Taken (2008) poster
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FilmPG-132008

Taken

ActionThriller

Directed by Pierre Morel

Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive… From TMDB

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Taken is a 2008 action thriller film, directed by Pierre Morel, starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen.

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  • Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.comBluesky · Jan 1, 2025

    🎉🎉🎉 #Severance film still #12 Taken at wrap after hair was just set free.

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  • David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 28, 2025

    Why is the White House posting movie quotes from Taken? 🤔

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  • Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2025

    Stranger photo. Taken from a folding camera on 616 film.

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  • EdinburghGary @photoscotland.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2025

    Edinburgh seafront properties. Taken on a Mamiya RB67 medium format camera / Velvia film. #Photography

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  • Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2025

    I love that account because every comment he makes gets a bunch of maga guys angrily threatening to never watch another Taken movie.

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  • Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    the government posting death threats to my community and using a quote from the movie Taken to do so is leaving me with emotions that have yet to be named in german

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  • Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.appBluesky · Apr 30, 2025

    “Sinners: This Film Has Taken Over My Life” by ThisIsCourtneyTaylor

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  • Male_Expressions: Photographer @maleexpressions.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2025

    Window view. Taken with Kodak Portra 400 film with Pentax K1000. Photo shoot with @stiopamazanco.bsky.social

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  • Danger Dobie @dangerdoberman.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2025

    If me and @pupcryo.bsky.social were in a movie what would be called? Taken at @howldtla.bsky.social

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  • Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2025

    One Like = One Film About an Opera Singer Whose Voice is Taken by an Evil Hypnotist But He Becomes a Silent Film Star and the Hypnotist Has a Heart Attack When He Sees Him Onscreen

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  • Pickwick triplet (not that one) @paulmul.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2025

    They're gonna do a Taken style film like this and call it ICE breaker

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  • Shea Serrano @sheaserrano.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2025

    wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait do you think Taken is……….. not good????????? five years in Movie Take jail

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  • Lucy 📷 @lucyphoto.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 25, 2025

    The only time I shot on Ilford film. Taken in Paris a few years ago. #ilfordfilm #35mm 🎞️

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  • RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2026

    #OTD in 1944, Hamont, Belgium. Taken prisoner, by an Army Film and Photographic Unit. #WW2 #HISTORY

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  • BKTallman @bktallman.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2025

    I posted a shot from this day a while ago. That one was taken with a digital camera. This one was taken on film. Shot with my Nikon FM and 35mm lens. Taken on Fomapan 100 film. #fomapan #analogphotography #filmphotography #blackandwhite

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  • Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    It's no one film. I need to see someone's film ecosystem. Fight Club looks different next to a bunch of stuff from the same year, as it does in a row of Brad Pitt movies, as it does again sitting between Taken and Rambo.

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  • ᴛʜᴇ 𝕍𝔼ℝℕ𝕀𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔾 @outlawvern.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2026

    I'm excited to see the new TAKEN type movie starring Milla Jovovich tomorrow (PROTECTOR). I guess it's still January!

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  • 🎃 ƚԋҽ ԋαυɳƚιɳɠ σϝ Aʅҽx˚Jҽɾι⛦ @mobiusstrip8.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2026

    Taken ⁞2008 www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501 #NowWatching #filmsky ·a retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris·

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2026

    Taken (2008) 🎬🖤 Directed by Pierre Morel

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  • Gunhed Candy 🎃 @gunhedcandy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2025

    Taken from the movie The Mysterians 1957, a pair of sparking ray guns #collectibles

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  • Amy Koto, TV Fanatic Girl @tvfanaticgirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    Share an ACTION movie title that begins with the letter “T” 🎥 T is for… Taken 🖤

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  • Jeff @pinot.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2025

    Edible: Taken Movie: Playing

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  • Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    So I may or may not be fully out of touch; but it seems to me if Paramount CAN'T turn out the presumptive audience to a solid profit for "'TAKEN' but also 'YELLOWSTONE' from the director of 'OLD HENRY'" then that audience might just simply not exist at scale anymore 🤷‍♂️ youtu.be/nzNYomSd5Ls?...

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  • Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2026

    holy shit there’s a Sydney Sweeney human trafficking TAKEN-meets-Lifetime-style-movie film out there from the same era. It’s on Prime @davidjroth.bsky.social @mobute.bsky.social @enbrown.bsky.social

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  • Neon Kitten @neonkitten.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    View from one of the trails near Kyoto, Japan Taken with my #vintage praktica camera on #35mm @ilfordphoto.com xp2 film (400). Manual settings, #noai #believeinfilm #filmphotography #travelphotography

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  • Julie 🎃👻🎶 @juliemch.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2026

    #FebruaryMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Day 4. Someone taken against their will in a movie. Taken (2008)

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  • Lucy 🔪🦊 @lucyandcat.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    I didn't realise so many people liked that one Liam Neeson movie where his daughter got kidnapped but I keep seeing people with Taken in their bio so it must have a pretty big fan base

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  • Eize Basa @eizebasa.babyBluesky · Apr 2, 2025

    Wife guys’s favorite movie? TAKEN

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  • elias isquith @eliasisquith.blogBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    actually i have a better comp for what im worried this is going to be: a post-TAKEN liam neeson movie for gen-x men who read the new yorker iow, a power fantasy for the kind of middle-aged man who idolizes iggy pop instead of john wayne

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  • Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2026

    How about this for a first date — as Marshall Fine describes what happened on John Cassavetes & Gena Rowlands’. They were married from 1954 until John’s death in 1989. (Taken from ‘Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented The American Independent Film’ - 2006)

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  • JDeBordPhoto @kkartphoto.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2026

    Happy Halloween everyone 🎃👻☠️ I was trying to figure out what image to share for Halloween and ultimately I went with this image of a Red-Winged Black Bird in high-key B&W. It has a horror film about it I think. Taken on my Sony A77ii with a Tamron 150-600mm lens 📸 #WildlifePhotography #Bird #ECK

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  • vidibit // tom @vidibit.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2026

    Brickworks 📸 No. 1 Kodak Jr. (1914) 🎞️ Ilford Ortho Plus 80 120 Film ✨ Taken 25/19/26 by VIDIBIT I have finally tested my oldest camera: a No. 1 Kodak Jr. from early 1914. These brickworks seemed the perfect subject. I didn't expect these ethereal light leaks! #vidibit #believeinfilm #blackandwhite

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  • Appalachian who remembers Blair Mountain @rememberblairmtn.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2026

    Fall in Maine on film. Taken with my Nikon FE and a combination of Kodak Ektacolor Pro 160, UltraMax 400, and EKTAPAN 400 #filmisnotdead

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  • Zooey @zooey1.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2026

    Graffiti along the South Bank. Taken recently with my 1980 Olympus OM2n and Ilford HP5 film #streetphotography

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  • RickA @dailygrind6058.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2026

    Orava Castle, Slovakia, where F.W. Murnau filmed the 1922 silent film "Nosferatu". Taken on my 1995 tour of former Iron Curtain countries.

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  • Mythic Archive @mythicharchive26.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    Taken with a Rollieflex Mat EVS TLR #film #photography #Analog

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  • vidibit // tom @vidibit.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2026

    Old Iron 📸 Rolleicord IIc (1949) 🎞️ @lomography Metropolis 100-400 120 Film ✨ Taken 11/10/26 by VIDIBIT The Rolleicord is back, this time at Railfest 2026. G233 Leschenault Lady came up to the city for a visit! I think she looks pretty good for an 128-year-old. #vidibit #trains #believeinfilm

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  • Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2026

    Taken by his dog sitter Tony who is his adventure buddy while I’m in Dublin & Donegal for film festivals. They adore each other, which helps.

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  • Nick De Marco KC @nickdemarcokc.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2026

    King Alfred, Hove. Taken with camera No. 25 in my Compact Point & Shoot project — the Nikon L35AF2 using Kodak Gold film. From Part 5, the final instalment of my project, including the final ranking table of all 29 cameras tested: rangefinderchronicles.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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  • ben-ward.bsky.social @ben-ward.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2026

    Railway Reflections. Darkroom print. @ilfordphoto.com Delta 400 (I rarely use any other film!) developed in DDX. Taken at the @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social. Was attracted to the reflections but the detail in the print was more than I had expected. #believeinfilm

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  • CHB @stadsplanering.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gyBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    So I saw something about #FensterFreitag and #Photography so I thought - why not contribute. This window (and door) is from a journey I did to #Argentina in 2005. Taken with a Canon EOS3, I can’t at the moment remember exactly which film I used. It’s taken in […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]

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  • LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2026

    Taken this day, 2016, the great John Carpenter, performing #music from his own movies, in the Usher Hall www.flickr.com/photos/woola... Great atmosphere, & a fabulous night with a good chum, who is no longer with us now. Bit bittersweet, this memory... #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #musique #photography

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  • MemePerfect 5.1 @memeperfect51.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2026

    Hakeem Jeffries in the movie *Taken*: "Look, just keep my daughter. I don't want to get even or anything."

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  • voiceless.bsky.social @voiceless.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2026

    Taken on its own Blair Witch movie seems to be unrelated to exact laws that govern missing people cases, but I think most people instinctively, by osmosis, knew that such real footaeg won't be on a big screen. And this osmosis for old literature is entirely list to us

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  • SouthernGuyScripts @southernguy06.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2026

    Add "between my legs" to a movie title: Taken Between My Legs

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  • Ellieween Dawn 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥺😏💜 @awkward.gayBluesky · Oct 26, 2026

    Add "between my legs" to a movie title Taken Between My Legs

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  • Amie 📺🦛🛼 @amiewatchestv.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2026

    ALSO I HATE THAT IVE BEEN TAKEN IN BY THIS MOVIE ANOUT THIS STUPID SCAMMER BUT I WANT TO SEE ITTTTTTTT

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  • Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    We just saw the second De Gaulle film at Institut français. Stirring, dramatic, enlightening and occasionally a little bit cheesy. Taken together, the two films are a remarkable achievement.

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  • The Yuan Twins @theyuantwins.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Taken for Tax Purposes.

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  • Captain Midnight @thefilmfair.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    Greek film poster for TAKEN (2008 - Dir. Pierre Morel) Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser

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  • Oneofthechosen @goody65.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2026

    #1WordFor1Music #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Nov 5th: Faster The Cramps - Faster Pussycat Taken from 1983’s live album, Smell Of Female, this is a cover version of the lead song from a 1965 Russ Meyer film If you think you can take her We’ll just you try youtu.be/PDNnvycTn1A

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  • ThreadThoughtsKindness @threadthoughts.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2026

    Ahh, the Trump admin ... doing my greatest hits AGAIN ... ... when I actually quoted Liam Neeson in the movie, "Taken." Good F*cking Lord. They're a stupid and useless bunch. cc: @abc7.bsky.social @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @ms.now @pbsnews.org @cnn.com @politico.com @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

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  • Scott is Bayin' at the Moon @scottmaybstoned.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2026

    Soften up a horror film: Mildly Taken With

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  • a spider-verse girl with a sword 🗡️ @ofspiiderswords.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2026

    “Yeah. If some weirdo asked me what my favorite scary movie would be, it’d be: Taken. The most terrifying thing about those was the dude was a bad enough parent to warrant two extra sequels.”

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  • Brian "Kult of Thorn" Myers @fluffyman85.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2026

    Also seemed to think it was the best idea to strip the Rambo franchise of it's identity in the final film, and just make it into what felt like a Taken knock-off with an extra dose of racism.

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  • ⛧𝖂𝖞𝖗𝖉 𝕭𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝖂𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍⛧ @wyrdwordwitch666.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2026

    Taken notes. Sourcing that movie! :) 🫡

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  • Dave Stanley @davidwstanley.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    Peter O’Brien and My Brother Rob. Taken with infrared film.

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  • Lyle Milton @lylemilton.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Taken for Tax Purposes

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  • Bunnfearia (she/her) @bunnearia.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    Watched Taken 2 last night, it was so bad compared to the first film (not saying the first film's a masterpiece or anything but still), the plot was super basic and it felt like barely anything happened

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  • Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    ...viewed as Gothic-before-Gothic in its subject matter. For Liz, Cox’s film of a seventeenth-century tragedy exaggerates the Gothic’s concern for porosity in temporal, spatial, and embodied ways. Taken together, then, it is clear that Lisa's _Screening the Gothic_ launched the twenty-first...

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