Ransomed
“Two men. Bag of money. No support.”
ActionThrillerDrama
In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.
VIBE
This feels like a nail-biting, propulsive journey through a war-torn landscape. It's a gritty, high-stakes thriller steeped in 80s geopolitical tension, where desperate measures and unlikely bonds form under immense pressure. The mood is relentlessly suspenseful, driven by a palpable sense of urgency and danger.
tensegrittydesperatesuspensefulhigh-stakespropulsivegritty realism80s period aestheticintense actiongeopolitical thrillersurvivaldutyunlikely alliancespolitical intriguehuman cost of conflict
diplomattaxi driverrescue mission1980slebanon
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