Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Hostages & Terrorism: 108 Films to Rent on DVD
- Big Game (2014)
- Dir. Jalmari Helander
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Felicity Huffman…
- Bonkers actioner with Sam Jackson as the U.S. President relying on a teenager for aid after Air Force One crash lands in Finnish forest.
- Homeland - Season 4 (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner…
- Kenneth Branagh directs the latest big screen installment in the adventures of Tom Clancy's hero CIA agent, Jack Ryan, this time revolving around a…
- Kindnapping Mr. Heineken (2014)
- Dir. Daniel Alfredson
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Sam Worthington, Jim Sturgess…
- Bizarre true crime flick based on the successful kidnapping of the heir to the Heineken beer empire in the 1980's.
- Captain Phillips (2013)
- Dir. Paul Greengrass
Feat. Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener
- Paul Greengrass directs with exhilarating dramatic realism this gripping true account of the hijacking of a U.S. container ship by Somali pirates.
- Closed Circuit (2013)
- Dir. John Crowley
Feat. Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent…
- A dangerous conflict of interest arises when two ex–lovers end up on opposite sides of a high profile terrorism trial in this probing courtroom…
- East, The (2013)
- Dir. Zal Batmanglij
Feat. Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgard, Elliot Page…
- In this tense, thinking person's thriller from the writer and director behind SOUND OF MY VOICE, a covert operative attempts to infiltrate a group of…
- Homeland - Season 3 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Mandy Patinkin…
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…
- A Hijacking (2012)
- Dir. Tobias Lindholm
Feat. Mikkel Hartmann, Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling
- A Danish cargo ship is hijacked off the coast of Somalia in this gripping, intense maritime adventure that cuts out all the action heroics usually…
- Homeland - Season 2 (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Mandy Patinkin…
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…