Captive

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows captive

poster Escape from Angola

Escape from Angola

Amidst the chaos of Angola's civil conflict, an American family living on a wildlife preserve must navigate treacherous terrain and hostile forces.

poster Why Girls Love Sailors

Why Girls Love Sailors

Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. Stan and his girl beat a hasty retreat as the captain's …

poster Not Wanted

Not Wanted

After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.

Foxtrap

Private detective Thomas Fox travels from Los Angeles to the glamorous Cannes Film Festival to find a wealthy man's missing niece, but when he brings her home, he discovers he's been trapped in a deadly g…

poster Electrocuting an Elephant

Electrocuting an Elephant

1mn - Documentary

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

poster The Ex-Convict

The Ex-Convict

A recently-released convict attempts to do right but struggles to support his wife and ailing daughter.

poster A Trap for Santa Claus

A Trap for Santa Claus

The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.

poster Say It with Babies

Say It with Babies

Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the…

poster Captain January

Captain January

During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her …

poster A Victim of Misfortune

A Victim of Misfortune

Painter pursued by policeman, laundress, milkman, etc.

Kismet

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.

poster Comical Conjuring

Comical Conjuring

In a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant, believing that he would be comfortable in an armchair, s…

poster The Burning of Lanka

The Burning of Lanka

6mn - Drama, Fantasy

Lanka Dahan (Lanka Aflame) is a 1917 Indian silent film directed by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Dadasaheb Phalke). Phalke also wrote the film based on an episode of the Hindu epic Ramayana, credited to Valmi…

poster Crazy Like a Fox

Crazy Like a Fox

Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and de…

poster Albert R.N.

Albert R.N.

88mn - War, History

The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in or…

poster Snapping the Whip

Snapping the Whip

0mn - Comedy, Animation

An obnoxious cat, wearing roller skates, leads Al Falfa on a merry chase. The frisky feline then puts skates on the unsuspecting farmer, propelling him right into a mean canine traffic cop.

poster Nursing a Viper

Nursing a Viper

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by disguis…

poster Shanghaied

Shanghaied

A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some …

poster Molly Moo-Cow and the Butterflies

Molly Moo-Cow and the Butterflies

7mn - Animation

Molly rescues a bunch of butterflies after they are captured by a butterfly collector.

poster Mabel's New Hero

Mabel's New Hero

Fatty rescues Mabel twice: first, from the unwelcome attentions of a masher, then from a runaway observation balloon.

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