Movies and TV series about being on the run

The 43 best titles about being on the run, ranked by the iRank Score — our composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb. Every page includes cast, where to watch and similar recommendations.

North by Northwest
iRank89
1959 · Alfred Hitchcock
MovieAdventureThriller
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Mad Max: Fury Road
iRank86
2015 · George Miller
MovieActionAdventureScience Fiction
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this worl
One Battle After Another
iRank85
2025 · Paul Thomas Anderson
MovieComedyCrimeThriller
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missi
The Fugitive
iRank84
1993 · Andrew Davis
MovieActionDramaThriller
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
The Bourne Ultimatum
iRank84
2007 · Paul Greengrass
MovieActionDramaMystery
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the
Outer Banks
iRank83
2020
SeriesAction & AdventureDramaMystery
A tight-knit group of teens unearths a long-buried secret, setting off a chain of illicit events that takes them on an adventure they'll never forget.
Bonnie and Clyde
iRank82
1967 · Arthur Penn
MovieCrimeDrama
In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealin
Baby Driver
iRank82
2017 · Edgar Wright
MovieActionCrime
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Thelma & Louise
iRank82
1991 · Ridley Scott
MovieAdventureCrimeDrama
Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the stre
Nimona
iRank80
2023 · Troy Quane
MovieActionAnimationFamily
A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.
Good Time
iRank79
2017 · Benny Safdie
MovieCrimeDramaThriller
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
iRank79
1969 · George Roy Hill
MovieAdventureCrimeDrama
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
True Romance
iRank78
1993 · Tony Scott
MovieActionCrimeRomance
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
The Secret Agent
iRank77
2025 · Kleber Mendonça Filho
MovieCrimeDramaThriller
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven h
The Bourne Supremacy
iRank77
2004 · Paul Greengrass
MovieActionDramaThriller
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their live
A Series of Unfortunate Events
iRank74
2017 · Daniel Handler
SeriesAction & AdventureComedyFamily
The orphaned Baudelaire children face trials, tribulations and the evil Count Olaf, all in their quest to uncover the secret of their parents' death.
28 Weeks Later
iRank71
2007 · Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
MovieHorrorScience FictionThriller
Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later,
Enemy of the State
iRank71
1998 · Tony Scott
MovieActionDramaThriller
When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the myste
Obi-Wan Kenobi
iRank70
2022 · Kathleen Kennedy
SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
During the reign of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, embarks on a crucial mission to confront allies turned enemies and face the wrath of the Empire.
Maverick
iRank68
1994 · Richard Donner
MovieActionAdventureComedy
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a wom
The Incredible Hulk
iRank65
2008 · Louis Leterrier
MovieActionAdventureScience Fiction
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civ
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
iRank64
2024 · Adil El Arbi
MovieActionComedyCrime
After their late former Captain is framed, Lowrey and Burnett try to clear his name, only to end up on the run themselves.
Run All Night
iRank63
2015 · Jaume Collet-Serra
MovieActionCrimeThriller
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been on
The Running Man
iRank62
2025 · Edgar Wright
MovieActionScience FictionThriller
Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort. But Ben's defian
Shooter
iRank61
2007 · Antoine Fuqua
MovieActionDramaThriller
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government officia
Echo
iRank61
2024 · Kevin Feige
SeriesAction & AdventureCrimeDrama
Pursued by Wilson Fisk's criminal empire, Maya's journey brings her home and she must confront her own family and legacy.
The Running Man
iRank60
1987 · Paul Michael Glaser
MovieActionScience FictionThriller
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of gam
The Hitman's Bodyguard
iRank58
2017 · Patrick Hughes
MovieActionComedyCrime
The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.
In Time
iRank56
2011 · Andrew Niccol
MovieActionScience FictionThriller
In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live foreve
Knight and Day
iRank56
2010 · James Mangold
MovieActionComedy
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
iRank55
2015 · Wes Ball
MovieActionAdventureScience Fiction
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate la
The Instigators
iRank54
2024 · Doug Liman
MovieComedyCrime
Rory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. But when it goes awry, they team up with an unusual accomplice — Rory's therapist — to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a veng
Now You See Me 2
iRank53
2016 · Jon M. Chu
MovieCrimeThriller
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists t
Species
iRank53
1995 · Roger Donaldson
MovieActionHorrorScience Fiction
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil,
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
iRank52
2016 · Edward Zwick
MovieActionCrimeDrama
Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is f
The Family Plan
iRank50
2023 · Simon Cellan Jones
MovieActionAdventureComedy
Dan Morgan is many things: a devoted husband, a loving father, a celebrated car salesman. He's also a former assassin. And when his past catches up to his present, he's forced to take his unsuspecting
Blackhat
iRank49
2015 · Michael Mann
MovieActionCrimeThriller
Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stak
Repo Men
iRank46
2010 · Miguel Sapochnik
MovieActionCrimeScience Fiction
In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agen
Transformers: Age of Extinction
iRank42
2014 · Michael Bay
MovieActionAdventureScience Fiction
As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its cr
Taken 3
iRank41
2014 · Olivier Megaton
MovieActionThriller
Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular
Survivor
iRank38
2015 · James McTeigue
MovieActionCrimeMystery
A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.
Hot Pursuit
iRank37
2015 · Anne Fletcher
MovieActionComedy
Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to escort Daniella Riva, a wisecracking Colombian beauty, from San Antonio to Dallas so both she and he
Abduction
iRank35
2011 · John Singleton
MovieActionMysteryThriller
For many years, Nathan Harper has had the uneasy feeling that life with his family isn't quite what it seems. As he draws closer to uncovering the truth, he is hunted by assassins, forcing him to flee