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10 Best Movies Like Hostages

If you loved Hostages, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Dune

Dune

2020★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hostages for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Sounds as witnesses. They blurr into memories, half-dreams, it is undecided if they are real or not. A fluctuation between imagination and reality....

#2
Kiss Kis Ko

Kiss Kis Ko

2004★ 4.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hostages for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In the background of a lot interest being shown in music groups, a group of young Indian men, calling themselves "Band of Boys", decide to perform publicly, to share their talents ...

#3
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

1989★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hostages for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world....

#4
The Frozen North

The Frozen North

1922★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hostages for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A mix of guns and mistaken identity leads to chaos in this satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic westerns, finding Buster in the frozen north - "the last stop on the s...

#5
Taxi 3

Taxi 3

2003★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hostages for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a sto...

#6
North by Northwest

North by Northwest

1959★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hostages for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase....