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1. Queen of Hearts (2019)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
A successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.
Director: May el-Toukhy | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Gustav Lindh, Magnus Krepper, Liv Esmår Dannemann
Votes: 14,492
2. Doctor Sleep (2019)
R | 152 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.
Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 218,386 | Gross: $31.58M
3. Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A babysitter must battle her way through the big city after being stranded there with the kids she's looking after.
Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan, Anthony Rapp
Votes: 49,096 | Gross: $34.37M
4. The Kings of Summer (2013)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Three teenage friends, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts | Stars: Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Nick Offerman
Votes: 84,380 | Gross: $1.29M
5. Weathering with You (2019)
PG-13 | 112 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Set during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, high-school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Tsubasa Honda, Sakura Kiryu
Votes: 55,524 | Gross: $7.80M
6. Dark Places (2015)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night.
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, Chloë Grace Moretz
Votes: 47,784
7. Pets (1973)
R | 103 min | Drama
Naive, but brash and sultry teenage runaway Bonnie finds herself lost and adrift in America. The lovely young lass runs afoul of a colorful array of evil oddballs who all treat her like an ... See full summary »
Director: Raphael Nussbaum | Stars: Ed Bishop, Joan Blackman, Candice Rialson, Teri Guzman
Votes: 693
8. 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: 20,832
9. Win Win (2011)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A 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.
Director: Tom McCarthy | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor, Bobby Cannavale
Votes: 55,259 | Gross: $10.18M
10. One and Two (2015)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Two siblings discover a supernatural escape from a troubled home, but find their bond tested when reality threatens to tear their family apart.
Director: Andrew Droz Palermo | Stars: Kiernan Shipka, Timothée Chalamet, Elizabeth Reaser, Grant Bowler
Votes: 2,371
11. 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: 11,871
12. Come True (2020)
Unrated | 105 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenage runaway takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into the depths of her mind and a frightening examination of the power of dreams.
Director: Anthony Scott Burns | Stars: Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron, Carlee Ryski, Christopher Heatherington
Votes: 11,130
13. Wish You Were Here (1987)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.
Director: David Leland | Stars: Emily Lloyd, Trudi Cavanagh, Clare Clifford, Barbara Durkin
Votes: 3,334 | Gross: $3.28M
14. Smoke (1995)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Giancarlo Esposito, José Zúñiga
Votes: 38,083 | Gross: $8.35M
15. Born Innocent (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Donald Wrye | Stars: Linda Blair, Joanna Miles, Allyn Ann McLerie, Mary Murphy
Votes: 1,189
16. The Paradine Case (1947)
Approved | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn
Votes: 12,383
17. Flickering Lights (2000)
Not Rated | 109 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A 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.
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen | Stars: Søren Pilmark, Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Votes: 24,203
18. Allure (IV) (2017)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A house cleaner meets a teenaged girl and convinces her to run away and live with her in secret.
Directors: Carlos Sanchez, Jason Sanchez | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Julia Sarah Stone, Maxim Roy, Denis O'Hare
Votes: 2,169
19. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After 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.
Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Mike Binder, Winona Ryder
Votes: 14,221
20. Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story (2020)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story offers a glimpse into the lives of women involved in the sex industry through the interconnected stories of a teen runaway, single mother and two career escorts.
Director: Robin Bain | Stars: Dominique Swain, Cody Renee Cameron, Michelle Maylene, Leah Ann Cevoli
Votes: 9,614
21. Too Young to Die? (1990 TV Movie)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama
An abused 15-year-old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty.
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Michael Tucker, Juliette Lewis, Brad Pitt, Alan Fudge
Votes: 4,264
22. 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: 6,215 | Gross: $1.26M
23. Ripe (1996)
R | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Violet and Rosie are 15-year-old fraternal twin sisters on the edge of womanhood. When their parents are killed in a car crash, the girls hit the road as "outlaws," bound for Kentucky and the perfect life together.
Director: Mo Ogrodnik | Stars: Monica Keena, Daisy Eagan, Gordon Currie, Ron Brice
Votes: 1,119
24. Streetwalkin' (1985)
R | 86 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A high school dropout working as a street prostitute spends one night turning tricks and avoiding her emotionally unstable pimp who's starting to turn very violent.
Director: Joan Freeman | Stars: Melissa Leo, Randall Batinkoff, Dale Midkiff, Deborah Offner
Votes: 940
25. Somersault (2004)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A young girl flees her hometown and arrives in the Australian Alps, where new experiences help her learn the differences between sex and love.
Director: Cate Shortland | Stars: Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington, Lynette Curran, Damian de Montemas
Votes: 8,192 | Gross: $0.09M
26. 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: 474
27. Mouth to Mouth (2005)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Young 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.
Director: Alison Murray | Stars: Elliot Page, Natasha Wightman, August Diehl, Beatrice Brown
Votes: 4,432
28. Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Ernest helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor.
Director: John R. Cherry III | Stars: Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Oliver Clark, Noelle Parker
Votes: 12,859 | Gross: $28.20M
29. Rose (V) (2020)
86 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Gripped by a violent, terrifying illness, Rose lives in seclusion with her husband, but the arrival of a stranger shatters the fragile refuge they have built.
Director: Jennifer Sheridan | Stars: Sophie Rundle, Olive Gray, Matt Stokoe, Nathan McMullen
Votes: 1,217
30. Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
104 min | Drama, Fantasy
A 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.
Director: Shûji Terayama | Stars: Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka, Masumi Harukawa, Kan Mikami
Votes: 2,407
31. 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: 654
32. London to Brighton (2006)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Desperate 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.
Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Lorraine Stanley, Georgia Groome, Johnny Harris, Nathan Constance
Votes: 8,736
33. El último verano de la Boyita (2009)
TV-PG | 93 min | Drama
A teenage girl, feeling babyish and awkward compared to her older sister, finds solace in a childhood friend while spending a countryside summer in her father's old van.
Director: Julia Solomonoff | Stars: Guadalupe Alonso, Nicolás Treise, Mirella Pascual, Gabo Correa
Votes: 979
34. Jailbait Babysitter (1977)
R | 74 min | Drama, Romance
Vicki 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 ... See full summary »
Director: John Hayes | Stars: Therese Pare, Roscoe Born, Lydia Wagner, David J. Partington
Votes: 211
35. Broken Angel (1988 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
A man (William Shatner) combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack.
Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: William Shatner, Susan Blakely, Roxann Dawson, Jason Horst
Votes: 190
36. Turn Me On, Dammit! (2011)
Not Rated | 76 min | Comedy, Romance
In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.
Director: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen | Stars: Helene Bergsholm, Malin Bjørhovde, Henriette Steenstrup, Beate Støfring
Votes: 9,725 | Gross: $0.12M
37. Not Angels But Angels (1994)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
Interviews with a procurer and with nineteen boys and young men who are prostitutes in Prague. The youths range in age from 14 to 19. They hustle at the central train station and at clubs. ... See full summary »
Director: Wiktor Grodecki | Stars: Eda, Joseph Gregori, Honza, Jarda
Votes: 525
38. Rollercoaster (1999)
R | 88 min | Drama
In pursuit of fantasy, five teenagers hop the fence of a now defunct amusement park. While apparently a mindless diversion, for two of them the park is the setting for a more fatal bid at escape.
Director: Scott Smith | Stars: Brendan Fletcher, Birkett Turton, Crystal Bublé, Brent Glenen
Votes: 449
39. Chains of Gold (1990)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Miami social worker, Scott, helps a fatherless boy. When the boy goes missing, Scott looks for him everywhere, incl. in a crack dealing gang.
Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: John Travolta, Marilu Henner, Joey Lawrence, Bernie Casey
Votes: 1,013
40. 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: 601
41. 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
42. Silver Bells (2005 TV Movie)
TV-G | 95 min | Drama, Family
Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.
Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Anne Heche, Tate Donovan, Michael Mitchell, Courtney Jines
Votes: 1,340
43. Club Med (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Escape to paradise with Linda Hamilton, Jack Scalia, Patrick Macnee, Bill Maher, Sinbad and Miami Sound Machine in this romantic getaway adventure shot at Club Med's Ixtapa resort.
Director: Bob Giraldi | Stars: Jack Scalia, Linda Hamilton, Patrick Macnee, Janis Lee
Votes: 172
44. The Griddle House (2018)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
The story follows teenager Jack Benson on his hunt for his birthmother; has she been a regular at the nearby Griddle House all along?
Director: Paul Tomborello | Stars: Amber Benson, Charisma Carpenter, Clare Kramer, Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Votes: 222
45. The Hard Road (1973)
R | 85 min | Drama
The cautionary tale of 17-year-old Sherman Oaks high-schooler Pam Banner, who has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to return to school, so her dad gets ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Graver | Stars: Connie Nelson, John Alderman, Catherine Howard, Gary Kent
Votes: 157
46. Look Away (2021)
90 min | Documentary
Women who were groomed in their early teen years come forward to tell their stories as this film exposes sex crimes committed by some of the music industry's biggest stars.
Directors: Sophie Cunningham, Ben Steele | Stars: Kari Krome, Lori Mattox, Trudie Arguelles, Jackie Fuchs
Votes: 124
47. Seed of Innocence (1980)
R | 91 min | Drama
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.
Director: Boaz Davidson | Stars: Timothy Wead, Mary Cannon, T.K. Carter, Vincent Schiavelli
Votes: 91
48. Teenager (1974)
R | 87 min | Drama, Action
A film company arrives in a small town to shoot a biker movie. The film's director encourages his actors to "live" their parts, and the results are clashes with the townspeople that end in murder.
Director: Gerald Seth Sindell | Stars: Andrea Cagan, Sue Bernard, Federico Corban, Joe Warfield
Votes: 108
49. Ángel de fuego (1992)
95 min | Drama
In 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.
Director: Dana Rotberg | Stars: Evangelina Sosa, Lilia Aragón, Roberto Sosa, Noé Montealegre
Votes: 211
50. The Fireball (1950)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Sport
An orphanage runaway becomes a roller-skating champion but gets sick with polio.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Pat O'Brien, Beverly Tyler, James Brown
Votes: 373