Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Hostages & Terrorism: 225 Films to Rent
- November (Novembre) (2023)
- Dir. Cédric Jimenez
Feat. Jean Dujardin, Anaïs Demoustier, Sandrine Kiberlain…
- A captivating thriller that dramatizes one of the most incredible manhunts in European history in the aftermath of the 2015 attacks across Paris. Led…
- Ted K: The Unabomber (2021)
- Dir. Tony Stone
Feat. Sharlto Copley
- An ambient, minimalistic approach to portraying the life of notorious U.S. domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who lives a life of quiet seclusion in…
- Intelligence (TV Series) (2020)
- Feat. David Schwimmer, Nick Mohammed
- British workplace comedy created by and starring Nick Mohammed as an inept and tactless computer analyst who is enlisted by a pompous American NSA…
- Incitement (2019)
- Dir. Yaron Zilberman
Feat. Yehuda Nahari Halevi, Amitai Yaish, Daniella Kertesz
- Tense, slow–building thriller depicting Israeli right–wing extremist Yigal Amir in the year leading up to his assassination of the…
- Beirut (The Negotiator) (2018)
- Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris…
- Meaty old–school espionage thriller with John Hamm perfectly cast as a fixer turned business consultant in war torn Beirut, negotiating the…
- Hotel Mumbai (2018)
- Dir. Anthony Maras
Feat. Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi…
- Gripping dramatisation of the 2008 siege of Mumbai's Taj Hotel, following the staff and guests as they fight to survive the merciless attack by a…
- Informer (TV Series) (2018)
- Dir. Jonny Campbell
Feat. Nabhaan Rizwan, Paddy Considine, Bel Powley
- A complex, character–driven thriller that follows a young East Londoner who is coerced into going undercover for a counter–terrorism…
- Little Drummer Girl, The (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Michael Shannon, Alexander Skarsgard, Florence Pugh…
- Korean master Park Chan–Wook directs this typically savvy adaptation of the novel by John le Carré that follows the life of a young English…
- Stockholm (2018)
- Dir. Robert Budreau
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, Mark Strong
- Serviceable crime thriller taking some entertaining liberties with the true story of the 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm, often…
- 6 Days (Six Days) (2017)
- Dir. Toa Fraser
Feat. Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, Abbie Cornish…
- Kiwi filmmaker Toa Fraser helms this hostage thriller that faithfully recreates the siege of the Iranian Embassy in London, 1980.