Hostage Movies

List of the best hostage movies selected by visitors to our site: 7 Days in Entebbe, 15 Minutes of War, Hunter Killer, Mystery Men, Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach, Beneath Us, Assault on VA-33, Stranglehold, Unlawful Entry, Mistrial.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 5.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Malta
Duration02:28

In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:38

February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

Captain Glass of the USS Arkansas discovers that a coup d'état is taking place in Russia, so he and his crew join an elite group working on the ground to prevent a war.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save him.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

The Police Academy misfits travel to Miami, Florida for their academy's commanding officer, Lassard, to receive a prestigious lifetime award pending his retirement, which takes a turn involving a group of jewel thieves after their stolen loot that Lassard unknowingly has in his possession.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrethriller
CountryUSA

The American Dream becomes a nightmare for a group of undocumented day laborers hired by a wealthy couple. What they expect to be their biggest payday turns into a terrifying fight for survival.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUSA

Decorated army veteran Jason Hill is on a routine visit to the local VA hospital when organized terrorists infiltrate the building and take hostages, including a decorated general, and Hill’s wife. The highly trained veteran is outnumbered and the last line of defense, taking on a building full of armed insurgents before it’s too late.

Markimdb: 5
Genreaction
CountryUSA, Philippines

Deep inside the nation's top chemical weapons facility, a brilliant terrorist takes a Congresswoman hostage. The Navy can't stop him. The Air Force can't reach him. The Coast Guard can't kill him. Only one man can do the job: special agent Ryan Cooper. He's in a race against time to save the world, facing his greatest challenge yet!

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryJapan, USA
Duration01:47

After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops that answered their call. He helps them install the security system, and begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol, and spends a lot of time discussing the couple's problems with the wife. The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUSA

When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, comedy, family, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

    Mild-mannered Paul Blart (Kevin James) has always had huge dreams of becoming a State Trooper. Until then, he patrols the local mall as a security guard. With his closely cropped moustache, personal transporter and gung-ho attitude, only Blart seems to take his job seriously. All that changes when a team of thugs raids the mall and takes hostages. Untrained, unarmed and a super-size target, Blart has to become a real cop to save the day.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned graveyard surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    After her triumph at the Miss United States pageant, FBI agent Gracie Hart becomes an overnight sensation -- and the new "face of the FBI." But it's time to spring into action again when the pageant's winner, Cheryl, and emcee, Stan, are abducted.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryLuxembourg, USA
    Duration01:58

    Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, music
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration02:11

    While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

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

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars worth of drugs from him.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountrySpain, USA

    A radio host is kidnapped on air and forced to tell secrets about his past.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    Vulgar is about a man who is a children's clown but has not been getting much luck lately. He lives in a cheap apartment which he can't even afford. Bums are constantly sleeping in his run down car and crashing on his lawn. He has a nagging mother who lives in a nursing home, and his best friend is a moocher. One day he comes up with the idea to become a bachelor clown.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:19

    When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Otis’ half-brother Winslow, the demented Firefly clan escape to unleash a whole new wave of murder, madness and mayhem.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:33

    A gang of four professional criminals kidnaps a wealthy teenage girl from an airport in Paris in a meticulous plan to extort money from the girl's wealthy father. Holding her prisoner in an isolated beach house, the gang's scheme runs perfectly until their personal demons surface and lead to a series of betrayals.

    Markimdb: 2.8
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA

    Victoria is a young mother trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts and a motorcycle to take out a series of violent gangsters—or she may never see her child again.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, crime, film noir, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:20

    George Kelly is angry at the world and scared to death of dying. A career bank robber, Kelly gets his confidence from his Thompson SMG and his girl Flo. After a botched robbery, Flo, Kelly and his gang try their hand at a more lucrative job: kidnapping.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration02:01

    A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima told in four parts. The first three parts relate events in three of his novels: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses. The last part depicts the events of 25th November 1970.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA

    A former thief who is trying to go straight seeks vengeance on those who framed him.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryGermany, Spain, USA
    Duration02:02

    An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany

    A man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there, he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    A criminal holds a wealthy family hostage.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:53

    When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:26

    Once a Los Angeles homicide detective, Police Chief Jesse Stone now presides over the quiet, seaside village of Paradise, Massachusetts. When the facts don't add up in a brutal Boston-area murder case, Jesse opens an investigation filled with surprises, unlikely suspects and grave danger. Though it's widely believed the murder was committed by an incarcerated serial killer, Jesse suspects another killer is at large and is hell-bent on bringing him to justice.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

    FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed is sent on an urgent mission with a former British spy, John Patrick Mason, to stop Gen. Francis X. Hummel from launching chemical weapons on Alcatraz Island into San Francisco. Gen. Hummel demands $100 million in war reparations to be paid to the families of slain servicemen who died on covert operations. After their SEAL team is wiped out, Stanley and John deal with the soldiers on their own.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genreaction, thriller, western
    CountryUSA

    A small-town marshal who hasn't carried a gun since he left the Texas Rangers after a tragic shooting must pick up his gun again to do battle with a gang of outlaw bikers that has invaded the town to pull off a brazen and violent heist.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, history
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong
    Duration02:46

    An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it.

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