The Running Man (1987) is a action movie directed by Paul Michael Glaser. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.

★ 7.6 · 24,769 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
Movies like Mad Max: Fury Road →
★ 6.7 · 3,850 votes · Action, Thriller, Horror
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.
Movies like The Hunt →
★ 6.3 · 4,297 votes · Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.

★ 8.4 · 33,029 votes · Drama, Thriller
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Movies like Fight Club →
★ 7.2 · 23,847 votes · Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.
Movies like The Hunger Games →
★ 6.8 · 4,305 votes · Crime, Action, Sci-Fi
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak havoc on the future, Spartan is awakened to capture his nemesis the old-fashioned way.
Movies like Demolition Man →
★ 6.8 · 1,730 votes · Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.
Movies like Nineteen Eighty-Four →
★ 7.1 · 5,268 votes · Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Movies like Equilibrium →
★ 6.9 · 11,272 votes · Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
Movies like Looper →
★ 7.1 · 6,598 votes · Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Movies like What Happened to Monday →
★ 6.8 · 6,947 votes · Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Movies like The Book of Eli →
★ 7.7 · 15,277 votes · Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
Movies like The Terminator →
★ 6.9 · 2,041 votes · Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A former special forces agent is trapped in a time loop and relives his death over and over again. To escape the terrible situation, he must track down those responsible and stop them.
Movies like Boss Level →
★ 6.7 · 6,115 votes · Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.
Movies like The Island →
★ 6.8 · 2,305 votes · Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Movies like eXistenZ →