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Argo (2012), directed by and starring Ben Affleck, dramatizes the 1980 CIA operation to extract six US diplomats from Tehran using a fake science-fiction film as cover, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Split Second is a 1953 American film noir thriller directed by Dick Powell in his feature directing debut. The plot follows escaped convicts who take several people hostage in an abandoned Nevada town that lies within the scheduled blast zone of an atomic bomb test. Starring Stephen McNally, Alexis...

Beirut is a 2018 American political thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Tony Gilroy. Set against the backdrop of the Lebanese Civil War in 1982, the narrative follows a former United States diplomat who is recalled to the country to negotiate a hostage exchange. The film stars Jon...

Raid on Entebbe is a 1977 American television docudrama produced for NBC and directed by Irvin Kershner. It dramatizes the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight and the Israeli military rescue operation at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. The film presents the hostage crisis through political, military,...

Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 1977 American political thriller directed by Robert Aldrich and adapted from Walter Wager's novel Vandenberg. Burt Lancaster plays Lawrence Dell, a former Air Force general who seizes control of a nuclear missile site and threatens to launch unless the president release...

Cloelia is a legendary Roman heroine recorded in accounts of the early Roman Republic. According to the story, she was among Roman hostages held by the Etruscan king Lars Porsena during conflict between Rome and the Etruscans, and she escaped by swimming across the Tiber with other captives. She ret...

The Night Holds Terror is a 1955 American crime film written, produced, and directed by Andrew L. Stone for Columbia Pictures. It is based on a February 1953 California incident involving the Courtier family and follows a group of criminals who seize a man and invade his home while holding the famil...

7 Days in Entebbe is a 2018 political thriller directed by José Padilha. The film dramatizes the 1976 hijacking of Air France Flight 139 and the hostage crisis that followed at Uganda's Entebbe Airport. Its story moves between the hijackers, the hostages, Israeli government leaders, and the military...

Flypaper is a 2011 American crime comedy directed by Rob Minkoff and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Patrick Dempsey plays a bank customer who becomes trapped inside a branch during two robberies that begin at the same time. The film combines a locked-room setup with competing criminals, hosta...