Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Running on Empty

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

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#1
Head Full of Honey

Head Full of Honey

2018★ 6.4

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

A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him....

#2
Until the End of the World

Until the End of the World

1991★ 6.7

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

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into...

#3
Easy Rider

Easy Rider

1969★ 7.1

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

Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth....

#4
Nomadland

Nomadland

2021★ 7.2

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

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad....

#5
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#6
Kings of the Road

Kings of the Road

1976★ 7.4

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

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicid...

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