Movies like Runaway 2005

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Runaway (2005)
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Runaway (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a better life for both of them. While Dylan stays holed up in a cheap motel all day, Michael works at a convenience store where everything starts to come together for him. But as Michael falls in love with his beautiful co-worker, Carly, his past begin
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, starting over, haunted by the past, investigation, obsession, family problems, on the run, hiding, small town, fall in love, brother brother relationship, psychotherapist, love, runaway, motel, sibling relationship, serial killer, murder, hotel, family relations, parents and children, family life, getting home, store ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about deadly, murder, investigation, family relations, dishonesty, small town and parents and children mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Runaway: Hellion (2014), Mother's Boys (1993), The Mosquito Coast (2021), The Bleeding House (2011), A Sight for Sore Eyes (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hellion (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: motocross, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquent, father son relationship, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, dysfunctional family, social worker, death of mother, family relations, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mother's Boys (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, mentally unstable, family problems, dysfunctional family, family in danger, family life, danger, stalking, hidden identity, murder, women, peeping ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Mosquito Coast (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Allie Fox—a brilliant inventor and stubborn idealist—uproots his family for a dangerous quest through Mexico to flee the U.S. government and find safety.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, thrilling
Plot: migration, runaway, confronting the past, past coming back to haunt, haunted by the past, parents and children, showdown, dysfunctional family, on the run, family life, kids and family, family problems ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bleeding House (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Smiths -- a family with a secret past -- are visited by a sweet-talking southern gentleman who is looking for small town humanity. But they'll soon find out that kindness towards strangers is not always rewarded, and the secretive ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, surreal ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, psychopath, mysterious character, violent death, family problems, obsession, danger, vengeance, family life, haunted by the past, family secret, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Sight for Sore Eyes (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, realistic
Plot: dangerous attraction, obsession, woman in danger, family relations, couples, parents and children, murder, sociopath, store, danger, ambulance, suffocated to death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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27%
 4.2
 765
Clean Break (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, obsession, twists and turns, danger, investigation, betrayal, infidelity, stalking, love, crumbling marriage, corrupt officer, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.3
 676
Blood Crime (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, police investigation, murder, law enforcement, life is a bitch, small town, mistaken identity, nypd, violent content, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.3
 29
Tucked Away (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film
Plot: investigation, life is a bitch, murder, secret, aging, abusive father, deadly
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Barber (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Eugene is a small town barber, beloved by the local community, but hiding a deadly secret. John is hunting for a serial killer not to expose him but to learn the business! They form a twisted bond and turn the town upside down as Eugene teaches John ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, mind game, investigation, murder, twists and turns, small town, barber, monster, house, killer, son ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Lured Innocence (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot: small town life, infidelity, extramarital affair, obsession, investigation, who done it, couple relations, couples, family problems, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 3.4
 485
Awakened (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, parents and children, twists and turns, haunted by the past, small town, small town life, afterlife, mental illness, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.4
 137
Love Her Madly (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three men are dangerously obsessed with the same woman.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: murder, obsession, investigation, erotica, femme fatale, college life, college, who done it, school, artists and showbiz, music band, performer's life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.8
 609
Playback (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A detective must uncover the truth behind the death of his daughter. But the truth hits close to home.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: investigation, riddles and clues, family relations, estrangement, danger, murder, parents and children, death in the family, father daughter relationship, police detective, murder investigation, porn industry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Dance with the One (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Nate's little brother and hippie dad depend on him for literally everything, but the well-meaning, small time pot dealer Nate wants nothing more than to run away with Nikki, the love of his life, and get out of Texas.
Style: realistic, tense, suspense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, haunted by the past, danger, family problems, family relations, teenage life, save the day, on the run, drug dealer, rivalry, mob boss, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Beyond the Farthest Star (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A twist of fate brings the national spotlight to a forgotten Texas town and a once famous preacher has an opportunity to regain his former glory or seize one last chance to restore his fractured family. Narrated by his fifteen-year-old daughter, ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, christian film ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, one last chance, preaching, parents and children, ambition, youth, religions or cults, family problems, society, clergy, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Murder on Pleasant Drive (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After Fran Smith disappears one day in mysterious circumstances, Fran's daughter Deanna and Fran's sister, Sherrie endlessly search for her with enduring hope. The most likely suspect in Fran's disappearance is her husband John, but ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious
Plot: missing person, investigation, dysfunctional family, law enforcement, injustice, family problems, dishonesty, private detective, remarry, couple relations, murder, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Hiding (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: New York City teenager Jo (Ana Villafañe) witnesses the gruesome murder of both her parents and is sent to rural Montana as part of the Witness Protection Program. On top of having no cell phone, email or any contact with her past life, plus hiding ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating
Plot: riddles and clues, hidden identity, teenage life, youth, starting over, witnessing a crime, murder, good versus evil, countryside, haunted by the past, tough heroes, hitman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.9
 883
Fathers & Sons (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A beach runner and bookworm (Goldblum) has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy with a serial killer coming between him and his son. The ensuing E.S.P. experiences and ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, offbeat, touching
Plot: serial killer, family relations, investigation, orphan, life is a bitch, supernatural ability, family life, alcohol abuse, addiction, family in danger, parents and children, murder ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 4.2
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Sand (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young man tries running from his past by hiding from his two violent brothers, only to have them track and harass him and his friends.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, on the run, fall in love, life is a bitch, family problems, uninvited guest, homecoming, rivalry, sexual harassment, small town ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, mojave desert
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22%
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Open Window (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, independent film
Plot: dysfunctional family, rape, introspection, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, haunted by the past, female nudity, family in crisis, vegetarian ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Out of the Black (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two brothers struggle to uncover the truth behind the mining accident that killed their father and bankrupted the town.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: uncover truth, life is a bitch, redemption, siblings relations, social relations, parents and children, family in crisis, family relations, countryside, down on your luck, small town, small town life ...
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Grief Tourist (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, childhood trauma, murder, obsession, twists and turns, friendship, anti hero, violence, killing spree, child abuse, prostitute, transsexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 558
Godspeed (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Joseph McKelheer and Cory Knauf (The Hamiltons, The Violent Kind) star in this intense thriller set in the lingering light of the Alaskan midnight sun. Charlie Shepard, a modern day faith healer with a small flock of believers, is stunned when his ...
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, death in the family, haunted by the past, religions or cults, society, small town, life turned upside down, investigation, grief, killer child, strong violent content, wilderness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Confession (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a small Catholic boarding school an unspeakable act has been committed. When High School student, Luther Scott, confesses to Father Michael Kelly, Kelly is bound silent to the particulars of a grisly murder. Now, framed guilty by the desperate ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: murder, catholic, courtroom drama, false accusation, investigation, moral dilemma, who done it, frame up, teenage life, life is a bitch, legal, clergy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.0
 159
Good Chemistry (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, kidnapping, drug dealing, on the run, dishonesty, danger, drug abuse, chemistry, farm, confined, cons and scams, forced into action ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.1
 413
Living in Fear (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot: woman in danger, who done it, homecoming, murder, haunted by the past, dishonesty, danger, twists and turns, small town, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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21%
 4.8
 454
Deadline (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, murder, interracial relations, idealism, dishonesty, parents and children, society, redemption, life is a bitch, family relations, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Perfect Nanny (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea McBride applies for the position of nanny for a handsome, wealthy surgeon, Dr. James Lewis, a widower with two children. Another applicant is hired, ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: nanny, obsession, under the surface, danger, murder, parents and children, family relations, femme fatale, woman with a gun, strong female lead, stalker, woman seduces a man ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Murder in Greenwich (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The story of Martha Moxley, 15 year old girl murdered in Greenwich in the 1970's, her murder going unsolved for 25 years.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, novela ...
Plot: amateur detective, murder, uncover truth, fighting the system, murder suspect, who done it, false accusation, protagonist as suspect, police investigation, police detective, haunted by the past, teenage life ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.3
 2K
Beautiful (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Searing and luscious, "Beautiful" tells the story of Daniel, a shy and introverted 14 year old boy residing in Sunshine Hills, a suburb living in the grip of fear following the rumoured abductions of three teenage girls. Daniel's two ...
Style: suspense, scary, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suburbs, youth, investigation, teenage life, obsession, danger, dishonesty, uncover truth, suburban life, blind ambition, teenager, rapist ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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