Movies by Lists - Innocent Fugitives On-the-Run (67 [67]) 
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| 39 Steps, TheA man in London tries to help a counter-espionage Agent. But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information. | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (55.5K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| 39 Steps, TheIn London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets. | 1959 | Ralph Thomas | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (2K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Absolute PowerCareer thief Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) witnesses a horrific crime involving U.S. President Alan Richmond (Gene Hackman). | 1997 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (53.6K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Anything for Her [Pour elle]With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail. | 2008 | Fred Cavayé | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (9.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Bourne Identity, TheA man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory. | 2002 | Doug Liman | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (532.6K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Bourne Legacy, TheAn expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films. | 2012 | Tony Gilroy | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.6 (296.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Bourne Supremacy, TheWhen Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive. | 2004 | Paul Greengrass | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (476.4K votes) | 108 | 20230806 |
| Bourne Ultimatum, TheJason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer. | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 8.0 (622.7K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Clouded Yellow, TheA former British agent is employed at the Fenton country estate where he aids Fenton's niece in eluding the police after she's unjustly accused of murdering a local gamekeeper. | 1950 | Ralph Thomas | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (840 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Dark PassageA man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence. | 1947 | Delmer Daves | Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.5 (19.2K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| DesperateA young married couple flee both police and a gangster out for revenge. | 1947 | Anthony Mann (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (2.1K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Eagle EyeJerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using | 2008 | D.J. Caruso | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (184.1K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Enemy of the StateA lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N.S.A. goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a politically motivated crime. | 1998 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Thriller | 7.3 (238.1K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| ErasedAn ex-CIA agent and his estranged daughter are forced on the run when his employers erase all records of his existence, and mark them both for termination as part of a wide-reaching international conspiracy. | 2012 | Philipp Stölzl | Action, Thriller | 6.1 (30.7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Foreign CorrespondentOn the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London. | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Action, Romance, Thriller, War | 7.5 (20.2K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| FranticIn a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of the shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder. | 1988 | Roman Polanski (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (52.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| FrenzyA serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man. | 1972 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Thriller | 7.4 (44.4K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Fugitive, TheDr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal. | 1993 | Andrew Davis | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (284.5K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| FX - Murder by IllusionA movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger. | 1986 | Robert Mandel | Action, Thriller | 6.7 (19.4K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Girl Was Young, TheA man on the run from a murder charge enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause. | 1937 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (9.4K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Golden Slumber [Gôruden suranbâ]Aoyagi meets an old friend and ends up framed for the murder of the prime minister. | 2010 | Yoshihiro Nakamura | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (1.4K votes) | 139 | 20240313 |
| Gunman, TheA sniper on a mercenary assassination team, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself. | 2015 | Pierre Morel | Action, Crime, Thriller | 5.8 (40.7K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| HannaA sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives. | 2011 | Joe Wright | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (196.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| High WallAfter a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence. | 1947 | Curtis Bernhardt | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.0 (1.7K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Hitcher, TheA young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitchhiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes. | 1986 | Robert Harmon | Action, Thriller | 7.2 (47K votes) | 97 | 20220414 |
| I Became a Criminal [They Made Me a Fugitive]After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman's murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge. | 1947 | Alberto Cavalcanti | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.2 (1.5K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| ImpostorIn the future, an alien race uses androids as bombs to attack Earth. A government weapons specialist is accused of being one such android and sets out to prove his innocence. | 2001 | Gary Fleder | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.2 (23.4K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| In TimeIn a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the | 2011 | Andrew Niccol | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.7 (396K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Knight and DayA young woman gets mixed up with a disgraced spy who is trying to clear his name. | 2010 | James Mangold | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 6.3 (190.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Lodger, TheA landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London. | 1927 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (11.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Marathon ManAfter the shocking murder of his older brother, a New York history student finds himself inexplicably hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds. | 1976 | John Schlesinger (*) | Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (61.9K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Minority ReportIn a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder. | 2002 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (534.8K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Mission ImpossibleAn American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization. | 1996 | Brian De Palma (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.1 (409.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Mission Impossible IIIIMF agent Ethan Hunt comes into conflict with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer who threatens his life and his fiancée in response. | 2006 | J.J. Abrams (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.9 (345.8K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Mission Impossible IV - Ghost ProtocolThe IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name. | 2011 | Brad Bird | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.4 (476.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Mission Impossible Rogue NationEthan and his team take on their most impossible mission yet when they have to eradicate an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are and committed to destroying the IMF. | 2015 | Christopher McQuarrie | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.4 (360K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Most WantedA Marine on death row is recruited by a shadowy U.S. military officer as part of a top-secret ops team, then gets framed for murder when the team and its officer set him up as the fall guy for the assassination of the First Lady. | 1997 | David Hogan | Action, Thriller | 5.6 (6.3K votes) | 99 | 20231001 |
| Next Three Days, TheA married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. | 2010 | Paul Haggis | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.3 (194K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| NightfallThrough a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers. | 1956 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.2 (3.9K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| North by NorthwestA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt. | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (317.8K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| November Man, TheAn ex-C.I.A. operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level C.I.A. officials and the Russian President-elect. | 2014 | Roger Donaldson | Action, Thriller | 6.3 (66.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| October Man, TheWhen the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital. | 1947 | Roy Ward Baker | Crime, Mystery | 7.1 (1.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Out of TimeA Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. | 2003 | Carl Franklin | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (59.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Parole Officer, TheA failed parole officer framed for murder must enlist the help of his former clients to clear his name. | 2001 | John Duigan | Comedy, Crime | 6.4 (6.8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| PaycheckWhat seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he's being chased. | 2003 | John Woo (*) | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.3 (106.9K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Point Blank [A Bout Portant]Samuel, a male nurse, saves the life of a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's wife hostage and force him to spring their boss. | 2010 | Fred Cavayé | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (13.9K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Prey, The [La Proie]Bank-robber Franck Adrien is serving a prison sentence after robbing a national bank. Before he was caught he managed to hide the money but now it's not just the police who are looking for the money. His cell-mate is Jean-Louis Maure | 2011 | Eric Valette | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (5.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Recruit, TheA brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency. | 2003 | Roger Donaldson | Action, Thriller | 6.6 (133.9K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| RunWhen a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police. | 1991 | Geoff Burrowes | Action, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (2.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Run All NightMobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of | 2015 | Jaume Collet-Serra | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (107.3K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| SaboteurA young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence. | 1942 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Thriller, War | 7.2 (25.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Safe HouseA young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge. | 2012 | Daniel Espinosa | Action, Thriller | 6.7 (218.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| SaltA CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. | 2010 | Phillip Noyce | Action, Thriller | 6.4 (308K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Sentinel, TheA Secret Service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the President. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a Secret Service Protective Intelligence Division agent. | 2006 | Clark Johnson | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 (49.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| ShooterA marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the President. After being double crossed for the attempt and on the run, he sets out for the real killer and the truth. | 2007 | Antoine Fuqua | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (325.2K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| SpartanThe investigation into a kidnapping of the daughter of a high-ranking US government official. | 2004 | David Mamet | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (32.6K votes) | 106 | 20230806 |
| Stage FrightA struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer. | 1950 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (13.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| SurvivorA Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York City, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit. | 2015 | James McTeigue | Action, Crime, Thriller | 5.7 (33.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Tell No OneAn accidental discovery near a doctor's estate stirs up some painful memories eight years after his wife's hideous murder, and now, things are bound to take a turn for the unexpected. Does the good doctor know more than he's letting | 2006 | Guillaume Canet | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.5 (53.7K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Thirty Nine Steps, TheIn March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I. | 1978 | Don Sharp | Crime, History, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (2.5K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Three Days of the CondorA bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. | 1975 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (53.2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| To Catch a ThiefA retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation. | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.4 (70.8K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| US MarshallsU.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard and his team of Marshals are assigned to track down Sheridan, who has been accused of a double-murder. | 1998 | Stuart Baird | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (101.9K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Wilby Conspiracy, TheA black anti-Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police. | 1975 | Ralph Nelson | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (1.9K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Wrong Guy, TheAfter his boss is murdered, Nelson is on the run for fear of prosecution. He hides out in a small town to avoid the police, which should be easy because they know he didn't do it and they aren't looking for him. | 1997 | David Steinberg | Comedy, Thriller | 6.7 (3.9K votes) | 92 | 20231223 |
| Wrong Man, TheIn 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber. | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.4 (27.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Young & InnocentA man on the run from a murder charge enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause. | 1937 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (9.4K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |