Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "fugitive", "runaway"

1. The Outsiders (1983)

PG | 91 min | Crime, Drama

In a small Oklahoma town in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze

Votes: 97,535 | Gross: $25.60M

2. Catch Me If You Can (2002)

PG-13 | 141 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Barely 17 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen

Votes: 1,095,633 | Gross: $164.62M

3. The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Zak, a man with down syndrome, runs away from a residential nursing home to pursue his dream of becoming a wrestler. Later, he meets with an outlaw who becomes his friend and coach.

Directors: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz | Stars: Zack Gottsagen, Ann Pierce, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern

Votes: 103,212 | Gross: $13.12M

4. Capernaum (2018)

R | 126 min | Drama

While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.

Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad

Votes: 105,395 | Gross: $1.66M

5. Enola Holmes (2020)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When Enola Holmes (Sherlock's teen sister) discovers her mother is missing, she endeavours to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy.

Director: Harry Bradbeer | Stars: Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Helena Bonham Carter

Votes: 219,501

6. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

PG-13 | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Two 12-year-olds, who live on an island, fall in love with each other and elope into the wilderness. While people set out on a search mission, a violent storm approaching them catches their attention.

Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray

Votes: 366,756 | Gross: $45.51M

7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen

Votes: 281,618 | Gross: $128.08M

8. Days of Heaven (1978)

PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz

Votes: 62,747

9. Freeway (1996)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A twisted take on "Little Red Riding Hood", with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker travelling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer and pedophile.

Director: Matthew Bright | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Bokeem Woodbine, Paul Perri

Votes: 31,754 | Gross: $0.30M

10. Oliver Twist (2005)

PG-13 | 130 min | Crime, Drama

An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Swift, Ian McNeice

Votes: 34,277 | Gross: $1.99M

11. Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)

TV-PG | 29 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Gromit butts heads with a mysterious penguin lodger, who hatches a sinister scheme involving the ex-NASA Techno Trousers that have been modified by Wallace for walkies.

Director: Nick Park | Stars: Peter Sallis, Peter Hawkins

Votes: 57,391

12. All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996)

G | 82 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

Charlie and Itchy return to Earth to find Gabriel's Horn, but along the way meet up with a young boy named David, who ran away from home.

Directors: Larry Leker, Paul Sabella | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Sheena Easton, Dom DeLuise, Ernest Borgnine

Votes: 6,661 | Gross: $8.62M

13. The Boys Club (1996)

R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.

Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa

Votes: 1,345

14. The Endless Trench (2019)

TV-MA | 147 min | Drama, History

1936. A country taken by the fascism. A husband marked for the killing. A wife determined to all for saving him. An endless incarceration in his own home.

Directors: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga | Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Belén Cuesta, Vicente Vergara, José Manuel Poga

Votes: 7,295

15. Cold Water (1994)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

When the girl of a rebelious teenage couple finds out she is being sent away, they both believe escaping the rigid order suffocating them is the only way to be free. But is it?

Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Virginie Ledoyen, Cyprien Fouquet, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Votes: 2,231 | Gross: $0.03M

16. Manny & Lo (1996)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.

Director: Lisa Krueger | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Aleksa Palladino, Mary Kay Place, Dean Silvers

Votes: 2,206 | Gross: $0.50M

17. The Blue Lamp (1950)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The daily routine of two London Policemen is interrupted by a killer.

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Jack Warner, Dirk Bogarde, Jimmy Hanley, Robert Flemyng

Votes: 2,533

18. Shockproof (1949)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A parole officer falls in love with his client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and he's determined to help her go straight despite her interfering criminal boyfriend.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey, Esther Minciotti

Votes: 2,292

19. Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008)

Not Rated | 125 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Lovinder Singh, a thief now in custody and facing trial, reflects on his life of crime while the press reflect on how he managed to get away with so much before being arrested.

Director: Dibakar Banerjee | Stars: Abhay Deol, Paresh Rawal, Nitu Chandra, Archana Puran Singh

Votes: 18,173 | Gross: $0.08M

20. Coast to Coast (1980)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A wealthy neurotic woman escapes from a New York mental asylum, and hitches a ride back to California with a moody down-on-his-luck cowboy trucker. They fall in love with each other while on the run from bounty hunters and a repo man.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Dyan Cannon, Robert Blake, Quinn K. Redeker, Michael Lerner

Votes: 482

21. Lamb (1985)

110 min | Drama

An Irish reform school priest questions his calling as a young, epileptic runaway arrives. Each recognizes the other as kindred spirits and escape together. As police close in and money dwindles, the desperate priest makes bad decisions.

Director: Colin Gregg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Harry Towb, Hugh O'Conor, Frances Tomelty

Votes: 675

22. The Member of the Wedding (1952)

TV-G | 93 min | Drama, Family

Her older brother's wedding forces preteen tomboy Frankie to face her own immaturity.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz

Votes: 1,584

23. All the Little Animals (1998)

R | 112 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Bobby Platt is a mentally slow young man who escapes an abusive, hateful stepfather who has killed his pets one by one. To save himself, Bobby runs away and meets a strange old man who ... See full summary »

Director: Jeremy Thomas | Stars: John Hurt, Christian Bale, Daniel Benzali, James Faulkner

Votes: 3,198 | Gross: $0.03M

24. The Stranger in Between (1952)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars, Kay Walsh

Votes: 1,418

25. Shergar (1999)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

When a young stable boy runs away from reform school, he befriends another fugitive, champion racehorse Shergar, kidnapped by the Irish Republican Army for ransom but now on the loose. Can the lad elude the abductors and rescue the horse?

Director: Dennis C. Lewiston | Stars: Alan Barker, Billy Boyle, Stephen Brennan, Gary Cady

Votes: 510

26. Zelary (2003)

R | 150 min | Drama, Romance, War

A nurse is part of the resistance in 1940s Czech Republic. She is discovered and must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.

Director: Ondrej Trojan | Stars: Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan, Jaroslava Adamová

Votes: 3,748 | Gross: $0.33M

27. The Outcasts (1968–1969)

60 min | Western

A bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War. They are the Outcasts.

Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, Don 'Red' Barry, Art Metrano

Votes: 182

28. Amazon (1990)

R | 96 min | Adventure, Drama

Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and ... See full summary »

Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Kari Väänänen, Robert Davi, Rae Dawn Chong, Minna Sovio

Votes: 560

29. Little Runaway (1952)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A baby seal escapes from the circus and ends up in Jerry's backyard pond. Tom finds out soon enough when Jerry grabs a fish from Tom's plate, and when the circus offers a $10,000 reward, ... See full summary »

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Daws Butler, Pinto Colvig, William Hanna, Bob Laztny

Votes: 950

30. Starlight Hotel (1987)

PG | 93 min | Drama

It is Depression era New Zealand and school-kid Kate is missing her father badly. The temptation to seek him out leads her into diverse and intense encounters with fate.

Director: Sam Pillsbury | Stars: Greer Robson-Kirk, Peter Phelps, Bruce Phillips, Alice Fraser

Votes: 267

31. Laterna, ftoheia kai filotimo (1955)

91 min | Comedy, Music

Instead of success in the Greek province, two poor portable barrel piano players stumble upon an affluent but desperate runaway girl, intent on escaping a much-despised arranged marriage. Will they forsake their beliefs for money's sake?

Director: Alekos Sakellarios | Stars: Mimis Fotopoulos, Vasilis Avlonitis, Jenny Karezi, Alekos Alexandrakis

Votes: 1,164

32. Fairytale (I) (2019)

87 min | Drama

Verity kills a monster and drifts eastward on borrowed time. She meets Bec, another lost & abused soul. Together the girls try to find solace in one another but not for long.

Directors: Eli Hershko, David Spaltro | Stars: Verity East, Bec Fordyce, Liliana Starck, Ralph Petrarca

Votes: 32

33. The Face Behind the Scar (1937)

Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Hanbury | Stars: Griffith Jones, Rosalyn Boulter, Cecil Ramage, Ellis Jeffreys

Votes: 76

34. This Is the Life (1935)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

After obtaining her from an orphanage a couple exploit entertainer Withers till she runs away and later becomes a professional.

Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Jane Withers, John McGuire, Sally Blane, Sidney Toler

Votes: 60

35. Love on the Scorching Sand (1966)

96 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Taken in by an honourable seaman, an idealist political prisoner becomes his right-hand-man. Now, his dark-eyed wife can't escape from the net of passion, and he, too, is unwilling to try. Will the handsome runaway man ever find atonement?

Director: Stelios Zografakis | Stars: Elena Nathanail, Spyros Fokas, Manos Katrakis, Takis Emmanuel

Votes: 49

36. Silenci (2007)

12 min | Short, Drama, Romance

After thirty years of being a daughter, wife and mother, Dolors decides to see what happens when she tries thinking of herself for the first time. Dolors has to learn how to follow her own ... See full summary »

Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Montse Caminal, Xavier Serrat, Jordi Domènech, Josep Maria Bacardit

Votes: 35

37. Counsel on De Fence (1934)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.

Director: Arthur Ripley | Stars: Harry Langdon, Renee Whitney, Earle Foxe, Bobby Burns

Votes: 16

38. Zanim nadejdzie dzien (1977)

91 min | Drama

A young fugitive from a detention centre takes part in a shop robbery during which he hits the saleswoman's head with a bottle. Guilt-ridden and sure he's killed her, he behaves aggressively.

Director: Ryszard Rydzewski | Stars: Anna Nehrebecka, Krzysztof Janczar, Maria Klejdysz, Zdzislaw Kozien

Votes: 12

39. Kisváros (1993–2001)
Episode: Gázkitörés (2000)

Comedy, Crime, Drama

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Director: Lajos Fazekas | Stars: Frigyes Hollósi, István Fillár, Tamás Balikó, Péter Beregi

40. The Outcasts (1968–1969)
Episode: The Bounty Children (1968)

60 min | Western

While on their way to a job offer, Earl and Jemal save a runaway Conestoga wagon. Inside the wagon are a teenage boy, a young girl and their dying mother. The mother soon dies and Earl and ... See full summary »

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, Charles Aidman, Michael Burns

Votes: 11

41. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode: Unforgettable (1998)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

An alien woman from a closed world seeks asylum aboard Voyager, claiming she's been there before and that she and Chakotay were lovers, but no one remembers her.

Director: Andrew Robinson | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill

Votes: 1,825

42. FBI: Most Wanted (2020– )
Episode: Defender (2020)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A single mother goes on a deadly rampage at a Public Defender's office, taking justice into her own hands after her son is given a harsh sentence.

Director: Nicole Rubio | Stars: Julian McMahon, Kellan Lutz, Roxy Sternberg, Keisha Castle-Hughes

Votes: 454