Best "running away" Movies of All Time

27 movies found (page 1/1):

Inside Out(2015)

| 1h 35min | Animation, Kids & Family, Adventure, Drama, Comedy

4.0/5 (with 9,428 votes)

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Riley's guiding emotions— Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness—live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life and tries to keep things positive, but the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.

Directed by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen

Martha Marcy May Marlene(2011)

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| 1h 41min | Drama, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 321 votes)

After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.

Directed by Sean Durkin - With Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy, Brady Corbet, Adam Thompson, ...

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Starstruck(2010)

1h 21min | Romance / Love, Comedy, TV Movie, Music

3.5/5 (with 539 votes)

Pop star Christopher Wilde has fame, fortune and a big-budget Hollywood movie awaiting him. But after meeting Jessica Olson, a down-to-earth girl from the Midwest, he is faced with following his heart or doing what's best for his career.

Directed by Michael Grossman - With Sterling Knight, Danielle Campbell, Maggie Castle, Brandon Mychal Smith, Chelsea Kane, Matt Winston, ...

Force Majeure(2014)

1h 58min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 423 votes)

While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.

Directed by Ruben Östlund - With Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Vincent Wettergren, Clara Wettergren, Kristofer Hivju, Fanni Metelius, ...

Murphy's Law(1986)

| 1h 40min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 57 votes)

A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson - With Charles Bronson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Carrie Snodgress, Richard Romanus, Angel Tompkins, Bill Henderson, ...

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Chaos Theory(2008)

1h 27min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 164 votes)

Frank Allen, a professional speaker who lectures on time management has a perfectly ordered and scheduled life, down to the minute. When his wife sets his clock forward 10 minutes as a joke, his day is thrown off. Deciding that his strictly ordered life has done him little good, he begins to make multiple choice index cards, choosing one at random and doing what is written on the card.

Directed by Marcos Siega - With Ryan Reynolds, Stuart Townsend, Emily Mortimer, Sarah Chalke, Mike Erwin, Alessandro Juliani, ...

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G.O.R.A.(2004)

2h 7min | Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction

3.6/5 (with 127 votes)

Carpet dealer and UFO photo forger Arif is abducted by aliens and must outwit the evil commander-in-chief of G.O.R.A., the planet where he is being held.

Directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak - With Cem Yılmaz, Özge Özberk, Şafak Sezer, İdil Fırat, Özkan Uğur, Rasim Öztekin, ...

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Maktub(2017)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama

3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Steve & Chuma , two criminals are the sole survivors of a terrorist attack at a restaurant in Jerusalem. They decide to change their ways and become flesh and blood angels. They go on a journey of wish fulfilment for people who write requests on paper and put between the sacred stones of the Wailing Wall.

Directed by Oded Raz - With Guy Amir, Hanan Savyon, Chen Amsalem, Itzik Cohen

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Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even(1992)

1h 36min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver - With Hillary Wolf, Griffin Dunne, Patricia Kalember, Ben Savage, Adrienne Shelly, Dan Futterman, ...

Gerald McBoing-Boing(1950)

8min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.3/5 (with 26 votes)

The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon won the Oscar for best short subject (animated) for 1950.

Directed by Robert Cannon, John Hubley

You Can't Run Away from It(1956)

1h 35min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Music

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Directed by Dick Powell - With June Allyson, Jack Lemmon, Allyn Joslyn, Charles Bickford, Frank Sully, Henny Youngman, ...

Runaway(2013)

4min | Adventure, Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy

3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

Runaway is an animated short film about a misunderstanding between a man named Stanley and his treasured 1950s refrigerator, named Chillie.

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Haunted Trail(2021)

1h 20min | Drama, Horror

A group of college friends receive the surprise of their lives when they discover there is an actual killer on the scene of a local haunted trail.

The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom(2011)

1h 35min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.

Directed by Tara Johns - With Macha Grenon, Gil Bellows, Julia Stone, Julia Sarah Stone

AWOL(2011)

14min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Days before deployment to Afghanistan, Joey returns to rural Pennsylvania for Christmas with big dreams of running away to Canada with her beautiful lover. But Joey learns that things don’t always end up as planned. This short film was expanded into a feature film of the same title, it premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, and it was released in 2017.

The Secret Letter(2010)

1h 20min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Eleven-year-old Eva is upset by the many rows between her parents and decides to run away. She wants to hide at her best friends Jackie and Thomas’ house, but circumstances bring her to her mysterious neighbour’s garden. She finds a secret letter there, which tells her the man is a king pin in a criminal organisation. And he is not exactly happy with Eva’s unannounced visit. To convince her of the importance of secrecy, he reveals that Eva’s dad is also involved in his illegal affairs. Eva hesitates: is her father who he claims to be? From that moment on, the enterprising girl does her utmost to exonerate her father from being involved. A period dawns in which Eva discovers that grownups also lead their own lives. She wants to ask questions, but at the same time she is afraid of the answers.

Directed by Simone van Dusseldorp - With Daan Schuurmans, Hanna Obbeek, Isabelle Stokkel, Nils Verkooijen, Lies Visschedijk, Finn Poncin, ...

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven(1948)

1h 16min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.

Directed by William Castle - With Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, James Dunn, Michael Chekhov, Florence Bates, Lionel Stander, ...

The Member of the Wedding(1952)

1h 33min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Tomboy, Frances 'Frankie' Addams, dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South.

Directed by Fred Zinnemann - With Arthur Franz, Brandon deWilde, Dickie Moore, Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Nancy Gates, ...

Nokkethadhoorathu Kannum Nattu(1984)

2h 5min | Drama

4.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Kunjoonjamma Thomas is a widow living in the village all by herself. People always make fun of her because she is grumpy and depressed due to the deaths of her husband and her only child. Children irritate her by ringing her door bell and running away. One day, her granddaughter Girly, who she had never met, visits her. Initially, Kunjoonjamma does not like Girly, but they soon become close to each other.

Directed by Fazil - With Nadhiya, Padmini, Mohanlal

Ryan's Babe(2000)

1h 30min | Adventure

1.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A good heart and bad luck will get you nothing but trouble. That’s what Ryan discovers — the hard way — when he thought hitting the road would solve all of his problems, instead it was just the beginning. Ryan falls into one circumstantial trouble after another. From getting car-jacked at gun-point, being mistaken for a mobster’s son, to a run-in with cheerleaders intent on vigilante justice, Ryan barely escapes one mess before landing in the middle of another. Finally able to go home, Ryan heads back out on the highway. But has his luck really changed, or is there only more trouble in store for our charming hero?

Ghampani(2017)

2h 18min | Drama, Romance / Love

Two people from different caste start to fall in love but after their parents not allowing them to stay together, they run away.

Directed by Dipendra Lama - With Dayahang Rai

Dante vs. Mohammed Ali(2018)

28min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

When Wolf refuses to fight his best friend Alexander during a weekly boxing match, the whole village turns against him. He tries to convince Alexander to join him leaving the village, but his overly romantic message runs into a wall.

The Member of the Wedding(1997)

1h 32min | Romance / Love, Drama

In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly. A tender adaptation of Carson McCullers' classic novel, which has seen previous adaptations for both stage and screen.

Directed by Fielder Cook

Hold Fast(2013)

1h 34min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Two teenage boys escape an unhappy home, embarking on a perilous journey of self-discovery that takes them deep into the Newfoundland wilderness.

Isztambul(2012)

1h 35min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders about the streets of Budapest in just her dressing gown carrying a pair of scissors. After a series of misadventures, Katalin eventually ends up in Turkey, where suddenly Katalin is awakened and decides to start a new life after meeting local man Hilal (Yavuz Bingol). Meanwhile her son Zoli (Norbert Varga) tries to hunt Katalin down.

Directed by Ferenc Török - With Johanna ter Steege, Andor Lukáts, Yavuz Bingöl, Eszter Bánfalvi, Norbert Varga, Réka Tenki, ...

The Scent of Carrots(2013)

26min | Kids & Family, Animation

2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A rabbit and a squirrel, neighbours and good friends, both love food and good company. They nevertheless quarrel over their different tastes. The squirrel moves out during the night and is caught by a fox….

Directed by Arnaud Demuynck, Rémi Durin, Rémi Vandenitte

Early Birds(2012)

22min | Drama

Mila, a 12-year-old rebellious girl has a secret crush on her 40 year old neighbour and coach, Sam. When Mila finds out that he's moving away to Italy for at least a year, she conceives the plan to go with him.

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