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Captured (1998)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A car thief breaks into a man's house who is on a low because his career is being taken away. The man locks up the thief in the car, and tortures him.
Style:
psychological, clever, serious, suspenseful, independent film, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
held captive, torture, car thief, home invasion, hostage, vengeance, rivalry, confined, disorder, crime gone awry, dishonesty, businessman, captivity, security guard, mansion, captive, brother, greed, locked in, husband wife relationship, car, security system, trapped, land developer, deadly ...
Time:
90s
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Most similar movies to Captured
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and independent film films with plots about rivalry, deadly, danger, confined, dishonesty, vengeance and hostage mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Captured: Bone Dry (2007), BlackMale (2000), House Under Siege (2010), Hitched (2001), Stealing Candy (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Eddie finds himself being forced at a gunpoint, by an unseen assailant, on a dark and brutal journey through the harsh terrain of the Mojave desert. His nemesis is Jimmy, a man with an aberrant agenda; armed with a rifle, a scope, walkie-talkies and ...
Style:
suspenseful, mysterious, serious, realistic, cliffhanger ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, vengeance, punishment, torture, haunted by the past, manipulation, threat, chase, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, one man army, confined ...
Place:
mojave desert
Similarity:
100%
420
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Plot is actually pretty crafty and full of (surprisingly) unsuspecting twists. The special effects are actually quite realistic which is surprising for such a low budget movie. Bokeeem Woodbine plays his role with a serious emotion that only ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, siblings relations, disorder, dishonesty, crime gone awry, cons and scams, blackmail, home invasion, lesbian, sex, voyeurism, female nudity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Two young boys and a girl commit a diamond robbery on Halloween. During escape the girl is fatally shot. One of the boys knows a doctor (Jeremy London) who has a private clinic in his house. They decide to go to his house instead of the hospital ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
on the run, crime gone awry, confined, dishonesty, rivalry, fugitives, chase, gang, doctor, halloween, home invasion, master criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
47%
350
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After a homemaker discovers that her husband is a philanderer, she imprisons him in their soundproof basement and reports him missing to the police.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, dark comedy
Plot:
captivity, infidelity, husband wife relationship, missing person, family problems, secret place, crumbling marriage, isolation, unfaithful husband, vengeance, dishonesty, confined ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Three ex-cons kidnap a famous movie star and force her to film a sex tape live on the internet for a paying audience.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexploitation film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sexploitation, woman in danger, hostage, femme fatale, criminal's revenge, confined, movie star, criminal heroes, danger, crime gone awry, computers and web, kidnapping ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A neglectful mother overhears her husband on the telephone at their workplace talking with their babysitter. She discovers they are having an affair and are going to have a baby. She concocts an evil plan to win back her husband and remove the girl ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psycho, nanny, murder, infidelity, psychopath, couples, family relations, family problems, babies and infants, criminal heroes, danger, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
gangster, vengeance, partner, dishonesty, rivalry, murder, danger, car accident, car, son, revenge, friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In order to get her husband back, an architect's psycho ex-wife kills everybody she can get her hands on.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
psychopath, obsession, vengeance, danger, family in danger, obsessive love, murder, family life, manipulation, female psychopath, wife, architecture ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman desperate to save her injured husband is taken hostage by an escaped mental patient.
Style:
serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
hostage, unlikely criminals, danger, escapades, daring rescue, confined, chases and races, forces of nature, psychopath, married couple, negotiation, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A retired FBI profiler is called in on a last case - only to find himself at the mercy of a teenage killer's deadly game. He must use all his skills and experience to save lives, including his own.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
criminal psychologist, mind game, murder, serial killer, special agent, rivalry, youth, police investigation, investigation, violent content, confined, one last case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An industrialist's wife is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, daring rescue, missing person, danger, confined, race against time, crime gone awry, survival, escapades, rivalry, ransom ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
503
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
hostage, kidnapping, psychopath, danger, gang, rivalry, daring rescue, parents and children, chases and races, serial killer, criminal heroes, murderous pair ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A neglectful mother concocts a plan to kill her live-in nanny when she discovers the nanny is having an affair with her husband.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
vengeance, family relations, love affair, danger, nanny, attempted murder, adultery, urban, disorder, couple relations, crime gone awry, hitman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ray Liotta stars as Jack Malloy, a hardcore career criminal until a near-death experience causes him to turn his world around. But when his former partner Drake is released from prison, he tracks Jack down to blackmail him into one last job. Jack is ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, criminal, revenge, vengeance, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, going straight, frame up, husband wife relationship, ex convict, robbery, drug use ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Twenty years ago Danny Summer found his father hanging from the rafters on Christmas Eve. Ever since that night he has been plotting revenge. When Brian Hartwell moves into Jessica Michael's guesthouse, she has no idea that her new tenant has a ...
Style:
scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, christmas horror ...
Plot:
psychopath, split personality, vengeance, mind game, mysterious character, haunted by the past, danger, intrigue, supernatural, mentally unstable, chase, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Her boss made ​​a big mistake by not promoting it. Now is the perfect secretary in the service of revenge.
Style:
depressing, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
odd couple, vengeance, boss and employee, dishonesty, rivalry, workplace, power relations, workplace intrigue, manipulation, strong female presence, secretary, revenge ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Thriller - Helen Slater, Christopher Heyerdahl, Andrew McCarthy
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
captivity, home invasion, starting over, hostage, blind woman, criminal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, intruder, kidnapped, kidnapping, woman in danger, battles ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montreal
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In this psycho-thriller, a little girl and her mother find themselves the focus of a crazed couple's delusions. The horror begins after Cassie has a fight with her husband David and takes off in the car with their young daughter Samantha. ...
Style:
independent film, scary, mind bending, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
lesbian sex, kidnapping, psychopath, gays and lesbians, rape, serial killer, extreme violence, obsession, torture, hostage, on the road, blind ambition ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
captivity, hostage, confined, vengeance, couples, family problems, haunted by the past, dishonesty, danger, estate, dysfunctional marriage, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
29%
494
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Henry, an uptight businessman who sometimes acts with questionable ethics, nevertheless rejects Ron, a scam artist who wants a partner. Ron won't let up and finds a lever to blackmail Henry, whose daughter Gina has killed a pedestrian in a ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, hitman, unlikely criminals, parents and children, dishonesty, danger, manipulation, cons and scams, blackmail, serial killer, masturbation, hit and run ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
29%
279
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A woman's life is turned upside down when three armed robbers invade her home.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
hostage, kidnapping, family in danger, criminal's revenge, confined, crime gone awry, isolation, teenage girl, woman in jeopardy, abuse, fire, mother daughter relationship ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Alone in their isolated home where no cars pass and no one lives nearby, Vincent and Tally suffer together in a loveless marriage. But what they don't know is that they are not as alone as they think -- a criminal and his psychotic brother are ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, kidnapping, cons and scams, danger, dishonesty, crime gone awry, murderous pair, rivalry, graphic violence, nudity, violent content, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a couple is taken hostage in their home by an intruder, a simple home invasion robbery turns into something much more complicated...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
hostage, couples, heist, danger, confined, betrayal, vengeance, dishonesty, older man younger woman relationship, kidnapping, woman on top, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take revenge against his brother, our anti-hero must ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
gangster, betrayal, sibling rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, vengeance, violence, mafia, gang, violent content, rivalry, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
An office worker is trapped inside the building where a killer is on the loose.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
psychopath, danger, captivity, confined, workplace, workplace situations, conspiracy, corporate crime, isolation, killer, trapped, trap ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
one man army, captivity, ransom, psychopath, danger, rivalry, survival, confined, teenage life, wilderness, murderous pair, chases and races ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bonding family weekend turns sinister in a storm.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, forces of nature, stalker, confined, escapades, danger, hostage, stalking, fear, night, storm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
507
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An undercover agent (Anthony LaPaglia) uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, special agent, secret agent, violent content, law enforcement, master criminal, drug dealing, couple relations, partners against crime, dealing with death, chases and races, government agency ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Clayton Pierce is an agent working under deep cover. Although he is a top agent, he is questioning his loyalty after twenty years of service. His devotion has already cost him his wife, family and personal life. During a de-briefing from his last ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
working undercover, save the day, memory loss, undercover, rivalry, political conspiracy, government agency, danger, dishonesty, political corruption, terrorism, antidote ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Three spoiled college girls are held responsible for a handicapped boys death.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
rural setting, nudity, train, murder, violent content, school, family life, false accusation, mistaken identity, mental illness, college, disorder ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
25%
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