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Movies Like The Runaway Express

If you liked The Runaway Express (1926), a action and adventure movie directed by Edward Sedgwick, 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.

  1. 1Sahara

    Sahara (1983)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and adventure

    Intent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress Dale takes on the guise of a man and competes in his spot, embarking on a car race that crosses the unforgiving Sahara…

  2. 2Supercross

    Supercross (2005)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and adventure

    Faced with the suspicious death of their father, two brothers must motivate one another to get back on their bikes and take the Las Vegas Motocross Championships by storm.

  3. 3Primal: Tales of Savagery

    Primal: Tales of Savagery (2019)

    ★ 8.4/10Also action and adventure

    Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: Tales of Savagery features a caveman and a dinosaur on the brink of extinction. Bonded by tragedy, this unlikely friendship becomes the only hope of survival.

  4. 4True Grit

    True Grit (1969)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and adventure

    The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of…

  5. 5I Still Believe

    I Still Believe (2020)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance

    The true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.

  6. 6Home by Spring

    Home by Spring (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    When an ambitious event planner gets an opportunity she can’t refuse, she goes undercover as her boss and returns to her rural hometown. With the help of her family and the man she left behind, she pulls off the…

  7. 7The Magic of Ordinary Days

    The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

  8. 8Hilda and the Mountain King

    Hilda and the Mountain King (2021)

    ★ 7.6/10Also adventure and drama

    When Hilda wakes up in the body of a troll, she must use her wits and courage to get back home, become human again — and save the city of Trolberg.

  9. 9Peter Ibbetson

    Peter Ibbetson (1935)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…

  10. 10Fallen Angel

    Fallen Angel (1945)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman…

  11. 11Hellfighters

    Hellfighters (1968)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and adventure

    The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.

  12. 12The Wild One

    The Wild One (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and romance

    The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another…

  13. 13The Secret: Dare to Dream

    The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.

  14. 14Love Finds You in Valentine

    Love Finds You in Valentine (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and learn more about her family.

  15. 15An Autumn Romance

    An Autumn Romance (2021)

    ★ 7/10Also romance and drama

    When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she decides to visit her brother in a small town in Montana. There, she gets involved in the fight to help save her brother's hotel from tycoon Joel Sheenan, who…

  16. 16Benji

    Benji (2018)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and adventure

    Two school kids strike up a friendship with an orphaned puppy named Benji. When danger befalls them and they end up kidnapped by robbers who are in over their heads, Benji and his scruffy sidekick come to the rescue.

  17. 17They Live by Night

    They Live by Night (1949)

    ★ 6.8/10Also romance and drama

    An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

  18. 18The Sheik

    The Sheik (1921)

    ★ 5.9/10Also adventure and drama

    Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns…

  19. 19The Lost Husband

    The Lost Husband (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

  20. 20Absence of Malice

    Absence of Malice (1981)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells…

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