Movies Like Running Out of Time
If you liked Running Out of Time (1994), a drama and thriller movie directed by Imanol Uribe, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995)
★ 7/10Also drama and thrillerAlcoholic prostitute Gloria is in the middle of a business deal with gangsters when a fatal confrontation occurs. She flees Mexico City, returning to her native Madrid, where she's reunited with her comatose husband…
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The Hit (1984)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thrillerTen years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
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Advantages of Travelling by Train (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thrillerAfter interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man who identifies himself as a psychiatrist.
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The Substitute (1996)
★ 7/10Also drama and thrillerWhen an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon…
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Navajeros (1980)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA chronicle of the life of Jaro, the leader of a juvenile delinquent gang, depicting his rise from street urchin to outlaw anti-hero on the way to his inevitable end.
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Matador (1986)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thrillerA conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
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Coffy (1973)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and dramaAfter her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her…
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Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thrillerA successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
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Foxy Brown (1974)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerA voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
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Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also thrillerA vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt…
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Crimes of Passion (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerFashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…
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Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerCarlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.
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Al Capone (1959)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaIn this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder…
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Ill Manors (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaEnsemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
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We Die Young (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and thrillerLucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an…
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Pimp (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAn urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…
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Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
★ 6.9/10Also thrillerLiu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.
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Death Wish II (1982)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and thrillerPaul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
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Land of the Blind (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and thrillerA soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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Clubbed (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thrillerAn underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman.