Movies like Captivity
If Captivity's mix of escape, kidnapping and sadistic stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Captivity's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Collector
2009 · Directed by Marcus Dunstan · 90 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: torture, held captive · Also horror and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
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Funny Games
2008 · Directed by Michael Haneke · 111 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer, torture · Also thriller and horror · From the same decade (2000s)
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men.
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Mother's Day
2010 · Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman · 112 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: sadistic, torture · Also crime and horror
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
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The Collection
2012 · Directed by Marcus Dunstan · 82 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: escape, serial killer · Also horror and thriller
Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from…
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Se7en
1995 · Directed by David Fincher · 127 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer · Also crime and thriller
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…
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Halloween
1978 · Directed by John Carpenter · 91 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer · Also horror and thriller
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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Saw
2004 · Directed by James Wan · 103 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: torture · Also horror and crime · From the same decade (2000s)
Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbing tape left behind by the sadistic mastermind known as Jigsaw.
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Frenzy
1972 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 116 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer · Also crime and thriller
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer.
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Barbarian
2022 · Directed by Zach Cregger · 103 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer · Also horror and thriller
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there.
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Strange Darling
2024 · Directed by JT Mollner · 97 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer · Also crime and thriller
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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Psycho Killer
2026 · Directed by Gavin Polone · 91 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer · Also crime and horror
Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial…
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Saw III
2006 · Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman · 108 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: torture · Also horror and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished.