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10 Best Movies Like Running Scared

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

#1
Julie Darling

Julie Darling

1983★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running Scared for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother....

#2
Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill

Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill

2022★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running Scared for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In a night of killer comedy, Bill Burr hosts a showcase of his most raucous stand-up comic pals as they riff on everything from COVID to Michael Jackson....

#3
Life, and Nothing More…

Life, and Nothing More…

1992★ 7.7

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

After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In...

#4
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway

Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway

2008★ 7.9

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

Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives ...

#5
Funny Farm

Funny Farm

1988★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running Scared for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farm...

#6
Kids Return

Kids Return

1996★ 6.9

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

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a ...