Movies and TvShows featuring "hostage-taker" theme.

Avengement is a movie about a man who is framed for a crime he didn't commit and is sent to prison. While in prison, he plans his revenge against those who wronged him. He escapes from prison and goes on a mission to seek justice and take revenge on his enemies.

In 'Suddenly,' a small town is suddenly besieged by criminals who plan to assassinate the U.S. president during his stopover. The ex-Secret Service agent, now a TV repairman, discovers the plot and fights to stop it before it's too late.

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.

Naina, a playschool teacher, takes 16 students hostage, demanding justice for her past trauma. As the police and leaders try to handle the situation, her demands create a nationwide impact.

In Dial 1119, a psychopath takes hostages in a bus station while an expectant father, a reporter, and a police detective try to stop him. As the tension rises, secrets are revealed and the lives of everyone involved are put on the line in this intense crime thriller with a film-noir atmosphere.

The kidnapping of some chiefs of police by a rogue ex-policeman is just the beginning for a much much bigger story that it seems at first sight.

Teng-Teng lives a miserable life. He is an orphan who works by collecting junk from the streets. But, despite his condition, Teng-Teng does not lose hope instead, he shares his meager income with other indigent people. One day, as a rewards for his good deeds, he was given the opportunity to defend the people against evil forces headed by Gagamba, a female spider who took human form. He was given the magic barbel, which empowers him to be Capt. Barbell. All goes well exept for Teng-Teng's lovelife since the girl of his dreams Rosamarie is already falling in love with the super hero. Will Capt. Barbell be able to fight the evil forces of Gagamba? How can Teng-Teng prove to Rosemarie that he is Capt. Barbell?

To prevent an act of domestic terrorism, a negotiator must break protocol and make an emotional bond with the hostage taker.

The lives of an arrogant young motivational speaker in debt to the Chinese mafia, his lookin’-to-get-out girlfriend, and a single father in dire straits fatefully intertwine in this nail-biting thriller from Singapore that is based, almost unbelievably, on a true story.

When a criminal psychologist and lecturer finds herself in the middle of a hostage situation, she must use her skills to negotiate with the unstable hostage-taker and save two sisters. As the situation intensifies, past traumas resurface, and the line between good and evil begins to blur.

A 1987 Filipino action film starring Rudy Fernandez.

Phillip Ko directs this low-budget Phillippine action film.

The story of a man who attempts to make his body anti-lightning and succeeded. This success interest the drug syndicate who later kidnaps him to make heroin concoction. The mastermind turns out to be a friend of the man. The man determines to defeat them all.

A gang of clowns burst into the rich girls' house, take them as hostages and send one of them to the bank while transporting the family jewels.