Hostage Movies

On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than...

When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the...

Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is...

An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.

Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker...

A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely Muslim population. When a...

A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.

A special agent is assigned to protect a wealthy business magnate. However, when the businessman is kidnapped in a daring ambush, he teams up with a...

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and...

Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.

A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her...

Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.

Two fugitives land in hot water when they take a hostage who poses a threat to their well-being.

A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they...

Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Carlo...

During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier...

A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.