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1. Inside Out (I) (2015)
PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.
Directors: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen | Stars: Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling
Votes: 786,829 | Gross: $356.46M
2. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.
Directors: Victor Fleming, King Vidor | Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr
Votes: 429,135 | Gross: $2.08M
3. Return to Oz (1985)
PG | 113 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.
Director: Walter Murch | Stars: Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie
Votes: 30,418
4. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
PG-13 | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two 12-year-olds, who live on an island, fall in love with each other and elope into the wilderness. While people set out on a search mission, a violent storm approaching them catches their attention.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray
Votes: 366,955 | Gross: $45.51M
5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Approved | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.
Directors: William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell
Votes: 215,732 | Gross: $184.93M
6. Muriel's Wedding (1994)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
Director: P.J. Hogan | Stars: Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter, Sophie Lee
Votes: 41,780 | Gross: $15.19M
7. The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000 Video)
G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
To protect her from a sea witch, Ariel's daughter is not allowed in the ocean; but when she becomes 12, she runs away to an adventure under the sea.
Directors: Jim Kammerud, Brian Smith, Bill Speers | Stars: Tara Strong, Pat Carroll, Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright
Votes: 22,319
8. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
PG | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Kenneth Branagh, Laura Monaghan
Votes: 30,283 | Gross: $6.17M
9. Ronia: The Robber's Daughter (1984)
Not Rated | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Ronja, the only child of robber chief Mattis must learn to survive the dangers of her local wilderness. In secret she also befriends Birk, the son of a rivaling robber Borka.
Director: Tage Danielsson | Stars: Hanna Zetterberg, Dan Håfström, Börje Ahlstedt, Lena Nyman
Votes: 12,137
10. Cake (II) (2014)
R | 102 min | Drama
The acerbic, hilarious Claire Bennett becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband, she also grapples with her own, very raw personal tragedy.
Director: Daniel Barnz | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington
Votes: 38,894 | Gross: $1.87M
11. Hick (2011)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
A Nebraska teen gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas.
Director: Derick Martini | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Blake Lively, Rory Culkin, Eddie Redmayne
Votes: 20,842
12. Call Me Bruna (2016–2019)
60 min | Drama
A middle-class teen runs away from home and decides to work as a call girl. In little time, she becomes Bruna Surfistinha and gains notoriety after writing her routine on a blog.
Stars: Maria Bopp, Simone Mazzer, Stella Rabello, Nash Laila
Votes: 448
13. We Summon the Darkness (2019)
R | 91 min | Horror, Music, Thriller
Three best friends embark on a road trip to a heavy-metal show, where they bond with three aspiring musicians and head off to one of the girls' country home for an after-party.
Director: Marc Meyers | Stars: Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson, Maddie Hasson, Amy Forsyth
Votes: 11,905
14. Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
R | 95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
Director: Dick Richards | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles
Votes: 9,633 | Gross: $4.36M
15. Mia and the White Lion (2018)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Mia moves to South Africa with her family to manage a lion farm and develops a special bond with Charlie, a white lion cub; however, things change when she uncovers her father's secret.
Director: Gilles de Maistre | Stars: Daniah De Villiers, Mélanie Laurent, Langley Kirkwood, Ryan Mac Lennan
Votes: 6,390 | Gross: $0.40M
16. Children Who Love Each Other (2005)
77 min | Drama
A family vacation in the mountains. Nine-year-old Eliane is as free as a caged bird. She tries to escape from her bossy mother, who lives in a state of pathological stress that affects Eliane and her siblings.
Director: Gilles Volta | Stars: Elbera Volta, Marie Balmelle, Félicie Roger, Nina Franchetti
Votes: 119
17. Beyond: Two Souls (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Live the life of Jodie Holmes, a young woman who possesses supernatural powers through her psychic link to a mysterious invisible entity.
Director: David Cage | Stars: Elliot Page, Willem Dafoe, Eric Winter, Kadeem Hardison
Votes: 13,094
18. Devil's Gate (2017)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Seeking a missing woman in North Dakota, an FBI agent and a sheriff focus on her religious zealot husband but discover something far more sinister.
Director: Clay Staub | Stars: Amanda Schull, Shawn Ashmore, Milo Ventimiglia, Bridget Regan
Votes: 6,844
19. Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970)
R | 99 min | Drama
The friendship between two Arizona dirt bike racers is tested when they both lust for an attractive runaway young woman who joins them on the racing circuit.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Robert Redford, Michael J. Pollard, Lauren Hutton, Noah Beery Jr.
Votes: 1,476 | Gross: $1.76M
20. Head Full of Honey (2018)
PG-13 | 127 min | Comedy, Drama
A man suffering from Alzheimer's embarks on a final road trip with his granddaughter.
Director: Til Schweiger | Stars: Nick Nolte, Matt Dillon, Emily Mortimer, Sophie Lane
Votes: 2,658 | Gross: $0.01M
21. Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)
G | 84 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Cat and mouse duo Tom and Jerry reluctantly work together to save a young girl from her evil aunt.
Director: Phil Roman | Stars: Richard Kind, Dana Hill, Anndi McAfee, Tony Jay
Votes: 12,098 | Gross: $3.56M
22. Girlhood (2014)
Unrated | 113 min | Drama
A girl with few real prospects joins a gang, reinventing herself and gaining a sense of self confidence in the process. However, she soon finds that this new life does not necessarily make her any happier.
Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, Mariétou Touré
Votes: 10,059
23. Natasha (I) (2015)
TV-MA | 93 min | Drama
A forbidden romance between a 16-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant kid in Toronto and his cousin by marriage, a 14-year-old girl from Moscow with a scandalous past.
Director: David Bezmozgis | Stars: Alex Ozerov-Meyer, Sasha K. Gordon, Genadijs Dolganovs, Deanna Dezmari
Votes: 476
24. Lamb (I) (2015)
R | 97 min | Drama
When a man meets a young girl in a parking lot he attempts to help her avoid a bleak destiny by initiating her into the beauty of the outside world. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.
Director: Ross Partridge | Stars: Ross Partridge, Oona Laurence, Jess Weixler, Tom Bower
Votes: 2,325 | Gross: $0.01M
25. Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A 15-year-old girl runs away from home and arrives in Hollywood, but winds up becoming a prostitute to support herself and gets involved with a tough-talking pimp.
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Eve Plumb, Leigh McCloskey, Lynn Carlin, William Schallert
Votes: 401
26. Hollywood Vice Squad (1986)
R | 101 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A mother goes to Hollywood to find her runaway daughter. The Vice Squad discovers that a dangerous gangster has turned the girl into one of his junkie teen prostitutes. The Squad also investigates illegal betting and a BDSM pornographer.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Ronny Cox, Frank Gorshin, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Trish Van Devere
Votes: 657
27. Psych-Out (1968)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A deaf runaway is taken in by a psychedelic band while searching for her missing brother in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury hippie district.
Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern
Votes: 3,022
28. My Little Girl (1986)
R | 118 min | Drama
A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and tries to help them, but only gets herself into trouble with her parents and supervisor.
Director: Connie Kaiserman | Stars: James Earl Jones, Geraldine Page, Mary Stuart Masterson, Anne Meara
Votes: 384
29. The Driver (2019)
R | 97 min | Action, Drama, Horror
In a zombie apocalypse, one man desperately tries to keep his family alive.
Director: Wych Kaosayananda | Stars: Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra, Noelani Dacascos, Zane Jabbia
Votes: 957
30. Not in My Family (1993 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama
Dark memories of her father are revealed by a new mother's nightmares and depression after childbirth.
Director: Linda Otto | Stars: Joanna Kerns, Michael Brandon, Shelley Hack, Richard Gilliland
Votes: 223
31. Susan Slept Here (1954)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 2,170
32. Butterflies (1973)
79 min | Drama
12-year-old Edek visits his aunt on vacation. Along with his cousins, he meets the charming Monika. They fall for each other until Monika leaves Edka for a rich kid. Cousin Honorka, also in love with Edek, reveals Monika's secret.
Director: Janusz Nasfeter | Stars: Bozena Fedorczyk, Grazyna Michalska, Roman Mosior, Piotr Szczerkowski
Votes: 91
33. Little Miss Millions (1993)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Family
Private detective Nick is hired to bring back Heather, who ran away from her stepmother to find her real mother.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Howard Hesseman, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anita Morris, James Avery
Votes: 415
34. Anna Christie (I) (1930)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler
Votes: 3,506 | Gross: $1.01M
35. The Lady in Question (1940)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A juror in a murder trial takes pity on the recently acquitted defendant and invites her to move into his family's home and his son soon falls in love with her.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Irene Rich
Votes: 934
36. Johnny Go Home: The Murder of Billy Two-Tone (1975 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary
A two part investigation of the dangers facing teenagers, who leave home for the bright lights of London. The End of the Line followed the case histories of Tommy, a 12 year-old Scottish ... See full summary »
Director: John Willis
Votes: 19
37. Kahdeksan peiliä (1982 TV Movie)
39 min
Mean girls bully Anna-Maija after she is seen kissing a boy. Her parents notice that the girl's affairs are not in order, but they did not know the reason for their melancholy. Mother buys eight mirrors, one for each member of the family.
Director: Raili Rusto | Stars: Esko Nikkari, Elina Salo, Tia Moilanen, Esa Lehto
Votes: 17
38. God, You're Such a Prick (2020)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
16-year-old Steffi is planning a school trip to Paris and her first sex with Fabian when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer. She defies parental advice and escapes with Steve, a frustrated circus acrobat, to enjoy the time she has left.
Director: André Erkau | Stars: Sinje Irslinger, Max Hubacher, Til Schweiger, Heike Makatsch
Votes: 604
39. The Evening Dress (2009)
95 min | Drama
Like many of her classmates, 12 year old tomboy Juliette has a crush on Mrs. Solenska, a teacher distinguished by stylish attire and an uninhibited, provocative classroom demeanor. ... See full summary »
Director: Myriam Aziza | Stars: Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Lio, Sophie Mounicot, Léo Legrand
Votes: 323
40. Minnie the Moocher (1932)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky | Stars: Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra, Cab Calloway, Billy Murray, William Pennell
Votes: 1,725
41. Sweet Evil (2010)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
Céline, a fifteen-year-old girl, fled from her guardians. She took up residence in the outbuilding of a bourgeois house, unbeknownst to its owners, judge Van Eyck and his wife. Discovered ... See full summary »
Director: Olivier Coussemacq | Stars: Anaïs Demoustier, Pascal Greggory, Ludmila Mikaël, Sylvain Dieuaide
Votes: 286
42. Farvel, jeg hedder Kurt (1969)
67 min | Drama, Family
6-year-old Alberte decides to leave her parents. They are always busy working or watching TV and don't have time to do fun things with her. She decides that her new name is Kurt as she has ... See full summary »
Stars: Alberte Winding, Gertie Jung, Olaf Nielsen, Thomas Winding
Votes: 36
43. Everybody Dies But Me (2008)
80 min | Drama
Life is never easy, especially when you're fourteen. But some teenagers have to deal not only with their inner feelings and complexes and youthful maximalism, but also with the cruel surrounding reality.
Director: Valeriya Gay Germanika | Stars: Polina Filonenko, Agniya Kuznetsova, Olga Shuvalova, Yuliya Aleksandrova
Votes: 2,559
44. A Christmas Tale (2021)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A tale of a boy from a wealthy family who during his work at the post office steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm.
Director: Hannes Holm | Stars: Simon Larsson, Jonas Karlsson, Jennie Silfverhjelm, Vanna Rosenberg
Votes: 1,706
45. Vice Girls (1997)
R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Three sexy cops will have to go undercover to catch a ruthless pornographer who is murdering young runaway girls.
Director: Richard Gabai | Stars: Lana Clarkson, Liat Goodson, Kimberley Roberts, Bart Muller
Votes: 308
46. When I Was 12 (2001 TV Movie)
83 min | Drama
A tween girl moves with her alcoholic mother and abusive brother to Burnley. She meets and older boy, suffering from a similar home, and they run away together.
Director: Dominic Savage | Stars: Holly Scourfield, Jody Latham, Ashley Thewlis, Lisa Millett
Votes: 56
47. They Have Escaped (2014)
102 min | Drama, Mystery
Two teenage outcasts run away from a halfway house and embark on a rambling cross-country journey.
Director: J.-P. Valkeapää | Stars: Roosa Söderholm, Teppo Manner, Petteri Pennilä, Jari Pehkonen
Votes: 1,025
48. Siblings of the Cape (2018)
90 min | Drama
Two siblings, older brother Yoshio who had a bad one leg, and sister Mariko who had intellectual disability lived in one port town. One day, Mariko was gone from home. A while later, She ... See full summary »
Director: Shinzô Katayama | Stars: Yûya Matsuura, Misa Wada, Masayasu Kitayama, Kenji Iwaya
Votes: 370
49. Good-Time Girl (1948)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama
A 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.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Diana Dors, George Merritt, Flora Robson, Jean Kent
Votes: 463
50. Hollywood Harry (1985)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A hapless Los Angeles private detective is hired by a shady millionaire to search for the man's missing teenage heiress while at the same time, the detective's estranged teenage niece arrives in town and wants in on the case.
Director: Robert Forster | Stars: Robert Forster, Joe Spinell, Shannon Wilcox, Kate Forster
Votes: 134