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- DirectorIlmar RaagDmitry ShelegStarsPolina PushkarukVika LobachovaAndrey AstrakhantsevA young woman who grew up in orphanage is longing to be loved, but does not have it in her to love others. Her teenage looks help her while falsely accused of committing a crime to hide in a orphanage without arousing any suspicion. There, she meets a 13 years old homeless person like herself, Kristina, and together they set out on a long journey to a small town in Kazakhstan, where Kristina's grandmother lives...
- DirectorPatrick YeohStarsDato' SudirmanZul ZamanhuriShariff BabuThe film is about two young runaway teenagers who meet in the city after leaving their respective homes in different states. Tookoo (Sudirman) the elder of the two, who was first in the city, "adopts" Din (Zulzamri) and as their relationship develops, is both big brother and father to Din. And as the film progresses we see how Tookoo dreams of being a successful pop singer, and how he and Din survive in the city, collecting recyclable items for sale. We are touched by what these two teenagers go through in the concrete jungle of the city as they are bullied by gangs who rob them of their hard-earned money, cheated by dishonest employers who do not pay them and traumatised by over-zealous police who arrest Tookoo by mistake.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsZain Al RafeeaYordanos ShiferawBoluwatife Treasure BankoleWhile serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
- DirectorGina Prince-BythewoodStarsDakota FanningJennifer HudsonQueen LatifahIn 1964, a teenage girl in search of the truth about her mother runs away to a small town in South Carolina and finds a family of independent women who can connect her to her past.
- DirectorNora FingscheidtStarsHelena ZengelAlbrecht SchuchGabriela Maria Schmeide9-year-old Benni is a toss-up between institutions that cannot tackle her outbursts. She wants to move in with her mother, but she can not handle her wild daughter. After Micha is hired Benni slowly opens up and attaches herself to him.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsMark LesterRon MoodyShani WallisAfter being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London.
- DirectorJon WattsStarsKevin BaconJames Freedson-JacksonHays WellfordA small-town sheriff sets out to find the two kids who have taken his car on a joy ride.
- DirectorPierre De MoroStarsMark MillerDonovan ScottBridgette AndersenSavannah is the only child of a wealthy politician, Richard Driscoll, who is more concerned with his image and career than with his family.
- DirectorD.J. CarusoStarsChandler CanterburyAnnalise BassoRadha MitchellTwo kids befriend each other after being left stripped nude in a lake as the victims of an immature summer camp prank. They run away from camp and for three days learn more about each other than they've ever known before.
- DirectorMenno MeyjesStarsJohn CusackAmanda PeetBobby ColemanA science-fiction writer, recently widowed, considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsMichael DouglasJodie FosterJohnny WhitakerTwo young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.
- DirectorJeff BlythStarsKeith CooganLucy DeakinsColin MothupiA "born free" type story set in Kenya about an orphaned cheetah cub that is adopted and raised by an American family.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPeter SellersTippy WalkerMerrie SpaethA mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsKazue FukiishiTsugumiYuriko YoshitakaA 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", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
- DirectorJames B. ClarkStarsTed EcclesTheodore BikelTudi WigginsAs young Sam Gribley runs away he learns about nature.
- DirectorChristophe RuggiaStarsVincent RottiersAdèle HaenelRochdy LabidiOrphaned 12-year-old twins Joseph and Chloé have been on the run together. Chloé is autistic, non-verbal and fears being touched. Joseph dearly loves her and dreams she will recover if they find their parents and fight the system.
- DirectorPaul Andrew WilliamsStarsLorraine StanleyGeorgia GroomeJohnny HarrisDesperate to evade an angry pimp, a London prostitute and a young girl flee by train to Brighton after an appointment with a powerful client goes violently wrong.
- DirectorFrancis VeberStarsPierre RichardGérard DepardieuAnny DupereyA woman, whose troubled son has left home, informs two different men from her past that each of them is a real father. Too different men.
- DirectorJürgen BrauerStarsNadja KlierHermann BeyerSuher SalehThe tale of young Gritta who lives with her father, an unsuccessful inventor. When her new stepmother tries to put her away in a convent she discovers some dark secrets there.
- DirectorRod HardyStarsPeter StraussJean SmartWil HorneffA pet deer changes Florida farm family.
- DirectorMehul KumarStarsNana PatekarDimple KapadiaAtul AgnihotriDisowned by his parents at a young age, a man ends up in a small village controlled by underworld dons and powerful politicians. Lazy, alcoholic, and unemployed, he gets influenced by a journalist with a positive mission.
- DirectorJules BassArthur Rankin Jr.StarsRed SkeltonFrank GorshinMorey AmsterdamRudolph must find Happy, the baby New Year, before midnight on New Year's Eve.
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsDiana DorsGeorge MerrittFlora RobsonA young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a Policeman. She runs away with two G. I.s who are also on the run and they start a crime wave.
- DirectorP.J. WolfsonStarsAnne ShirleyRoger DanielJames McCallionA runaway follows the leader of a gang of boys, and they all wind up working in a turpentine camp.
- DirectorMohammad Hossein LatifiStarsBaran KosariMajid SalehiSadegh SafaieStory of two friends Roya and Shirin who are abut to enter the college in a city near Tehran. They rent a house but little by little they begin to notice some horrible problems and disappearing of the newly brides.
- DirectorRasoul SadrameliStarsPegah AhangaraniMajid HajizadehAkram MohammadiIn love with a teenage boy, Tadaei leaves home in the morning heading for school but decides not to go to school and instead starts wandering in the streets of Tehran. She makes up her mind not to return to home and run away with her lover, because of her parents' reaction to her having a boyfriend but meandering in the city, she gets into some troubles that make her change her mentality of love and inevitably her pathway.
- DirectorNick GrindeStarsAnn DvorakHelen MackLola LaneA story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
- DirectorIakovos KabanellisStarsJenny KareziAndreas BarkoulisVasilis AvlonitisIn this modern version of the "Snowhite" tale, we see a young girl escaping her home and finding refuge in a secluded house which is inhabited by seven middle-aged bachelors.
- DirectorKim LonginottoZiba Mir-HosseiniRunaway follows the stories of five young girls who arrive at a refuge in Iran's capital city Tehran, having run away from abusive or neglectful families.
- DirectorAsghar HashemiStarsGolchehre SajadiehMahnaz AfsharBehnaz JafariAzar is a convicted for life. Her husband is also executed for dealing drugs. in prison she finds out that her teenage girl has runaway from her house. She calls her former prison mate; Neda, and asks her to find her runaway daughter; "Negin". Neda who now has a normal life risks everything to find her former best friend's daughter. After a couple days Azar escapes from prison to join Neda's search for "Negin". They later find out that Negin is involved in prostitution and a group of human traffickers are planning to sell her and some other girls to Arab Shaikhs. Azar and Neda do whatever they can to find and save "Negin" and finally...
- DirectorAlireza DavoudnejadStarsReza DavoudnejadZahra DavoudnejadEhteram-Sadat HabibianWhen best friends Reza and Siavash pick up a mysterious, deadly young woman on the north road out of the city, they cannot hope to comprehend the chilling events that are to follow them on their journey. Caught up in a strange calamitous world, one preceded by a terrible accident in the past, the friends find themselves alone in the forest with their enigmatic passenger and the heart of a perplexing mystery in this gripping, twisting drama.
- DirectorJohn Griffith WrayStarsMadge BellamyCullen LandisNoah BeeryRuth, a young girl, runs away from an abusive stepfather, who owns a circus, and takes the circus' trained elephant--her only friend--with her. She winds up in a logging camp in the Canadian woods and meets Paul, a young crippled musician who has made an enemy of the town bully, Caesare. Caesare starts to take out his wrath on Ruth also, but she receives protection from an unexpected source.
- DirectorJordan Vogt-RobertsStarsNick RobinsonGabriel BassoMoises AriasThree teenage friends, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.
- DirectorRebecca MillerStarsRobin WrightAlan ArkinMike BinderAfter her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
- DirectorCate ShortlandStarsAbbie CornishSam WorthingtonLynette CurranA young girl flees her hometown and arrives in the Australian Alps, where new experiences help her learn the differences between sex and love.
- DirectorWayne WangStarsHarvey KeitelWilliam HurtGiancarlo EspositoA Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.
- DirectorTom McCarthyStarsPaul GiamattiAmy RyanJeffrey TamborA struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.
- DirectorRobert MarkowitzStarsMichael TuckerJuliette LewisBrad PittAn abused 15-year-old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty.
- DirectorAnders Thomas JensenStarsSøren PilmarkUlrich ThomsenMads MikkelsenA gang of 4 Danish criminals are ordered by Færingen to steal a bag from a safe. When they see DKK4,000,000 in the bag, they keep it for themselves and head for Spain. They end up in a ruin of an old restaurant on Jutland and renovate it.
- DirectorPaul MazurskyStarsArt CarneyEllen BurstynRené EnríquezWhen his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.
- DirectorDonald WryeStarsLinda BlairJoanna MilesAllyn Ann McLerieA young girl runs away from her abusive family and ends up in a girls' juvenile detention center, where she's raped and brutalized by her sadistic peers. Only one honest social worker shows interest in helping her.
- DirectorRaphael NussbaumStarsEd BishopJoan BlackmanCandice RialsonA troubled young woman escapes her abusive brother accepting the kindness of strangers. Exploited, she perseveres thanks to growing street-smarts hoping that her next encounter will be with someone with a pureness of heart equal to her own
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsKaoru YachigusaKeiko NiitakaMasumi HarukawaA young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
- DirectorAlison MurrayStarsElliot PageNatasha WightmanAugust DiehlYoung runaway Sherry meets the radical street collective Spark. Together they experience the group's giddy thrills as well as its punishing manipulations, as Sherry's journey to paradise begins to sour.
- DirectorPauline ChanStarsGuy PearceLin ZhuClaudia KarvanDean Randall has sponsored Mei Mei, a young Chinese orphan, for many years. When she arrives in Sydney out of the blue to thank him, their lives are changed forever.
- DirectorRobert MarkowitzStarsKathleen QuinlanNicholas CampbellMario Van PeeblesFact-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 teens face nor of the exploitation that occurs from the pimps and johns who use them. Pat Benatar's song "Hell Is For Children" is used to set the film's theme.
- DirectorJohn HayesStarsTherese PareRoscoe BornLydia WagnerVicki is 17 and her older friends call her Jailbait. Her boyfriend Robert is frustrated because Vicki doesn't want to do the wild thing, but he's willing to wait. After a party gets out of hand, Vicki escapes with help from Lorraine, who takes her in as a houseguest. While Lorraine teaches Vicki etiquette, Robert wonders what happened to his girlfriend. And Vicki soon learns more about Lorraine's job as an "executive liaison."
- DirectorEric LaneuvilleStarsMark-Paul GosselaarGina PhilipsTalia ShireThis is the tale of two young lovers who flee from the miseries of their homelife to make it on there own. Nineteen year old Chris, rejected by his family, hopes to go to college and into forestry once he's out of the Army Reserves. Holly, who is fourteen, lives with her divorced, overprotective mother and her brother. She runs with an older crowd and soon attaches herself to Chris. Holly's mother is dead set against Chris because of his age, and she and Holly are at odd's over him. When she forbids them to see one another, and boots Chris out of her yard, Holly convinces a doubtful Chris to run off to the promises of California. The Trip West, with the couple penniless, avoiding the law, a lecherous trucker and other routine incidents, shows them that life will not be easy. Once in southern California there are no answers except for a fortuitous offer from the Hollywood Outreach Program, which they pass up. Bad luck hits hard, but Chris can't go home because the army has declared him AWOL, and Holly's mother has pressed charges of kidnapping and rape. Furthermore, Holly won't leave Chris--they've discovered they're really in love.
- DirectorSturla GunnarssonStarsSandra OhLinian LiuYan CuiA teenage girl runs away from home and her very strict mother, becomes a prostitute and drug-addict, which she writes a book about.
- DirectorRichard T. HeffronStarsWilliam ShatnerSusan BlakelyRoxann DawsonA man (William Shatner) combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack.
- DirectorDavid Burton MorrisStarsPeter FacinelliLaurel HollomanJay R. Ferguson16 year old Bret lives with his indifferent father and a stepmother who abhors him. After yet another fight he leaves home. He meets two guys and a girl who are drifting around. He feels attracted to Roxanne and they decide to continue together to LA. Unfortunately Roxanne gets busted by the police, so Bret is on his own again. In LA he meets some nice guys who offer him lodging. However they are involved with (male) prostitution...
- DirectorRosemarie TurkoStarsJennifer MayoJackie BerrymanDavid DeanA 16 year old girl turns to prostitution to support her baby and encounters a treacherous underworld of pimps, hookers and johns while doing her best to maintain her hopes and dignity.
- DirectorDana RotbergStarsEvangelina SosaLilia AragónRoberto SosaIn a miserable circus, a young trapeze artist seduces her father, gets pregnant and decides to have her baby, so she leaves the circus and joins a group of puppeteers who make shows from passages of the Bible.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudAlbert RémyClaire MaurierA young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
- DirectorShôgo FuruyaSatoshi KonStarsTôru EmoriYoshiaki UmegakiAya OkamotoOn 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.
- DirectorJake ScottStarsJames GandolfiniKristen StewartMelissa LeoOn a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman.
- DirectorTodd SolondzStarsJennifer Jason LeighEllen BarkinStephen Adly GuirgisAviva 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.
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsJingchun WangMei YongXi QiTwo married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsGérard DepardieuCarole LaurePatrick DewaereA 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.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsLynn CarlinBuck HenryGeorgia EngelWhile 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.
- DirectorLéa MysiusStarsNoée AbitaLaure CalamyJuan Cano13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.
- DirectorStephan StrekerStarsLina El ArabiSébastien HoubaniBabak KarimiZahira, 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.
- DirectorIvan SenStarsDannielle HallDamian PittJenna Lee ConnorsLena 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.
- DirectorCurtis HansonStarsHoward E. Rollins Jr.Joanna CassidyDavid AckroydAn 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.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsFrankie DarroRochelle HudsonEdwin PhillipsIn 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.
- DirectorLaura LuchettiStarsAnastasiya BogachKallil KoneAniello ArenaIn 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.
- DirectorEmmanuel SagetStarsVictoire ThivisolLaurent SuireIrène Grandadam15-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.
- DirectorMarek PiwowskiStarsKarolina RosinskaSlawomir FederowiczPola RaksaA 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.
- DirectorNorbert KückelmannStarsGerhard GundelDieter MustaffofNorbert BauhuberA 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.
- DirectorMeral UsluStarsSarah JonkerOzlem SolmazVefa OcalRoos 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
- DirectorRémi ChayéStarsChrista ThéretFéodor AtkineThomas SagolsIn 1882, a young Russian aristocrat goes on an epic adventure to find out what happened to her grandfather and save her family's reputation.
- DirectorCharles LaughtonStarsRobert MitchumShelley WintersLillian GishA self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.