Grand Illusion (1937), These Are the Damned (1962), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), La Grande Illusion (1937), State of Siege (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Strange Cargo (1940), The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Captor movies.
Storyline: World War I French fliers (Pierre Fresnay, Jean Gabin) become captives of a German aristocrat (Erich von Stroheim) who considers one of them his equal.
Plot Keywords: captain, soldier, captor, widow, powerful, amusing, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An American man (Macdonald Carey) and an Englishwoman (Shirley Anne Field) discover genetically engineered children who can survive a nuclear war.
Plot Keywords: american man, child, scientist, prisoner, captor, young woman, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: DurinWW II, allied POWS in a Japanese internment camp are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge, but under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson they're persuaded the bridge should be built to help morale, spirit. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of Japanese Commandant Colonel Saito, But, soon they realise it's a monument to Nicholson, himself, as well as a form of collaboration with the enemy.
Plot Keywords: soldier, captain, rival, prisoner of war, captor, gritty, military base ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During 1st WW, two French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to escape. A few months later, they meet again in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape...
Plot Keywords: captain, soldier, captor, widow, powerful, amusing, touching ...
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: Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note; he later explained that he had been held captive in a dungeon of some sort for his entire life that he could remember, and only recently was he released, for reasons unknown. His benefactor attempts to integrate him into society, with intriguing results.
Plot Keywords: professor, captor, servant, circus performer, dark, disheartening, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie, a saloon girl, in his plans but she turns him in to the authorities. On Verne's next try, he piggybacks on the escape of six other convicts and runs into Julie again in the process. One of the convicts is a spiritual figure who seems to know what will happen before anyone else. The group attempts to travel through the jungle, board a boat, and make it to the mainland.—JeanneArmintrout@juno.com
Plot Keywords: prisoner, prostitute, killer, religious person, captor, cynic, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two criminals, Vic and Danny, kidnap Alice Creed. They fastidiously set-up an apartment building and handcuff Alice to the bed, all in a careful attempt to make sure that she won't escape and they won't get caught. But what do Vic and Danny really want with Alice? And is Alice cunning enough to foil their plans and escape?
Plot Keywords: young woman, kidnapper, partner, boyfriend, captor, girlfriend, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The survivors of a global virus are forced to live alone in bunkers. They communicate through a networked video interface, but their new social ecosystem is threatened when, one by one, they begin vanishing from their bunkers.
Plot Keywords: survivor, missing person, sick person, captive, captor, bleak, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the events in the previous film, Secret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself framed for an assassination attempt on the President. Pursued by his own agency and the FBI, Banning races to clear his name and uncover the real terrorist threat which has set its sights on Air Force One.—dj_priba
Plot Keywords: secret service agent, u.s. president, captor, fbi agent, assassin, intense, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It was supposed to be a simple job. All Lucy had to do was deliver a mysterious briefcase to Mr. Jang. But immediately Lucy is caught up in a nightmarish deal where she is captured and turned into a drug mule for a new and powerful synthetic drug. When the bag she is carrying inside of her stomach leaks, Lucy's body undergoes unimaginable changes that begins to unlock her mind's full potential. With her new-found powers, Lucy turns into a merciless warrior intent on getting back at her captors. She receives invaluable help from Professor Norman, the leading authority on the human mind, and French police captain Pierre Del Rio.
Plot Keywords: boyfriend, drug smuggler, student, thug, captor, neurologist, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sisters are taken captive by natives in 1755 and struggle to retain their faith in difficult circumstances.
Plot Keywords: sister, native american, native american warrior, frontier woman, captive, captor, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An ambitious reporter (Georgina Campbell) stationed in the Middle East is taken captive after a militant group ambushes her convoy. Convinced that the young woman is hiding her true identity, they'll stop at nothing to extract information crucial to the success of their upcoming terrorist attack. With time running out, she must find a way to survive and turn the tables on her assailants.
Plot Keywords: journalist, reporter, captive, captor, militant, military official, militia member ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young girl, Babydoll, is locked away in a mental asylum by her abusive stepfather, where she will undergo a lobotomy in five days' time. Faced with unimaginable odds, she retreats to a fantastical world in her imagination where she and four other female asylum inmates plot to escape the facility. The line between reality and fantasy blurs as Babydoll and the others, plus a mysterious guide, fight to retrieve the five items that will let them break free from their captors in time.
Plot Keywords: young woman, mental patient, stepfather, inmate, guide, captor, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put to the ultimate test when they're forced to join their German captors to fight for their very lives.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: german soldier, husband, captor, survivor, american soldier, wife, thrilling ...
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