Movies like Run This Town (2020)
The best movies like Run This Town (2020) are The Bachelor Next Door (2017), Sundown (2022) and The Neighbor (2020). If Run This Town hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThunder Road (2018)6.8/10 from 475 votes
- NewestWinner (2024)Released 2024
The Bachelor Next Door (2017)
A newly engaged couple becomes intrigued by the young stranger who moves in next door. He's handsome, friendly and very helpful, but he's no stranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sundown (2022)
When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Neighbor (2020)
A middle-aged man in a stagnant marriage, finds his life upended when an attractive young woman and her seemingly abusive husband move in next door.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Hero (2017)
Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBull (2020)
In a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor, an aging bullfighter who's seen his best days in the arena; it's a collision that will change them both.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sollers Point (2017)
Keith, a small-time drug dealer, is under house arrest at the home of his father in Baltimore. He re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. There, he pushes back against his surrounding limitations as he tries to find a way out of his own internal prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Last Movie Star (2018)
An aging screen icon gets lured into accepting an award at a rinky-dink film festival in Nashville, Tenn., sending him on a hilarious fish-out-of-water adventure and an unexpectedly poignant journey into his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBattlecreek (2017)
Henry is a loner and a night owl. His rare skin disease has kept him under the close watch of his fiery mother, who has sheltered him his entire life. One night, a young woman's car breaks down and Henry's life will change forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Last Shot (2020)
A young man is released from prison with a chance to turn his life around. But the streets haven't changed since he left and the same hate, regret, and fear waits for him on the other side of the wall. Can he ever really be free?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Breathe In (2013)
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Boy Downstairs (2018)
A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
All Square (2018)
A down-on-his-luck bookie befriends an ex-girlfriend’s son and gets the bright idea to take bets on his youth league baseball games; only to realize he’s killed what’s pure about the sport as the games turn ugly when money is on the line.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Winner (2024)
Winner is a brilliant young misfit from Texas who finds her morals challenged while serving in the U.S. Air Force and working as an NSA contractor. A fresh take on the traditional whistleblower thriller, the coming-of-age story follows an idealistic young woman persecuted for standing by her principles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Good Neighbor (2016)
Two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrassroots (2012)
Grant Cogswell, a liberal music critic decides to run for city council against a popular black incumbent and is assisted by a reporter who recently lost his job. Initially given no chance, things turn dark when Cogswell makes it into the general election. Based on a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hospitality (2018)
A woman with a checkered past must protect her son when a man brings trouble to her isolated bed and breakfast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dirty Sexy Saint (2019)
Clay Kincaid hates the nickname 'Saint', he got for being too kind to stray animals and desperate people. Especially when it comes to women. With a rough and damaged past that has left him jaded, he doesn't do committed relationships. This is before he meets Samantha Jamieson, an heiress turned runaway in need of help. When she starts to work as a waitress at his bar, he discovers that she is someone truly special and amazing… someone that could warm his damaged heart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisViper Club (2018)
ER nurse Helen Sterling struggles to free her grown son, a journalist captured by terrorists in the Middle East. After hitting walls with the FBI and State agencies, she discovers a clandestine community of journalists, advocates, and philanthropists who might be able to help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Thunder Road (2018)
A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIrresistible (2020)
A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Caller (2008)
Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be assassinated for his betrayal, he places an anonymous call securing the services of private detective Frank Turlotte to trail him from a distance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Permission (2018)
Anna and Will, were each other’s first every-things: first kiss, first love, first and only relationship. Now, 10 years in, at Anna’s 30th birthday party, as Will is about to propose, the couple’s best friend makes a drunken toast, suggesting that they should sleep around before their inevitable marriage. The joke lands like a lead balloon, but the thought lingers until Anna proposes that they try opening their relationship – as a sexual experiment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGeorgetown (2019)
Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAll Nighter (2017)
When a globe-trotting, workaholic father trying to visit his daughter on a last minute layover in Los Angeles discovers that she’s disappeared, he forces her awkward, nervous ex-boyfriend, still nursing a broken heart, to help him find her over the course of one increasingly crazy night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmber Alert (2016)
A 20 year old man takes a bus full of young children hostage in exchange for money to help his sick mother. Meanwhile a detective must over come doubt from family and co-workers while she tries to negotiate with the hostage taker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Resurrecting the Champ (2007)
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHoly Lands (2019)
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFast Girls (2012)
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAdopt a Highway (2019)
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGigi & Nate (2022)
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Run This Town?
The closest matches to Run This Town are The Bachelor Next Door (2017), Sundown (2022) and The Neighbor (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Run This Town?
People who watched Run This Town most often go on to The Bachelor Next Door (2017), Sundown (2022) and The Neighbor (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like Run This Town?
Thunder Road (2018), rated 6.8/10 by 475 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Run This Town?
Winner (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Run This Town?
Yes: The Bachelor Next Door (2017), Sundown (2022) and The Neighbor (2020).
How are movies similar to Run This Town chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Run This Town, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.