Six sliders. No stars.
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.
60 films tagged on the run, showing 50
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2025 · Crime
A New York bartender agrees to look after his neighbour's cat in 1998, and within days Russian gangsters have put him in hospital over a key he knows nothing about. It moves fast and gets bloody.
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2025 · Comedy
Two CIA operatives who walked away fifteen years ago are living as suburban parents until their cover breaks in a nightclub brawl their kids film. From there it is chases, gadgets and family bickering.
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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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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
Two spies who went rogue to be together are lying low at a remote resort when a plane comes down nearby, leaving a hard drive several agencies want. From there it is armed men arriving, one lot after another.
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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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Little-known
2025 · Crime
A Texas gas station attendant falls for a con artist and takes off with him, scamming and robbing their way east towards the mother who left her as a baby. The jobs get bigger as they go.
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2025 · Drama
A young married couple are pursued by a border agent who is convinced they are smuggling cabbages. It is a chase built on one absurd idea.
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2025 · Drama
A woman on the run from a drug den turns up at the door of the cousin she has not spoken to in five years, with men following close behind her. Twenty years of the two of them, cut between.
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2025 · Drama
Buffalo Bill takes his Wild West show to Rome, an Italian cowherd beats his cowboys in front of a crowd, and days later that cowherd and a young Frenchwoman are running with a bounty on them. A western, set in Italy.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
An office worker spots a woman on the subway, lets her talk him out of his routine, and finds himself on a crime spree with the police behind them. It gets out of the office fast and stays on the move.
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2025 · Science fiction
In a near-future America run by a television network, a blacklisted worker joins the show where runners are hunted for thirty days and have to film themselves daily. It moves at a sprint from there.
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2025 · Crime
A divorced army veteran robs fast food restaurants by cutting in through their roofs, more than forty times, and after escaping prison hides out inside a toy store. Based on a true story and played as a comedy.
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2025 · Horror
Maya wakes in a small-town hospital after being stabbed by three masked strangers, and they have come to finish it. A straight chase through a town whose sheriff would rather this went away.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A laid-off accountant arranges a playdate for his stepson with the new stay-at-home dad down the street, and by the afternoon armed men are chasing all four of them. Big and silly, built on chases.
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2025 · Crime
A man fresh out of prison collects his eleven-year-old daughter from school and takes her on the run, because the gang he crossed inside has come for his family. Most of it is the two of them, in cars and motel rooms.
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2025 · Comedy
A former hitman now running a security firm takes the family to London for Christmas, where a job turns out to be a setup by a half-brother he did not know he had. Chases and family bickering.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
Two leaders of a CIA assassination unit fell in love, had a son and disappeared, and the man who ran the unit has been sending killers after them ever since. Chases and shootouts, with the boy in the middle of them.
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2025 · Crime
Two childhood friends scraping a living in the Gangnam nightlife lose everything to a crime boss, then find out where he keeps his gold. Most of the film is what happens after they take it.
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2025 · Thriller
In 1790s Scotland, a young Japanese woman is chased across the hills by a gang of brigands, hiding first in a strange mansion and then with a travelling circus. Her father, a former samurai turned puppeteer, trained her in both trades, and most of the film is the chase.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Crime
Two years on, a wanted driver is living quietly in a German timber town under a false name until the corrupt narcotics commander he runs shipments for decides to have him killed. It is the last of three films, and it runs on cars and payback.
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2026 · Science fiction
A cybersecurity analyst walks out of a secret government contractor with an alien artefact and decades of files. He and a weather presenter who has started speaking an unknown language try to get it public.
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2026 · Thriller
Five years after the comet, the Garrity family are living in a bunker in Greenland when earthquakes bring it down and they have to run for Europe. It is one leg after another, and the group keeps shrinking.
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2026 · Action
A former MI6 assassin living alone on a Scottish island takes in the teenager who brings his supplies, then a surveillance program flags him as a terrorist. Kill teams start arriving, and he has had years to set traps.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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Little-known
2026 · Action
A bounty hunter in the Sui dynasty turns down a governor's offer, crosses him anyway, and becomes the most wanted man in the country with his young nephew in tow. Sword fights most of the way.
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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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Little-known
2026 · Horror
Mary and her daughter Chloe live on the road, hiding what they can do from a force that hunts people with powers. Mary wants the officer who killed her first child; Chloe wants a friend.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2026 · War
December 1944, the Battle of the Bulge: an American captain is the only man left of his squad and has to walk back to his own lines with a field radio and a pack of cigarettes. Mostly one man, hiding.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A hitman hiding out in Los Angeles is offered safe passage home if he can turn his boss's awkward son into a man, starting tonight, on a job. The two of them spend one night getting it very wrong.
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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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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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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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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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Little-known
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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Little-known
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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Little-known
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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Little-known
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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2020 · Action
A mercenary takes a job pulling a crime lord's kidnapped son out of Dhaka, and the payment falls through while he is still inside. Built around one very long unbroken chase.
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2011 · Science fiction
Everybody stops ageing at twenty-five and pays for everything with the time they have left, and a factory worker is handed a century by a stranger. Chases, mostly.
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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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2011 · Thriller
A blocked writer takes a pill that lets him use all of his brain, and within a week he is finishing books and trading stocks. Slick and quick, and the comedown arrives.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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