Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 13, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Running on Empty

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

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#1
The Conversation

The Conversation

1974★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running on Empty for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered....

#2
Across the Universe

Across the Universe

2007★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running on Empty for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in l...

#3
Stalag 17

Stalag 17

1953★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running on Empty for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an infor...

#4
Taking Sides

Taking Sides

2002★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running on Empty for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Al...

#5
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running on Empty for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#6
Birdy

Birdy

1984★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running on Empty for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospi...

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