Movies like The Running Man
12 films like The Running Man (2025), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Twisters among them. They're picked by what the story is about and what each shares with The Running Man: its director, cast, franchise or setting.
2025 · 133 min · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. A man joins a game show in which contestants, allowed to flee anywhere in the world, are pursued by "hunters" hired to kill them.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Also directed by Edgar WrightA young man must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes, who are willing to do anything to prevent her happiness with someone else.
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Also action and adventureHunt and the IMF pursue a dangerous AI called the Entity that's infiltrated global intelligence. With governments and a figure from his past in pursuit, Hunt races to stop it from forever changing the world.
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Twisters
Also stars Glen PowellKate Carter, a retired tornado-chaser and meteorologist, is persuaded to return to Oklahoma to work with a new team and new technologies.
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Also action and adventureA group of intergalactic criminals must pull together to stop a fanatical warrior with plans to purge the universe.
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Top Gun: Maverick
Also actionThe story involves Maverick confronting his past while training a group of younger Top Gun graduates, including the son of his deceased best friend, for a dangerous mission.
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Collateral
Also actionA cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.
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Civil War
Also actionIn a dystopian future, four journalists travel across the United States during a nation-wide conflict. While trying to survive, they aim to reach the White House to interview the president before he is overthrown.
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Deadpool 2
Also action and adventureFoul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (a.k.a. Deadpool) assembles a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with abilities from the brutal, time-traveling cyborg Cable.
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Mortal Engines
Also action and adventureIn a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy.
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High-Rise
Also sci-fiLife for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
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Central Intelligence
Also actionAfter he reconnects with an awkward pal from high school through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espionage.
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Chappie
Also actionIn the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.
