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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
22 films tagged on the run
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2015 · Action
A driver hauling a stolen war rig runs for the desert with five women escaping a warlord, and picks up a drifter on the way. Nearly the whole film is one chase, out across a stretch of desert and back again.
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2007 · Thriller
A welder out hunting finds a case of cash beside several dead men and takes it, which brings a very patient killer after him. An ageing sheriff follows behind, always arriving late.
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1990 · Science fiction
A construction worker who keeps dreaming of Mars buys an implanted memory of a holiday there and wakes up with people trying to kill him. Practical effects throughout, and a high body count.
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2006 · Action
A young man from a forest village is taken captive in a raid and marched to a Mayan city, and then he runs. Most of the film is a chase through the jungle, very violent, in Mayan with subtitles.
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2012 · Thriller
With six US diplomats hiding in Tehran in 1979, a CIA man proposes to walk them out as the crew of a fake science fiction film. Half Hollywood comedy, half thriller that keeps tightening.
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2014 · Action
Steve Rogers is working for a spy agency he trusts less every week when an attack from inside it puts him on the run with Black Widow. It plays like a 1970s conspiracy film with fights in it.
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2002 · Crime
A teenager passes himself off as an airline pilot, a doctor and a lawyer while cashing millions in forged cheques, with one FBI agent slowly closing in. Light and quick, and always moving to another city.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2000 · Animation
The hens on a Yorkshire chicken farm keep trying to get over the fence, and then a rooster who says he can fly drops in. Stop-motion, quick, and built exactly like a prison break film.
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2006 · Science fiction
Nobody has been born anywhere on earth for eighteen years, and Britain has become a locked-down state rounding up refugees. A tired civil servant is asked to get one woman to the coast.
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2009 · Science fiction
Twenty years after an alien ship stalls above Johannesburg, its passengers live in a fenced-off slum and a company man is sent in to hand out eviction notices. It starts as a fake documentary and turns into a chase with a lot of gunfire.
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2017 · Crime
After a bank job goes wrong, a man spends one night crossing Queens trying to get his brother out of custody, and every fix he tries makes it worse. It never stops moving and the music sits right on top of you.
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2011 · Action
A contractor who does the jobs governments will not admit to is set up on an assignment in Dublin and starts working back through the people who hired her. The fights are long, quiet and have no music.
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2016 · Comedy
A city kid placed with a foster family in the New Zealand bush ends up out in the wild with his grumpy uncle while the whole country hunts for them. Jokes every minute, and a lot of scenery.
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2023 · Action
John Wick goes looking for a way out from under the crime syndicate that has put a price on his head, which means Osaka, Berlin and Paris. Nearly three hours long, and most of it is fighting.
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2017 · Action
An old Wolverine drives a limo near the Mexican border and hides a sick Professor X across it, until a girl with familiar habits needs taking north. A road movie, and much more violent than the ones before.
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2012 · Science fiction
In a near future where the mob sends people back thirty years to be shot on arrival, a young hitman is sent a target he recognises. Fast to begin with, then it stops somewhere quiet for a long while.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2016 · Science fiction
A father takes his eight-year-old son and runs, chased by the church the boy was raised in and by the government. It explains very little, and much of it happens on back roads at night.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2002 · Science fiction
In a Washington where murders are stopped before they happen, the cop who runs the unit is named by the system as a future killer and has to run from his own team. It is a chase with a mystery underneath it.
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2012 · Comedy
On a small New England island in 1965 a scout and a girl who has had enough of her family run off together, and the whole place goes looking for them. Neat, funny and told like a storybook.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
Sixteen years after his group of revolutionaries fell apart, a paranoid burnout has to move fast when his teenage daughter goes missing and an army colonel comes looking. Long, loud and often very funny.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2002 · Action
A man is fished out of the Mediterranean with two bullets in his back, no memory, and a bank account number under his skin. He finds out what he can do at the same time you do, and it keeps moving.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2021 · Horror
A woman with a metal plate in her skull from a childhood car crash dances at motor shows, then goes on the run under someone else's name. Extremely violent and strange, and it explains very little.
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