American Films run

List of the best American films about running according to the audience: The Philly Kid, Blair Witch, Goodbye to All That, Safety Not Guaranteed, Good Time, Goat, Coldwater, Alien Abduction, Gimme the Loot, Captive.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, drama, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

A former NCAA champion wrestler is paroled after 10 years in prison. Now, to save a friend's life, in a series of cage fights he must agree to do the impossible - lose.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:01

Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Otto Wall is just a little unlucky in life, and unbeknownst to him, in love. When his wife suddenly asks for a divorce, he bounces between a search for answers, desperate attempts to stay connected to his daughter, and his fateful reentry into the dating pool.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:04

After a heist goes awry, a bank robber spends a night trying to free his brother from Riker's Island prison.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:25

Reeling from a terrifying assault, a nineteen year old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of 'brotherhood,' tests him and his loyalty in brutal ways.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA

Malcolm and Sofia, two determined teens from the Bronx, are the ultimate graffiti-writers. When a rival gang buffs their latest masterpiece, they must hatch a plan to get revenge by tagging an iconic NYC landmark, but they need to raise $500 to pull off their spectacular scheme. Over the course of two whirlwind, sun-soaked summer days, Malcolm and Sofia travel on an epic urban adventure involving black market spray cans, illicit bodegas, stolen sneakers, a high stakes heist, and a beautiful, stoned girl whose necklace is literally their key to becoming the biggest writers in the City.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, biography, history
CountryUSA, Mexico

Based on a miraculous true story that drew the attention of the entire nation, is the dramatic, thrilling, and spiritual journey of Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols. After being taken hostage by Brian in her own apartment, Ashley turns to Rick Warren’s inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life, for guidance. In reading from the book, Ashley not only finds purpose in her own life, but helps Brian find a more peaceful resolution to a harrowing situation.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredrama, adventure, family, biography, history
CountryUSA

The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryUSA
Duration02:50

    A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA

    In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain... and death... to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever - from a boy into a man. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the quintessential wartime tale of the Home Front. It is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the modesty and sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:36

    The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his blind girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    When a chance encounter brings together the cynical Dell and the quick-witted Kimberly, the stage is set for a tempestuous love affair that unfolds like a puzzle. As the film zigzags back and forth in time-from a meteor shower in LA, to an encounter in a Paris hotel room, to a fateful phone call-an unforgettable portrait of a relationship emerges.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Spain
    Duration02:28

    As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    20 years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    Erin Bell is an LAPD detective who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, action, cartoon
    CountryFrance, Japan, USA
    Duration01:37

    Angelino is just one of thousands of deadbeats living in Dark Meat City. But an otherwise unremarkable scooter accident caused by a beautiful, mysterious stranger is about to transform his life... into a waking nightmare! He starts seeing monstrous forms prowling around all over the city... Is Angelino losing his mind, or could an alien invasion really be happening this quietly...?

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    The Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain and damsel.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, China, Brazil, Germany
    Duration02:23

    In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:19

    A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, military, biography, history, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:17

      A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, China
      Duration01:58

      In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:30

      A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more responsibility. With the pressure on him mounting, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genredrama, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:27

      A legendary trainer comes out of retirement to help an underdog boxer fight his way to a better life.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, cartoon
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:15

      When time travel allows a past wrong to be righted for The Flash and his family, the ripples of the event prove disastrous as a fractured, alternate reality now exists where a Justice League never formed, and even Superman is nowhere to be found. Teaming with a grittier, more violent Dark Knight and Cyborg, Flash races to restore the continuity of his original timeline while this new world is ravaged by a fierce war between Wonder Woman's Amazons and Aquaman’s Atlanteans.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      A young Korean-American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the underground world of gay hookups at Korean spas in Los Angeles.

      Markimdb: 2.6
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

      This movie is a 'found-footage' film about the Benson family who move in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family were murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever lives there. This is the footage retrieved from the camera.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:32

      A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:44

      Carl Allen has stumbled across a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job: embrace life and say yes to everything.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetually longing to get away from it all. When her aunt, famous novelist Miranda Ruth, agrees to host her for a few weeks during the summer, Cyd jumps at the opportunity. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:25

      After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genredrama, sport
      CountryJamaica, USA

      Sprinter tells the story of Akeem Sharp who is set to be Jamaica's next big track-and-field sensation. Akeem hopes to rise in the track and field world will take him to the U.S. to reunite him with his mother who has supported the family while living as an illegal resident for over a decade. But Akeem's rising star is weighed down by turmoil at home: a volatile father, and an unruly older brother who insinuates himself into Akeem's career as a means of escaping - or perhaps enhancing - his scam artist hustle. Not only does Akeem have to prove to himself and everyone that he can succeed, but also overcome the struggles that may ultimately bring him down.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryAustralia, USA
      Duration01:46

      On the edge of a crumbling city, 11-year-old Alexander lives in a sequestered commune alongside other children, their mothers, and charismatic leader, Gregori. Gregori teaches the children how to raise livestock, grow vegetables, work as a community - and how to kill. With the birth of a new baby brother weighing on his mind, Alexander begins to question Gregori’s overpowering influence on the children and their training to become assassins. Threatened by his increasing unwillingness to fall in line, Gregori’s behavior turns erratic and adversarial toward the child he once considered a son. With the two set dangerously at odds and the commune’s way of life disintegrating, the residents fear a violent resolution is at hand.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryUSA

      A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      Amid the dust storms and economic depression of Dust Bowl Era Oklahoma, Eugene Evans finds his family farm on the brink of foreclosure. Discovering fugitive bank robber Allison Wells hiding in his small town, he is torn between claiming the bounty on her head and his growing attraction to the seductive criminal.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryGermany, France, Spain, USA
      Duration02:35

      While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryBulgaria, USA
      Duration02:23

      A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog named DeNiro closing in.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada

      A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA, China
      Duration02:27

      A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, melodrama
      CountryUSA, Indonesia
      Duration02:17

      A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.




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