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Movies similar to The Runner
Maia Marten, a brilliant London lawyer, has her life shattered by a single call on her morning run: her son has been taken. To get him back, she must keep running, obey every ruthless command, and trust no one-each second a test of how far a mother will go to save her child.
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Kidnap (2017)
It has a 48% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
A mother (in her Minivan) stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
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Protector (2026)
It has a 48% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
Nikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.
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Breaking In (2018)
It has a 46% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After managing to escape, Shaun must now figure out a way to turn the tables on the desperate thieves and save her captive children.
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Ransom (1996)
It has a 43% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and similar audience reach.
When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
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Fuze (2026)
It has a 42% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and release period.
An unexploded WWII bomb is discovered on a busy construction site in the centre of London. Chaos ensues as the military and police begin a mass evacuation against a ticking clock.
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Extortion (2017)
It has a 41% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and release period.
A doctor desperately tries to save his wife and their 5 year old son after their vacation in the Bahamas takes an unexpected turn.
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The Tall Man (2012)
It has a 34% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
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Good Boy (2026)
It has a 34% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.
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Panic Room (2002)
It has a 34% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
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There Are No Saints (2022)
It has a 33% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and release period.
A man is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dangerous plan to rescue his son and avenge the murder.
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
It has a 33% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, its story and themes and shared genres.
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
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Paradox (2017)
It has a 33% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and TMDB relationship signals.
When a Hong Kong police negotiator is informed about the sudden disappearance of his 16-year-old daughter in Thailand, he travels there to search for her whereabouts.
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Fall 2: Deadpoint (2026)
It has a 33% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
On a perilous climb across Thailand's Mount Kwan, two climbers become trapped thousands of feet above the ground, where vertigo-inducing heights, sheer exposure, and impossible odds turn every moment into a fight for survival.
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The Broken (2008)
It has a 31% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by its story and themes, shared genres and country of origin.
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest friends are somehow involved in, leaving her with no one to trust.
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The Fix (2026)
It has a 31% affinity with The Runner, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and release period.
Disillusioned by the end of the war in Afghanistan, a group of disgraced, war-torn ex-CIA operatives set out to Tehran to take down a life-changing score.
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