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10 Best Movies Like Runaway Nightmare

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

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#1
Funny Farm

Funny Farm

1988★ 6.2

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

Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farm...

#2
Two Evil Eyes

Two Evil Eyes

1990★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Runaway Nightmare for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat....

#3
Viva! Django

Viva! Django

1971★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Runaway Nightmare for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Django is on the trail of some renegade outlaws who raped and killed his wife. En route, he rescues a horse thief from an impromptu hanging. He discovers the man knows who committe...

#4
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

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

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#5
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

2025★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Runaway Nightmare for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure...

#6
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

1972★ 6.2

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

Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Bliss in prison for an interview. Accused of murdering her husband and her lover, Ca...