Stockholm syndrome movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant stockholm syndrome movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense and captivating films and TV shows about / with stockholm syndrome, kidnapping, abduction, female nudity, love and romance, fall in love, bare chested male, murder, hostage and confined plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as stockholm syndrome: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), Twisted Seduction (2010), 365 Days (2020), Labor Day (2013), In Your Hands (2010), Kidnap (2008), Berlin Syndrome (2017), Sweet Hostage (1975), Harem (1985), Rosy (2018).

List of stockholm syndrome movies

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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
Style: sexy, erotic, dark comedy, art house, romantic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, stockholm syndrome, porn star, obsessive love, porn actress, kidnapping, female masturbation, sex, love and romance, bdsm, nudity, porn actor ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 90s, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe
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Twisted Seduction (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Applying his computerlike mind to the subject of dating, transplanted British mathematician David Grant (Tom Broadwell) searches all of Montreal for the perfectly compatible woman. But when he finds her (Caroline Brassard), Grant goes one step ...
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, psychological manipulation, love, kidnapped woman, romantic obsession, abduction, obsession, kidnapped, star crossed lovers, romancing a criminal, male female relationship ...
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 3.3
 98K
365 Days (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Laura, in order to save her relationship from falling apart, goes to Sicily, where she meets Massimo. A dangerous man, the head of a mafia family, kidnaps her and gives 365 days to love him.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: sex, sex scene, erotica, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, passion, rich man poor woman, lust, captive woman, oral sex, strong sexual content, abduction ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: sicily, warsaw poland, italy
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 6.9
 51K
Labor Day (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: unlikely relationship, stockholm syndrome, single mother, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, single parent, family relations, boy, escapades, parents and children, love ...
Time: year 2013, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
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 5.4
 806
In Your Hands (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Stockholm Syndrome. Feelings arise between a young kidnapper and his victim, a woman surgeon. He seeks revenge for a medical accident that prevents him from living peacefully and decides to kidnapp the woman he holds responsible. When the latter ...
Style: serious, tense, emotional, realistic, neo noir
Plot: vengeance, dangerous attraction, sexual abuse, life is a bitch, stockholm syndrome, danger, grudge, couples, fall in love, imprisonment, police, kidnapper kidnapped relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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 4.6
 3K
Kidnap (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A fortnight before her eighteenth birthday, Sonia goes missing. Her family receives a call informing them that she has been kidnapped and her estranged father, a US-based businessman, must now follow the kidnapper’s instructions to the letter if ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: stockholm syndrome, woman in danger, kidnapping, hostage, chase, vengeance, family relations, rivalry, rescue, danger, confined, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Berlin Syndrome (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, atmospheric, exciting ...
Plot: trapped, psychopath, captive, stockholm syndrome, kidnapped, kidnapping, obsession, attempted escape, missing person, held captive, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, man hits a woman ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: berlin germany, oceania, germany, europe
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 6.8
 818
Sweet Hostage (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An escaped mental patient kidnaps an illiterate teenage farm girl and takes her to his mountain hide-away, where they soon become friends and, eventually, lovers.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, offbeat
Plot: stockholm syndrome, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, hostage, kidnapping, young love, age difference, lovers on the run, forbidden love, mental institution, farm, kidnapped girl, escaped mental patient ...
Time: 70s
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 4.7
 804
Harem (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Diane is a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange who is suddenly kidnapped and held captive in a North African desert hideaway by Selim, an Arab mogul.
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: stockholm syndrome, sheik, kidnapping, sexual relations, relationships, culture clash, couples, obsession, harem, nudity, moral ambiguity, age difference ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: ottoman empire, new york
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 4.8
 958
Rosy (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A socially awkward young man kidnaps an aspiring actress with the hope that they will fall in love. A psychosexual noir that explores power dynamics between men and women.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark
Plot: captive woman, stockholm syndrome, abduction, psychopath, actress, coercion, goofy hero, danger, outcast, murder, maniac, obsession ...
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Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, independent film ...
Plot: kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, family problems, homecoming, parents and children, hopes, redemption, child abuse, teenage girl, isolation, fish out of water, starting over ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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Kill Me Later (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she's taken hostage by Charlie Anders, a fleeing bank robber. He and his partners have stolen a ...
Style: entertaining, light, tense, serious, independent film ...
Plot: heist, opposites attract, couples, police, bank, criminal heroes, love affair, fish out of water, hostage, stockholm syndrome, adultery, on the run ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: vancouver
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The Kyoto Connection (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes her and keeps her hostage and bound in chains. Christina's alluring beauty eventually enchants ...
Style: erotic
Plot: kidnapping, exploitation, rape, martial arts, female nudity, sex scene, woman, sex, bomb, airport, bare breasts, kidnapped woman ...
Place: japan
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 6.2
 3K
Kept Woman (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jessica and her fiancé Evan just moved from the city into their dream home on a quiet suburban street. Soon after, Jessica catches her seemingly friendly new neighbor, Simon, in a strange lie and can't let her suspicions rest. The danger ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: held captive, kidnapping, abduction, imprisonment, female protagonist, prison, disappearance, brainwashing, professor, robbery, stalker, missing person ...
Place: new york
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The Abduction of Zack Butterfield (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A beautiful but disturbed young woman returns to the US after combat as a American mercenary in Iraq and abducts a 14 year old New York boy, holding him prisoner in her isolated country home as a bizarre relationship develops.
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller
Plot: teenage sexuality, sex with a minor, coming of age, stockholm syndrome, female psychopath, kidnapping, obsession, teenage boy, sheriff, fall in love, isolation, search and rescue ...
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 3.6
 18K
Swept Away (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue.
Style: sexy, humorous, light, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: island, stranded on an island, tropical island, shipwreck, stranded, stockholm syndrome, rich woman, survival, beautiful scenery, life philosophy, twists and turns, love story ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: europe, italy, greece, mediterranean sea
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 6.1
 15K
Stockholm (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The events grasped the world’s attention when the hostages ...
Style: dark comedy, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: stockholm syndrome, hostage, bank, bank robber, hostage situation, criminal as protagonist, negotiation, criminal, ransom, american abroad, husband wife relationship, chief of police ...
Time: 90s, 70s, year 1973
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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 7.4
 60K
Buffalo '66 (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
Style: black comedy, psychological, dark comedy, art house, cult classic ...
Plot: alienation, prison, kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, bowling, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, gambling, relationships, blackmail, debt, strip club ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york state, new york, usa
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 6.3
 2K
Patty Hearst (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were fighting for. ...
Style: suspenseful, thought provoking, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: terrorism, kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, danger, rescue, revolution, political corruption, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, rebellion, rebelliousness, fighting the system ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, year 1976
Place: los angeles, san francisco
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 6.1
 410
Could We Maybe (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 15-year-old Kim - an ordinary teenager, given mostly to himself, living with an unmarried mother in a small apartment. Once Kim together with an unfamiliar girl falls hostage during a bank robbery, but after making ​​friends with the leader of ...
Plot: coming of age, teenager, bank robber, children, stockholm syndrome, boyhood, bank, bank robbery, erotic dream, loss of virginity, female nudity, sexuality ...
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Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: native american, interracial romance, native american white relationships, american indian, native american attack, captive woman, stockholm syndrome, indian attack, squaw, captivity, moral dilemma, held captive ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: kansas
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Dangerous Drugs of Sex (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Katsuragi, an elite office worker who fell from a perfect life, drunkenly attempted to jump and commit suicide. Suddenly, he was helped by a mysterious man, Yoda, but that was the beginning of a horrible life of confinement training...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: gay rape, sexual sadism, lgbt, suicide attempt, bondage, office worker, love and romance, sadism, sadist, sadistic violence, mysterious stranger, mysterious man ...
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A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, witty, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, hostage, angel, ransom, screwball, heaven, robbery, murder, unlikely couple, confined, on the run ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: utah, usa, los angeles, california
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 7.6
 30K
Highway (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, emotional, sad ...
Plot: stockholm syndrome, kidnapping, on the road, fall in love, self discovery, unlikely couple, freedom, character change, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, on the run, travel, troubled ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "Beautiful Girl Hunter" by Norifumi Suzuki is based on manga by Maasaki Soto.The film portrays the life of Tatsuya,a young man of proper descent whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture.This handsome rapist seduces ...
Style: naughty, controversial, sexual, erotic, erotic drama ...
Plot: sex with daughter, rape, rape turns to consensual sex, rape and revenge, humiliation, female victim, bestiality, rape victim, kidnapped woman, sadomasochism, sex with brother, sexual humiliation ...
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 4.6
 891
Mischief Night (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The night before Halloween, a teenage babysitter is stalked by a masked killer; but in an unusual turn of events, victim and victimizer begin to develop romantic feelings for each other.
Style: slasher, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot: halloween, killer, abduction, danger, couples, pursuit, home invasion, death, body horror, serial killer, stockholm syndrome, macabre ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.9
 290
Abduction (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The daughter of wealthy businessman is taken hostage by a gang of radical black revolutionaries. While she fears for her life at first, she gradually starts to become sympathetic to her kidnappers' cause, and begins to consider herself to be ...
Style: surprise ending, independent film
Plot: stockholm syndrome, erotica, kidnapped, blaxploitation, female pubic hair, abduction, female nudity, father daughter relationship, family relations, politics, mogul, revolutionary ...
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Gardens of the Night (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
Style: bleak, serious, sincere, teen, depressing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: kidnapping, child prostitution, child molester, pimp, child molestation, rape, abuse, child abduction, pedophile, haunted by the past, pedophilia, child abuse ...
Place: california, usa, pennsylvania, san diego california
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 5.8
 15K
1BR (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Sarah lucks into a sweet one-bedroom at Asilo Del Mar Apartments in Los Angeles, she think she's hit the jackpot. It's got plenty of space, friendly tenants, group BBQs and even a cute neighbour next door. All is not what it seems: ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, brutal, suspenseful ...
Plot: neighbor neighbor relationship, community, apartment building, sect, brainwashing, father daughter relationship, stockholm syndrome, murder, coercion, loneliness, widower, girl heroine ...
Place: los angeles
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 6.8
 683
The Hussy (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Twenty-year old misfit François earns his living by gathering boxes and bottles to resell to local shopkeepers. He lives with his grossly insensitive mother and stepfather. Mado is a gawky 11-year old, who is neglected by her family because of the ...
Style: controversial, crying
Plot: stockholm syndrome, children, dysfunctional family, adult child friendship, child kidnapping, cycling, rural setting, 11 year old girl, kidnapper, unemployed, motorcycle, family relations ...
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