Here we've displayed a list of the best Hostages films : Inside Man(2006), The Desperate Hours(1955), The Petrified Forest(1936), Death and the Maiden(1994), Escape From New York(1981), He Ran All the Way(1951), The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!(1966), The Law and Jake Wade(1958), Upstream Color(2013), 55 Days at Peking(1963), Nighthawks(1981), One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing(1975) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2006
129 Minutes
Denzel Washington Clive Owen Jodie Foster Willem Dafoe Chiwetel Ejiofor Kim Director Christopher Plummer Florina Petcu Jay Charan Bernie Rachelle
detective bank robber hostage banker negotiator broker tense suspenseful bank new york city cell heist investigation deception stand-off hostages quest mystery rivalry 2000s
A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
112 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Fredric March Martha Scott Arthur Kennedy Dewey Martin Gig Young Mary Murphy Richard Eyer Robert Middleton Alan Reed Bert Freed
criminal prisoner father mother son daughter tense thrilling emotional indianapolis house home invasion escaped criminals hostages family stand-off escape love 1950s
Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
Drama
USA
1936
83 Minutes
Leslie Howard Bette Davis Humphrey Bogart Dick Foran Genevieve Tobin Charley Grapewin Porter Hall
drifter writer waitress gangster criminal bleak intense diner arizona the petrified forest ambition dreams hostages death escape sacrifice 1930s
A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.
Drama
UK|France
1994
103 Minutes
Sigourney Weaver Ben Kingsley Stuart Wilson Karen Strassman Carlos Moreno Krystia Mova
husband doctor wife lawyer brutal intense south america paranoia fascism rape hostages trial mystery revenge 1990s
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA
1981
100 Minutes
Kurt Russell Ernest Borgnine Adrienne Barbeau Lee Van Cleef Donald Pleasence Isaac Hayes Season Hubley Harry Dean Stanton Tom Atkins Charles Cyphers
mercenary president prisoners bleak thrilling new york city prison cold war terrorism hostages rescue nuclear safety rescue escape 20th century
In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
77 Minutes
John Garfield Shelley Winters Wallace Ford Selena Royle Gladys George Norman Lloyd Bobby Hyatt Clancy Cooper Keith Hetherington Renny McEvoy Dale Van Sickel
thug young woman mother father police officer accomplice intense gripping city poolside house robbery hostages murder love escape pursuit love 1950s
Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment and he forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt.
Comedy
USA
1966
126 Minutes
Carl Reiner Eva Marie Saint Alan Arkin Brian Keith Jonathan Winters Theodore Bikel Paul Ford Tessie O'Shea John Phillip Law Andrea Dromm Ben Blue
lieutenant police chief writer commander soviet soldier quirky madcap amusing witty new england beach house beach submarine island small town culture clash cold war communism hostages politics
Without hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.
Western
USA
1958
86 Minutes
Robert Taylor Richard Widmark Patricia Owens Robert Middleton Henry Silva DeForest Kelley Burt Douglas Eddie Firestone
marshal bandit fiancée comanche warrior gripping raw wild west jail ghost town desert canyon treasure hunting prison break partnership dark secrets second chance hostages rivalry quest transformation
Marshal Jake Wade aids outlaw Clint Hollister escape jail but Clint wants to know where Wade hid an old hold-up loot taken while both men were outlaws in the same gang.
Drama
USA
2013
96 Minutes
Amy Seimetz Shane Carruth Andrew Sensenig Thiago Martins Kathy Carruth Meredith Burke Andreon Watson Ashton Miramontes Myles McGee
woman victim criminal love interest romantic interest man farmer chilling creepy disturbing eerie gripping united states apartment farm hypnosis drugs manipulation crime hostages
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Drama, History
USA
1963
150 Minutes
Charlton Heston Ava Gardner David Niven Flora Robson John Ireland Harry Andrews Leo Genn Robert Helpmann Icchizo Itami Kurt Kaszner Philippe Leroy
military officer empress diplomat baroness soldier emotional melodramatic gripping compound beijing battle of peking boxer rebellion hostages war love escape rescue love 1900s
During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1981
99 Minutes
Sylvester Stallone Billy Dee Williams Rutger Hauer Lindsay Wagner Persis Khambatta Nigel Davenport Hilarie Thompson Joe Spinell Catherine Mary Stewart
terrorist detective police chief partner wife police detective dark gritty suspenseful thrilling new york city police station train station apartment london big city terrorism bomb chases violence
When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
Kids & Family, Adventure
UK|USA
1975
93 Minutes
Peter Ustinov Helen Hayes Clive Revill Derek Nimmo Joan Sims Bernard Bresslaw Natasha Pyne Roy Kinnear Joss Ackland Deryck Guyler Andrew Dove
nanny secret service agent british woman chinese man officer lord amusing engaging lighthearted madcap offbeat winsome museum london chinese restaurant heist secret service theft unlikely allies hostages
A suspected Western spy steals a secret microfilm from China and hides it in the skeleton of a museum dinosaur, prompting a frantic search for it by various interested parties.
Fantasy
UK
1979
98 Minutes
Christopher Lee Milo O'Shea Oliver Tobias Emma Samms John Wyman John Ratzenberger Shane Rimmer Hal Galili Peter Cushing Capucine Mickey Rooney
sorcerer prince princess companion young man magician emotional melodramatic suspenseful airy thrilling engaging arabia jungle palace dungeon fantasy world magic hostages blackmail
An evil magician seeks to gain power by obtaining a magic rose. A peasant boy and a Prince join forces to stop him.
Drama
USA
1949
100 Minutes
Farley Granger Joan Evans Charles Bickford Raymond Massey Richard Basehart Gigi Perreau Aline MacMahon Marshall Thompson
young man young girl father rival brother love interest dark gripping tense kentucky west virginia woods house church feud family hostages romance murder hatfields vs. mccoys
The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the title character, whose elopement with Johnse Hatfield serves to ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1952
83 Minutes
Rhonda Fleming Sterling Hayden Helena Carter John Sutton Paul Cavanagh Michael Ansara Raymond Hatton Alex Montoya
sea captain rival pirate fiancée first mate messenger spirited cheeky melodramatic caribbean ship sea island jamaica court pirates impersonation parentage secrets jealousy
The seafaring adventures of French privateer Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo during the Franco-Spanish-English war of the 17th century.
Horror
USA
1990
81 Minutes
Kate Hodge Viggo Mortensen William Butler Ken Foree Joe Unger Tom Everett Toni Hudson Miriam Byrd-Nethery R.A. Mihailoff
survivalist leatherface amputee yuppie boyfriend little girl brutal dark chilling disturbing texas gas station checkpoint family home kitchen woods serial murders cannibalism dismembered bodies torture
A California couple and a survivalist encounter Leatherface and his family.
Drama, Action
Italy|USA
2019
86 Minutes
Andrea Scarduzio Brice Martinet Natalie Burn Ralph Palka Dolph Lundgren Hal Yamanouchi
interpol agent hostage crime boss gripping gritty raw villa italy hostage situation hostages rescue revenge escape 21st century
After an Interpol operation in Italy, Michael attends a company dinner party when suddenly, the 50 guests are held hostage by 15-20 armed men for $150,000,000 there.
Drama, History
1961
83 Minutes
Victor Mature Orson Welles Liana Orfei Arnoldo Foa Luciano Marin
viking leader brother daughter wife warrior sultry thrilling fiery melodramatic russia steppe battlefield palace torture chamber war kidnapping hostages invasion feud
A Viking chieftain (Victor Mature) and a Tartar chieftain (Orson Welles) fight over women hostages in medieval Russia.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
2007
180 Minutes
Zayed Khan Urmila Matondkar Aashish Chaudhary Aftab Shivdasani Sanjay Suri
young man young woman assassin gripping intense suspenseful london house bungalow street race against time abduction kidnapping telephone calls hostages quest pursuit escape 2000s
A government agent (Sanjay Suri) must kill the prime minister of India to save his family from a kidnapper.
Action
1999
100 Minutes
Jeff Fahey Ernie Hudson Brent Huff Patrick Kilpatrick Larry Manetti Frank McRae Robert Miano Beth Toussaint
federal agent senator girlfriend militia member passenger engaging tense train california train station train travel militia showdown hostages terrorism bombing rescue rivalry pursuit 1990s
Opponents of a bill to control arms take hostage a senator (Ernie Hudson) and other passengers aboard a train.
Action
2015
100 Minutes
Lambert Wilson Guillaume Gouix Franck Gastambide François Arnaud Laurent Lucas Gabrielle Lazure Pierre Lebeau Hedi Rian Virginie Ledoyen
gang members hostage child young woman gang leader bleak brash brutal chilling confident dark frenetic frightening gripping intense melodramatic shocking suspenseful tense thrilling
After a bank job goes wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage.
Drama, History, War
1964
87 Minutes
Gerry de Leon Jock Mahoney Fernando Poe Jr. Mike Parsons Oscar Roncal Paul Edwards Jr. Cecilia Lopez Claude Wilson Ely Ramos Jr. Angel Buenaventura Carpi Asturias
japanese soldier american soldier prisoner lieutenant wife raw gory brutal brooding profound intense fortress manila, philippines war zone prison world war ii hostages bombing reunion revenge
Western
1950
69 Minutes
Gene Autry Pat Buttram Lynne Roberts Anne Gwynne Edward Norris Kenne Duncan Alan Hale Jr. Gregg Barton Steve Darrell Tom London
gene autry robber partner friend nurse brother spirited engaging desert train small town hillside cabin bank robbery mining investigation impersonation hostages gunfight
Bank investigator Gene Autry (Gene Autry) grows suspicious of the activities of mine technician Ben Luber (Alan Hale Jr.) and his brother, who are providing aid to bank robbers.
Comedy, Action
2014
110 Minutes
Moritz Bleibtreu Axel Stein Jasmin Gerat Anna Maria Mühe Nele Kiper Ben Ruedinger Kasem Hoxha
bank employee robber gangster wife amusing airy cheery wild cool germany town bank car netherlands amsterdam boredom everyday life marriage hostages friendship
A bank teller in his mid-30s lives an average, uneventful life. His monotonous routine is shattered when a bank robber takes him hostage and stuffs him into the trunk of a car.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
2009
110 Minutes
Carlos Bardem Luis Tosar Alberto Ammann Marta Etura Antonio Resines Luis Zahera Manolo Solo Vicente Romero Manuel Morón Felix Cubero Jesús Carroza
warrior inmate prisoners thrilling cell basque country rebellion hostages accident escape