Kidnapped (DVD)(2010)

The most astounding and uncompromising film of the year, Miguel Angel Vivas' Kidnapped is a masterpiece of tension and all-too-realistic violence. Jaime and Marta, along with their teenage daughter Isa, move into a gorgeous new home with the hopes of beginning a beautiful new phase of their life together. It's the dream of every hard-working family: A comfortable life in a place of their own. But the dream is shattered when a gang of masked men break in and take the entire family hostage, demanding Jaime hand over everything he has in the bank or watch his wife and daughter die. And so begins an unimaginable ordeal for Jaime and his family. Winner of Best Picture and Best Director honors at Fantastic Fest 2010, Kidnapped has been declared "impeccably crafted, flawlessly performed" (Todd Brown) and "a new genre classic. " (John Fallon, Arrow in the Head).