Highest-Rated Movies about 'Getaway', Sort by Popularity

Same Time, Next Year (1978), Quick Change (1990), Bandits (2001), Finding Steve McQueen (2018), Armored (2009), In Fear (2013), In Their Skin (2012), Carpool (1996) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Getaway movies.

#1. Same Time, Next Year (1978)

Storyline: A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year. Originally a stage play, the two are seen changing, years apart, always in the same room in different scenes. Each of them always appears on schedule, but as time goes on each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: adulterer, mistress, husband, wife, melodramatic, emotional, passionate ...

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#2. Quick Change (1990)

Storyline: When a man dressed as a clown enters a bank and tries to rob it, no one takes him seriously at start. But as this New Yorker pulls this daring robbery with the help of his friends, it looks like leaving the bank with all the stolen money is the easy part! All they have to do now is make it out of the city and to the airport. They have plenty of time, but its not that easy as they seem to get out of one problem only to fall into another. Will they make before the cops catch up with them?

Plot Keywords: new yorker, thief, girlfriend, best friend, hostage, cop, hilarious ...

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#3. Bandits (2001)

Storyline: Two convicts, one charismatic (Willis) and the other a hypochondriac (Thornton), break out of prison and immediately start a bank robbing spree, kidnapping bank managers, spending the night with their families, then going with the managers in the morning to rob the banks. Using a dim-witted stunt man as their getaway driver and lookout, the three successfully pull off several jobs (even gaining the attention of a television show about American criminals), and become known as "The Sleepover Bandits." Things are going great until the bank managers begin to realize that the robbers are non-violent and therefore no threat to them or their employees, changing the game for the Bandits. To add to the complications, a bored & unhappy housewife (Blanchett) ends up in the hands of the criminals, and begins to have romantic feelings for both Willis and Thornton, causing a sticky love triangle.

Plot Keywords: bank robber, convict, banker, housewife, stuntman, suspenseful, spirited ...

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#5. Armored (2009)

Storyline: The war veteran, Ty Hackett, is hired to work as security guard by the Eagle Shield Security where his old friend Mike Cochroone works. Ty is having financial difficulties after the death of his father, and is raising his brother Jimmy alone. He teams up with Mike's brother-in-law, Baines, and their coworkers Quinn, Palmer and Dobbs. One night, Mike invites Ty to join in the robbery of two armored trucks transporting forty-two million dollars. The reluctant Ty accepts after Mike promises that nobody would be hurt in the heist.

Plot Keywords: veteran, brother, godfather, guard, deputy, robber, thrilling ...

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#6. In Fear (2013)

Storyline: Tom and Lucy are both happy young adults eager to set out on their first weekend getaway as a couple. They set off for a planned stay at a remote hotel but quickly find themselves getting lost in a maze of backwoods roads. However they soon discover that they are at the mercies of an unknown tormentor that is eager to take advantage of their vulnerability and distance from civilization.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: couple, creepy, dark, suspenseful, ireland, backwoods, country road ...

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#7. In Their Skin (2012)

Storyline: After the accidental death of their six-year-old daughter, the Hughes family escape their busy upscale suburban life and head to their isolated cottage for some quality time. An evening with their friendly neighbors is suddenly interrupted when one mans obsession with perfection escalates into a violent struggle, forcing the families to go beyond what they ever thought they were capable of in order to survive.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: real estate developer, lawyer, married man, married woman, son, neighbor, creepy ...

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#8. Carpool (1996)

Storyline: A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for them, things go even more awry when he finds himself the victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>

Plot Keywords: robber, father, teen girl, teen boy, police detective, manager, hilarious ...

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#9. South of Panama (1941)

Storyline: Jan Martin, sister of government chemist Paul Martin, realizes she is being followed by enemy agents after her brother. She ignores him at the Panama airport and embraces a stranger, Mike Lawrence, instead. Enemy agents Lake and Wilton are convinced that Mike is her brother and attempt to trap the pair. They get away but Jan disappears. Disguised with a black wig and new makeup, Jan becomes Dolores and gets a job singing at a cafe. Spotting Jan without her disguise, Mike follows her down an alley where they are trapped by Raynor, another espionage agent. They get away and Jan also gets away from Mike. Later, both Mike and Jan are captured and the agents realize that Mike is not the brother they are after. Paul is brought to the hideout, but Mike gets the drop on them.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: chemist, woman, sister, brother, man, agent, stranger ...

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#10. Drive Hard (2014)

Storyline: A former race car driver turned driver's training instructor (Jane) is abducted by a mysterious thief (Cusack) and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts both in the sights of the cops and the mob and leads them all on a chase across Australia's Gold Coast.—Annonymous

Plot Keywords: thief, retiree, race car driver, hostage, tense, thrilling, suspenseful ...

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#11. Special Delivery (1976)

Storyline: When a group of Vietnam vets holds up a bank in downtown Los Angeles, the cops close in fast, apprehending all of them except for Jack Murdock (Bo Svenson). Jack drops his cut of the money into a mailbox and, coming back later, finds he has to wait until midnight for a postman to unlock it. He lingers nearby and meets neighborhood girl Mary Jane (Cybill Shepherd) who saw him stash the loot. She wants a cut, and Jack reluctantly agrees, unaware that she's not the only one who saw him.

Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, bank robber, drug addict, blackmailer, pretty woman, tense, amusing ...

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