Hostage for a Day

La Grande Embrouille

July 1990 •French

Quick Change

July 1990 •English

With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.

Adventures in Babysitting

July 1987 •English

When plans with her boyfriend fall through, high school senior Chris Parker ends up babysitting the Anderson kids, Brad and Sara. What should be a quiet night in, however, turns into a series of ridiculous exploits, starting when they leave the house to pick up Chris' friend Brenda. Soon, Brad's buddy Daryl is involved, and the group must contend with car thieves, blues musicians and much more.

StalkHer

August 2015 •English

An obsessive prowler Jack (Jarratt) breaks into the home of his victim Emily (Fairfax). Finding himself wounded then tied to a chair, Jack soon realises he underestimated his intended prey as the two engage in a night long tête-à-tête.

Mutant on the Bounty

August 1989 •English

The crew of an interplanetary commercial freighter beams aboard a now horribly mutated saxophone player who has been adrift in space for over twenty years. He starts to get along with the crew, and very close with an alluring journalist. But that's when two criminals are beamed aboard, taking the ship hostage.

Blondie's

August 2024 •English

A man with a strange occupation kidnaps a woman he met at a party and tries to convince her to fall in love with him.

Novocaine

March 2025 •English

When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.

Piranhaconda

June 2012 •English

A hybrid creature - half piranha and half anaconda -- attacks a low-budget horror movie crew on location near her nest when her egg is stolen. Now they must outrun and kill the deadly piranhaconda as well as stop the mad scientist who stole the egg - before they all become dinner.

Crazy Incident

December 1993 •Arabic

A man decides to kidnap a woman and lock her in his house because he loves her, and while she tries to find a way to escape from this prison that this man prepared for her, an unexpected relationship arises between them.

Nobody Special

Invalid date •English

Zeff Culkin is nobody special, a timid teenaged stockboy who might be easily forgotten, if he were ever noticed in the first place. His life-long curse of social invisibility becomes a life-saving skill when a disgruntled co-worker takes the store staff hostage... but overlooks Zeff. Using his remarkable powers of utter insignificance, Zeff baffles the bully to save the only girl that ever made him feel like somebody special.

Bullet Scars

March 1942 •English

Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.

Liberty Stands Still

January 2002 •English

As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Liberty Wallace is indifferent to the atrocities made possible through her business and her CEO husband, Victor. On her way to see her actor lover, Liberty ends up chained to a food cart full of explosives -- all at the insistence of "Joe", a sniper whose young daughter was a victim of gun violence, and who now has Liberty in his sights.

Air Force One

July 1997 •English

When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

Faceless After Dark

August 2023 •English

Following her breakout role in a killer clown horror flick, Bowie now finds herself struggling to capitalize on its success, but when she is suddenly held hostage by an unhinged fan posing as that same killer clown, horror becomes her reality as she fights to survive the night and escape before he completes his sinister plan to recreate the film's fatal plot.

Corridor 12

December 2019 •Portuguese

A man takes five people hostages on a supermarket.

Escape Plan 2: Hades

June 2018 •English

Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ever built, Ray must track him down with the help of some of his former friends.

Suddenly

September 1954 •English

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.

Five Minutes to Live

December 1961 •English

A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband works.

444 jours qui ont fait plier l'Amérique

June 2022 •French

On January 20, 1981, 52 members of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran were released after 444 days of captivity. Told by those who lived through it, a crisis that traumatized America and upset the political balance in the Middle East.

Going Down for the 3rd Time

March 1969 •English

Three female spies are assigned to break up an international spy ring and liberate three of their colleagues who are being held hostages.