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The former Georgetown Police sergeant's conviction casts doubt on his innocence in the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites

This unusual U.S.-Mexico border film is a thriller starring Simon Baker and Paz Vega, and it's screening in Austin prior to its national release.

Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem charm in this slight tale of lost loves and kidnapping

Conventional Mexican crime drama

A mirthless comedy about venal people doing stupid things.

The Coen brothers return to their Blood Simple roots with this bizarre, dialect-strewn tale of a kidnapping gone very wrong that's filled with the their trademark graveyard wit and unique camera angles.

Christopher Plummer mesmerizes as the greediest man alive

This drama about international sex trafficking is tremendously sincere but also brutal.

A case of mistaken identity embroils the supremely go-with-the-flow character of the Dude (Bridges) in an intersecting mix of kidnapping, pornography, German nihilists, sultry women, gumshoes, missing money, and missing toes.

Nazi hunting history may be accurate, but lacks tension or gravity

Taut, morally ambiguous thriller is set on the U.S./Mexico border

Common work-related frustrations erupt into a fitfully funny wish-fulfillment comedy.

Purloined cocaine, his kidnapped son, and a den of thieves who wish him ill cause one man to have a very desperate night in this taut French thriller.

Back for another installment is this rude animated riff on Red Riding Hood and other fairy tales.

A kidnapping caper with only three characters and one basic location, this masterful British film ratchets up the suspense to mind-frying proportions.

Based on the true events surrounding journalist Danny Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in Pakistan, this drama by Michael Winterbottom and starring Angelina Jolie is more aloof than melodramatic.

This Texas-made slasher film draws on the early Eighties Ellebracht slave-ranch case in Kerr County for its story, but like the real thing, it's a bloody mess.

How a homegrown kidnapping thriller became the most popular film in Venezuela – and angered the Chavez administration in the process

Teens, suburbia, five sets of dysfunctional parents, and the suicide that looms over it all.

Feels like a B-picture, but a smart, finely tuned one that wouldn’t have been out of place in Roger Corman’s mid-Seventies stable.