who are to be extradited to the USA. The father of one of the stewardesses decides he can no longer wait for diplomacy, and so flies out to Germany. There, frustration leads him to hire a former SAS counter-terrorism expert. Together they hunt down the terrorists.
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
When a team of unlikely heroes hijacks a steam-powered battle wagon, a daring young wizard (Marek) steals the final piece of the all-powerful Darkspore and embarks on a desperate quest to deliver the cursed artifact to the gods for safe keeping; but when they are caught in a death race between a ruthless team of elite mercenaries and a trinity of demons, Marek must learn to believe in herself before her friends are killed and the Darkspore is lost, to stop the evil necromancer (Szorlok) from uniting the Darkspore and flooding the living world with his legions of undead.
Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calvert. Because Charles refuses to share his wealth with his sons, Stefane and Antony ask hip American thrill-seeker Duffy to help steal the money they believe is their birthright. When Charles decides to move a large portion of his savings from Morocco to France, Duffy has an opportunity to stage a daring burglary attempt at sea.
Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
When a hostage situation arises on-board a private plane with the daughter of a billionaire on-board. Major John Masters (Sabato Jr.) teams up with Captain Williams (Michael Paré) to stop the terrorist and land the plane.
In a lawless futuristic society, a rebel must prevent a tandem of renegades from destroying Los Angeles. An ex-star pilot is forced to stop a mad criminal and his gang after they've hi-jacked a huge space freighter with the intent of crashing it into Los Angeles destroying what is left of civilization. Time is running out.
Thieves hijack an aircraft loaded with diamonds, and then must face deadly Amazonian headhunters when the plane crashes in the jungles of Caxambu, Brazil.
On 5 September 1986, Palestinian terrorists stormed Pan Am Flight 73 as it stalled on the Karachi Airport tarmac. Exploring what happened over the next 16 hours, including the death of 21 passengers, in a day that would change terrorist operations for ever.
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?
A man feels obligated to hijack the plane his boss is on after he has gambled himself into overwhelming debt.