Whether it’s a cop and a criminal, a shapeshifting android and a less advanced android, or an assassin and his future self, cat and mouse movies never fail to be exciting. However, no matter how great the genre, films of this ilk are often far and few between.
As one character is on the run and the other is in pursuit, they constantly try to outsmart each other, like a game of chess. One almost always ends up getting killed, but many of the best cat and mouse movies have extraordinarily different outcomes.
10 Heat (1995) - 87%
Heat isn’t just a cat and mouse movie, it’s a heist movie too, and one of the best ever made, at that. The further the movie progresses, the more intense it gets, as Vincent Hanna, played by Al Pacino, tries to hunt down the criminal mastermind Neil McCauley, played by Robert De Niro.
Pitting Pacino and De Niro against each other is a formula that’s almost impossible not to get right, but director Michael Mann created a masterpiece.
9 Zodiac (2007) - 89%
Being no stranger to intelligent crime movies, David Fincher directed 2007’s Zodiac, which is based on a real-life serial killer who was never caught. Zodiac is one of the most interesting cat and mouse thrillers because it attempts to get to the bottom of who the killer really was.
With an all-star cast that includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr., the movie surprisingly bombed at the box office, making it one of the most overlooked thrillers ever made. Fincher also filmed the movie with digital cameras, one of the first huge movies to do so, which gives the movie a glossier aesthetic for such a gritty movie.
8 The Departed (2006) - 91%
Scorsese has only ever won one Academy Award, which is cinema-blasphemy in itself, and he earned the Best Directing statue for The Departed, arguably the best gangster movie of the 21st century.
The film is also one of the best cat and mouse movies because each character is both the cat and the mouse. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Billy Costigan, an undercover cop who is trying to figure out who the rat in the police department is without being caught, and Matt Damon plays Colin, the rat in the police department trying to uncover the undercover cop without revealing who he really is in the process.
7 Insomnia (2002) - 92%
Another movie featuring Al Pacino, Insomnia received glowing reviews despite being fairly unknown to many movie fans. What people may not know is that the movie was directed by none other than Christopher Nolan, and it’s the only movie he has directed that he didn’t also write.
Being an adaptation of a 1997 Norwegian movie, Insomnia follows Will Dormer as he attempts to track down the murderer of a local teen. Pacino’s performance makes it one of the reasons why it’s arguably Nolan’s best movie.
6 Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) - 93%
Terminator 2: Judgement Day might be the ultimate cat and mouse movie. Developing the narrative from the first movie, which was comparatively a much simpler cat and mouse movie, the second and arguably the last great entry in the series was revolutionary in its special effects.
It also expertly subverted expectations by turning Arnie into the hero, even if it was one of the times that the marketing ruined the movie.
5 Looper (2012) - 93%
Being the newest movie on the list, Looper is not just another sci-fi movie, but a time travel movie too. It follows Bruce Willis' character as he is sent back in time, only for a manhunt to take place between him and his younger self, played by Joseph Gordon Levitt.
With a unique approach to the genre, Looper is one of the best movies about time travel, even if it does have some incredibly botched prosthetics.
4 The Fugitive (1993) - 96%
After Harrison Ford played two of cinema’s most iconic heroes, Han Solo and Indiana Jones, the actor dove into crime thrillers in the late 80s and early 90s, and The Fugitive is the clear crown jewel of the lot.
Ford plays Richard Kimble, who is trying to uncover who murdered his wife while being on the run after being framed for that very crime. It’s also one of the few movies that many don't realize has a sequel, but it doesn’t quite reach the heights of its predecessor.
3 Catch Me If You Can (2002) - 96%
Catch Me If You Can is possibly the most exciting and thrilling Steven Spielberg movie of the 2000s, as it follows Tom Hanks trying to track down a 16-year-old fraudster. The fraudster leaves a trail of counterfeit checks across the whole of the U.S., and Hanks’ character is outsmarted almost every step of the way.
Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays one of the greatest movie con artists, gives arguably his first Oscar-worthy role of his adult career.
2 The French Connection (1971) - 98%
Being one of the many great classics led by Gene Hackman, The French Connection centers around Jimmy Doyle, a police detective who shakes down criminals with brutal and excessive force.
However, those actions are never looked at as heroic in the movie, and the narrative that concerns the attempt to uncover how drugs are being smuggled into New York makes the movie a classic.
1 North By Northwest (1959) - 99%
Arguably Alfred Hitchcock's best movie, North By Northwest is one of the most influential movies in cinema history and an outlier in Hitchcock’s canon of suspenseful thrillers.
The Cary Grant-starring movie is a spy thriller in which an innocent man is mistaken for a rogue government agent who is trying to leak government secrets, and it’s possibly the most profound cat and mouse thrillers ever made.
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