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10 Best Movies Like The Loneliest Runner

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

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#1
Home Run

Home Run

2013★ 6.2

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

A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties f...

#2
Boy A

Boy A

2008★ 7.1

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

Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the r...

#3
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Loneliest Runner for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#4
No One Would Tell

No One Would Tell

1996★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Loneliest Runner for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Shy sixteen-year-old Stacy Collins can't believe that the most popular guy in school, an attractive athlete named Bobby Tennison, is interested in her. At first she is flattered by...

#5
The Darkest Minds

The Darkest Minds

2018★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Loneliest Runner for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of o...

#6
Overcomer

Overcomer

2019★ 7.7

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

After reluctantly agreeing to coach cross-country, high school basketball Coach John Harrison helps the least likely runner attempt the impossible in the biggest race of the year....

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