Captive

Captive (2015) is a true-story thriller from director Jerry Jameson you can watch online on iFILM, starring Kate Mara and David Oyelowo. One night in Atlanta, escaped fugitive Brian Nichols — who had already killed a judge — breaks into a stranger's apartment and takes a young woman hostage.

Ashley Smith is a single mother fighting addiction and barely keeping it together. She has no way out and no weapon. What she does have is a copy of Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life, and she starts reading it aloud to the man holding her captive. Slowly, that conversation begins to shift something neither of them expected.

The film runs 97 minutes and earns its tension not through action set pieces but through two people cornered by their own failures. It works best if you come to it as a character study rather than a thriller — the faith element is front and center, and it lands with unusual restraint. Stream Captive (2015) online on iFILM.