54 films match The Captive

8 years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing indications seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance. (imdb)

In 1575, young Miguel de Cervantes is captured at sea by Barbary pirates and taken to Algiers. Facing a harsh life in captivity, he attempts several daring escapes while discovering a passion for storytelling among his fellow prisoners. This historical drama explores the formative years of the legendary author as he survives adversity through imagination and resilience before his eventual ransom.

With her brother killed Sonya is given Turkish captive Mahmud to do the hard work on the farm. After they become fond of each other he strikes a Turkish officer. When peace arrives, his blow costs him his noble lands. She is burned out of her house. They meet again on the road with nothing but each other. (imdb)

Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, Captive State explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents.

An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisonniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past")

In this fact-based thriller, a single mother struggling with drug addiction is randomly taken hostage in her own apartment by a man on the run from the law for breaking out of jail and murdering the judge assigned to his case - only to realize before the climactic finish that they have actually saved each other's lives. (imdb)

A mad scientist transplants human glands into a gorilla, turning the ape into a beautiful young woman (Acquanetta). However, a severe emotional jolt soon reverts her back into her primitive self with disastrous consequences. (imdb)

One of several early-1950s films to capitalize on the Kefauver Committee's investigation of organized crime, The Captive City stars John Forsythe as crusading editor Jim Austin. While Austin prepares his testimony before the Committee, the film flashes back to the events which led to this courageous act.

A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines. (imdb)

A beautiful young dentist (Ormond) working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate (Roth) after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit affair with him, with terrible consequences for all. (imdb)

In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war. (imdb)

Follows the life of Steven Stayner and his family, diving into the family's 50-year journey to unravel the tale of two brothers, one deemed a villain and the other a hero.

The film focuses on a French woman who is kidnapped in Chad and held as a hostage by rebel soldiers in the desert.

Documentary series that depicts hostage negotiations, the stories are told by the victims themselves. (imdb)

Joe Goodis survived a car crash in which his girlfriend was killed, only to find himself drawn into a plot to kidnap the son of the owner of the firm in which he is newly employed.

A teenage runaway who's trapped by a delusional man, pretends to be his daughter in order to escape.

After a botched suicide attempt Sam Hoffman finds herself trapped in an evil insane asylum (imdb)

In Paris in 1894, a young woman voluntarily allowed herself to be locked up in the Salpêtrière hospital in order to look for her mother. A ball is being prepared there.

Jungle Jim is out to save Joan from an evil witch doctor whilst simultaneously fighting evil treasure hunter Barton. (imdb)

James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the border his true character emerges - he sells her into slavery. James and Elizabeth must go to Virginia to rescue their daughter.