Ten years after the Black Death has ravaged the lands, a poor family is ambushed by a pack of merciless killers on a desolate mountain pass. Nineteen-year-old Signe is the lone survivor. Held hostage and facing a fate worse than death, Signe manages to flee her captors, but her escape does not go unnoticed.

Dinah St. Clair is the daughter of a successful record producer. An old acquaintance shows up at their high-rise penthouse and for old times sake Dinah lets him in. She has no idea that Joe has just escaped from a mental ward and is beset by homicidal impulses that he cannot control. Joe makes Dinah his hostage and while her father and the police are coming up with a plan to rescue her, she is desperately trying to save herself and Joe.

When her most loyal friend is taken hostage by Peregus Malister, the cruel master of the Thieves Guild, Marek must embark on a corrupt mission to serve the Thieves Guild with her team of would-be heroes. But when the mission leads them into the clutches of Szorlok, their greatest enemy, Marek must sacrifice her ambitions, and perhaps her own soul, to stop Szorlok from obtaining the Darkspore.

Colonel Scott McCoy and his elite Delta Force are called in when three American narcotics agents are taken hostage by a South American drug lord.

Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself taken hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.

When their bank robbery goes wrong, two adoptive brothers hijack an ambulance carrying an EMT and a wounded police officer and try to make their escape while keeping their hostages alive.

Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because of he feels that it is his sense of duty, refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts...