Captivity movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant captivity movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, rough and psychological films and TV shows about / with captivity, confined, kidnapping, danger, isolation, torture, serial killer, kidnapped, psychopath and hostage plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres shot in USA, Canada, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as captivity: Chained (2012), Caged (2011), Cleveland Abduction (2015), True Love (2012), The Pet (2006), The Bunny Game (2011), Scrapbook (2000), An American Crime (2007), Truth (2013), Girl in the Basement (2021).
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23K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, captivity, misogynist, abuse, kidnapping, slave, serial rapist, psychopath, escape attempt, childhood trauma, isolated house, strong violent content ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle, canada
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1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After years of suppressing her desires, Stella finds she can no longer ignore her deep-rooted longings. Breaking out of her cage and starting a secret double-life, Stella transforms into a "unicorn", a nickname for single women who indulge ...
Style:
erotic, psychological, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
captivity, erotica, threesome, unprotected sex, sexual torture, strong sexual content, sexual abuse, infidelity, uncover truth, introspection, voyeur, confined ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
kidnapping, true crime, captivity, isolation, violence, missing person, woman in danger, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, abuse, cruelty, rape ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2002, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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839
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On the surface, Kate and Jack, late 20's, are happy. But like everyone, they carry secrets that neither of them is prepared to reveal. After their wedding, they wake from a deep, dark sleep, each alone in a sealed room with no doors or windows, ...
Style:
psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, independent film ...
Plot:
captivity, couples, psychological torture, danger, isolation, marriage, cell, trust, mind game, hidden truth, secret, sleep deprivation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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792
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young woman in dire financial straights accepts an offer to be a wealthy aristocrat's human "pet" for six months. Then ruthless modern "pet-nappers" kidnap the woman to sell her on the GSM (Global Slave Market).
Style:
sexy, psychological, disturbing, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
bdsm, slave auction, sexual abuse, fetish, slave trader, female pubic hair, making love, captivity, alternative lifestyle, power relations, confined, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A prostitute looking for her next meal hitches a ride with a trucker that leaves her praying for her next breath.
Style:
extreme horror, disturbing, sadistic, controversial, black and white ...
Plot:
sadism, perversity, captivity, misogyny, sexual cruelty, torture, sex, violence, sexual torture, mercilessness, prostitute, kidnapped woman ...
Time:
year 2016
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his “life story” by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims. In addition to adhering Polaroids, scraps of clothing, and other small trophies to the pages, Leonard ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, bleak, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, sexual abuse, captivity, rape and revenge, torture, sexual torture, photograph, rape victim, kidnapping, extreme cruelty, woman on top, rape ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Style:
disturbing, harsh, bleak, brutal, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
child abuse, true crime, torture, captivity, murder, threat, dysfunctional family, children, court, courtroom drama, domestic violence, trial ...
Time:
year 2007, 60s, 20th century
Place:
indiana, usa
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899
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A suspenseful, psychological thriller, "Truth" exposes the hidden demons buried deep inside each and every one of us. After a chance encounter over the Internet, Caleb (Sean Paul Lockhart, "Milk", "Judas Kiss", ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gay relationship, captivity, gay couple, jealous boyfriend, gay, borderline personality disorder, uncover truth, manipulation, bare chested male, child abuse, insanity, gay love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, dark, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
basement, abusive father, father, hostage, father and daughter, captivity, strict father, hidden room, domineering father, bomb shelter, violent father, rescue ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Is relevant?
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
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After dating a wonderful man, Hope comes back home, sees her daughter Jennifer and goes to sleep. She wakes-up in the woods with a psychopath...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
captivity, kidnapping, torture, danger, family in danger, confined, vengeance, parent child relationship, redneck, kidnapped, captive, hostage ...
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18K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
Style:
realistic, saga, rough, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, child abuse, psychological torture, rape, abduction, basement, life is a bitch, violence against women, pedophile, missing child, stockholm syndrome, kidnapped ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
germany, austria
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10K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of Chong Kim who, as a young teen, was abducted into the sex trade, and the complicated moral choices she had to make in order to survive as her situation grew more desperate.
Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, sex trafficking, kidnapping, prostitution, captivity, rape, teenage life, pimp, slavery, smuggling, prostitute, sex slave ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, nevada, las vegas, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Kidnapped by a mysterious figure, three women find themselves trapped in an abandoned hospital. Held against their will for months, the prisoners are faced with life-transforming decisions and must struggle for their lives.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, independent film ...
Plot:
captivity, pregnancy, hospital, psychopath, isolation, woman in danger, danger, unwanted pregnancy, abortion clinic, kidnapped, trapped, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
3K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
kidnapping, captivity, scarecrow, organ trafficking, woman in danger, confined, danger, basement, farmhouse, abduction, expedition, kidnapped ...
Time:
turn of the century, 21st century
Place:
kosovo, europe, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.
Style:
erotic, sexy, disturbing, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
sex crime, woman rapes man, kidnapping, fetish, sex slave, sexual abuse, kidnapped man, male rape victim, female rapist, male rape, making love, rape and revenge ...
Place:
australia
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20K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man imprisons the woman he's still obsessed with after years apart, then finds the tables turned on him.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, basement, captivity, kidnapping, psychopath, fear, locked in a cage, captive, stalking, female psychopath, sadist, animal shelter ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Locked up and isolated, constantly exposed and threatened to be killed, for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free man.
Style:
psychological, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
captivity, human spirit, introspection, freedom, hopes, danger, confined, survival, solitary, faith, kidnapping, free spirit ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but an horrific accident leaves her at his mercy. The plot ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sexy, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, crimes of passion, obsessive love, amputation, captivity, unfulfilled love, male nudity, unrequited love, danger, sex scene, couples, power relations ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ilsa works for an Arab sheik who enjoys importing females to use as sex slaves.
Style:
sexy, sensual, grindhouse, erotic, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
women in prison, sexploitation, captive woman, sexual cruelty, kidnapping, femdom, harem, lesbian sex, sexual abuse, exploitation, slave auction, muslim girl ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, arabia, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style:
controversial, disgusting, erotic, extreme horror, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot:
torture, atrocity, sexual perversion, sex, fascism, sexual abuse, sexual torture, sadism, brutality, rape, libertine, captivity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944 ...
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
missing person, serial killer, psychopath, woman in danger, survival, obsession, confined, isolation, captivity, danger, master criminal, rivalry ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 63 min.
TV show
Story:
When a sixteen-year-old girl from the Ukraine, a single mother from Russia, an orphaned seventeen-year-old girl from Romania, and a twelve-year-old American tourist become the victims of international sex slave traffickers, a specialized team of ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, sex trafficking, captivity, violence against women, slavery, forced prostitution, child prostitution, child abduction, rape of a girl, child rape, corruption ...
Place:
eastern europe, the philippines, thailand, ukraine, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?
Style:
sexy, disturbing, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
captivity, missing person, wrong place wrong time, woman in danger, danger, isolation, medical, twists and turns, violence spree, gory, christmas, clinic ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
australia, oceania
Is relevant?
27K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
Style:
disturbing, horrifying, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, torture, captivity, husband wife relationship, sadism, sexual assault, sexual sadism, sexploitation, rape and revenge, incestuous relationship, eating human flesh, suffering ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
864
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A couple moves into a quiet neighborhood. With too much time on her hands, the woman begins to suspect that someone is confined in the basement next door.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
captive, neighbor, captivity, woman in danger, couples, family relations, dishonesty, psychopath, basement, relocation, crazy neighbor, chamberplay ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mysterious new girl arrives in posh suburban neighborhood and quickly sets out to terrorize the town. As she starts breaking into homes and torturing the occupants, they begin to realize that she isn't just another girl next door.
Style:
bloody, suspenseful, serious, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female psychopath, sex, evil wins, torture, gory, psychopath, amputation, confined, captivity, strong violent content, society, suburbs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Lola Stone asked Brent Mitchell to the prom, but Brent said no, and now he's screwed. What happens when Lola doesn't get what she wants? She enlists Daddy's help to throw a prom of her own, where she is queen and Brent is king -- ...
Style:
scary, creepy, disturbing, dark, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, torture, prom, revenge, kidnapping, femme fatale, female psychopath, teenage girl, captivity, obsessive love, escape, locked in a room ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
australia, united kingdom, oceania, melbourne, california
Is relevant?
24K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When their car breaks down, a couple on the run headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, horror comedy, perverse ...
Plot:
captivity, home invasion, sadistic killer, captive, young couple, eccentric family, abused child, mental disorder, secret, heist gone wrong, sadist, dark secret ...
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