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Mar 4, 2017 · 10. The Bourne Identity (2002) In the first movie of the series, everyone's favorite amnesiac spy is found floating in the ocean with several bullet wounds in his back. After being rescued, the man pieces together his past and finds a name – Jason Bourne.
- Fast and Furry-ous (1949) Director: Chuck Jones. If there’s one director above any other who dedicated the best part of an entire career to the thrill of the chase, it’s animation maestro Chuck Jones.
- North by Northwest (1959) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock had already had plenty of practice in the art of the chase, The 39 Steps (1935) and Saboteur (1942) being stellar and middling preceding examples respectively, but his commitment to the form reached its apotheosis with North by Northwest.
- The Naked Prey (1965) Director: Cornel Wilde. There’s little dialogue in director-producer-actor Cornel Wilde’s The Naked Prey, a chase film that smartly riffs on Richard Connell’s 1924 short story (and Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1932 film) ‘The Most Dangerous Game’, in which humans are hunted for sport by rich landowners.
- Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) Director: H.B. Halicki. No other film or director has turned stunt driving into as stripped-down a statement of auteurist intent as H. B. Halicki with Gone in 60 Seconds.
15 titles. Sort by List order. 1. The French Connection. 1971 1h 44m R. 7.7 (139K) Rate. 94 Metascore. A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.
Apr 14, 2024 · Courtesy Everett Collection. Another sequence widely considered among the greatest car chases is the famous scene in Peter Yates’ 1968 thriller Bullitt. Steve McQueen’s Lt. Frank Bullitt is at ...
- The French Connection (1971) Remember how it was mentioned that William Friedkin would be on this list once more? Here you go. The French Connection is one of the most gritty cop movies of all time.
- Death Proof (2007) Death Proof is arguably Quentin Tarantino’s biggest flop at the box office, and yet year after year, it seems to get more love. The second part of Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s experiment is titled Grindhouse.
- Bullitt (1968) For today’s audiences, Bullitt may lag a bit with the police procedural side of the movie, yet it’s known as one of the most definitive car chases in the history of movies.
- Smokey and the Bandit (1977) A fun fact about the scene being discussed here — Smokey and the Bandit director, Hal Needham, is driving the car during its big stunt.
1. Bullitt. 19681h 54mM/PG. 7.4 (77K) Rate. 81Metascore. A nonconformist San Francisco cop is determined to find the underworld kingpin who killed the witness under his protection. Director Peter Yates Stars Steve McQueen Jacqueline Bisset Robert Vaughn. 2. The French Connection.
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Oct 1, 2024 · Over 2.5K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best Chevy Chase Movies, Ranked. HOW RANKINGS WORK. 1. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid. 1,169 votes. Character: Clark "Sparky" Griswold. Released: 1989. Directed by: Jeremiah S. Chechik.
