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.
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The Omega Man (1971)
★ 6.2/10Due 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…
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Man-Made Monster (1941)
★ 6.1/10Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)
★ 5.9/10Once 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…
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The Day After (1983)
★ 6.8/10In 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…
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Man's Best Friend (1993)
★ 5.9/10A 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.
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Extinction (2015)
★ 6.4/10And 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.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
★ 6.8/10In 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…
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
★ 7/10After 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.
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Patients of a Saint (2020)
★ 6.3/10There'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.
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The Damned (1962)
★ 6.3/10An 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.
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Resident Evil (2002)
★ 6.7/10When 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…
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Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
★ 6.3/10While 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…
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Unthinkable (2010)
★ 6.8/10The 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…
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
★ 6.7/10After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
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Control (2004)
★ 6.1/10Lee 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.
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The New Mutants (2020)
★ 6/10Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.
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Forever Young (1992)
★ 6.5/10A 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…
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The War Game (1966)
★ 7.7/10A 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…
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Blood and Snow (2023)
★ 6.2/10When 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?
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THX 1138 (1971)
★ 6.4/10People 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…