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10 Best Movies Like Runaway

If you loved Runaway, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Adopt a Highway

Adopt a Highway

2019★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Runaway for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t...

#2
The Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Runaway for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-...

#3
The Parts You Lose

The Parts You Lose

2019★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Runaway for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm....

#4
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Runaway for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

#5
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Runaway for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Ang...

#6
Hungry Hearts

Hungry Hearts

2015★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Runaway for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance....

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