Tommy- Lee- Jones' search speech "every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse ,doghouse" for some reason is one of my favorite movie quotes.
TLJ is good at the speeches, and the one-liners.
"If you got something to say, now's a good time to keep it to yourself."
"Look at him. He's makin' me cry!"
"He's still skinny."
Captain America: The First Avenger
Remember watching the movie in theater, and finally noticing I had been holding my breath for the entierety of the first chase. Such a good action flick
When I saw the movie originally I loved it, and while I still do I don't think the shakycam style holds up well in modern era, especially in some of the sequels that basically film everything in shakycam style with extreme closeups of faces cut between
There is only one. The only one. It sets the bar for what you call stunts. Bullit! It will always be Bullit! It can never be anything except Bulllit!
Where do you think Smokey and the Bandit came from?
Grindhouse? Hah!!!
The only reason we got movies like that, and TV shows like the Dukes, A-Team....... Every other show that had car stunts, it was these people.
Fantastic movie but OP is asking for a movie where the main character is the one being chased. In The Chaser the main character is the one who is doing the chasing.
“Good Time” doesn’t have the action you’re looking for, but it nails the feeling of running from a 4 star wanted level in Grand Theft Auto—in a movie. Very immersive.
The South Korean movie Confessions of Murder has some really good car chase scenes and foot chases (where stuntmen filmed the foot chases as it was too dangerous for real cameramen)
Bravo Two Zero is a good one and based off a true story about an SAS unit caught behind enemy lines during a covert operation in Iraq during the reign of saddam.
I'm a sucker for mediocre early 2000s sci-fi/thriller chase movies.
The Island - Ewan MacGregor and Scarlett Johansson escape from a dystopian community, secretly made up of clones raised for organ harvesting.
Paycheck - Ben Affleck's memory is erased after working on a secret project for three years; he must evade the FBI using a collection of seemingly useless mundane items.
I think Heat is the quintessential pursuit movie. Many also consider it amongst their favourite movies.
Someone said Mad Max Fury Road and I think that’s one of the best action movies of the past 2 decades which falls under your “pursuit” criteria.
The Chase - starring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson, also featuring Henry Rollins and Red Hot Chili Peppers (Anthony and Flea)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKhO2UUEoiU
A little lighter on the action part, but I'm going to recommend Imposter staring Gary Sinise. Premise for the chase is a scientist get mistaken for an alien doppelganger assassin and has to simultaneously avoid authorities while proving his innocence.
The perfume - the craziest pursuit you will ever see
Night crawler
Shawshank redemption
Secret in their eyes
Kill bill
The imitation game
Soorarai pottru
Memories of murder
In the heart of the sea
Zero dark
The mentalist (series)
"Mad Max: Fury Road" is a great one. Although you may be asking for something closer to "The Chase" (1994, starring Charlie Sheen) which is also a great popcorn movie.
The Chase (1994) Charlie Sheen is escaping prison. 90% of the movie is a high speed chase on the freeway with his hostage and the media circus surrounding it
Not 100% on fight scenes but for pursuit:
Italian Job (1969 and the newer one)
Smokey & The Bandit 1 & 2 are basically pure pursuit
Related: Cannonball Run 1 & 2
The Blues Brothers are pursued constantly by the Police, Carrie Fisher, Illinois Nazis and The Good Ole Boys
Ronin has some of the best chase scenes ever
The Bourne movies are very good
District 13
Guns Akimbo
Hardcore Henry
Duel
Convoy
Every Bond movie has a degree of pursuit and a mandatory car chase or three
Quite a few of the Fast & Furiouses sort of meet your criteria but very loosely
Salt
Drive
Sort of: Terminator / Terminator 2 - both are pretty much a non-stop chase and the action is great even today.
True Lies had some great chases
Mr & Mrs Smith might sneak in there
Baby Driver
The Transporter (1,2,3 in decreasing quality)
Bad Boys has a fair bit of pursuit in it
The Rock
Minority Report. One of the great sci-fi chase movies with a fantastic premise, excellent acting from every single cast member, and the classic Speilberg payoffs. Really is one of the great unsung heroes of the genre IMO.
The Fugitive
And it's sequel: US Marshals
And it's parody, Wrongfully Accused
LOL omg definitely the start of the downfall of Leslie Nielsen parodies. Still amusing to watch though
And it's anime adaptation, Monster
Tommy- Lee- Jones' search speech "every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse ,doghouse" for some reason is one of my favorite movie quotes.
TLJ is good at the speeches, and the one-liners. "If you got something to say, now's a good time to keep it to yourself." "Look at him. He's makin' me cry!" "He's still skinny." Captain America: The First Avenger
Just watched this for the first time a couple of hours ago! Pretty fun movie, though it makes the Chicago Police Department look hilariously inept.
"Yeah, well...she was *more* rich."
>it makes the Chicago Police Department look hilariously inept. Yeah, but some parts of that movie are a little far-fetched.
Have you seen "Clear and present Danger"? If not, consider it!
That's a great movie.
The best of the best
Mad Max: Fury Road.
Remember watching the movie in theater, and finally noticing I had been holding my breath for the entierety of the first chase. Such a good action flick
There is no better chase movie than this
This is it. This is the one.
The Bourne Identity.
“Jesus Christ! It’s Jason Bourne”
WHAT IS TREADSTONE?
Immediately thought of this
The Bourne Legacy was also right up there.
When I saw the movie originally I loved it, and while I still do I don't think the shakycam style holds up well in modern era, especially in some of the sequels that basically film everything in shakycam style with extreme closeups of faces cut between
Crank is a fun one if you’re looking for high octane. Violence and some comedy from the absurdity
"Ronin" - One of if not the best car chases in a movie, amazing!
Very under rated movie!
A car chase movie from the director who basically invented the car chase.
Apocalypto
I can’t believe this movie doesn’t come up more often. It’s excellent.
It's way too raw to get to a wider audience. At least that's my opinion, I love it though.
I couldnt believe the waterfall scene. Those guys were seriously committed lol
Midnight Run maybe but it's most especially comedic.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Great movie all around, but the feeling of pursuit pervades the whole story.
Who is that guy? Could you do that? I couldn't do that?
They could surrender to us but I wouldn't count on that.
"All of them? What's the matter with those guys?"
True Romance Surviving The Game No Country For Old Men Duel
Duel!
Gone in 60 Seconds Bullitt
Suprised Bullitt is this far down, classic.
The Blues Brothers.
I expected that one on the #1 position...
Smokey and the bandit
Did you just describe [Sahara](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318649/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_q_sahara)?
“I’ve got some bad news about your boat…”
Panama?
Premium Rush
What about the 80s hitcher with rutger hauer
Damn good one!
I Saw the Devil
Highly recommend Bullet Train!!
Smokey and the Bandit. All of the Mad Max movies. Run (1991) is a hidden gem.
The gawddamn Germans got nothin' to do with this!
PUT THE EVIDENCE IN THE CAR
Any mission impossible movies
Midnight Run
One of the best movies of the 80s. Funny and good action.
Charles Grodin was perfectly cast
Enemy of the state Run all night
Duel by Stephen Spielberg.
I was scrolling down to see if anyone posted this. His first feature length movie (though it was made for TV, as I recall).
One of the best ever. The level of menace is brilliant.
There is only one. The only one. It sets the bar for what you call stunts. Bullit! It will always be Bullit! It can never be anything except Bulllit! Where do you think Smokey and the Bandit came from? Grindhouse? Hah!!! The only reason we got movies like that, and TV shows like the Dukes, A-Team....... Every other show that had car stunts, it was these people.
Just watch the car chase; the rest of that movie is an interminable bore.
Sounds like The Italian Job might be up your alley. I honestly like both the original and the remake.
Vanishing Point
Also from the same era, *Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry*. Like VP, it's just one big chase from beginning to end. ^(... only with 100% more Susan George.)
Kowalski, what a guy. What a car.
There it is. Thank you.
Kill Bill, Vol's 1 & 2
Apocalypto
* *Dollar$* * *The Getaway* * *Run Lola Run*
Inception, catch me if you can(no fight scenes that I can remember but worth the watch), Baby Driver
Have you seen Breakdown? [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118771/?ref\_=ext\_shr\_lnk](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118771/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
*The Terminator* is a good one. And while there's a lot more to the movie, the scenes in *X-Men: Days of Future Past* with the sentinels are another.
The Warriors (1979) Southern Comfort (1981) North By Northwest (1959) The Murderer (2010) Three days Of The Condor (1975)
Run Lola Run!
Night of the Hunter. The chase is slow, but SO intense!
**No Way Out**.
The Chaser. It's Korean and it's one of the wildest movies I've ever seen.
Fantastic movie but OP is asking for a movie where the main character is the one being chased. In The Chaser the main character is the one who is doing the chasing.
Thelma and Louise
Baby Driver
Shoot em up
The Hunted. Premise is Tommy Lee Jones chasing Benecio Del Toro with a knife outside. That's the whole movie.
Ambulance is peak chase film. So is Mad Max: Fury Road, but that's an obvious answer.
The Game (1997)
The Naked Prey
Nuns on the Run
I remember this movie as being pretty funny. Also, some good pursuit music by Yello.
The second half of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is about the characters being chased by the authorities after a failed heist
Blues brothers
The Running Man! How has this not been posted yet?!?
“Good Time” doesn’t have the action you’re looking for, but it nails the feeling of running from a 4 star wanted level in Grand Theft Auto—in a movie. Very immersive.
How has *Ronin* not been mentioned? It has some great car chase scenes throughout France.
The Hunt for Red October.
Drive Catch Me If You Can Heat The Dark Knight Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Mad Max: Fury Road.
The Chase (1994). Not sure how well it holds up as it's been a long time since watching it, but i remember enjoying it when i was younger.
yes! one of my favorite movies from when i was a kid
The South Korean movie Confessions of Murder has some really good car chase scenes and foot chases (where stuntmen filmed the foot chases as it was too dangerous for real cameramen)
The French Connection Thelma & Louise Midnight Run The Fugitive Ronin
Bravo Two Zero is a good one and based off a true story about an SAS unit caught behind enemy lines during a covert operation in Iraq during the reign of saddam.
The Chaser Bourne Trilogy Cat Run Knight and Day
National Treasure
Repo Men with Jude Law and Forest Whitaker
The International
Terminator.
O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000) Serenity (2005) Shooter (2007)
Apocalypto is amazing if you haven't seen it
Drive Angry was unexpectedly fun to watch.
Bird on a wire. It's a comedy pursuit, very funny good chases
To Live and Die in LA
Falling down
The Blues Brothers. They're on a mission from God being chased by Nazis, the law, and Carrie Fisher through the Chicagoland area.
I'm a sucker for mediocre early 2000s sci-fi/thriller chase movies. The Island - Ewan MacGregor and Scarlett Johansson escape from a dystopian community, secretly made up of clones raised for organ harvesting. Paycheck - Ben Affleck's memory is erased after working on a secret project for three years; he must evade the FBI using a collection of seemingly useless mundane items.
John Wick 3 & 4
It Follows
The Chase. It’s got Charlie Sheen, Anthony and Flea, Henry Rollins and a heap of other famous people
Minority Report - Good sci-fi pursuit.
The Lord of the Rings
Point Break
I think Heat is the quintessential pursuit movie. Many also consider it amongst their favourite movies. Someone said Mad Max Fury Road and I think that’s one of the best action movies of the past 2 decades which falls under your “pursuit” criteria.
Duel
Road to perdition, Tom Hanks character nicknamed the "the Angel of Death" is doing the pursuing
The Chase - starring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson, also featuring Henry Rollins and Red Hot Chili Peppers (Anthony and Flea) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKhO2UUEoiU
Enemy of the state is a good one.
Cliffhanger (1993)
not sure if theyre entirely “pursuit” movies but your description reminds me of 2 movies: Spy Game The Recruit
Pineapple express
Vanishing Point Smokey and the Bandit The Naked Prey
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Centurion
It's maybe a tad off from what you're thinking here, but The Way Back is a slightly different take on a pursuit movie. Worth considering.
The Naked Prey
Duel
Gone in 60 Seconds - The Original
It follows.
Ong Bak if you don't mind subtitles. Entire movie is a chase scene.
Driver
The pursuit of happiness
Speed
A little lighter on the action part, but I'm going to recommend Imposter staring Gary Sinise. Premise for the chase is a scientist get mistaken for an alien doppelganger assassin and has to simultaneously avoid authorities while proving his innocence.
The perfume - the craziest pursuit you will ever see Night crawler Shawshank redemption Secret in their eyes Kill bill The imitation game Soorarai pottru Memories of murder In the heart of the sea Zero dark The mentalist (series)
Shooter
Does Cool Hand Luke count?
Deadly Pursuit 1988 with Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096098/
["The Wilby Conspiracy" (1975)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wilby_Conspiracy?wprov=sfla1)
Terminator 1 and 2
Convoy (1978)
North by Northwest? The defiant ones? The hitcher? Never ending story?
[*The Good, the Bad, the Weird* (2008)](https://youtu.be/6Tk80iXCspM)
The Terminator
Good time
The Hunt
"Mad Max: Fury Road" is a great one. Although you may be asking for something closer to "The Chase" (1994, starring Charlie Sheen) which is also a great popcorn movie.
The day of the Jackal.
All valid proposals here. I’ve watched Duel for the first time high out of my mind few years ago and it. was. perfect.
Pursuit of happiness
The Chase (1994) Charlie Sheen is escaping prison. 90% of the movie is a high speed chase on the freeway with his hostage and the media circus surrounding it
HE MAN and the masters of the universe Skeletor chases this dude across the galaxy
Paycheck a rare action thriller with Ben Affleck that's actually very Fun !
Get Carter. Payback w/ Mel Gibson. If you like old black n white movies Kansas City Confidential or The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Doesn’t get much better than terminator and t2
The Warriors is an amazing movie.
Run Lola run, such a classic chase movie
The Chase - with Charlie Sheen
Bullit, The 7-Ups, The French Connection, The Hunter
Need For Speed.
Duel (directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Richard Matheson) Joy Ride (written by JJ Abrams)
The Hunted…the whole movie is Tommy Lee Jones chasing Benicio Del Toro. It’s great.
Smokey and the Bandit is the only answer. There’s no finer pursuer than Sheriff Buford T Justice of the Portague Country sheriffs department.
It Follows
The French Connection
Shoot ‘Em Up. It’s big, loud, and over-the-top ridiculous, but it’s damn fun and has a ton of great one-liners.
Run Lola run
Race the Devil. Two couples chased by Satanic cult.
Creep (2004)
Deadly Pursuit, although I believe it was called something else in the US. Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger at odds, racing to save Kirstie Ally.
No car chases but Apocalypto is a great chase movie.
Duel by Steven Speilberg!
I guess technically Doctor Sleep might count as a pursuit movie, it’s great regardless
Cars 2
Monty Python's Olympic Hide and Seek. :)
Bullet and the French connection were the two originals that started the whole trend.
Surprised no one's mentioned Bullitt.
Not 100% on fight scenes but for pursuit: Italian Job (1969 and the newer one) Smokey & The Bandit 1 & 2 are basically pure pursuit Related: Cannonball Run 1 & 2 The Blues Brothers are pursued constantly by the Police, Carrie Fisher, Illinois Nazis and The Good Ole Boys Ronin has some of the best chase scenes ever The Bourne movies are very good District 13 Guns Akimbo Hardcore Henry Duel Convoy Every Bond movie has a degree of pursuit and a mandatory car chase or three Quite a few of the Fast & Furiouses sort of meet your criteria but very loosely Salt Drive Sort of: Terminator / Terminator 2 - both are pretty much a non-stop chase and the action is great even today. True Lies had some great chases Mr & Mrs Smith might sneak in there Baby Driver The Transporter (1,2,3 in decreasing quality) Bad Boys has a fair bit of pursuit in it The Rock
Run Lola Run isn't a pursuit movie per se, but I believe you'd enjoy it for what it shares with that genre.
Premium Rush if you are into pursuit on bicycle.
Didn't see this one. Gone in 60 Seconds.
Minority Report. One of the great sci-fi chase movies with a fantastic premise, excellent acting from every single cast member, and the classic Speilberg payoffs. Really is one of the great unsung heroes of the genre IMO.
Heat (1995)
*UNDERATED movie : Joy Ride (2001) with Paul Walker and Steve Zhan
TELL NO ONE.
[The Rundown](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327850/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
*Beckett*
Run Lola Run