
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.

The Conversation
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....

Across the Universe
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...

Silverton Siege
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running on Empty for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
After a failed sabotage mission, a trio of anti-apartheid freedom fighters ends up in a tense bank hostage situation. Based on a true story....

Suburbia
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...

Air America
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running on Empty for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing hi...

Birdy
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...