If You Liked Hostage, Watch These Next
Finished Hostage (2005) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Hostage, most of them are action, thriller, crime.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Inside Man: Most Wanted(2019)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
An NYPD hostage negotiator teams up with a federal agent to rescue dozens of tourists held hostage during a 10-hour seige at the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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2.Breaking In(2018)
5.9ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After managing to escape, Shaun must now figure out a way to turn the tables on…
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3.Inside Man(2006)
7.4CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and thriller
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
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4.The Negotiator(1998)
7.1ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
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 might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another…
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6.Cash Out(2024)
6.2ActionThrillerAlso action and thriller
Criminal mastermind Mason is about to execute the score of a lifetime when his lover and key member of his crew, Decker, takes the team down and reveals she’s an undercover Interpol agent. Heartbroken, Mason escapes and retires from the life of crime until his younger brother Shawn is out of his league taking on a…
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7.War(2007)
6.4ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up years later to take care of some unfinished business, he triggers a violent clash of rival gangs. Will the truth come out before it's too late? And when the dust settles,…
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9.Above Suspicion(2019)
5.9ThrillerCrimeActionAlso thriller and crime
The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it's a ticket to disaster for both of them.
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11.My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done(2010)
6.1CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.
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12.Canary Black(2024)
6.2ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want.
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14.All the Devils Are Here(2025)
6.3ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso thriller and crime
After a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear — the real threat may not be outside, but among them.
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15.The International(2009)
6.3ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and thriller
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the…
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16.The Protector(1985)
5.9ActionCrimeAlso action and crime
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug…
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17.Along Came a Spider(2001)
6.4CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and thriller
After the harrowing death of his partner, forensic psychologist and best-selling author Alex Cross cannot forgive himself and has retreated to the peace of retirement. But when a brilliant criminal kidnaps a senator's young daughter, he is lured back into action as the kidnapper wants to deal with Alex personally.…
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18.Rampage: Capital Punishment(2014)
6.0ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
A man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.
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19.Out of Exile(2023)
6.5ThrillerDramaActionAlso thriller and action
Recently paroled thief Gabriel Russell tries to balance his life and mend a troubled family as an FBI agent hunts him down, along with his crew after a botched armored car robbery.
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20.A Working Man(2025)
6.7ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and crime
Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss's daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.
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