Films about hostage takings

Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. It stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia, with Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner in supporting roles. Die Hard follows a New York City police detective, John McClane (Willis), who becomes entangled in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife during a Christmas Eve party.

2012 film directed by Ben Affleck

2013 film directed by Paul Greengrass

1975 film directed by Sidney Lumet

1990 film directed by Renny Harlin

1996 film directed by Michael Bay

1981 film by John Carpenter

2013 film directed by Antoine Fuqua

2006 film by Spike Lee

1993 film by Clint Eastwood

1996 film directed by Ron Howard

2002 film directed by Nick Cassavetes

1994 film directed by Peter Segal

1948 film by John Huston

1991 film by David Zucker

2016 film directed by Jodie Foster

2018 film directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber

1998 film directed by F. Gary Gray

2009 film by Tony Scott

1997 film by Michael Haneke

2008 film by James Watkins

1936 film by Archie Mayo

1974 film by Joseph Sargent

2004 film by Farah Khan

Airheads is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann and written by Rich Wilkes. It stars Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler as the members of a struggling rock band who hijack a Los Angeles radio station in order to get their demo aired. The rest of the principal cast includes Chris Farley, Michael McKean, Judd Nelson, Michael Richards and Joe Mantegna, with Ernie Hudson, Amy Locane, Nina Siemaszko, Marshall Bell, Reg E. Cathey and David Arquette in supporting roles.

1995 film directed by John Badham

2005 film by Florent Emilio Siri

2011 film by Joel Schumacher

2013 film by Jason Reitman

1990 film by Roger Donaldson

2025 film directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen

2008 film by Mabrouk El Mechri

2010 film by John Hyams

2015 film by Jeremy Saulnier

2023 film directed by Atlee

2002 film by Luis Mandoki

1994 film directed by Adam Rifkin

2021 film directed by Peter Thorwarth

1954 film by Lewis Allen

1997 American film directed by Thomas Carter

1990 film by Michael Cimino

1994 film by Ted Demme

1997 film by Constantin Costa-Gavras

1955 film by William Wyler

2022 film directed by Jason Moore

1970 film directed by Terence Young

1996 film by Kevin Spacey

2015 film directed by Daniel Alfredson

1999 film by Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla

Highest 2 Lowest is a 2025 American crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay by Alan Fox. It is an English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself based on Ed McBain's 1959 novel King's Ransom. The film stars Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, ASAP Rocky, John Douglas Thompson, Dean Winters, LaChanze, Princess Nokia, and Ice Spice. It is the fifth collaboration between Lee and Washington and the first since Inside Man (2006).

1994 film by Roger Avary

2018 film directed by Paul Weitz

2013 film by Daniel Schechter

2000 film by Antoine Fuqua

2015 film by Jerry Jameson

S.F.W. (or So Fucking What) is a 1994 American black comedy film directed by Jefery Levy and written by Levy and Danny Rubin. Based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Andrew Wellman, it stars Stephen Dorff and Reese Witherspoon.

2010 Tamil film directed by Mani Ratnam

2012 Danish film by Tobias Lindholm

2024 film directed by Pierre Morel

1979 film by Andrew V. McLaglen