London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authorities decide whether a military squad should intervene.

Unlucky Plaza

2014

English

6.2

♡ 1

58%

Action

based on a true story

Ken Kwek Director

Petrina Kow as English reporter Rui Min

Rui Min as Mandarin reporter

Tracy Phillips as News anchor

Nicholas Lim as Officer Wong

The lives of an arrogant young motivational speaker in debt to the Chinese mafia, his lookin’-to-get-out girlfriend, and a single father in dire straits fatefully intertwine in this nail-biting thriller from Singapore that is based, almost unbelievably, on a true story.

Sweethearts

5.8

Karoline Herfurth Director

Ruby O. Fee as Coco

Ronald Zehrfeld as Frank

Karoline Herfurth as Franny

Kida Khodr Ramadan as Tarek

It's double trouble when fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery throw Mel and Franny together in a race and chase against time.

Active Stealth

1999

English

3.3

♡ 5

23%

Fred Olen Ray Director

Andrew Stevens as Capt. Jack Stevens

Daniel Baldwin as Capt. Murphy

Tim Abell as Lt. Rab Carter

Terry Funk as Morgan

After Captain Murphy lost some of his men on his last mission to Mexico to bring back a US Senator, he has been plagued with unhappiness and bad dreams. When Murphy is given orders to go back to Mexico to help Mexican people slaving for Salvatore, a rich drug dealer, he must use a new technology plane to get there. The plane is technically advanced with a new protection luxury called 'Active Stealth'. Murphy and his men get aboard the 'Active Stealth', piloted by Hollywood who dreams of being an actor and embark to Mexico. The action never stops from then on when Salvatore sends his men in to block them from getting through.

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2009

English

6.1

♡ 12

51%

Werner Herzog Director

Michael Shannon as Brad Macallam

Willem Dafoe as Detective Havenhurst

Michael Peña as Detective Vargas

Dave Bautista as Officer, San Diego Police Department S.W.A.T Team

Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.

A Thursday

2022

Hindi

7.6

♡ 15

13%

Behzad Khambata Director

Neha Dhupia as ACP Catherine Alvarez

Atul Kulkarni as Javed Khan

Yami Gautam as Naina Jaiswal

Dimple Kapadia as Prime Minister Maya Rajguru

When a kindergarten teacher takes her 16 students hostage and makes a set of demands, it not only rattles the Mumbai police and the city but also sends shockwaves through the country and its leaders as the motive behind the hostage situation is unearthed.

Party Girl

1958

English

♡ 5

83%

Nicholas Ray Director

Kent Smith as Jeffrey Stewart

Kem Dibbs as Joey Vulner

John Ireland as Louis Canetto

Margaret Bert as Wardrobe Woman

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.

Breaking

2022

English

6.3

♡ 62

81%

Abi Damaris Corbin Director

Nicole Beharie as Estel Valerie

Elise Neal as Juanita

Connie Britton as Lisa Larson

Mel Fair as Mark Cavanaugh

Desperate for money and running out of options, Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley holds several people hostage inside a bank, setting the stage for a tense confrontation with police.

Locked-in Society

2022

German

6.1

♡ 1

Comedy

hostage situation

teacher

teacher student relationship

Sönke Wortmann Director

Anke Engelke as Heidi Lohmann

Justus von Dohnányi as Klaus Engelhardt

Thorsten Merten as Manfred Prohaska

Florian David Fitz as Peter Mertens

On a Friday afternoon, there was an unexpected knock on the door of the staff room of a city high school. An ambitious father is willing to go to extremes to get his son admitted to high school. The six teachers who are still at school so shortly before the start of the weekend now have to find out the hard way. After some unexpected twists and embarrassing revelations, true abysses open up for everyone involved...

Operation Red Sea

2018

Chinese

6.6

♡ 82

80%

Dante Lam Director

Jacky Cai as Drone pilot

Simon Yam as Newspaper editor Alfred

Hassane Guannouni as Sayyid

Nisrine Adam as Yuna

A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.

Tiger Zinda Hai

2017

Hindi

5.9

♡ 95

64%

Ali Abbas Zafar Director

Anant Vidhaat Sharma as Karan

Anupriya Goenka as Poorna

Paresh Rawal as Theuban / Firdaus

Salman Khan as Tiger / Avinash Singh Rathore

When a group of Indian and Pakistani nurses are held hostage in Iraq by a terrorist organization, a renowned Indian secret agent is drawn out of hiding to rescue them.

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes

2018

Japanese

7.3

♡ 95

100%

Kenji Nagasaki Director

Kiyotaka Furushima as Hanta Sero

Daiki Yamashita as Izuku Midoriya

Ayane Sakura as Ochako Uraraka

Mitsuru Ogata as Samuel Abraham

All Might and Deku accept an invitation to go abroad to a floating and mobile manmade city, called 'I-Island', where they research quirks as well as hero supplemental items at the special 'I-Expo' convention that is currently being held on the island. During that time, suddenly, despite an iron wall of security surrounding the island, the system is breached by a villain, and the only ones able to stop him are the students of Class 1-A.

Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis

2022

German

7.5

♡ 4

57%

Volker Heise Director

Talha Senturk as

Dieter Degowski as Self

Hans-Jürgen Rösner as Self

Marion Löblich as Self

In August 1988, two armed bank robbers keep German police at bay for 54 hours during a hostage-taking drama that ends in a shootout and three deaths.

To Steal from a Thief

2016

Spanish

6.2

♡ 4

50%

Daniel Calparsoro Director

Antonio Resines as José Utrilla

Joaquín Furriel as Loco

José Coronado as Mellizo

Eduard Fernández as Sergio

Valencia, Spain. On a rainy morning, six armed men in disguise assault a bank. But what seemed like an easy heist, quickly goes wrong with nothing unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.

Rawhide

1951

English

7.1

♡ 6

59%

Henry Hathaway Director

Robert Adler as Billy Dent

Louis Jean Heydt as Fickert

William Haade as Gil Scott

Edgar Buchanan as Sam Todd

At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.

Hostage

2005

English

6.5

♡ 61

35%

Florent-Emilio Siri Director

Art LaFleur as Bill Jorgenson

Bruce Willis as Jeff Talley

Jamie McShane as Joe Mack

Tina Lifford as Laura Shoemaker

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.

Yannick

2023

French

♡ 6

94%

Quentin Dupieux Director

Lucie Gallo as La fille au clic-clac

Pio Marmaï as Paul Rivière

Blanche Gardin as Sophie Denis

Raphaël Quenard as Yannick

In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.

Shotgun Wedding

2022

English

5.5

♡ 106

45%

Jason Moore Director

Jennifer Coolidge as Carol Fowler

Sonia Braga as Renata Ortiz

Desmin Borges as Ricky Silver

Josh Duhamel as Tom Fowler

Darcy and Tom gather their families for the ultimate destination wedding but when the entire party is taken hostage, “’Til Death Do Us Part” takes on a whole new meaning. Now, Darcy and Tom must save their loved ones—if they don’t kill each other first.

Prime Time

2021

Polish

5.2

♡ 3

53%

Jakub Piatek Director

Julian Swiezewski as Dawid

Magdalena Poplawska as Mira Kryle

Cezary Kosinski as Piotr

Richard Epcar as President

On the last day of 1999, 20-year-old Sebastian locks himself in a TV studio. He has two hostages, a gun, and an important message for the world. The story of the attack explores a rebel’s extreme measures and last resort.