Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "runner"

1. Forrest Gump (1994)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance

The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

Votes: 2,259,913 | Gross: $330.25M

2. Timer (2009)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

If a clock could count down to the moment you meet your soul mate, would you want to know?

Director: Jac Schaeffer | Stars: Emma Caulfield Ford, Scott Holroyd, Kali Rocha, Katie Von Till

Votes: 13,499

3. Minority Report (2002)

PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

John works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow

Votes: 584,788 | Gross: $132.07M

4. Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

PG | 96 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

A preteen's life turns upside down when he befriends the new girl in school and they imagine a whole new fantasy world to escape reality.

Director: Gabor Csupo | Stars: Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb, Zooey Deschanel, Robert Patrick

Votes: 173,494 | Gross: $82.27M

5. Juno (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes a selfless decision regarding the unborn child.

Director: Jason Reitman | Stars: Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman

Votes: 549,534 | Gross: $143.50M

6. Misfits (2009–2013)

TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A group of young offenders doing community service gets struck by lightning during a storm and start to develop superpowers.

Stars: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Joe Gilgun, Iwan Rheon, Lauren Socha

Votes: 107,410

7. The Post (2017)

PG-13 | 116 min | Biography, Drama, History

A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk

Votes: 162,477 | Gross: $81.90M

8. Unbroken (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 137 min | Action, Biography, Drama

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Director: Angelina Jolie | Stars: Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund

Votes: 182,859 | Gross: $115.64M

9. Cool Runnings (1993)

PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.

Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: John Candy, Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis

Votes: 113,853 | Gross: $68.86M

10. Chariots of Fire (1981)

PG | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.

Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers

Votes: 65,949 | Gross: $58.97M

11. The Ringer (2005)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Sport

A young guy's only option to erase a really bad debt is to rig the Special Olympics by posing as a contestant.

Director: Barry W. Blaustein | Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl, Brian Cox, Jed Rees

Votes: 38,840 | Gross: $35.42M

12. Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

R | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Barry Pepper, Joseph Cross, Jesse Bradford

Votes: 129,319 | Gross: $33.60M

13. Gallipoli (1981)

PG | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins

Votes: 41,993 | Gross: $5.73M

14. The Animatrix (2003)

Unrated | 100 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

A collection of nine short films featuring stories related to The Matrix (1999).

Stars: James Arnold Taylor, Julia Fletcher, Dwight Schultz, Kevin Michael Richardson

Votes: 82,102

15. Personal Best (1982)

R | 128 min | Drama, Sport

The intertwined lives and loves of three highly ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.

Director: Robert Towne | Stars: Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly, Kenny Moore

Votes: 3,212 | Gross: $5.67M

16. Hoot (2006)

PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.

Director: Wil Shriner | Stars: Logan Lerman, Luke Wilson, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson

Votes: 8,807 | Gross: $8.08M

17. Upstream Color (2013)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

Director: Shane Carruth | Stars: Amy Seimetz, Frank Mosley, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig

Votes: 34,979 | Gross: $0.44M

18. Without Limits (1998)

PG-13 | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

The life of renowned runner Steve Prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach Bill Bowerman.

Director: Robert Towne | Stars: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter, Jeremy Sisto

Votes: 7,537 | Gross: $0.78M

19. Lean on Pete (2017)

R | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Sport

A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.

Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz, Travis Fimmel, Steve Buscemi

Votes: 13,963 | Gross: $1.16M

20. Little Evil (2017)

TV-MA | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Gary, who has just married Samantha, the woman of his dreams, discovers that her six-year-old son may be the Antichrist.

Director: Eli Craig | Stars: Evangeline Lilly, Owen Atlas, Adam Scott, Marcus Terrell Smith

Votes: 23,272

21. French Connection II (1975)

R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard

Votes: 20,926 | Gross: $12.48M

22. The Maze Runner: Finding the Gang (2014)

2 min | Documentary, Short

Every year children are dumped in this dystopian society where they make their own rules and try to survive. With no memory from their life before. They set up specific jobs for everyone ... See full summary »

Votes: 15,282

23. Prefontaine (1997)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Based on the life of Olympic hopeful Steve Prefontaine, a long distance runner who lived in Oregon and died young.

Director: Steve James | Stars: Jared Leto, R. Lee Ermey, Ed O'Neill, Breckin Meyer

Votes: 7,674 | Gross: $0.53M

24. Massacre at Central High (1976)

R | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A high-school transfer student pushed to the edge by a trio of brutal bullies resorts to murder to reclaim the school from oppression, and later turns against the students wanting to fill the vacuum of their oppressors.

Director: Rene Daalder | Stars: Derrel Maury, Andrew Stevens, Robert Carradine, Kimberly Beck

Votes: 2,738

25. Soldier in the Rain (1963)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The bond of friendship between a worldly-wise Army Master Sergeant and his naive worshiper.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Steve McQueen, Jackie Gleason, Tuesday Weld, Tony Bill

Votes: 1,966 | Gross: $2.09M

26. 1 Mile to You (2017)

TV-14 | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.

Director: Leif Tilden | Stars: Graham Rogers, Tim Roth, Stefanie Scott, Thomas Cocquerel

Votes: 2,813

27. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)

Not Rated | 186 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

The truth behind the ascension of Milkha Singh, who was scarred by of the India-Pakistan partition.

Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | Stars: Farhan Akhtar, Kousi Orfahli, Deepak Singh Rawat, Japtej Singh

Votes: 72,329 | Gross: $1.63M

28. Almost Friends (2016)

TV-MA | 101 min | Comedy, Drama

Charlie, an unmotivated man in his mid-20s still living at home with his mother and stepfather, falls for a young woman who has a serious boyfriend.

Director: Jake Goldberger | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Odeya Rush, Christopher Meloni, Haley Joel Osment

Votes: 5,510

29. The Jericho Mile (1979 TV Movie)

97 min | Crime, Drama, Sport

A prisoner gets a chance to take part in the Olympics.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Peter Strauss, Richard Lawson, Roger E. Mosley, Brian Dennehy

Votes: 2,064

30. The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976)

82 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Asterix and Obelix are tasked by Julius Caesar with accomplishing twelve impossible labors to determine the fate of their indomitable Gaulish village.

Directors: René Goscinny, Henri Gruel, Albert Uderzo, Pierre Watrin, Matt McCarthy | Stars: Roger Carel, Jacques Morel, Pierre Tornade, Henri Labussière

Votes: 19,114

31. Get Real (1998)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.

Director: Simon Shore | Stars: Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain, Stacy Hart

Votes: 14,681 | Gross: $1.20M

32. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Sport

A young thief takes up long-distance running when he is sent to a borstal.

Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen

Votes: 9,375

33. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)

119 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baishô, Mansaku Fuwa

Votes: 2,849 | Gross: $0.06M

34. My Way (2011)

R | 137 min | Action, Drama, War

In World War II-era Korea, rival runners, one Korean (Jang Dong-gun) and one Japanese (Joe Odagiri), go to war together against the Soviets.

Director: Kang Je-kyu | Stars: Jang Dong-gun, Joe Odagiri, Bingbing Fan, Kim In-kwon

Votes: 12,655 | Gross: $0.07M

35. Bridge to Terabithia (1985 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 60 min | Drama, Family

When Leslie Burke moves in next door to Jess Aarons, Jess finds a friend in Leslie. Over time, they discover a secret place in the forest across a fallen pine tree, and over a creek, they call Terabithia, a place where memories are sacred.

Director: Eric Till | Stars: Annette O'Toole, Julian Coutts, Julie Beaulieu, Gloria Carlin

Votes: 745

36. Saint Ralph (2004)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Saint Ralph is the unlikely story of Ralph Walker, a ninth-grader who outran everyone's expectations except his own in his bold quest to win the 1954 Boston Marathon.

Director: Michael McGowan | Stars: Adam Butcher, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Tilly, Michael Kanevsky

Votes: 6,341 | Gross: $0.80M

37. Staying Together (1989)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

The complacent life of three small town brothers is shattered when their father sells the family business from under them.

Director: Lee Grant | Stars: Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Melinda Dillon, Jim Haynie

Votes: 948 | Gross: $4.35M

38. Remember the Goal (2016)

PG | 88 min | Drama, Sport

A new female coach fresh out of college takes over the cross country program at an all girls private Christian school and tries to lead them to their first state title.

Director: Dave Christiano | Stars: Allee Sutton Hethcoat, Quinn Alexis, Sydney Marks, Jayla Palmer

Votes: 380 | Gross: $0.12M

39. The Perfect Race (2019)

96 min | Drama, Sport

A female athlete at a small Christian college works hard to overcome long odds in trying to win a national title in the 800 meter run. "The Perfect Race" is a follow up movie to "Remember The Goal".

Director: Dave Christiano | Stars: Allee Sutton Hethcoat, Bethany Davenport, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Harrison Stone

Votes: 221

40. The Loneliest Runner (1976 TV Movie)

74 min | Drama, Sport

A young boy who still wets the bed finds escapism from his abusive mother and his own embarrassment by going running after school.

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Brian Keith, DeAnn Mears, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 481

41. 1:54 (2016)

106 min | Drama, Sport

Tim, a shy 16 years old athlete, is both brilliant and talented. But the pressure he undergoes pushes him to the edge, where human limits reach the point of no return.

Director: Yan England | Stars: Antoine Olivier Pilon, Sophie Nélisse, Lou-Pascal Tremblay, David Boutin

Votes: 1,714

42. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy

This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting.

Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Hans Brausewetter

Votes: 2,185

43. Stag Night (2008)

R | 84 min | Horror, Thriller

Four men out on a STAG NIGHT in New York prematurely exit an underground train after the soon-to-be-best-man begins to hassle two women. Trapped at a deserted station these six adults ... See full summary »

Director: Peter A. Dowling | Stars: Kip Pardue, Vinessa Shaw, Breckin Meyer, Scott Adkins

Votes: 3,491

44. Billie (1965)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete finds herself caught between being beating boys at sports and having a boyfriend, while her conservative father opposes women's rights in his campaign for mayor.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Patty Duke, Jim Backus, Jane Greer, Warren Berlinger

Votes: 491

45. Zátopek (2021)

131 min | Biography, Drama, History

Autumn 1968, the Australian running record holder Ron Clarke is coming to Prague, hoping that his old friend and role model, Emil Zátopek, the most famous Czech athlete of all time, will help him overcome the biggest crisis of his career.

Director: David Ondricek | Stars: Václav Neuzil, Martha Issová, James Frecheville, Robert Miklus

Votes: 581

46. Extraordinary (2017)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama

Based on a true marriage journey, "Extraordinary" tells the amazing story of ultra-marathon runner and college professor David Horton, his wife Nancy, and their attempt to finish their marriage race well.

Director: Scotty Curlee | Stars: Karen Abercrombie, Bailey Anderson, Cameron Arnett, Chris Ashworth

Votes: 338

47. The Terminators (2009 Video)

Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A small band of resistance fighters battle the cyborgs that have taken control of the planet.

Director: Xavier S. Puslowski | Stars: Jeremy London, A Martinez, Paul Logan, Lauren Walsh

Votes: 2,696

48. Safe Passage (1994)

PG-13 | 98 min | Drama

A mother with seven sons feels like she's losing control of her life and her family. But personal pain and a troubled marriage fade into the background as news comes that one of her sons might have died in an accident.

Director: Robert Allan Ackerman | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Sam Shepard, Nick Stahl, Marcia Gay Harden

Votes: 1,358 | Gross: $1.61M

49. Despicable Me: Minion Rush (2013 Video Game)

Action, Adventure, Comedy

A despicable me game where you play as the minions.

Stars: Michael Beattie, Ava Benavente, Benjamin Bratt, Pierre Coffin

Votes: 333

50. The Giant of Marathon (1959)

90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.

Directors: Jacques Tourneur, Bruno Vailati, Mario Bava | Stars: Steve Reeves, Mylène Demongeot, Sergio Fantoni, Alberto Lupo

Votes: 1,077