The Godfather (1972)
Michael Corleone, Mafia Boss cop-killer, gets away to Sicily.
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Ronald Biggs, legendary British train robber, one perpetrator of “The Heist of the Century”, got caught with his gang, escaped from prison using a homemade rope ladder, underwent plastic surgery in Paris, moved to Australia and finally fled to Rio.
Rendering an anti-tribute to the trite trope "mega criminal escaping to an under-developed country", here follows a list of villains (fictional or not) who tried to avoid justice by skedaddling to more sunny neighborhoods.
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Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Thanos, Universal Mass-Murderer, settles in an idyllic planet -
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Wild West outlaws, flee to Bolivia -
Fast Five (2011)
Dominic "Dom" Toretto, career criminal, flights to Rio. -
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Dr. Hannibal Lecter, refined anthropophagus, decamps to the Bahamas -
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Wanda Gershwitz, diamonds heister, boards a plane to Rio -
The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996)
Adolf Eichmann, Holocaust organizer, hides in Argentina -
Marathon Man (1976)
Christian Szell, Nazi war criminal, ensconces in South America -
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980)
Jim Jones, crazy cult leader, slips away to Guyana -
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Dr. Josef Mengele, Nazi death doctor, breaks lose to Paraguay -
The Traitor (2019)
Tommaso Buscetta, Mafia Boss, moves to Brazil -
Moonraker (1979)
Sir Hugo Drax, mega genocide, bolts to Rio -
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (2016)
John McAfee, eccentric software multi-millionaire, relocates to Belize -
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Dr. Moreau, mad scientist, takes refuge in one Java Sea island -
Prisoner of Rio (1988)
Ronald Biggs, legendary train robber, runs away to Rio -
My Enemy's Enemy (2007)
Klaus Barbie, Gestapo torturer, "The Butcher of Lyon", holes up in Bolivia -
Franz Stangl & Gustav Wagner (2010)
Franz Stangl, extermination camp commander, "ratlines" to Syria -
Turu the Terrible (1964)
Deen, Pteranodon weaponizer and natives enslaver, acts up in the Amazon Jungle -
Buster (1988)
Buster, train robber, flees to Acapulco, Mexico
