Movies like Captive 1998

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Captive (1998)
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Captive (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Joe Goodies has just entered an advertising agency after recovering from the death of his girlfriend in a car accident. Ruined by the compensation he has to pay for the accident, he decides, with his new girlfriend, to kidnap the son of the president of the agency and ask for a bailout.
Style: surprise ending
Plot: kidnapping, child kidnapping, boy, lesbian, lawyer, murder, homosexual, kidnapper, bisexual woman, prison guard, child abduction, wetting pants, boxer shorts, male underwear

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, captivating, tense and suspense films with plots about kidnapping, murder, female nudity, abduction, deadly, danger and investigation mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Captive: The Kissing Place (1990), The Collector (2002), Night Vision (2011), The Wrong Neighbor (2017), The Wrong Babysitter (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Kissing Place (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Every night the boy dreams he is someone else. Someone in danger. A crazy woman is after him. A woman who cannot have a son of her own. A story about a kidnapped boy, who finds out that the people he thought were his parents are his kidnappers. The ...
Plot: coming of age, kidnapping, child kidnapping, child abduction, taxi, murder, child in peril, memory, birth certificate, playground
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.0
 643
The Collector (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Une policière, Maud Graham, suit un tueur en série qui agresse des femmes. En même temps, elle héberge un jeune prostitué et un fugueur de 12 ans. L'action se déroule dans la ville et capitale de la province du même nom, Québec.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, neo noir
Plot: police investigation, murder, kidnapping, mind game, police detective, riddles and clues, who done it, life is a bitch, law enforcement, serial killer, sex crime, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 3.3
 586
Night Vision (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A womanizing reality-TV producer (Spencer) unwittingly sleeps with a mysterious woman (Alison), who turns out to be his own stalker. Alison then kidnaps Spencer and holds him hostage while she humiliates and abuses him, recording every moment on ...
Style: erotic, sexy, independent film
Plot: female nudity, kidnapping, television producer, femme fatale, security guard, home invasion, male nudity, murder, stalker, torture, electric torture, male objectification ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The Wrong Neighbor (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A recently separated father and his teenage daughter become the deadly obsession of their neighbor -- a beguiling, deranged young woman willing to do whatever's necessary to take her rightful place as their wife and mother.
Style: sexy, twist ending, surprise ending
Plot: woman seduces a man, strong female lead, fate, bare chested male, swimming pool, security guard, psycho, psycho killer, machete, daughter, kidnapping, secret ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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The Wrong Babysitter (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A recent kidnapping has single mom Susan worried about leaving her daughter Christy at home for an out-of-town trip - until neighbor Teri offers to "babysit," looking in on Christy and spending the night. But Susan rushes home when Christy ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful
Plot: kidnapping, abduction, neighbor, mother daughter relationship, problem, female protagonist, nanny, disappearance, lifestyle, family problems, mysterious disappearance, death of husband ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Troubled Waters (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Intrepid FBI agent Beck, assigned to solve the case of a multimillionaire couple's missing daughter. As clues begin to reveal themselves, Beck draws an explosive line connecting the kidnapper and the girl's mother -- and brings to light ...
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, riddles and clues, danger, race against time, supernatural, supernatural ability, infidelity, who done it, dishonesty, betrayal, special agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Obsession: Escaping My Ex (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After testifying against him for murder, 22 y/o Madison discovers her obsessive ex-boyfriend Blake has escaped from prison and is coming after her.
Style: tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: threat, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, stalker, witnessing a crime, ex couple relations, murder, witness, hunting, manhunt, murderer, threat to kill, kidnapping
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Legal Deceit (1997)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sydney Banks learns the hard way that being driven and educated is not the path to success. With the help of Todd Hunter her career takes off. Sydney gets pulled into corporate blackmail and murder. With the help of boyfriend Derek, she begins her ...
Style: independent film
Plot: murder, interracial, hostage, law firm, lawyer, african american
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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A Mother's Instinct (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a woman’s son goes missing and the prime suspect is released due to lack of evidence, she and her teenage daughter decide to play vigilante.
Style: psychological, bleak, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing son, cyberbullying, missing child, boy, parent child relationship, high school student, uncover truth, crime investigation, law enforcement, family relations, suspicion ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.4
 165
Gramps (1995)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a long search, lawyer Clarke MacGruder finally locates his long lost father Jack. At first, everything seems fine with his new extended family, until the two set off on a hunting trip, where Jack starts showing a rather violent streak to his ...
Plot: lawyer, family relations, murder, obsession, grandfather, sociopath, hunting
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, mad
Audience: toddlers
Plot: murder, cat, stalking, abortion, mind game, love, lawyer, photographer, baby, hotel, kidnapping, revenge ...
Time: year 1969
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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 321
Broken Trust (1995)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Judge Nash is highly regarded for his position and decisions in the courtroom. He's approached by a special agent from a government task force investigating corrupt judges and lawyers, and asked to participate in a sting operation. Initially ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, law, judge, murder, trial, sting operation, bribe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.0
 761
Two Wrongs (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sarah, a single mother working as an in-home nurse, confronts a parents worst nightmare when her daughter is abducted and she has to do the unthinkable to find her.
Style: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: child abduction, child hostage, mother daughter relationship, female doctor, blackmail, murder, single parent, unlikely criminal, moral dilemma, abduction, single mother, mother and daughter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.0
 71
Safe (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A thriller with a surprise twist about the NSA Deputy Director, who needs a genius plan to save his child from a kidnapper, who wants him to betray the privacy of all US citizens and make him the next Snowden with a devious marketing plan.
Style: psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: spy, kidnapped woman, agent, kidnapping, secret agent, risk, special agent, spying, race against time, abduction, child kidnapping, child
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Follow the Crows (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Long after the end of the world people wander the fields and woods that once housed the cities of Britain, in search of food, warmth and anything that may help them survive. One of these survivors is The Man (Max Curtis), haunted by the terrible ...
Style: psychological thriller, independent film
Plot: post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, post apocalypse, death, revenge, blood, love, violence, kidnapping, post apocalyptic, murder, fight
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.8
 182
Wrong Number (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Greed results in murder in the tumultuous world of Internet stocks.
Style: black comedy, independent film, detective, dark comedy, surprise ending
Plot: gambling, female vigilante, female nudity, flashback, adultery, murder, nightmare, narration from the grave, topless dancing, world
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.0
 131
Family (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Eldon and Cole pick up a hitchhiker, Jean on their father-son trip to find perspective on the back roads of America, they quickly learn that everything is not what it seems. As the road unfolds in front of them, so do their lives begin to ...
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: abduction, on the road, on the run, fugitives, hidden identity, under the surface, chases and races, parents and children, escaped prisoner, child in peril, prison escape, hitchhiking ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.1
 320
Abducted (1986)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mixed-up mountain boy kidnaps a pretty college student.
Style: surprise ending, independent film
Plot: kidnapping, creature feature, nature, home invasion, murder, hunting, wilderness, father son relationship, damsel in distress, woman, runner, filicide ...
Time: year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Cheerleader Murders (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A high school student whose father and sister were recently murdered begins her own investigation after two of her fellow cheerleaders are kidnapped. She sets out on a rescue mission, but the killer may already be hot on her trail.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: cheerleader, murder investigation, crime solving, uncover truth, killings, kidnapping, murderer, investigation, murder, murder mystery, crime investigation, serial killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.9
 97
Blackmail (1974)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A spoiled rich girl hatches a plot with her hippie friends to "kidnap" her so they can get a large ransom from her wealthy father.
Style: poliziottesco, sexploitation film
Plot: hippie, kidnapping, lgbt, blackmail, spoiled brat, kidnapped girl, rich father, stepmother, female nudity, bare breasts, lesbian, sexploitation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Abducted II: The Reunion (1995)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: independent film
Plot: kidnapping, camping, creature feature, home invasion, backwoods, helicopter, female nudity, murder, son, mountain man, topless
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.4
 419
FANatic (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Tess is the female lead in a very successful Sci-Fi series. She longs to escape from the sexist and stereotypical role that has given her fame but no one around her can believe she would leave a starring role. When a photo leaks that suggests her ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: female villain, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, sexism, female psychopath, problem, relationship problems, unfaithful husband, infidelity, murder, producer, theft ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
From the Inside (2010)
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, rivalry, murderous pair, danger, crime gone awry, dishonesty, cons and scams, kidnapping, graphic violence, violent content, nudity, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 5.6
 494
Deadbolt (1992)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When medical student Marty places an ad for a roommate, her ad is answered by handsome, clean-cut Alec. At first Alec seems to be a wonderful roommate; supportive, considerate and a real friend. However, Alec's affection turns to obsession as ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, dark ...
Plot: obsessive love, woman in danger, murder, investigation, betrayal, mentally unstable, obsession, captivity, couples, prison life, kidnapping, maniac ...
Time: 90s
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.2
 290
Water Damage (1999)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: One year after the drowning death of his young son, Paul Preedy (Daniel Baldwin) receives an invitation to a reunion at his prep school. Paul decides to go, taking his remaining son with him. When they arrive, they find that only two other people ...
Style: slasher, mind bending, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, nypd, transgender, murder, buddies, investigation, psychopath, high school, kidnapping, haunted by the past, high school life, violent content ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.0
 478
Zephyr Springs (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Dawn, an overworked single mother, agrees to take her teenage daughter, Kayla, to a luxurious but isolated spa retreat, the women believe they have escaped to a paradise of spa treatments, yoga, and nature hikes until a series of disturbing ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense, scary ...
Plot: resort, woman in danger, single parent, witnessing a crime, kidnapping, danger, isolation, family relations, murder, parents and children, weekend, guru ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.2
 39
La Festa (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ten classmates have disappeared on the evening of 3rd March 2011. The boys were in the family home of one of them, Fabio, for a party. But the next morning, none of them was still there. Gone, vanished into thin air. A few months later their parents ...
Plot: nudity, drug, sex, party, friendship, lesbian, death, murder, lesbian sex, halloween, gun
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
 1K
Reckless (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ex-cons Victor and Rico have masterminded a foolproof plan to abduct millonaires’ daughter Laura Temming. When she is kidnapped and placed in a remote and soundproofed room, gradually the power relations shift. Exactly who is the perpetrator and ...
Plot: kidnapping, ransom, ex convict, lgbt, male pubic hair, woman in jeopardy, violence, van, blackmail, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, bare chested male, bare butt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Mommy Is a Murderer (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When Karina becomes friends with Lena and her daughter Mallie, she begins to suspect that Mallie isn’t Lena’s daughter at all, but a girl named Emily who was kidnapped from her biological parents several years prior.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot: kidnapping, little girl, criminal, kidnapped, kidnapper, suspect, kids and family, kidnapped girl, suspicion, woman with a gun, danger, store ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Dangerous Isolation (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A weekend vacation turns terrifying when computer scientist Samantha (Alexandra Paul) and her daughter are lured into the hands of a killer. Kidnapped and held hostage, Samantha is given a choice: she must use her expertise to help her captors carry ...
Style: psychological thriller, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: abduction, kidnapped woman, parents and children, kidnapping, criminal, hostage, murderer, kidnapped, mother daughter relationship, psycho killer, homicidal maniac, lesbian ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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