The Fugitive Kind is a 1959 American (United States) drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Meade Roberts and Tennessee Williams was based on the latters 1957 play Orpheus Descending, itself a revision of his unproduced 1939 work Battle of Angels.

Despite being set in the Deep South, the United Artists release was filmed in Milton, New York. At the 1960 San Sebasti�n International Film Festival, it won the Silver Seashell for Sidney Lumet and the Zulueta Prize for Best Actress for Joanne Woodward.

The film is available on videotape and DVD. A two-disc DVD edition by The Criterion Collection was released in April 2010.