10 Best Movies Like Running Scared
If you loved Running Scared, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Unknown Number: The High School Catfish
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running Scared for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Vulgar, taunting texts blow up the phones of a teen and her boyfriend. Who's sending them — and why? This twisty documentary reveals the shocking answer....

The Fan
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running Scared for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with rejection, the fan strikes out in increasingly violent ways....

After Ever Happy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running Scared for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
As a shocking truth about a couple's families emerges, the two lovers discover they are not so different from each other. Tessa is no longer the sweet, simple, good girl she was wh...

Fatal Attraction
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running Scared for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family....

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running Scared for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
David Hyde Pierce, playing an alien (credited as infinity-cubed in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late-20th century American city as an extraterrestrial nature doc...

Priscilla
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Running Scared for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a ...