baby-snatching
31 movies and shows
The Missing
Wed, 26 Nov 2003
When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.
The Spirit of the Beehive
Mon, 08 Oct 1973
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
The Sugarland Express
Sun, 31 Mar 1974
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
Labyrinth
Fri, 27 Jun 1986
When Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she inadvertently summons the Goblin King who whisks Toby away to his castle at the center of a labyrinth. Sarah enters into a bargain with the Goblin King where she is given just thirteen hours to solve the labyrinth and rescue Toby, or else lose him forever.
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Sun, 03 Oct 1965
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
The Rescuers
Wed, 22 Jun 1977
Two agents of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society search for a little orphan girl kidnapped by sinister treasure hunters.
Julia
Wed, 12 Mar 2008
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
My Baby Is Missing
Sun, 04 Mar 2007
Jenna Davis, a single working mother, wakes up at home to discover she's delivered a stillborn baby girl. Is the child a victim of a cunning prenatal nurse who no one remembers seeing or is she the victim of her mother's own fractured psyche?
La Voleuse
Fri, 26 Aug 1966
Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her.
Dying for a Baby
Sat, 04 May 2019
Amber and Kyle are ready to move on after a car accident two years ago. But their world turns upside down when Jessica, the other driver who lost her unborn baby in the accident, moves in next door and gets a job with Amber's doctor -- all in a plan to seek a cold form of revenge.
Flightplan
Thu, 22 Sep 2005
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.
The Baby Swindler
Tue, 31 Jan 2023
Before the death of her husband, Susie froze an embryo. Surrogate Lorna agrees to carry the child to help Susie. Danger begins to follow Susie and when Lorna disappears, she'll do all she can to save the life of her unborn child.
Ransom
Fri, 08 Nov 1996
When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
Love Scenes from Planet Earth
Thu, 27 Aug 1998
The film is a comedy centering on the lives of eight Germans who long for sexual excitement.
Problem Child
Fri, 27 Jul 1990
Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares.
Peter's baby
Fri, 28 Jul 1961
Peter Bergmann has celebrated his bachelor party with his good friend William Thorsen. Peter is to marry William's former girlfriend Kirsten on the same day. When they return to Peter's home in the morning, they find a letter from the French hospital "The Little Blue Nuns," asking Peter to come in with his baptismal certificate and have a blood test done. Peter tells William that he had a love affair in Paris while on a business trip for his father's company, but Tony rejected him when he proposed marriage.
Waist Deep
Fri, 23 Jun 2006
An ex-convict gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
The Rescuers Down Under
Fri, 16 Nov 1990
A lawless poacher wants to capture a majestic and rare golden eagle, so he kidnaps the boy who knows where to find the bird. Not to worry -- the Rescue Aid Society's top agents, heroic mice Miss Bianca and Bernard, fly to Australia to save the day. Accompanying the fearless duo are bumbling albatross Wilbur and local field operative Jake the Kangaroo Rat.
A Dad for Christmas
Sun, 03 Dec 2006
Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
Freedomland
Fri, 17 Feb 2006
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.