Movies like Runner: 20 to watch next
If you loved Runner (2026) — a action, comedy and thriller film directed by Scott Waugh — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Runner most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like race against time, black market and drug cartel. 10 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Best of the Best 4: Without Warning 1998★ 5.9
Shares: Action, Thriller
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee. Despite working with the police as a martial arts instructor, Lee doesn't go to the cops with the disc, but instead goes on the run, giving the mafia time to kidnap his daughter and hold as a hostage in exchange for return of the disc. Will Tommy ever see his daughter again?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Get Fast 2024★ 6.0
Shares: Action, Thriller
When The Thief’s partner is kidnapped after stealing millions in cash from a merciless drug lord named Nushi, he reluctantly teams up with an angst-ridden orphan to rescue him. Nushi enlists her most trusted hitman, The Cowboy, a lovable charmer who’s quick with his guns, to track down the Thief. Guns, cars, and explosions will give the newfound partners a head start, but how long will they be able to keep it up?
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, JioHotstar
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Stretch 2014★ 6.2
Shares: Action, Comedy, Thriller
A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Shade 2003★ 6.2
Shares: Action, Thriller
Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game. However, they first need enough money to enter a game with Stevens, so they decide to strike a deal with fellow crook Larry Jennings to scam a local gangster -- which turns out to be a bad idea.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Night Train 2023★ 5.8
Shares: Action, Thriller
Mother Holly McCord is driven to extremes to save the life of her young son. Even if it means hauling black market drugs in her souped-up truck, with the Feds in hot pursuit. With two bounties on her head and her son’s life on the line, Holly climbs behind the wheel of “Night Train,” ready to outrun, out gun, and outlast them all.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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S.W.A.T.: Under Siege 2017★ 5.9
Shares: Action, Thriller
When a D.E.A. and S.W.A.T. cartel takedown ends in a shootout, S.W.A.T. Agent Travis Hall seizes a mysterious prisoner taking him into custody. Before long, the S.W.A.T. compound is under siege by wave-after-wave of assault teams attempting to recover the prisoner known as “The Scorpion” for the tattoo blazed across his back. When Travis discovers that his prisoner is a Secret Ops double agent planted within the cartel, it’s up to him and his expert S.W.A.T. team to keep “The Scorpion” and his billion dollar secrets safe.
Stream in India on Sony Pictures Amazon Channel
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Close Range 2015★ 6.5
Shares: Action, Thriller
A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight with a corrupt sheriff, his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Dark Angel 1990★ 6.2
Shares: Action, Thriller
Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. While involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner is killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...
Stream in India on MGM Plus Amazon Channel
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The Killer 2024★ 6.2
Shares: Action, Thriller
Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by criminal colleagues and a determined police detective.
Stream in India on VI movies and tv
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Trap House 2025★ 6.6
Shares: Action, Thriller
An undercover DEA agent and his partner embark on a game of cat and mouse with an audacious, and surprising group of thieves – their own rebellious teenagers, who have begun robbing from a dangerous cartel, using their parents' tactics and top-secret intel to do it.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Thieves Highway 2025★ 7.5
Shares: Thriller, Action
After discovering a plot to haul stolen cattle in the middle of nowhere, a desperate and isolated lawman becomes the only thing standing between a group of dangerous rustlers and a clear run to the border.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Canary Black 2024★ 6.2
Shares: Action, Thriller
Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The System 2022★ 7.3
Shares: Action, Thriller
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Wake of Death 2004★ 6.1
Shares: Action, Thriller
Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer, seeks revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends, an all-out war is waged against the Chinese Triad.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Ultraplaybox Amazon Channel
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The Hit List 2011★ 6.0
Shares: Action, Thriller
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
Stream in India on AP International South Cinema Amazon Channel
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Point Blank 2019★ 6.0
Shares: Action, Thriller
A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Take Back 2021★ 5.9
Shares: Action, Thriller
Zara and Brian are living the perfect small town life when a mysterious stranger from Zara's secret past kidnaps their daughter and now they must race to save her life.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Triple Frontier 2019★ 6.3
Shares: Action, Thriller
Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Foxy Brown 1974★ 6.3
Shares: Action, Thriller
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Stream in India on MGM Plus Amazon Channel, Artiflix
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Code of Silence 1985★ 5.9
Shares: Action, Thriller
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now