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10 Best Movies Like The Runner

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

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#1
New Jack City

New Jack City

1991★ 6.7

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

A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a...

#2
American Gangster

American Gangster

2007★ 7.6

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

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from...

#3
We Die Young

We Die Young

2019★ 6.8

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

Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran come...

#4
Deep Cover

Deep Cover

1992★ 6.8

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

Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell...

#5
Starsky & Hutch

Starsky & Hutch

2004★ 5.8

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

Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve a...

#6
Sleepless

Sleepless

2017★ 5.9

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

Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who has a lot of enemies, is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist ...

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