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, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, psychological and rough films and TV shows about / with captivity, confined, kidnapping, danger, kidnapped, isolation, murder, torture, serial killer and psychopath plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as captivity: The Pet (2006), Chained (2012), Girl in the Basement (2021), Pet (2016), Cleveland Abduction (2015), The Bunny Game (2011), An American Crime (2007), Hitched (2001), 3096 Days (2013), Caged (2010).

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 3.6
 705
The Pet (2006)
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: psychological, disturbing, realistic, rough, sexy ...
Plot: bdsm, sexual abuse, slave auction, slave trader, fetish, dehumanization, power relations, confined, captivity, life is a bitch, lifestyle, alternative lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.4
 21K
Chained (2012)
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: disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, captivity, slave, misogynist, kidnapping, serial rapist, psychopath, abuse, childhood trauma, escape attempt, isolated house, slavery ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Girl in the Basement (2021)
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, mindfuck ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: basement, abusive father, domineering father, hostage, captivity, father and daughter, father, rescue, strict father, violent father, bomb shelter, hidden room ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
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 5.7
 19K
Pet (2016)
Genre: 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, bleak, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, basement, kidnapping, captivity, stalking, psychopath, locked in a cage, disturbed individual, fear, stalker, animal shelter, obsessive love ...
Place: los angeles
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Cleveland Abduction (2015)
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, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, true crime, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, rape, missing person, cruelty, abduction ...
Time: 2010s, year 2002, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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The Bunny Game (2011)
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: disturbing, extreme horror, sadistic, controversial, black and white ...
Plot: sadism, prostitute, perversity, torture, misogyny, sexual cruelty, captivity, sex, violence, deviant sex, sexual torture, torturer ...
Time: year 2016
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An American Crime (2007)
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, serious, bleak, brutal ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: child abuse, true crime, torture, dysfunctional family, murder, captivity, courtroom drama, family problems, domestic violence, court, trial, mistreatment ...
Time: 60s, year 2007, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
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 5.4
 337
Hitched (2001)
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, tense, realistic
Plot: captivity, infidelity, missing person, husband wife relationship, secret place, family problems, crumbling marriage, isolation, unfaithful husband, torture, vengeance, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.5
 16K
3096 Days (2013)
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, rough, twisted, teen, controversial ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, child abuse, rape, psychological torture, abduction, life is a bitch, basement, pedophile, violence against women, missing child, hostage, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, austria
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 5.3
 2K
Caged (2010)
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, suspenseful, scary, bleak, serious ...
Plot: kidnapping, abduction, captive, captivity, woman in danger, confined, organ trafficking, basement, farmhouse, danger, expedition, kidnapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kosovo, europe, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
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 4.9
 813
True Love (2012)
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: psychological torture, captivity, couples, danger, isolation, cell, marriage, trust, secret, hidden truth, mind game, claustrophobia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 1.8
 645
The Life Zone (2011)
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, kidnapping, danger, isolation, woman in danger, psychopath, unwanted pregnancy, abortion clinic, kidnapped, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.1
 781
Truth (2013)
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: psychological, serious, suspenseful, erotic, rough ...
Plot: gay relationship, gay, borderline personality disorder, captivity, jealous boyfriend, bare chested male, child abuse, dangerous attraction, uncover truth, dishonesty, mentally unstable, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
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 6.6
 9K
Eden (2012)
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: psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, prostitution, sex trafficking, rape, slavery, teenage life, life is a bitch, pimp, sex slave, prostitute, captivity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 21st century
Place: new mexico, nevada, usa, las vegas
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Human Trafficking (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 253 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, violence against women, slavery, sex trafficking, captivity, forced prostitution, child prostitution, sex slavery, child abduction, prostitute, child rape ...
Place: eastern europe, the philippines, thailand, europe, asia ...
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The Cellar Door (2007)
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: serial killer, psychopath, survival, confined, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, captivity, master criminal, danger, rivalry, gory ...
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
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: erotic, controversial, disturbing, psychological, disgusting ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: torture, sex, fascism, atrocity, sexual perversion, brutality, libertine, rape, world war two, kidnapping, sexual abuse, bdsm ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
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 4.7
 13K
Boxing Helena (1993)
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, psychological, sexual, surreal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, crimes of passion, obsessive love, amputation, unfulfilled love, captivity, danger, estate, confined, power relations, unrequited love, sexual dysfunction ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
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 6.4
 26K
Bad Samaritan (2018)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A thieve makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are not longer how he expected.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, home invasion, captive, investigation, violence, sadism, psycho killer, obsession, held captive, murder, sadist ...
Place: portland oregon, oregon
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 7.3
 15K
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, art house ...
Plot: incest, self discovery, mother son incest, sex with mother, dark humor, torture, captivity, mistaken identity, life is a bitch, sexual harassment, family problems, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
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 4.7
 3K
Broken (2006)
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: kidnapping, captivity, survival, psychopath, brutality, danger, torture, family in danger, confined, vengeance, parent child relationship, redneck ...
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 4.8
 945
Caged (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, 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, rough ...
Plot: sexual abuse, captivity, erotica, sexual torture, uncover truth, introspection, infidelity, downfall, life is a bitch, confined, family problems, looking for sex ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.3
 7K
The Clinic (2010)
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: disturbing, scary, rough, serious, christmas horror ...
Audience: adult
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, captivity, woman in danger, isolation, danger, wrong place wrong time, medical, violence spree, gory, twists and turns, christmas ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: australia, oceania
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Dracula: The Dark Prince (2013)
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In his search for the Lightbringer, Dracula crosses paths with a beautiful crusader named Alina who bears a remarkable resemblance to his murdered bride. One look at her and Dracula is immediately smitten. Could Alina be the reincarnation of his ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, gothic, independent film ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, supernatural romance, captivity, imaginary, sword and sorcery, fall in love, love and romance, vampire slayer, violent content, rescue, confined ...
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 6.1
 378
Coming Home (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young woman tries to adjust to freedom after she spends eight years as a prisoner to a strange man.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, captivity, starting over, hopes, confined, family relations, fish out of water, homecoming, parents and children, missing child, teenager, kidnapper kidnapped relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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 5.2
 6K
Hunger (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Five strangers face the unthinkable when they wake up and find themselves trapped. With no idea how they got there they frantically try to figure out how to escape. The disoriented group quickly realise the truth about their situation when they ...
Style: scary, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: starvation, captive, isolation, survival, eating human flesh, captivity, hunger, confined, gory, claustrophobia, cannibalism, flesh eating ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.6
 11K
Rosewater (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped ...
Style: suspense, brutal, suspenseful, surreal, tense ...
Plot: prison, journalism, reporter, torture, brutality, investigation, captivity, macabre, twists and turns, false accusation, life is a bitch, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: iran
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Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ilsa is a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners. Ilsa's goal is to prove that woman can withstand more pain and suffering than men and should be allowed to fight on the front lines
Style: erotic, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexploitation, world war two, rape, violence, female prisoner, prison, swastika, captivity, nazi, women in prison, women's prison, sexual abuse ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany
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Would You Rather (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: game of death, survival, game, group of strangers, psychopath, danger, torture, deathtrap, mind game, moral dilemma, confinement indoors, choice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Hide and Seek (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A desperate, childless couple kidnap a pregnant woman and lead her husband to believe that she is dead.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: pregnancy, kidnapping, surrogate mother, missing person, obsession, captivity, female psychopath, family problems, mentally unstable, woman in danger, psychopath, danger ...
Time: 90s
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