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Movies Like Captive

If you liked Captive, a movie directed by Jeff Carolan, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Omega Man

    The Omega Man (1971)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light…

  2. 2Man-Made Monster

    Man-Made Monster (1941)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

  3. 3Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

    Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil…

  4. 4The Day After

    The Day After (1983)

    ★ 6.8/10

    In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the…

  5. 5Man's Best Friend

    Man's Best Friend (1993)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A genetic research facility worker exposes animal abuses there to a local TV reporter, who frees and takes in a genetically altered dog from the lab, unaware that he has a violent streak.

  6. 6Extinction

    Extinction (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10

    And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.

  7. 7The Stanford Prison Experiment

    The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

    ★ 6.8/10

    In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true…

  8. 810 Cloverfield Lane

    10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

    ★ 7/10

    After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.

  9. 9Patients of a Saint

    Patients of a Saint (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10

    There's a zombie outbreak after a medical trial in an international detention and medical facility on an isolated island. An ex US Special Forces/bodyguard woman inmate and a guard form a team.

  10. 10The Damned

    The Damned (1962)

    ★ 6.3/10

    An American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.

  11. 11Resident Evil

    Resident Evil (2002)

    ★ 6.7/10

    When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain…

  12. 12Panic in Year Zero!

    Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

    ★ 6.3/10

    While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he…

  13. 13Unthinkable

    Unthinkable (2010)

    ★ 6.8/10

    The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes…

  14. 14The Quiet Earth

    The Quiet Earth (1985)

    ★ 6.7/10

    After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

  15. 15Control

    Control (2004)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.

  16. 16The New Mutants

    The New Mutants (2020)

    ★ 6/10

    Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

  17. 17Forever Young

    Forever Young (1992)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing…

  18. 18The War Game

    The War Game (1966)

    ★ 7.7/10

    A hypothetical Chinese invasion of South Vietnam triggers a new world war between East and West. In Rochester, Kent, the anticipation of a nuclear attack leads to mass evacuations. When a stray missile explodes, the…

  19. 19Blood and Snow

    Blood and Snow (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10

    When researchers rescue a fellow scientist who survived a meteorite strike in the Arctic, they discover she may not be who they think she is. Is she some-how changed?

  20. 20THX 1138

    THX 1138 (1971)

    ★ 6.4/10

    People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As…

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