On the run movies and TV shows – page 4

List of on the run movies

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 5.4
 9K
Double Take (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The governor of a Mexican state is assassinated. Soon after, junior executive Daryl Chase's life turns upside down: after he flags a huge transfer of funds from a Mexican account as probably illegal, he's attacked in his apartment, rescued ...
Style: intense, humorous, semi serious, action packed, action comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, on the run, fbi, chase, unlikely friendships, mistaken identity, african american, disorder, cons and scams, fish out of water, frame up, hidden identity ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new york, texas, latin america, florida, usa ...
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 5.4
 10K
Fled (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper is chained to Dodge, a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is related to stolen money that the Mafia is after, and some computer files that somebody wants desperately to ...
Style: exciting, intense, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, hacker, on the run, police chase, reluctant partners, manhunt, undercover, partner, prison, rivalry, frame up, prison life ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: atlanta georgia, georgia
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 6.7
 64K
Quantico (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A diverse group of recruits has arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.
Style: tense, realistic, surprise ending, detective, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: investigation, fbi, terrorist attack, secret, terrorism, terrorist, female fbi agent, recruit, female agent, woman, bonding, twists and turns ...
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 7.4
 7K
The Circle (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Style: bleak, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: politics, pregnancy, on the run, prostitute, life is a bitch, society, friendship, injustice, feminist, dialogue, women's rights, discrimination ...
Place: iran, middle east, persia
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 6.9
 292K
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to ...
Style: scary, tense, suspense, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, infected, survival, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, plague, deadly virus, post apocalypse, infection, chaos, gory ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, europe, paris france
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 6.0
 7K
Hush (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young couple on a motorway journey are drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a truck driver when they see something disturbing in the back of his vehicle.
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, slasher ...
Plot: missing person, truck, witnessing a crime, psychopath, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, kidnapping, serial killer, murder, on the run, rescue, on the road, physical abuse ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.0
 216K
The Happening (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style: gloomy, serious, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: virus, apocalypse, disaster, survival, end of the world, natural disaster, suicide, paranoia, catastrophe, chaos, graphic violence, plague ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, philadelphia, boston, usa, france ...
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Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man on the run is hunted by a demon known as the Collector.
Style: scary, demonic, religious horror, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: demon, supernatural, good versus evil, zombie, demonic possession, monster, brutality, on the run, save the world, trapped in a building, prostitute, temptation ...
Time: 90s, year 1917, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa, arizona
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Style: controversial, grindhouse, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: blaxploitation, racism, gang, on the run, police corruption, betrayal, chase, prostitute, manhunt, ghetto, vengeance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1971, 70s
Place: los angeles, latin america, usa, california, south central los angeles ...
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 6.8
 15K
Shoot to Kill (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the ...
Style: exciting, intense, serious, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, wilderness, mountain, chase, fbi, manhunt, on the run, horse, survival, kidnapping ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, vancouver, seattle, san francisco
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Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Raymond Lembecke (Vincent Gallo) is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago (Rod Steiger). (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former ...
Style: intense, talky, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, gangster, on the road, crime gone awry, hitman, on the run, prison, hostage, organized crime, police corruption, chase, ex convict ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new mexico, las vegas, usa
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 6.5
 71K
Bandits (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, friendship, love triangle, on the run, bank robber, stockholm syndrome, bored housewife, thief, caper, prison, hostage, robbery ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, oregon, usa, mexico
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 6.2
 41K
Deadfall (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during another family's Thanksgiving celebration.
Style: suspense, neo noir, exciting, serious, grindhouse ...
Plot: robbery, incestuous relationship, snow, redemption, partner, on the run, homecoming, survival, car chase, violence, twists and turns, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, michigan, detroit
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Thieves Like Us (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes ...
Style: neo noir, road movie, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: on the run, heist, lovers on the run, bank, murder, great depression, criminal, robbery, prison, crime spree, female nudity, thief ...
Time: 1930s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
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Vanishing Point (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Kowalski works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Francisco, California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
Style: road movie, grindhouse, independent film, cult classic, exciting ...
Audience: manly
Plot: car chase, car, on the road, hitchhiker, hippie, driver, desert, road trip, chase, radio station, on the run, truck ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place: san francisco, utah, california, colorado, nevada ...
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 7.6
 7K
Kung Fu (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
Style: fast paced, serious, realistic, exciting, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, wild west, shaolin monk, shaolin, on the run, man with no name, fugitive, flashback, haunted by the past, temple, vegetarian ...
Time: 20th century, 19th century
Place: usa, new mexico, arizona
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Southern Comfort (1981)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror ...
Style: atmospheric, southern gothic, psychological, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, backwoods, swamp, violence, murder, manhunt, poacher, on the run, dog attack, ambush, vietnam war ...
Time: year 1981, year 1973, 70s
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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 7.1
 13K
The Chase (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that local baddie Bubber Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned because he is having an affair with Reeves' ...
Style: suspense, retro, neo noir, technicolor, crime drama ...
Plot: racism, social commentary, manhunt, small town, adultery, lynch mob, drunkenness, sheriff, murder, vigilantism, on the run, escaped prisoner ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa, southern usa
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Born to Be Wild (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. ...
Style: crying, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: sign language, on the road, on the run, teenage boy, single mother, teen angst, animal, gorilla, friendship, youth, pets, ape ...
Time: 90s
Place: hawaii, africa, seattle
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 6.0
 48K
Bird on a Wire (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years, now an old flame has recognised him and the bad guys are back for revenge.
Style: road movie, suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: chase, false identity, corruption, car chase, tiger, justice, on the run, motorcycle, betrayal, fbi, violence, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: usa, atlantic city new jersey, new york, detroit, wisconsin ...
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The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses – the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing – yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding ...
Style: scary, creepy, bloody, grindhouse, suspense ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, revenge, killer clown, sheriff, murder, kidnapping, brutality, gory, female villain, maniac ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: texas, austin texas, bolivia, usa
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 5.7
 26K
Nowhere to Run (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Escaped convict Sam Gillen single handedly takes on ruthless developers determined to evict Clydie - a widow with two young children. Nobody knows who Sam is.
Style: exciting, political, cult classic, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, motorcycle, on the run, widow, farm, manhunt, showdown, hand to hand combat, police officer, one man army, one against many, fistfight ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: california, montana
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 7.2
 52K
The Hitcher (1986)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Style: road movie, slasher, psychological, scary, neo noir ...
Audience: date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psycho killer, hitchhiker, psychopath, desert, on the road, insanity, stalker, stalking, car chase, sociopath, road trip ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
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 5.4
 17K
Freejack (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Style: futuristic, entertaining, cyber, tech noir, anamorphic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, cyberpunk, on the run, chase, dystopian future, dystopia, racing, bounty hunter, apocalypse, car, auto racing, death ...
Time: future, year 1992, 90s, year 2009, year 1991 ...
Place: new york, usa
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Disorganized Crime (1989)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do have going for them are a cop and his partner, who are dumber than they are! By the time the gang ...
Style: parody, black comedy, detective, humorous, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, heist, robbery, on the run, bank, caper, river, sabotage, career criminal, sheriff, crime gone awry, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: montana, new jersey, usa
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 8.9
 2.2M
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, exciting, witty, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: gangster, dark humor, organized crime, gunfight, violence, hitman, overdose, multiple storylines, violent, killings, drug, redemption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, persia, america, peru ...
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 4.4
 25K
Getaway (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Former race car driver Brent Magna (Hawke) is pitted against the clock. Desperately trying to save the life of his kidnapped wife, Brent commandeers a custom Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake, taking it and its unwitting owner (Gomez) on a high-speed ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, dark ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: damsel in distress, on the run, daring rescue, hostage, escapades, danger, chases and races, racing, kidnapping, husband wife relationship, speed, car ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: bulgaria, usa
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The Young Master (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Youthful martial arts master Lung is searching for his missing brother, when he is mistaken for a criminal on the run. He must prove his innocence by solving the case himself, while local lawmen and merciless mercenaries are hot on his trail.
Style: humorous, stylized, tense, light, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, on the run, wuxia, mentor, fighter, kung fu master, chase, nothing goes right, contests and competitions, orphan, down on your luck ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: china
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
Style: suspense, realistic, harsh, epic, powerful ...
Plot: american civil war, native american, revenge, civil war, murder, surrender, massacre, one against many, on the run, manhunt, indians, wild west ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 20th century, year 1976, 1800s
Place: texas, missouri, austin texas, usa, arizona ...
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 5.4
 23K
Barely Lethal (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A 16-year-old international assassin yearning for a "normal" adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that being popular can be more painful than getting water-boarded.
Style: exciting, teen, entertaining, ironic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: teenager, youth, high school, teenage life, young heroes, female agent, assassin, tough girl, high school life, danger, adolescence, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, moscow russia, berlin germany, chechnya
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