When a young Pakistani man graduates from Princeton and embarks on his career on Wall Street, he finds himself stuck in the midst of a struggle between his own dream, a hostage crisis, and the calls of his family back home.

Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive.

'Killer' Joe Cooper is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hitman with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris hires Joe to kill his mother in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie as a retainer until he can be paid.

Roxanne Coss becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform at a lavish party for a wealthy industrialist in South America. As a lengthy standoff ensues, hostages and captors form unexpected bonds as they overcome their differences to find their shared humanity.

In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.

After several tourists and Christian missionaries are taken by an Islamic separatist group in the Philippines and forced into the jungle, an unlikely bond between the kidnappers and hostages develops as the environment grows more hostile.

A rich, spoiled young woman and a hapless janitor are star-crossed lovers in this twisted romantic comedy.

Pilot Brodie Torrance saves passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island -- only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When dangerous rebels take most of the passengers hostage, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI.

Two masked men seize Alice Creed (Gemma Arterton), the daughter of a millionaire, and take her to an abandoned, soundproofed apartment where they bind and gag her. The coldly efficient kidnapper (Eddie Marsan) and his accomplice (Martin Compston) worked out a meticulous plan, but Alice is not going to play the perfect victim or go down without a fight.

In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, a Scotsman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away in the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance