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Movies: Best "pursuit" Movies


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We Own the Night(2007)

R
| 1h 57min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 585 votes)

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

Niagara(1953)

NR
| 1h 32min | Thriller
3.4/5 (with 153 votes)

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.

The Chase(1994)

PG-13
| 1h 29min | Adventure, Comedy, Action, Crime
2.9/5 (with 146 votes)

Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car. The girl happens to be the only daughter of one of the richest men in the state. In a while the car chase is being broadcast live on every TV-channel.

Hector and the Search for Happiness(2014)

R
| 1h 54min | Adventure, Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 372 votes)

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

Slow West(2015)

R
| 1h 24min | Western, Action, Thriller, Drama
3.3/5 (with 443 votes)

In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.

The Red Balloon(1956)

3.9/5 (with 160 votes)

A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world’s harsh realities finally interfere.

The Clearing(2004)

1h 35min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 102 votes)

When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with the kidnapper.

Thoroughly Modern Millie(1967)

G
| 2h 18min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 40 votes)

Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!".

Ride in the Whirlwind(1966)

1h 22min | Western
3.1/5 (with 35 votes)

Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.

Street Warriors II(1979)

1h 40min | Crime, Drama, Action
2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

A veteran policeman named Fernando feels a lot of hatred against Ángel because the boy ran him over with a car leaving him lame. Now Fernando accuses the young crook of having participated in a robbery at a gas station in which a murder has occurred. Helped by his friends, Ángel rebuilds the facts that serve him as an alibi, but while he is in pre-trial detention in La Modelo prison (Barcelona) a terrible mutiny will take place.

Directed by José Antonio de la Loma - With El Torete, Agustí Villaronga, Raúl Ramírez, Isabel Mestres, Carlos Lucena

Pork Pie(2017)

1h 45min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.3/5 (with 24 votes)

A trio of accidental outlaws travel the length of New Zealand, protesting conformity and chasing lost love, with a posse of cops and a media frenzy in pursuit.

Directed by Matt Murphy - With Dean O'Gorman, James Rolleston, Ashleigh Cummings

Hell Bent for Leather(1960)

PG
| 1h 22min | Western
3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.

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Eyewitness(1970)

PG
| 1h 31min | Thriller
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?

Smash His Camera(2010)

1h 27min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

A film centering on the life and work of Ron Galella that examines the nature and effect of paparazzi.

Directed by Leon Gast - With Ron Galella

Street Warriors(1977)

1h 43min | Action, Drama, Crime
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

Perros Callejeros is based on the juvenile delinquency of the 1970s and 80s in Spain. The story is set in Barrio de la Mina in Barcelona one of the most conflict neighbourhoods in Spain. The characters chosen were real juvenile delinquents all with criminal records, which the director used to give the film a realistic touch. This film is very powerful and dramatic, it shows how these kids were brought up to survive on the streets.

Directed by José Antonio de la Loma - With Victor Petit, Xabier Elorriaga, Frank Braña, El Torete, Marta Flores, Carlos Lucena, ...

Humboldt County(2008)

R
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama
2.6/5 (with 14 votes)

Peter is a medical student about to graduate and begin his residency. When his professor fails him, he winds up in bed with an actress and singer named Bogart rolling through Los Angeles. He accompanies her to the redwoods of northern California, where he encounters her eccentric family of pot farmers. But when Bogart runs away without a word, Peter is thrust into the picturesque and bizarre world.

Dumb-Hounded(1943)

3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

The wolf escapes from prison but can't get away from police dog Droopy no matter how hard he tries. This is the first cartoon starring Droopy.

Directed by Tex Avery

The Latest Scams of 'El Torete'(1980)

1h 43min | Action, Crime
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

While the Torete rob banks, the Heifer, another delinquent who has not noticed it, enters the same place to rob him. After failing the coup, both decide to associate.

Directed by José Antonio de la Loma - With Isabel Mestres, Fernando Guillén Gallego, Simón Andreu, Manuel Bronchud i Guisoni, Arsenio Corsellas, Jesús Ferrer, ...

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase(1976)

R
| 1h 30min | Action, Drama
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage, it begins a thrill-packed crime spree across the state of Texas.

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings(1975)

1h 31min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Story of a happy-go-lucky small time crook who runs into a country music group looking for their big break. They end up helping each other out in unexpected ways.

Northwest Hounded Police(1946)

3.5/5 (with 20 votes)

The wolf escapes from Alka-Fizz prison, but the persistent Sergeant McPoodle (Droopy) of the Canadian Mounties follows his trail wherever he goes.

Directed by Tex Avery

The Desperate Trail(1995)

R
| 1h 36min | Western, Action, Drama, Crime
2.3/5 (with 9 votes)

Amiable con man Jack Cooper is on a westbound stagecoach, headed for the next batch of suckers who will mistake him for an easy mark. Fiery Sarah O'Rourke rides the same coach, handcuffed to lawman Bill Speakes and headed for the hangman. In a few hours, all should reach their destinations. But the trail they travel takes an unexpected turn: Cooper and O'Rourke are soon off the stage and running for their lives. The law ends and the chase begins in a very alive tale of wanted-dead-or-alive fugitives (Linda Fiorentino and Craig Sheffer) pursued by a marshal (Sam Elliott) who's a law unto himself.

El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free(1988)

2h | Drama, Crime
2.9/5 (with 14 votes)

This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his mind. Nothing and no-one can stop him. After escaping the Puerto de Santa María prison, the reunion with his family is just the beginning of what will become an endless escape.

The Last Run(1971)

PG
| 1h 35min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

A former mob getaway driver from Chicago has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job - to drive a dangerous crook and his girlfriend to France.

The Steel Lady(1953)

NR
| 1h 24min | Action, Drama
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII.

Directed by Ewald André Dupont - With Rod Cameron

Reg'lar Fellers(1941)

NR
| 1h | Crime, Adventure, Comedy
2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine, form a kid-band and go on the radio, celebrate a birthday, get involved with gangsters...and reunite a wealthy recluse with her baby granddaughter and estranged daughter-in-law.

Directed by Arthur Dreifuss

The Green Glove(1952)

NR
| 1h 29min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gauntlet (a stolen religious relic). Years later, financial reverses lead Mike to return in search of the object. In Paris, he must dodge mysterious followers and a corpse that's hard to explain; so he and attractive tour guide Christine decamp on a cross-country pursuit that becomes love on the run...then takes yet another turn.

The Early Bird and the Worm(1936)

A young worm is chased by the Early Bird, but then a snake and two crows join the chase.

Directed by Rudolf Ising

One Exciting Adventure(1934)

1h 10min | Comedy

One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.

Directed by Ernst L. Frank - With Binnie Barnes

Death Race(1973)

1h 14min | War, TV Movie
2.2/5 (with 4 votes)

In the North African desert in World War II, a crippled American fighter plane that is unable to take off tries to evade and destroy a pursuing Nazi tank.

Directed by David Lowell Rich - With Lloyd Bridges
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