Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "fleeing-the-country"

1. Sorcerer (1977)

PG | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous Latin American jungle.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou

Votes: 27,689 | Gross: $12.00M

2. A Serious Man (2009)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.

Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed

Votes: 149,975 | Gross: $9.19M

3. Not Without My Daughter (1991)

PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Thriller

An American woman trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutal husband must find a way for her and her daughter to escape.

Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth

Votes: 14,669 | Gross: $14.79M

4. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)

Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

A filmmaker decides to memorialize a murdered friend when his friend's ex-girlfriend announces she is expecting his son.

Director: Kurt Kuenne | Stars: Kurt Kuenne, Andrew Bagby, David Bagby, Kathleen Bagby

Votes: 40,739 | Gross: $0.02M

5. Woman in Gold (2015)

PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, History

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.

Director: Simon Curtis | Stars: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes

Votes: 63,241 | Gross: $33.31M

6. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer

Votes: 80,926 | Gross: $1.70M

7. Observe and Report (2009)

R | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Bi-polar mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective is recruited to close the case.

Director: Jody Hill | Stars: Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Ray Liotta, Michael Peña

Votes: 65,296 | Gross: $23.99M

8. The Traitor (2019)

R | 153 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.

Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fausto Russo Alesi

Votes: 12,991

9. Pandora's Box (1929)

Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz

Votes: 11,861 | Gross: $0.01M

10. Orphan (2016)

111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young woman moves to Paris with a disastrous past. When she becomes a woman and thinks she's finally free from her past's shadows, some characters show up and she gets the chance to become a unique heroine.

Director: Arnaud des Pallières | Stars: Adèle Haenel, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Solène Rigot, Vega Cuzytek

Votes: 1,350

11. Liberté (2019)

Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, History

Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign.

Director: Albert Serra | Stars: Helmut Berger, Marc Susini, Iliana Zabeth, Laura Poulvet

Votes: 1,397

12. Barbara (I) (2012)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke

Votes: 15,984

13. Ariel (1988)

Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää, Eetu Hilkamo

Votes: 8,336

14. Circus of Horrors (1960)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, Horror

Dr. Rossiter, a plastic surgeon wanted by the police, flees to France and under an assumed name acquires, by murder, a run-down circus. His first recruit is a woman criminal. He transforms her face by surgery and trains her.

Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 2,401

15. Jack Strong (2014)

Not Rated | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.

Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Marcin Dorocinski, Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson, Dimitri Bilov

Votes: 5,359

16. Neruda (2016)

R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.

Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba

Votes: 11,055 | Gross: $0.94M

17. Tabloid (2010)

R | 87 min | Documentary, Crime

A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.

Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Joyce McKinney, Peter Tory, Troy Williams, Jackson Shaw

Votes: 7,285 | Gross: $0.68M

18. That Night in Varennes (1982)

R | 150 min | Drama, History

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 2,533

19. Welcome to Chechnya (2020)

TV-MA | 107 min | Documentary

A group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.

Director: David France | Stars: Olga Baranova, David Isteev, Ramzan Kadyrov, Maxim Lapunov

Votes: 3,143

20. The Big Picture (2010)

Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Thriller

A successful Paris lawyer is forced to re-invent his life after he makes a fatal mistake.

Director: Éric Lartigau | Stars: Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Niels Arestrup, Branka Katic

Votes: 3,735 | Gross: $0.16M

21. Magnet of Doom (1963)

102 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier, Malvina Silberberg

Votes: 1,762

22. Skies of Lebanon (2020)

92 min | Comedy, Drama

In the 1950s, Alice leaves her Swiss homeland for Lebanon. There, the best years of her life are marred by the threat of war.

Director: Chloé Mazlo | Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Wajdi Mouawad, Isabelle Zighondi, Mariah Tannoury

Votes: 1,140

23. Manon (1949)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama

A classic tale about bitter relationships between a frivolous girl and a soldier is adapted for the post-World War II time.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair, Cécile Aubry, Andrex

Votes: 1,176

24. No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)

106 min | Drama, Music

Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed Behdad, Babak Mirzakhani

Votes: 7,481 | Gross: $0.08M

25. Pour la France (2022)

113 min | Drama

It tells the story of a police officer who dies during an initiation process at a French military school.

Director: Rachid Hami | Stars: Karim Leklou, Shaïn Boumedine, Lubna Azabal, Samir Guesmi

Votes: 358

26. Happy New Year (1987)

PG | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Nick and Charlie (Peter Falk and Charles Durning) are two crooks that rob Harry Winston's jewelry store. Nick portrays a rich elderly brother and sister by using prosthetics and make-up to con the manager.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Peter Falk, Charles Durning, Claude Lelouch, Gary Maas

Votes: 744

27. Monsieur Batignole (2002)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, War

In 1942, in occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When Pierre-Jean Lamour, his future ... See full summary »

Director: Gérard Jugnot | Stars: Jules Sitruk, Gérard Jugnot, Michèle Garcia, Jean-Paul Rouve

Votes: 3,452

28. Killing for Love (2016)

Unrated | 130 min | Documentary, Crime

The gruesome murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom in 1985 were an international media sensation. The Haysoms were wealthy, respected members of Virginia society, and the murder conviction of ... See full summary »

Directors: Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger | Stars: Imogen Poots, Daniel Brühl, Jens Söring, Chuck Reid

Votes: 1,698

29. Pursuit (I) (2015)

89 min | Action, Crime, Romance

A modern day Irish gangland version of the ancient Irish legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne. Gráinne is daughter of a major crime boss and is promised to marry the great warrior Fionn to help ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Mercier | Stars: Ruth Bradley, Barry Ward, Liam Cunningham, Owen Roe

Votes: 143

30. Falling Angels (2003)

Not Rated | 109 min | Drama

Three teenage sisters cope in their individual ways to growing up in a dysfunctional family with an abusive father and drunk mother.

Director: Scott Smith | Stars: Miranda Richardson, Kristin Adams, Monté Gagné, Callum Keith Rennie

Votes: 1,132

31. All Three of Us (2015)

102 min | Comedy, Drama

An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.

Director: Kheiron | Stars: Kheiron, Leïla Bekhti, Gérard Darmon, Zabou Breitman

Votes: 2,680

32. South Terminal (2019)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Thriller

In a country plunging into armed conflict, a doctor tries to do his duty against all odds, until the day his destiny is turned upside down.

Director: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | Stars: Ramzy Bedia, Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Slimane Dazi, Salim Ameur-Zaïmeche

Votes: 388

33. A Better Life (2011)

110 min | Drama

Yann (Guillaume Canet) and Nadia (Leïla Bekhti) fall in love. Nadia has acquired a crumbling building in a Paris suburb and the couple decide to renovate it to launch a restaurant. But ... See full summary »

Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Leïla Bekhti, Slimane Khettabi, Abraham Belaga

Votes: 1,799

34. Twist again à Moscou (1986)

89 min | Comedy

Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of the hotel, he must misdirect and obstruct... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Christian Clavier, Martin Lamotte, Bernard Blier

Votes: 656

35. The Murri Affair (1974)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, History

Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent, abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the ... See full summary »

Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Tina Aumont

Votes: 281

36. Chains (1949)

74 min | Crime, Drama

First in a series of Matarazzo melodramas: A happily married Naples woman, with two children ,is threatened by the reappearance of a man from her past. Her husband takes a drastic action which results in the family members being separated.

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Aldo Nicodemi, Roberto Murolo

Votes: 470

37. In the Name of the Son (2012)

80 min | Drama

Quand une femme de foi, animatrice d'une tribune sur une station de radio catholique, dévouée à sa famille et la souffrance du monde, est confrontée à la pédophilie des prêtres et au ... See full synopsis »

Director: Vincent Lannoo | Stars: Astrid Whettnall, Philippe Nahon, Achille Ridolfi, Albert Chassagne-Baradat

Votes: 391

38. Santa & Andrés (2016)

105 min | Drama

The story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a noncompliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days.

Director: Carlos Lechuga | Stars: Lola Amores, Eduardo Martinez, Cesar Domínguez, Luna Tinoco

Votes: 232

39. Move Along, There is Nothing to See (1983)

84 min | Comedy

Leroux and Pélissier, are investigating stolen checks. They arrive at Hélène owner of a contemporary art gallery. Pélissier is convinced that she is a stranger to history, but Leroux clings on, convinced that she is hiding something.

Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Jane Birkin, Michel Blanc, Jacques Villeret, Michel Robbe

Votes: 504

40. Adriana's Pact (2017)

96 min | Documentary

An astonishing documentary about a woman who is looking about her aunt past during Pinochet's period in Chile.

Director: Lissette Orozco | Stars: Adriana Rivas, Lissette Orozco

Votes: 241

41. Coral Reefs (1939)

95 min | Adventure, Drama

The adventures of a sailor (Lennard) from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl (Lilian White).

Director: Maurice Gleize | Stars: Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Saturnin Fabre, Gina Manès

Votes: 202

42. Harragas (2009)

95 min | Drama

Set in the northern Algerian port city of Mostaganem. The title refers to the hordes of refugees, the 'Harragas', who smuggle themselves out of the country via any means possible. Here we ... See full summary »

Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Lamia Boussekine, Nabil Asli, Samir El Hakim, Seddik Benyagoub

Votes: 156

43. Raduhn (2010)

12 min | Short, Drama, Romance

Katrin is going to a nude drawing class. She likes the model Holger and seduces him to come visit her in her village Raduhn, where she wants to explain him the art and show him her pictures.

Director: Karsten Wiesel | Stars: Mirco Kreibich, Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen, Elena Getzieh, Moritz Herda

Votes: 14

44. Danger (1950–1955)
Episode: Borderline Affair (1950)

30 min | Drama

An American man and his wife from an unnamed Communist country exit her country via the train, she with a phony passport. When a ten-year-old girl enters their compartment, the couple fears that the child will turn them in.

Director: Ted Post | Star: Iris Mann

45. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Families (2004)

TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A high school student is found murdered, and it appears she's the victim of incest.

Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal

Votes: 1,135

46. Mr. Lucky (1959–1960)
Episode: His Maiden Voyage (1960)

30 min | Drama, Thriller

A high powered attorney and three of his "associates" hijack the Fortuna II. The lawyer is attempting to reach a foreign shore with his daughter in order to avoid a custody fight. Mr. Lucky and Andamo have a different course in mind.

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: John Vivyan, Ross Martin, Barry Atwater, Norman Alden

Votes: 43

47. Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode: Deliveries in the Rear/Stop Killing Me/Dead Weight (1972)

TV-PG | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Anatomy teacher John Fletcher, who uses grave robbers to get bodies, learns a lesson. / A strange woman goes to the police to report her husband for attempted murder. / Criminal Landau doubts the credentials of aging exporter Bullivant.

Directors: Timothy Galfas, Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Jack Albertson, Geraldine Page, Cornel Wilde, Bobby Darin

Votes: 293

48. Sam Benedict (1962–1963)
Episode: Run Softly, Oh Softly (1963)

60 min | Drama

Sam defends a man accused of swindling an insurance company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, while the daughter of the man Sam's client accuses of being the real thief asks Hank to help her father.

Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Richard Rust, Brian Keith, Lori Martin

49. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Dessert Served Cold (2003)

TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary, Crime

Emergency personnel were called to the home of Richard Alfredo, who was slumped over, dead of an apparent heart attack. No one thought foul play was a possibility until police looked into ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Jordan | Stars: Peter Thomas, Allen Manley, Richard Alfredo, James Weiner

Votes: 84

50. For Life (2020–2021)
Episode: Do Us Part (2020)

TV-14 | 43 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Aaron struggles to balance the demands of his own case with the needs of an inmate who's fighting for the right to marry his dying girlfriend. Safiya defies the prison board.

Director: Russell Lee Fine | Stars: Nicholas Pinnock, Indira Varma, Joy Bryant, Mary Stuart Masterson

Votes: 264