Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Hostages & Terrorism: 15 Films to Rent on VHS
- Blind Flight (2003)
- Dir. John Furse
Feat. Ian Hart, Linus Roache
- True story of the 4–year kidnapping in 80s Lebanon of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy, given an affecting depth by its…
- Suicide Kings (1999)
- Dir. Peter O'Fallon
Feat. Christopher Walken, Denis Leary
- Post–PULP FICTION black–comedy, that does better than most in juggling a crime setting, a mystery and various comical dialogues, with a…
- Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
- Dir. Sergei Bodrov
Feat. Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr, Susanna Mekhraliyeva…
- A Tolstoy fable is here seamlessly transposed to the Chechean conflict, with two Russian soldiers apprehended by a Chechean village elder who hopes…
- Turbulence (1996)
- Dir. Robert Butler
Feat. Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly
- Parachutes on! A 747 hijacked by hypermaniac serial–killer Ray Liotta is heading into an electrical storm! No prizes for guessing if they make…
- Fall Time (1995)
- Dir. Paul Warner
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Stephen Baldwin
- A prank backfires for three teenagers who interrupt the plans of hardened gangsters. The innocence lost of '50s America is disturbingly mirrored as…
- Undercover Blues (1993)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid
- Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid star in this farcical thriller as husband–and–wife Private I's, forced to combat international…
- Flight of the Innocent (1992)
- Dir. Carlo Carlei
Feat. Manuel Colao, Federico Pacifici, Sal Borgese
- A swirling steady–cam follows the chase of a young boy across Northern Italy after his family are slaughtered by a kidnapping ring. Thriller is…
- Autobus (1991)
- Dir. Eric Rochant
Feat. Yvan Attal, Kristin Scott Thomas
- A desperate, attention–seeking young man (Yvan Attal – superb) hijacks a school bus, taking its two adults and little passengers hostage.…
- Hors La Vie (Life on Hold) (1991)
- Dir. Maroun Bagdadi
Feat. Hippolyte Girardot, Rafic Ali Ahmad, Nidal Ashkov…
- A fictionalised depiction of a freelance photographer's ten months in Shi'ite custody. Charged with political anger but unsensationalist and…
- Catchfire (1990)
- Dir. Alan Smithee
Feat. Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster
- An engaging oddity directed by Dennis Hopper under a pseudonym, after producers cut the film from its original 3hr length. Hopper himself plays a…