Movies like Runaway

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Runaway (1984)
 5.9
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Runaway (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
Style: futuristic, cult classic, exciting, retro, psychological thriller, offbeat, tech noir, anamorphic, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot: robot, androids, chase, cyberpunk, law enforcement, police investigation, killer robot, apocalypse, machine, distopia, artificial intelligence, police, violence, kidnapping, car chase, monster, revenge, cyborgs, rock, murder, bad guy, conspiracy, evil robot, cop, cognitive science ...
Time: future, near future, 80s
Place: los angeles
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Most similar movies to Runaway

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, futuristic and suspense films with plots about violence, murder, death, chase, shootout, pistol and shot to death mostly in Action, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Runaway: Looker (1981), Freejack (1992), Split Second (1992), Minority Report (2002), Virtuosity (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Looker (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, sexy, futuristic, psychological ...
Plot: murder, model, plastic surgeon, serial killer, murder mystery, obsession, greed, doctor, technology gone awry, amateur detective, dishonesty, mind game ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 17K
Freejack (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Style: futuristic, entertaining, cyber, tech noir, anamorphic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, cyberpunk, on the run, chase, dystopian future, dystopia, racing, bounty hunter, apocalypse, car, auto racing, death ...
Time: future, year 1992, 90s, year 2009, year 1991 ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 16K
Split Second (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.
Style: futuristic, suspense, black comedy, independent film, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cyberpunk, post apocalypse, creature, post apocalyptic, global warming, supernatural, water, alien invasion, police detective, brutality, female nudity ...
Time: future, year 2008, 90s, year 1992, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, europe, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 581K
Minority Report (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Style: futuristic, suspense, neo noir, cerebral, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: cyberpunk, murder, dystopian future, foreknowledge, precognition, time loop, distopia, psychic, dystopia, frame up, law enforcer, consciousness ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, distant future, year 2002 ...
Place: washington d.c., virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.5
 32K
Virtuosity (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, cyber, suspense, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, serial killer, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, hacking, computer, technology, hacker, video game, good versus evil, law enforcement ...
Time: future, year 1995, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 9K
Wedlock (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot electronically attached to a female prisoner.
Style: suspense, dark comedy, black comedy, fast, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, conspiracy, dystopian future, prisoner, on the run, heist, distopia, cyberpunk, fugitives, manhunt, prison escape, bad guy ...
Time: future, near future
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Terminator Genisys (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, entertaining, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, cyborgs, robot, androids and robots, apocalypse, artificial intelligence, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, man versus machine, killer robot, dark future, terminator ...
Time: future, year 1984, 2010s, year 2017, year 1997 ...
Place: san francisco, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 192K
Demolition Man (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: distopia, cyberpunk, utopia, crime fighter, time travel, dystopia, totalitarianism, maverick cop, police, violence, dystopian future, good versus evil ...
Time: future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 6.6
 32K
Outland (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Thriller about an honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, who is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic, tension, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mining, outer space, corruption, space, alien, jupiter the planet, spacesuit, space opera, space travel, police investigation, conspiracy, fighting the system ...
Time: future, year 1981, distant future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 7K
Nemesis (1992)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man, part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions his ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, cyborgs, terrorist group, cyberpunk, terrorism, conspiracy, dystopian future, police detective, chaos, man versus machine, female warrior, microchip ...
Time: future, year 1992, near future, 2020s
Place: usa, los angeles, rio de janeiro, brazil, new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.2
 17K
Vice (2015)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, humanoid robot, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robot, female robot, chase, justice, resort, humanity, profanity, escapades ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.7
 825
Digital Man (1995)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots.
Style: tech noir, independent film, fast, exciting, serious ...
Plot: robot, terminator, soldier, cyberpunk, military, terrorism, cyborgs, distopia, evil computer, heroes, community, control ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.1
 572K
I, Robot (2004)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, philosophical, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, distopia, cyborgs, androids and robots, androids, technology gone awry, danger, computer, hi-tech, fate of humanity ...
Time: future, year 2004, 20th century, near future, 2030s ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Cyborg Cop II (1994)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A fancy, loner cop loses his partner to a crazed terrorist during a hostage rescue. He settles for the terrorist going to Death Row in jail. What Jack doesn't know is that the terrorist will be taken and turned into a cyborg for the ...
Style: psychotronic, futuristic, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: cyborgs, one man army, police, cyberpunk, violence, robot, heroes, terminator, one against many, man versus machine, superhuman powers, androids and robots ...
Time: future, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a prototype ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, cyber, apocalyptic, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, on the run, robot, artificial intelligence, sex with a robot, androids and robots, corporation, assassination plot, androids, hitman, rivalry ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.1
 14K
Dark Angel (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner ...
Style: detective, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, drug lord, heroin, police investigation, buddy cop, evil alien, investigation, good versus evil, humanoid alien, tough cop, space and aliens, alien ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: houston texas, austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Cyber-Tracker 2 (1995)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Secret Service agent (Wilson) battles an arms dealer who is creating a cyborg army.
Style: serious, rough, tech noir, independent film, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, terminator, spy, cyberpunk, heroes, kidnapping, robot, cyborgs, evil computer, martial arts, special agent, kickboxer ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.7
 12K
Futureworld (1976)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, futuristic, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, conspiracy, robot, robot as menace, reporter, journalist, cloning, investigation, man versus machine, society, chaos, technology gone awry ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1976, near future, 80s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 4.2
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Cyborg Cop (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ex-DEA agent Jack receives an emergency message from his brother Phillip, whose team was ambushed on the Caribbean island of St. Keith. Jack goes to St. Keith to find his brother, who has been turned into a cyborg by the drug runner he was after.
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, semi serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, androids and robots, androids, police shootout, killer robot, mad scientist, heroes, chaos, danger, journalism, manhunt, police ...
Time: 90s
Place: denver colorado, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.6
 44K
Brick Mansions (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a dystopian Detroit, grand houses that once housed the wealthy are now homes of the city's most-dangerous criminals. Surrounding the area is a giant wall to keep the rest of Detroit safe. For undercover cop Damien Collier, every day is a ...
Style: intense, suspenseful, serious, exciting, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ghetto, parkour, undercover cop, gunfight, betrayal, gang, car chase, kidnapping, police corruption, undercover, gangster, master criminal ...
Time: year 2014, near future, 2010s, future
Place: detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Cyber Tracker (1994)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eric is a secret agent currently working as security guard for senator Dilly. The senator is the main advocate for a new kind of police officer: the Tracker, an perfect and nearly invulnerable android. When Eric realizes that senator Dilly is ...
Style: futuristic, tech noir, independent film, fast, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, terminator, cyborgs, apocalypse, androids and robots, robot, evil computer, spy, conspiracy, fighting the system, heroes, on the run ...
Time: future, near future
Place: los angeles, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.2
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Firepower (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the year 2007, crime has risen at an exponential rate. Once highly populated metropolises such as Los Angeles are no longer inhabitable. These cities have transformed into "Hell Zones," ruled by violent street gangs. The Hell Zone, ...
Style: suspense, independent film, futuristic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, street gang, tough heroes, katana, murder, nightclub, gang, unrequited love, computer cracker, fixed fight, theater, working undercover ...
Time: future, near future, 2000s, year 2006
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 2.7
 4K
R.O.T.O.R. (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research. A prototype robot intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage.
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, grindhouse, independent film ...
Plot: robot, killer robot, terminator, cyborgs, apocalypse, cop, cyberpunk, machine, exploitation, invasion, dystopian future, evil robot ...
Place: dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 6.1
 153K
S.W.A.T. (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, action packed, action adventure ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: swat, swat team, police, basic training, squad, police brutality, sniper, tough law enforcer, corrupt cop, hostage, shootout, drug lord ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.6
 37K
Exit Wounds (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives ...
Style: stylized, suspense, black comedy, detective, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, chase, police, aikido, martial arts, kidnapping, police investigation, corrupt cop, conspiracy, secret service, justice, drug dealing ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.7
 49K
The Enforcer (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, detective, grindhouse, perverse ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: dirty harry, murder, police, tough girl, female nudity, buddy cop, cop, gangster, investigation, serial killer, kidnapping, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Code of Honor (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Colonel Robert Sikes is on a mission to rid his city of crime. As a stealthy, one-man assault team, he will take on street gangs, mobsters, and politicians with extreme prejudice until his mission is complete. His former protégé, William Porter, ...
Style: tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot: bare breasts, stripper, vigilante, danger, murder, brutality, anti hero, sociopath, gangster, fbi agent, chase, killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, neo noir, suspense, stylized ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, robot, female protagonist, technology, distopia, hacker, androids, tough girl, chase, terrorism ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, year 2011, near future
Place: tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.2
 35K
Alex Cross (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, sexy, entertaining, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, vengeance, revenge, murder, police investigation, mastermind, twists and turns, chase, assassin, brutality, danger ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: detroit, washington d.c., michigan, usa, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.0
 34K
Cyborg (1989)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
Style: stylized, grindhouse, cult classic, apocalyptic, homoerotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, martial arts, post apocalypse, androids and robots, chase, robot, post apocalyptic, one man army, apocalypse, chaos, violence ...
Time: future, year 1989, year 2019, 21st century
Place: new york, georgia, usa, charleston south carolina, south carolina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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