Hostage negotiator movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant hostage negotiator movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, realistic and intense films and TV shows about / with hostage negotiator, hostage, hostage situation, negotiation, kidnapping, sniper, swat team, danger, violence and police plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres shot in USA, Germany, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as hostage negotiator: Ransom (2017), The Negotiator (1998), Proof of Life (2000), Inside Man (2006), Hostage (2005), Standoff (2006), Below the Surface (2017), Flashpoint (2008), Metro (1997), Non Negotiable (2024).
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| Les Cowboys (2015) | 6.7 | |
| 24 Days (2014) | 6.3 | |
| Helsinki Syndrome (2022) | 6.9 | |
| Cleaner (2025) | 5.2 | |
| Attack on Finland (2021) | 5.3 |
List of hostage negotiator movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA, Germany
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Eric Beaumont's crisis negotiator team is brought in to save lives and resolve the most difficult kidnap and ransom cases when no one else can.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, compassionate, brutal ...
Plot:
hostage negotiator, ransom, criminal, salvation, abduction, violence, kidnapping, negotiation, negotiator, police, partner, twists and turns ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, serious, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, police, corruption, conspiracy, police corruption, negotiation, twists and turns, false accusation, frame up, swat, rivalry, uncover truth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago, usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, intense, romantic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
kidnapping, terrorism, hostage, mercenary, terrorist, ransom, rescue, survival, prisoner, runaway, insurance, unrequited love ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s
Place:
south america, latin america, colombia, chechnya, england ...
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422K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Bank robber Dalton Russell enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors and takes hostages, working methodically and without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. With an ...
Style:
clever, detective, suspense, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, robbery, bank, bank robbery, hostage, twists and turns, perfect crime, master criminal, plot twist, deception, police detective, caper ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.
Style:
perverse, suspenseful, suspense, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, home invasion, twists and turns, hostage negotiator, organized crime, police investigation, fbi, family in danger, kidnapped, rescue, family problems ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, iran, los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The series focused on an FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit whose members negotiated hostage situations and shared relationships.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, enigmatic ...
Plot:
policewoman, negotiation, partners against crime, lovers, romancing partners, federal bureau of investigation, fbi, spouse in danger, investigation, hostage, coworker relationship, workplace romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
An early morning in October, 15 people are taken hostage from a subway train. This puts a huge hostage crisis in motion, and it changes Denmark forever.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
hostage, captive, terrorist, hostage negotiator, subway, hijacking, hijacker, nordic, gang, terrorism, terrorist attack, bandit ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
denmark, europe, scandinavia, atlantic ocean, copenhagen
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story:
The Strategic Response Unit (SRU) is an elite team of cops who specialize in high-risk critical incidents. Trained in tactics and psychology, they deal with extreme situations, where split-second decisions could save a life...or cost one.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
swat, rescue, hostage negotiator, law enforcement, policewoman, mission, saving a life, police protagonist, race against time, police, danger, confined ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Is relevant?
30K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
hostage, revenge, chase, violence, police officer, hostage negotiator, bank robber, negotiation, murder, sniper, swat team, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
tahiti, san francisco, usa, california
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Hostage negotiator Alan Bender is called to rescue the president from a kidnapping, only to find himself also mediating to save his wife and marriage.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, crime drama, tension ...
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage negotiator, negotiation, hostage situation, hostage, president, capture, female hostage, taken hostage, problem, rescue mission, law enforcement ...
Place:
mexico city, mexico
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112K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
Style:
suspense, clever, entertaining, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
hostage, stock market, police, wall street, finance, corruption, revenge, conspiracy, money, capitalism, hostage negotiator, sniper ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
south africa, new york, russia, reykjavik iceland, south korea ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alice is starting a new chapter in life by moving on from her highly stressful job as a hostage negotiator and putting more focus on her family. Suddenly, her world is turned upside down when her daughter is abducted with no demand for ransom. As ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
husband wife relationship, vendetta, kidnapping, private investigation, revenge, family relations, hostage negotiator, abduction, new job, crime investigation, family problems, criminal's revenge ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Frank takes Pia Postman hostage on live TV, threatening to execute her after she accepts the blame for his daughter's suicide.
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
swat team, nypd, hostage, hostage situation, swat, media, chases and races, confined, danger, haunted by the past, showbiz, hostage negotiator ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Brazil, 1988. An unemployed tractor driver hijacks VASP flight 375 and orders commander Murilo to crash the plane on the Planalto Palace to kill the president - whom he considers guilty for the country's devastating economic crisis.
Style:
suspenseful, political thriller, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Plot:
terrorism, hostage situation, airplane hijack, hostage negotiator, hijacking, politics, aviation, terrorist attack, terrorist, capture, economic crisis, political unrest ...
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Jordan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A story about a diplomat and a national intelligence service agent who struggle and risk their lives on foreign soil to save Korean hostages that have been abducted in the Middle East.
Style:
serious, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
taliban, diplomat, kidnapping, hostage, survival, negotiation, hostage negotiator, agent, diplomacy, hostage situation, murder, special agent ...
Time:
2000s, 2020s
Place:
afghanistan
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A police hostage negotiator plays a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a cornered bank robber who is hell bent on getting out of the bank and humiliating his brother, the police hostage negotiator, in the process.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, intense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
negotiation, revenge, bank robber, hostage negotiator, police, bank, hostage, law enforcement, cat versus mouse, criminal, armed robbery, heist gone wrong ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the job, top FBI hostage negotiator Theresa Foley (Gail O'Grady) is a tough, no-nonsense professional...calm and cool in the face of risky, potentially deadly situations. At home, she's a loving mother, with two kids and a devoted ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
hostage situation, female protagonist, hostage negotiator, negotiation, taken hostage, hostage rescue, career, hostage, fbi agent, agent, husband wife relationship, troubled marriage ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Baltimore's top hostage negotiator embarks on a relationship with a man who could be her soulmate while racing to resolve a case that threatens her job and her life
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
Plot:
negotiation, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty, psychopath, strong female character, hostage negotiator, twists and turns, pumpkin, marriage proposal, tough law enforcer, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
baltimore
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Genre: Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ex-military commander David Guerra is hired by shady millionaire Anthony Levin to rescue his wife Valentina who was kidnapped by Javier Martinez, leader of a guerrilla group.
Style:
sentimental, light, suspense, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, mercenary, hostage negotiator, armed robbery, brutality, rescue mission, dishonesty, violence, heroes, hostage, military ...
Place:
latin america
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, realistic, humorous, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, bank, crime gone awry, on the run, unlikely criminals, master criminal, betrayal, chase, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, law enforcement, criminal's revenge ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
Style:
captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, enigmatic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, police brutality, violence, tough guy, strip club, bank vault, shootout, armored truck, police, criminal, ex marine ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
los angeles, california, london, usa
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Desperate for money and running out of options, Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley holds several people hostage inside a bank, setting the stage for a tense confrontation with police.
Style:
suspense, sincere, independent film
Plot:
hostage situation, father daughter relationship, husband and wife, bank, true crime, bomb threat, swat team, hostage negotiator, new year, real life, war veteran, women ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Malta
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Style:
tense, suspense, realistic, captivating, factual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hostage, ship, survival, terrorism, rescue, kidnapping, escapades, ship captain, ocean, hostage situation, piracy, pirate ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
somalia, africa, middle east, america, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While being escorted to prison from Phoenix to New York, crazed killer Peter Cronin (Anthony Michael Hall) hijacks a commercial jet in flight with the help of accomplices. Holding the 200 passengers and the crew members hostage, Cronin forces the ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
hijacking, hostage negotiator, disaster, aviation, jet plane, space, fbi agent, little girl, terrorism, killer, elderly couple, air traffic control ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
16K
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, captivating, tense, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
stockholm syndrome, bank robber, hostage, bank, bank vault, criminal, negotiation, criminal as protagonist, hostage situation, bank robbery, lovers, ransom ...
Time:
year 1973, 90s, 70s
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.
Style:
crime thriller, intense, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Plot:
hostage, kidnapping, manipulation, revenge, desperation, character study, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, negotiation, law enforcement, class conflict, obsession ...
Time:
70s, year 1977
Place:
indianapolis indiana, florida
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a gunman enters an Apple Store in the heart of Amsterdam, the police face a delicate challenge to resolve the standoff.
Style:
tension, suspense, intense
Plot:
hostage, bandit, showdown, negotiation, law enforcement, police procedural, siege, moral dilemma, urban, survival, investigation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam
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Genre: Drama, History, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, mossad, olympics, terrorism, terrorist, airport, military, judaism, israeli, hostage negotiator, hotel, athlete's life ...
Time:
70s, year 1972
Place:
munich germany, west germany, germany, europe
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1.0M
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking ...
Style:
intense, christmas special, clever, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, date night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
hostage, one man army, gunfight, heist, tough guy, christmas, police, terrorism, terrorist, skyscraper, robbery, police officer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 2016, year 1988
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On a rainy morning six armed men in disguise rob a bank in Valencia .But what seemed like an easy heist quickly goes wrong with nothing unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank, hostage, heist, secret, political corruption, secrets, dishonesty, hostage negotiator, gang of thieves, safecracker, robbery, bank robber ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
spain, valencia spain
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