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17 films tagged hostages
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2025 · Crime
In Indianapolis in 1977, a man wires a shotgun to a mortgage broker's son's neck, walks him home at gunpoint and calls a radio station to explain why. Taken from a real standoff, and mostly one apartment with the police outside.
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2025 · Action
An ice-road trucker flies to Nepal to scatter his brother's ashes and ends up on a tour bus that armed men take over halfway along a mountain road. Straightforward action, most of it on the road.
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2025 · Thriller
In 1970 a plane out of Tokyo is hijacked by radicals demanding to be flown to Pyongyang, and Seoul's spy agency sends its best fixer to get the hostages back. A black comedy, mostly about the men on the ground.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
A maid of honour who secretly works as a spy has to save her best friend's wedding when mercenaries take the whole party hostage on a private island. Broad comedy with fights in it.
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2025 · Thriller
A window cleaner is working her way down the side of a Canary Wharf tower when activists storm the gala inside and take everyone hostage, her brother among them. She is stuck on the outside.
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2025 · Thriller
Mercenaries take over the hotel hosting a G20 summit in Cape Town, and the US president, an army veteran, slips loose with a handful of other leaders. Corridors, guards and fights, all in one building.
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2025 · Thriller
A bomb on a Tokyo-bound bullet train will go off if the train drops below 100 km/h, and the crew have to keep it moving while the government refuses the ransom. It plays out on the train and in the control room.
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2025 · Horror
An oceanographer whose father was killed by a shark goes diving for sunken treasure off Thailand, and pirates take the boat. They send the divers back into the water to fetch what they came for.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Documentary
A documentary written as a letter to David Cunio, an Israeli actor taken hostage on 7 October 2023. The director had once cast him in a film about a kidnapping, and builds this out of that old footage.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
In the years after the fall of Saigon, men hijack Vietnamese passenger planes to get out of the country, and the air marshals aboard are the only ones trained to stop them. Based on real hijackings.
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2025 · Thriller
A bank assistant manager who cannot feel pain goes after the robbers who took his co-worker hostage, using the one advantage his body gives him. Fast, funny and gruesome about it.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
A billionaire's bodyguard, framed for his boss's murder, boards a cargo ship under a dead assassin's name and finds a hold full of trafficked people. Once he is aboard it is fights in corridors, at sea.
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2026 · Action
A drifter turns up in a small Texas town in 1988, where a bar owner and his daughter are being squeezed by the crime boss who owns the place. Fights and shootouts, escalating a step at a time.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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1975 · Crime
Two men rob a Brooklyn bank in the afternoon heat, get it wrong immediately, and end up negotiating with the crowd outside. Almost entirely one branch and one street.
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1963 · Crime
A shoe executive about to stake everything on a takeover gets a ransom call, and the kidnappers have taken his chauffeur's son by mistake. The first half is one room, the second a manhunt.
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2006 · Crime
A crew takes a Manhattan bank and everybody in it hostage, and the detective outside cannot work out what they actually want. Almost all of it is the branch and the street.
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2024 · Thriller
The American sports crew covering the 1972 Munich Olympics finds itself broadcasting a hostage crisis live. Ninety minutes, almost entirely in the control room.
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