Went the Day Well? (1942), I'm Not Scared (2003), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), The Lions Are Free (1969), Blackfish (2013), Misery (1990), State of Siege (1972), Tangled (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Captivity movies.
Storyline: Residents of an English village unwittingly welcome Nazi soldiers who intend to take over their town.
Plot Keywords: villager, german, german officer, german soldier, thrilling, tense, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a small town in Italy in 1978, 9-year-old Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano) finds Fillipo (Mattia Di Perro), seemingly dead in a deep hole in the ground, while on a bike ride with friends. Terrified of what he has seen, Michele decides not to tell his father. After returning to the scene, Michele discovers that Fillipo is still alive and bound by a chain. Michele continues to keep his secret as he makes several visits to Fillipo, who has no memory of the events leading up to his captivity.
Plot Keywords: boy, abductee, father, bad guy, disturbing, sad, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A princess learns the truth about a toxic forest and battles an evil ruler's plans to destroy it.
Plot Keywords: princess, sword fighter, hunter, friend, enemy, fighter, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The true life sequel to the movie classic "Born Free". The actors from the film, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend, legendary conservationist George Adamson, reveal what became of the lions used in the filming of "Born Free". While Virginia McKenna visits a zoo in Great Britian, her husband Bill Travers travels to a remote area of East Africa to visit George Adamson and to reunite with the lions he starred with in the movie and who are living free thanks to George Adamson. A remarkable reunion is filmed just as it happens.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: actor, actress, conservationist, wife, lion, cub, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: whale, captive, trainer, emotional, inspiring, interview, captivity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Best-selling novelist Paul Sheldon is on his way home from his Colorado hideaway after completing his latest book, when he crashes his car in a freak blizzard. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, Paul's "number one fan", who takes Paul back to her remote house in the mountains (without bothering to tell anybody). Unfortunately for Paul, Annie is also a headcase. When she discovers that Paul has killed off the heroine in her favorite novels, her reaction leaves Paul shattered (literally)...
Plot Keywords: author, nurse, prisoner, uneasy, tense, creepy, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerillas.—Erich Schneider <erich@alumni.caltech.edu>
Plot Keywords: government official, guerrilla, captive, captor, tense, uneasy, south america ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After receiving the healing powers from a magical flower, the baby Princess Rapunzel is kidnapped from the palace in the middle of the night by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel knows that the flower's magical powers are now growing within the golden hair of Rapunzel, and to stay young, she must lock Rapunzel in her hidden tower. Rapunzel is now a teenager and her hair has grown to a length of 70-feet. The beautiful Rapunzel has been in the tower her entire life, and she is curious of the outside world. One day, the bandit Flynn Ryder scales the tower and is taken captive by Rapunzel. Rapunzel strikes a deal with the charming thief to act as her guide to travel to the place where the floating lights come from that she has seen every year on her birthday. Rapunzel is about to have the most exciting and magnificent journey of her life.
Plot Keywords: thief, kidnapper, king, queen, amusing, engaging, castle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Nazi-occupied Holland in World War II, shopkeeper Kraler hides two Jewish families in his attic. Young Anne Frank keeps a diary of everyday life for the Franks and the Van Daans, chronicling the Nazi threat as well as family dynamics. A romance with Peter Van Daan causes jealousy between Anne and her sister, Margot. Otto Frank returns to the attic many years after the eventual capture of both families and finds his late daughter's diary.
Plot Keywords: anne frank, father, dentist, sister, boyfriend, mother, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A wild stallion is captured by humans and slowly loses the will to resist training, yet, throughout his struggles for freedom, the stallion refuses to let go of the hope of one day returning home to his herd.
Plot Keywords: stallion, best friend, uplifting, emotional, desert, old west, captivity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
Plot Keywords: young girl, native, teacher, mother, grandmother, priest, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fresh from seeing his army defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte (Philippe Torreton) is in a jail cell on the British-controlled island of St. Helena. Sir Hudson Lowe (Richard E. Grant), the region's governor, is given the task of ensuring the French leader does not escape. However, because Napoleon still has a collection of devoted officers, and it is rumored that he's plotting his getaway, keeping him in captivity proves a complicated task for Lowe.
Plot Keywords: governor, officer, love interest, general, doctor, prisoner, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Africa, the girl Jill Young trades a baby gorilla with two natives and raises the animal. Twelve years later, the talkative and persuasive promoter Max O'Hara organizes a safari to Africa with the Oklahoma cowboy Gregg to bring attractions to his new night-club in Hollywood. They capture several lions and out of blue, they see a huge gorilla nearby their camping and they try to capture the animal. However, the teenager Jill Young stops the men that intended to kill her gorilla. Max seduces Jill with a fancy life in Hollywood and she signs a contract with him where the gorilla Joseph "Joe" Young would be the lead attraction. Soon she realizes that her dream is a nightmare to Joe and she asks Max to return to Africa. However he persuades her to stay a little longer in the show business. But when three alcoholic costumers give booze to Joe, the gorilla destroys the spot and is sentenced by the justice to be sacrificed. Will Jill, Gregg and Max succeed in saving Joe?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: producer, young woman, gorilla, drunk, orphan, touching, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A gorilla tries to piece together its past and escape captivity with help from an elephant.
Plot Keywords: gorilla, elephant, animal, fascinating, endearing, engaging, jungle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her "half-breed" son recently rescued from Indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: scout, native american, woman, warrior, son, intense, gritty ...
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