THEME EXPLORATION

escaped convict antagonist

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

Where the Breakers Roar

Where the Breakers Roar
1908 · D.W. Griffith

Era notte a Roma

Era notte a Roma
1960 · Roberto Rossellini

Hand of Death
1976 · John Woo

Highway Pick-Up

Highway Pick-Up
1963 · Julien Duvivier

Robert C Cumbow, Order in the Universe: The Films of John Carpenter , Second Edition, The Scarecrow Press

Robert C Cumbow, Order in the Universe: The Films of John Carpenter , Second Edition, The Scarecrow Press
2000 · John Carpenter

The Desperate Hours

The Desperate Hours
1955 · William Wyler

The Pilgrim
1916 · Frank Borzage

The Rose of the Rancho

The Rose of the Rancho
1914 · Cecil B. DeMille

Great Expectations

Great Expectations
1998 · Alfonso Cuarón

I quattro dell’apocalisse

I quattro dell’apocalisse
1975 · Lucio Fulci

One Piece Film Red

One Piece Film Red
2022 · Goro Taniguchi

Hardcore Henry
2015 · Ilya Naishuller

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Alfred Hitchcock United Kingdom

Masterfully explored wrongly accused fugitives and moral ambiguity through suspenseful narratives that questioned justice itself.

François Truffaut France

Humanized criminal outsiders and fugitives as sympathetic antiheroes, exploring freedom and rebellion against institutional constraint.