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Movies: Best "runaway teen" Movies


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Enola Holmes(2020)

3.7/5 (with 2,713 votes)

While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

Freeway(1996)

1h 42min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 149 votes)

Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken(1991)

1h 28min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 41 votes)

A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy resolve finally convinces him to give her a break. On the brink of stardom, however, a cruel twist of fate threatens to destroy her dream.

Palindromes(2004)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 69 votes)

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.

Wildlike(2015)

1h 44min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 51 votes)

Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn to Rene, a lonesome backpacker looking for tranquility in the wilderness.

Directed by Frank Hall Green

Natale sul Nilo(2002)

1h 40min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 262 votes)

Womanizing lawyer Fabio follows his wife and son to a trip to Egypt in a last-ditch effort to make up for his past infidelities. Also travelling to Egypt is bumbling police chief Enrico, who's desperate to keep his rebellious daughter from becoming a showgirl. The two meet on a Nile cruise. Calamity ensues.

The Horseman(2008)

1h 36min | Thriller, Crime
3.1/5 (with 41 votes)

A tender drama unfolds between a grieving father and a troubled teenage girl as they drive northbound along the quiet outback roads of Australia. What she doesn't know is that between stops, he is leaving behind a bloody trail of bodies in a revenge motivated killing spree.

Somersault(2004)

1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 40 votes)

Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles.

Smartass(2017)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 14 votes)

Based on true events (mostly), Freddie, a 15-year-old runaway becomes intimately acquainted with California’s “Murder City” after being released from jail, just shy of midnight. Absurdly self-reliant, completely broke and 120 miles away from her friends she has nothing to depend on but her wit and youthful charm.

Directed by Jena Serbu

Personal Velocity(2002)

1h 26min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 17 votes)

In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.

Starcrossed(2005)

15min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them.

Directed by James Burkhammer - With Marshall Allman, John Wesley Shipp, Darcy DeMoss, Torrey DeVitto

Little Brothers(1999)

1h 32min | Drama, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Talia runs away from home taking her beloved dog with her. When her dog is stolen Talia enlists the help of a gang of boys to help her find her pet.

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Whale Music(1994)

1h 47min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

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Nordsee ist Mordsee(1976)

1h 27min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

14-year old Uwe lives in s suburban Hamburg housing estate. Besides trouble, the boy has not much to expect from his parents. To get his hands on some money, he prizes open vending machines, and to let out his frustration he beats up "wogs". Among them is Dschingis, his nemesis. But one day, the rivals make peace. They become friends because they realize that they have the same problems and are driven by the same dreams and hopes.

Directed by Hark Bohm - With Uwe Bohm, Marquard Bohm, Herma Koehn, Rolf Becker, Katja Bowakow, Dschingis Bowakow, ...

Chad Hanna(1940)

1h 26min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.

The Sun at Midnight(2016)

1h 33min | Adventure, Drama
3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

A caribou tracker obsessed with finding a missing caribou herd befriends a teenage rebel who gets lost while on the run.

Directed by Kirsten Carthew

Teenage Tramp(1973)

1h 14min | Drama
1.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Wayward and uninhibited young runaway Kim has fallen in with a bad crowd. Kim decides to flee said crowd and goes to the west coast to reunite herself with her uptight and neurotic estranged older sister Hilary so she can collect some of the inheritance left behind by their deceased parents. However, evil drug dealer Maury and his flock follow Kim to Hilary's house.

Directed by Anton Holden

Love Me!(1986)

2h 6min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Sussie is 15, raised with her alcoholic mother and an absent father. She has lived in several foster homes. Now she gets one last chance with a new family, the Lindgren's who live in a large house by the sea.

Baby(2003)

1h 45min | Drama, Crime
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Frank and Paul are best friends forever and raised Frank's daughter Lilli after a tragic car accident. The two men scrape a living by working as barmen and bouncers in a strip club while Lilly has grown into a lively and self-confident teenager. The disaster unfolds when Lilli seduces Paul and gets pregnant.

Thulluvadho Ilamai(2002)

2h 24min | Action, Drama
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Six high-school classmates, three boys and three girls, coming from different strata of society, who have each their own problems in their respective families and escape from their homes, deciding to live together on their own with the help of an older friend of theirs.

Directed by Kasthuri Raja - With Dhanush, Sherin, Ramesh Khanna

Seed of Innocence(1980)

1h 31min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A love story about two teenagers who fall in love, have a child, and escape from their families in an attempt to make life for themselves in New York City.

Stela(1990)

1h 30min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Young social worker falls in love with a delinquent girl on the run.

The Hippie Temptation(1967)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

CBS TV news special hosted by Harry Reasoner explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of LSDs users experiencing bummer trips. The Diggers, the Oracle and cool street and Golden Gate Park scenes with hippies tripping out. The Grateful Dead are interviewed and are shown performing "Dancin' in the Streets" on a flatbed truck in Golden Gate Park. The Hippie Temptation!

Runaway, Runaway(1971)

1h 25min | Drama

An unhappy teenager hits the road to meet up with a man in California whom she barely knows. Along the way the naive teen stumbles around trying to do her best to get by, but eventually falls prey to some unseemly characters willing to take advantage of her.

My Enemy, My Brother(2017)

1h 24min | Documentary

The eight-year Iran-Iraq War was one of the most brutal conflicts to devastate the region in the 20th century. Zahed was 13 years old when he enrolled in the Iranian army. Najah was 18 when he was conscripted into the Iraqi army, and he fought against Zahed in the Battle of Khorramshahr. Fast forward 25 years, a chance encounter in Vancouver between these two former enemies turns into a deep and mutually supportive friendship. Expanded from the 2015 short film by the same name.

Directed by Ann Shin

Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy(1994)

1h 36min | TV Movie, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Kristin (Danica McKellar), daughter of upper middle class parents, can hardly stand the immense pressure to fulfill her mother's (Dee Wallace Stone) dream of success in sports and high school. In this tense situation she gets emotional support by Kenny, who secretly plans to make her pregnant and sell the baby for adoption. Based on a true story.

The Runaway(2020)

12min | Drama

When Jasmine, a runaway teen, accepts a lift from a stranger, Mick, an older man searching for reconnection and forgiveness within his own family, she finds herself caught up in a messy situation and very far from home, coming to realise that running away is not always the solution.

The Fixer(2011)

1h 30min | Action, Crime
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

After the tragic murder of his father, William Lawson begins a journey of revenge that will consume his life. Downtrodden, dejected and lost, he is helped by a martial arts master Yeb-Beb to find his meaning and purpose in life, with Yeb-Beb's training and a little help from the mystical ancients, William Lawson becomes The Fixer.

Out(2016)

19min | Drama

Ran, a seventeen year old teenager lies to his parents and leaves home for pointless wandering. He is thrown within his childhood realm, witnessing his world undermined by a secret just discovered about his father's homosexuality.