Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "runaway-teen"

1. Bride of Chucky (1998)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.

Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Katherine Heigl, Nick Stabile

Votes: 64,485 | Gross: $32.40M

2. Vampire Academy (2014)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human-half vampire, a guardian of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discreetly within our world. Her calling is to protect the Moroi from bloodthirsty, immortal Vampires, the Strigoi.

Director: Mark Waters | Stars: Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovskiy, Gabriel Byrne

Votes: 56,930 | Gross: $7.79M

3. Taking Lives (2004)

R | 103 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

An FBI profiler is called in by French Canadian police to catch a serial killer who takes on the identity of each new victim.

Director: D.J. Caruso | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands

Votes: 95,507 | Gross: $32.68M

4. Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

PG-13 | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

Directors: Shôgo Furuya, Satoshi Kon | Stars: Tôru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto, Shôzô Îzuka

Votes: 47,014 | Gross: $0.13M

5. The 400 Blows (1959)

Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble

Votes: 128,385

6. Midnight Madness (1980)

PG | 112 min | Comedy

Leon picks college students to participate in his all night scavenger hunt. Five teams receive clues to solve leading them to the next clue site hidden in the city.

Directors: Michael Nankin, David Wechter | Stars: David Naughton, Debra Clinger, Joel Kenney, David Damas

Votes: 3,920

7. Ava (II) (2017)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance

13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.

Director: Léa Mysius | Stars: Noée Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano, Tamara Cano

Votes: 3,344

8. Seven Minutes in Heaven (1986)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When her father goes out of town, beautiful A-student Natalie lets best friends Jeff and Polly move in. Separately and together, the trio of young teens learn much about life, love, and growing up.

Director: Linda Feferman | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Byron Thames, Maddie Corman, Alan Boyce

Votes: 2,074 | Gross: $0.03M

9. Never Goin' Back (2018)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Jessie and Angela, high school dropouts, are taking a week off to chill at the beach. Too bad their house got robbed, rent's due, they're about to get fired, and they're broke.

Director: Augustine Frizzell | Stars: Maia Mitchell, Camila Morrone, Liz Cardenas, Michelle Sherrill

Votes: 4,094 | Gross: $0.06M

10. The Past (2013)

PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Mystery

An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.

Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet

Votes: 50,964 | Gross: $1.33M

11. Hidden Away (2014)

Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Romance

Ibrahim, a 14-year-old Moroccan boy, walks down a road in the outskirts of a big city alone and disoriented. Recently informed that he will be deported in two days, he packed his belongings and ran away. He is now alone with no place to go.

Director: Mikel Rueda | Stars: Germán Alcarazu, Adil Koukouh, Joseba Ugalde, Moussa Echarif

Votes: 2,968

12. Palindromes (2004)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

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.

Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Matthew Faber

Votes: 12,885 | Gross: $0.55M

13. Trauma (1993)

R | 106 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A young man tries to help a teenage girl find the serial killer who murdered her parents before the killer comes after them.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest

Votes: 8,092

14. Taking Off (1971)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

While searching for their runaway teenage daughter, the parents rediscover the pleasures of life as they get acquainted with a self-help group for parents of vanished children.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel, Tony Harvey

Votes: 4,839

15. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.

Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Carole Laure, Patrick Dewaere, Michel Serrault

Votes: 4,301

16. Harry and Tonto (1974)

R | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.

Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, René Enríquez, Herbert Berghof

Votes: 6,249 | Gross: $1.26M

17. The Horseman (2008)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

When Christian finds out his runaway teenage daughter, Jesse has been sexually attacked, the suburban father loses it. Setting out to find Jesse's attacker, Christian goes on a violent rampage.

Director: Steven Kastrissios | Stars: Peter Marshall, Caroline Marohasy, Brad McMurray, Jack Henry

Votes: 5,407

18. Welcome to the Rileys (2010)

R | 110 min | Drama

On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman.

Director: Jake Scott | Stars: James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, David Jensen

Votes: 25,299 | Gross: $0.15M

19. Three for the Road (1987)

PG | 88 min | Drama, Comedy

A crafty political aide and his soft-spoken pal are assigned the job of delivering a senator's out-of-control teenage daughter to an institution.

Director: Bill Norton | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Kerri Green, Alan Ruck, Sally Kellerman

Votes: 1,211 | Gross: $1.54M

20. Evidence (2013)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A detective hunts down a killer using video footage shot by the victims of a massacre at an abandoned gas station.

Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi | Stars: Torrey DeVitto, Caitlin Stasey, Harry Lennix, Stephen Moyer

Votes: 7,819

21. Friends (1971)

R | 101 min | Drama, Romance

A rich English boy meets an orphaned French girl and as they become friends, create a world that is far away from the adult world we live in.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Sean Bury, Anicée Alvina, Ronald Lewis, Toby Robins

Votes: 1,133

22. You and the Night (2013)

Unrated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.

Director: Yann Gonzalez | Stars: Kate Moran, Niels Schneider, Nicolas Maury, Eric Cantona

Votes: 1,738

23. So Long, My Son (2019)

185 min | Drama

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Jingchun Wang, Mei Yong, Xi Qi, Roy Wang

Votes: 5,312

24. Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)

Not Rated | 159 min | Drama, Horror

A teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", ... See full summary »

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Kazue Fukiishi, Tsugumi, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Shirô Namiki

Votes: 5,002

25. House of Boys (2009)

Unrated | 117 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Two young soul mates find each other while working at an all-male performance club/brothel. Eventually, one contracts AIDS.

Director: Jean-Claude Schlim | Stars: Loïc Peckels, Layke Anderson, Harry Ferrier, Michael N. Kuehl

Votes: 1,358

26. Wild Boys of the Road (1933)

Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Drama

In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Phillips, Dorothy Coonan Wellman

Votes: 2,364

27. Clownado (2019)

TV-MA | 99 min | Comedy, Horror

Cursed demonic circus clowns set out on a vengeful massacre using tornadoes. A stripper, Elvis impersonator, truck driver, teen runaway, and a dude get caught in the supernatural battle between femme fatal and the boss clown from hell.

Director: Todd Sheets | Stars: John O'Hara, Rachel Lagen, Bobby Westrick, Antwoine Steele

Votes: 2,998

28. The Children of Times Square (1986 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama

An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.

Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Joanna Cassidy, David Ackroyd, Larry B. Scott

Votes: 428

29. The Slap (1974)

PG | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Geography professor Jean has divorced his wife. His mistress has also left him. He has to do everything he can to be able to win his young daughter Isabelle's love and affection.

Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Adjani, Nicole Courcel

Votes: 1,207

30. Twin Flower (2018)

Unrated | 96 min | Drama

In a South of Italy full of beauty and hidden dangers, two adolescents, abused and damaged by life, Anna, whose father has been murdered and Basim, an immigrant orphan, escape together towards a new start.

Director: Laura Luchetti | Stars: Anastasiya Bogach, Kallil Kone, Aniello Arena, Mauro Addis

Votes: 229

31. A Wedding (2016)

98 min | Drama

Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir.

Director: Stephan Streker | Stars: Lina El Arabi, Sébastien Houbani, Babak Karimi, Neena Kulkarni

Votes: 1,693

32. Beneath Clouds (2002)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

Lena is the daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn is a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no transport.

Director: Ivan Sen | Stars: Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt, Jenna Lee Connors, Terry Dahlstron

Votes: 1,190

33. Voices in the Wind (2020)

139 min | Drama

Inspired by an actual occurrence in Japan Haru who has relocated to Hiroshima in southern Japan comes across a rogue telephone booth in the middle of nowhere when she returns to Iwate ... See full summary »

Director: Nobuhiro Suwa | Stars: Shoko Ikezu, Shinsuke Kato, Tomokazu Miura, Serena Motola

Votes: 483

34. Twisting Fate (2016)

107 min | Drama

Claire is 17 years old. With her family, she spends her holidays in South Africa when her family disappears in an accident. By a stroke of fate, she escapes the drama.

Director: Christophe Lioud | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Daniel Njo Lobé, Marie-Christine Barrault, Naomi Amarger

Votes: 74

35. Children of the Night (1985 TV Movie)

93 min | Drama

Fact-based drama about a sociology graduate (Kathleen Quinlan) who starts working with teen prostitutes in Hollywood. The film does not draw back on its depiction of the brutality that the ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Kathleen Quinlan, Nicholas Campbell, Mario Van Peebles, Lar Park-Lincoln

Votes: 175

36. Die letzten Jahre der Kindheit (1979)

105 min | Drama

A 14-year-old repeatedly comes into conflict with the authorities and into the vicious circle of juvenile home stays and escapes, until he commits suicide in custody.

Director: Norbert Kückelmann | Stars: Gerhard Gundel, Dieter Mustaffof, Norbert Bauhuber, Karl Obermayr

Votes: 88

37. 75 (2017)

97 min | Crime, Drama

A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.

Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith

Votes: 60

38. Ivan & Abraham (1993)

105 min | Drama

The action of the movie takes place in the thirties before the Jewish pogrom in the border town of Poland, which became a kind of emigration zone. Two teenagers - Ivan and Abram - run away from the dictates of adults into a big life.

Director: Yolande Zauberman | Stars: Roma Alexandrovitch, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Vladimir Mashkov, Mariya Lipkina

Votes: 277 | Gross: $0.16M

39. Nach Fünf im Urwald (1995)

99 min | Comedy, Romance

Anna, 17 years old, is happy to throw her first big birthday party without her parents, but some of her guests are so stoned that they leave a big chaos and, even worse, destroy the ... See full summary »

Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: Franka Potente, Axel Milberg, Dagmar Manzel, Farina Brock

Votes: 1,568

40. Missing Persons (1990 TV Movie)

104 min | Drama

Hetty is approached by Frank Cross, husband of her old friend Edith, to locate his son from his first marriage, whom he hasn't seen in fifty years.

Director: Derek Bennett | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Tony Melody, Jimmy Jewel, Jean Heywood

Votes: 137

41. All About George (2005)

Comedy, Drama

Follows George's life as a member of a 5 generation extended family.

Stars: Rik Mayall, Sian Brooke, Gemma Jones, Penny Downie

Votes: 100

42. The Highway Home (2008)

70 min | Drama

The story begins at a pool hall, where sixteen year old Jamie, meets her first love while she and her best friend Marie are skipping class one day. Lying about her age, she pursues a ... See full summary »

Director: Laurel Hunter | Stars: Blu Astbury, Patrick Dumont, Wendy Duncan, Doug Dysert

43. Uprowadzenie Agaty (1993)

76 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A parliament member's sixteen year old daughter Agata falls in love and runs away with a convicted young tramp, while her father uses his friends in the government and police to brutally break their happiness.

Director: Marek Piwowski | Stars: Karolina Rosinska, Slawomir Federowicz, Pola Raksa, Jerzy Stuhr

Votes: 502

44. Baby (I) (2002)

105 min | Crime, Drama

Alice is given a parenting exercise at school which changes her understanding of the world in a way she never expected.

Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Alice Dwyer, Lars Rudolph, Filip Peeters, Christian Grashof

Votes: 257

45. Bambule (1970 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

The film criticizes the authoritarian methods of home education in a girls' home. In the course of the action, there is a revolt against the oppressive structures.

Director: Eberhard Itzenplitz | Stars: Petra Redinger, Christine Diersch, Dagmar Biener, Helge Hennig

Votes: 110

46. Grown-Ups Lie Down on the Ground (2008)

77 min

15-year-old Gena lives alone with her mother. She has never seen her father, even though her mother makes her write a birthday card to him every year. One day, after fighting with her mother, Gena runs away to find her father.

Director: Emmanuel Saget | Stars: Victoire Thivisol, Laurent Suire, Irène Grandadam, Yorina Bosco

Votes: 15

47. Avril Lavigne: Nobody's Home (2004 Music Video)

Not Rated | 3 min | Drama, Music

In the music video for "Nobody's Home", Lavigne plays a homeless teenager who appears to live street-to-street with a friend. Lavigne, who said it was a fun video to make, had to wear a ... See full summary »

Director: Diane Martel | Stars: Matthew Brann, Avril Lavigne

Votes: 161

48. Roos en Rana (2001 TV Movie)

97 min | Drama

Roos and Rana, two teenagers, are the biggest bosom friends. Both have a bad relationship with their parents and when things get out of hand, they decide to run away to Istanbul

Director: Meral Uslu | Stars: Sarah Jonker, Ozlem Solmaz, Vefa Ocal, Füsun Demirel

Votes: 60

49. Rozwodów nie bedzie (1964)

95 min | Comedy, Romance

Three segments about three Warsaw couples about to get married.

Director: Jerzy Stefan Stawinski | Stars: Marta Lipinska, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Teresa Tuszynska, Zbigniew Dobrzynski

Votes: 98

50. Hasta mañana (2013)

81 min | Drama, Family

Fourteen-year-old Leo leaves a psychiatric hospital following a short stay. Orphaned at a young age, writing is his only form of escape and he dreams of one day meeting his hero, Claude ... See full summary »

Directors: Sébastien Maggiani, Olivier Vidal | Stars: Amir Ben Abdelmoumen, Antoine Gautron, Mehdi Nebbou, Delphine Depardieu

Votes: 20