15 Movies Like Runnin' After Love

Loved Runnin' After Love? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Amazon Jail
#1

Amazon Jail

Young women in the Amazon are kidnapped by a ring of devil-worshipers, who plan to sell them as sex slaves. Some of the women escape, but are pursued into the jungle by their captors. The women must band together to turn the tables on their kidnappers.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Runnin' After Love.

City of God
#2

City of God

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Runnin' After Love.

Giselle
#3

Giselle

Sexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father's marriage, for her stepmother falls in love with her. Then, she has affairs with her father's stepson, and with the farm housekeeper. She and some friends are also raped by some bad guys. But they all celebrate the ruin of traditional family values.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Runnin' After Love.

The Secret Agent
#4

The Secret Agent

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Runnin' After Love.

I Spit on Your Grave 2
#5

I Spit on Your Grave 2

Broke, and in desperate need to update her portfolio, New York City model Katie calls a number from a tear-off flyer offering free photos. But this innocent attempt quickly turns into an unthinkable kidnapping nightmare where she's ripped away from everyone and everything she knows.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Runnin' After Love.

Wardriver
#6

Wardriver

He’s a Wardriver: a hacker who steals from banks, not people—until he’s noticed. Now the money turns violent, and the woman caught in it could save him or kill them both.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Runnin' After Love.

State of Fear
#7

State of Fear

As São Paulo erupts in an unprecedented wave of violence, a lawyer with underworld ties must strike a deal with the police to rescue her kidnapped niece.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Runnin' After Love.

The Dutchman
#8

The Dutchman

A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman he encounters on a New York subway.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Runnin' After Love.

Frank and Penelope
#9

Frank and Penelope

A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Runnin' After Love.

Old Bandits
#10

Old Bandits

An elderly retired couple teams up with young partners to plan a daring bank robbery, while trying to outwit a detective determined to stop them.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Runnin' After Love.

Elite Squad
#11

Elite Squad

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Runnin' After Love.

Pimp
#12

Pimp

An 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 girlfriend Nikki.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Runnin' After Love.

Dressed to Kill
#13

Dressed to Kill

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Runnin' After Love.

God Is a Bullet
#14

God Is a Bullet

Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Runnin' After Love.

Cute But Ordinary
#15

Cute But Ordinary

The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Runnin' After Love.