Highest-Rated Movies about 'Runaway'

The 400 Blows (1959), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Taking Off (1971), Runaway Train (1985), The Big Steal (1949), Split Second (1953), Nowhere to Go (1958), Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Runaway movies.

#16. Restraint (2008)

Storyline: A small time criminal, Ron, has killed the boss of his girlfriend and they are escaping from the police. After killing a gas station attendant, Ron drives to an old manor in the middle of nowhere where Andrew, an agoraphobic, lives, in order to exchange their car. When he notes that Andrew is a wealthy man, Ron decides to get money from Andrew to travel to Thailand. Andrew notices that Dale resembles his fiancée, Gabrielle, who left him six months ago. He proposes that Dale dye her hair and go to the bank with two cheques of $20,000.00 pretending that she is Gabrielle. But things do not go according to plan.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, drama, mystery, psychological, fugitive, kidnapping ...

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#17. You Can't Run Away From It (1956)

Storyline: Ellen (June Allyson) is kidnapped by father (Charles Bickford) after she ran off and got married to someone he thinks is a gold digger. She escapes and starts an adventurous trip back to Houston to be with her husband. Her Father hires a private investigator to stop her. On the bus to Houston, a newspaper man (Jack Lemmon) figures out who she is. Instead of cashing in on the big story and the reward money he falls in love with her.—Harold Thornton

Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, musical, remake, classic, hollywood, song and dance ...

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#18. The Tourist (2010)

Storyline: Elise (Angelina Jolie) sits next to an American tourist, Frank (Johnny Depp), on a train going to Venice. She has chosen him as a decoy, making believe that he is her lover who is wanted by police. Not only will they need to evade the police, but also the mobster whose money her lover stole.

Plot Keywords: action, adventure, crime, thriller, romance, mystery, drama ...

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#19. The Thief Lord (2006)

Storyline: A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic leader, the Thief Lord. From their home base of an old cinema theater, the children steal from the rich to support themselves and soon capture the interest of a bumbling detective. However, a greater threat to the children is something from a forgotten past-- a beautiful magical treasure with the power to spin time itself.—Kasey and Toby

Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, family, children, mystery, friendship, venice ...

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#21. Eddie Macon's Run (1983)

Storyline: Eddie Macon will do anything for and to be with his wife and young son, Chris and Bobby. It is for Bobby that they moved from Florida to Texas, one injustice after another which lands Eddie behind bars at Huntsville ultimately on a twenty year sentence. With Chris' help, Eddie plots to break out of prison, the plan to make his way on foot, traveling solely at night, to Laredo where he will cross the border into Mexico to meet Chris and Bobby, he and Chris figuring that he is not important enough for the Mexican authorities to bother sending him back if he is ever caught south of the border. While the good ol' boys within the Texas penal system send out the blood hounds to search for Eddie, Carl Marzack with the prisoner transfer office decides to search for Eddie on his own largely to settle an old score. While Marzack's colleagues' method is to chase, Marzack is more methodical, believing he just needs to follow the crumbs ultimately with Eddie showing himself in the process. There are a few hiccups along the way, some that help Eddie and some that help Marzack. What may trump all is something stronger within Marzack, namely to show that he is smarter than the rest.—Huggo

Plot Keywords: action, adventure, crime, drama, thriller, fugitive, manhunt ...

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#22. Charlie and Louise (1994)

Storyline: Ten years ago Wolf and Sabine Palfy got divorced. Since then their daughter Charlie grew up with her father and her twin sister Louise lived with her mother. They never knew anything about one another and thus only met by chance when they join a boarding school in Scotland. At first they cannot stand each other but after a while they start gathering information about their origin. Realizing their relationship they plan to bring their parents back together: Thus, Charlie visits her mother and pretends to be Louise, whereas her sister goes to the father pretending to be Charlie.—Volker Boehm

Plot Keywords: family, comedy, adventure, children, german film, sisters, road movie ...

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#23. Woman Wanted (1999)

Storyline: Story of a woman (Hunter) who comes to work as a housekeeper for a widower (Moriarty) and his grown son (Sutherland) and of their attachment to her to the point that she is asked by the father to marry... to the dismay of the son who also loves her. But the animosity of the two men toward each other is finally resolved when she becomes intentionally pregnant, possibly by one or the other as she goes to bed with both men within a matter of days, causing neither to win her for himself, but both to become bound together because of the child.—BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>

Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, mystery, female lead, fugitive, police ...

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#24. Legionnaire (1998)

Storyline: Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti. The mobster discovers his whereabouts and enrolls two hit men to finish him off. With their fort under siege and enemies within, Lefevre finds that second chances are difficult to come by in the Legion.

Plot Keywords: action, adventure, war, historical, drama, morocco, 1920s ...

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#26. North (1994)

Storyline: Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus North starts off on a hilarious journey around the world to find the parents that really care about him.

Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, family, fantasy, children, coming of age, journey ...

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#27. 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: action, crime, thriller, comedy, heist, road movie, chase ...

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#29. Runaway Daughters (1994)

Storyline: After Mary (Holly Fields) tells her boyfriend she's pregnant, he immediately enrolls in the Army and skips town, leaving her to fend for herself. With her friends Angie (Julie Bowen) and Laura (Jenny Lewis) along for the ride, Mary steals a car, fakes a kidnapping and heads down to San Diego to chase after her errant beau. It's a bumpy ride, however, as the girls are being chased by corrupt cops and homicidal hillbillies, not to mention their own flabbergasted parents.

Plot Keywords: rebellion, family conflict, runaway, coming of age, teen issues, friendship, romance ...

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#30. Moving Target (1988)

Storyline: When teen Toby Kellogg (Jason Bateman) is shipped off to summer music camp, his concern that his band's substitute keyboard player (Chynna Phillips) will permanently replace him compels him to leave early. He arrives home to find his parents and younger brother missing, and the furniture gone. Unaware his family has entered a witness protection program after uncovering a Mafia conspiracy, Toby must find them while on the run from both the suspicious police and a dangerous hit man (John Glover).

Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, mystery, adventure, drama, spy ...

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