Movies like The Young Runaways
If you like "The Young Runaways" you are looking for psychedelic movies about / with runaway, teenager, motorcycle, blonde, prostitution, father daughter relationship and pimp themes of Drama genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
The Young Runaways (1968)
314
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three unhappy teenagers run away from home, only to discover living on their own isn't as idyllic as they imagined.
Style:
psychedelic
Plot:
runaway, teenager, motorcycle, blonde, prostitution, father daughter relationship, pimp, car accident, exploitation, gas station, cheating girlfriend, cheating on boyfriend, juvenile delinquent, juvenile delinquency, delinquent, biker, thief, friendship, girlfriend, house, farm, teenage pregnancy, deserter, armed robbery, burned alive ...
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to The Young Runaways
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, captivating and serious films with plots about teenager, friendship, teenage girl, prostitution, father daughter relationship, exploitation and juvenile delinquent mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Young Runaways: Riot on Sunset Strip (1967), Jacktown (1962), Maryjane (1968), Little Ladies of the Night (1977), Suburban Virgin (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A police captain (Aldo Ray) is caught between businesses operating on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip who don't like the punks hanging out, and his belief in allowing the kids their rights. But when his daughter (Mimsy Farmer) gets involved with ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hippie, lsd, counterculture, summer of love, delinquent, juvenile delinquency, juvenile delinquent, gang rape, riot, marijuana, bad trip, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
95%
196
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
A young man is charged with statutory rape.
Style:
psychotronic, slang, independent film
Plot:
juvenile delinquent, bad girl, exploitation, juvenile delinquency, delinquent, riot, loan shark, mugging, voice over narration, bare chested male, released from prison, escaped prisoner ...
Time:
60s, year 1952
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
86%
231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A teacher trying to break up a local drug ring is framed and arrested for possession of marijuana.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, psychotronic
Plot:
marijuana, drug, hippie, juvenile delinquent, delinquent, juvenile delinquency, stoner, high school, school, friendship, frame up, drug dealing ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to clear the streets of under-age girls working in prostitution. ...
Style:
dark
Plot:
prostitute, prostitution, cautionary tale, innocent, life lesson, police, money, father daughter relationship, friendship, innocence, mother daughter relationship, street life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
66%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
16-vuotias Minna on kyllästynyt kiltin tytön elämään. Kaikki kaverit elävät Minnan mielestä vauhdikasta ja mielenkiintoista elämää, johon kuuluvat niin seurustelut kuin sekoilutkin. Päästäkseen kokemaan kaiken tämän saman Minna ...
Style:
captivating
Plot:
hitchhiker, teenage sexuality, teenager, friendship, sexuality, youth, road trip, teenage girl, girlfriend, escapades, highway travel, girlfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.
Plot:
accident, death, delinquent, jealousy, teenager, drug addict, drug addiction, party, drug, confession, drinking alcohol, lsd ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Noémie (15 years old) has lived in a youth center for three years. When she loses all hope of being taken back by her mother, Noémie runs away in search of meaning and freedom. She goes to join her friend Léa, a former member of the center, who ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, teenage girl, pimp, female protagonist, social issues, exploitation, sexploitation, underage, teen romance, teenager, relationship problems, tragic love ...
Place:
montreal
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. ...
Plot:
group therapy, mother daughter relationship, family conflict, illegal drugs, stash, drug rehab, drug, car accident, female protagonist, confession, suicidal, unwanted pregnancy ...
Similarity:
49%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A 14-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.
Style:
psychedelic, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
marijuana, recovery, hippie, drug addiction, drug, addiction, high school, prostitute, teenage girl, runaway, cocaine, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
15 year old Dawn runs away from what she feels is an intolerable home life. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age.
Style:
controversial, learning
Audience:
teens
Plot:
runaway, teenage prostitute, alcoholic mother, prostitute, sex worker, street life, loss of virginity, teenage girl, cautionary tale, hustler, pimp, runaway child ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An unhappy teenager hits the road to meet up with a man in California whom she barely knows. Along the way the naive teen stumbles around trying to do her best to get by, but eventually falls prey to some unseemly characters willing to take ...
Style:
independent film, dark, bleak, period piece, road movie
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
hitchhiking, road trip, coming of age, runaway, journey, naivete, survival, street life, desperation, prostitution, alienation, isolation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
southern california, venice california
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A cautionary tale. At 17, Sherman Oaks high schooler Pam Banner has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to go back to school, so her dad gets her a job as the receptionist for a talent agent. A rock star takes ...
Style:
grindhouse, psychedelic, independent film, psychotronic, tragic ending
Plot:
drug addiction, cautionary tale, venereal disease, teenage pregnancy, teenage sex, teenager, heroin addict, abusive relationship, drug abuse, jail cell, drug trip, heroin ...
Time:
70s
Place:
southern california, los angeles, california
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of ...
Style:
educational
Plot:
boy, little boy, car accident, police officer, escape, teaching, education, hitchhiking, stealing, teacher, prostitute, death ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, belgrade
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The slimy underbelly of psychiatry is revealed in this nasty exploitation drama that centers on a female psychiatrist who talks about her tawdriest cases, examples of which, including incest, masochism, impotency and prostitution, are illustrated. ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
father daughter sex, sex with daughter, mother daughter relationship, exploitation, sex, father daughter relationship, voyeurism, voyeur, flashback, lesbian romance, suicide attempt, black maid ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
Greg and Kellie are two well adjusted and highly-motivated teenagers, from happy homes with loving parents. They find they have much in common, including their future college goals, their love of family and the Lord. They fall in love and into ...
Style:
independent film, christian film
Plot:
pregnant teenager, faith, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, love, teenage boy, doctor, dream, unplanned pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, hospital ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Country girl comes to the big city, gets into all kinds of trouble.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
acid trip, female nudity, female masturbation, father daughter incest, lesbianism, threesome, orgy, sex scene, rape, lsd, prostitution, erotica ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, exciting, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
drag racing, on the road, classic car, car, auto racing, manhunt, redneck, drag race, waitress, car chase, friendship, chase ...
Time:
1950s, year 1975, 50s, year 1958
Place:
georgia, california, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the ...
Style:
touching, captivating, psychological, contemplative, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
car accident, death, accident, architect, quitting job, husband wife relationship, friendship, teenager, help, homeless, mourning, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Style:
emotional, captivating, serious, realistic, semi autobiographical ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
police dog, dysfunctional family, depression, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, alcoholic, going straight, family problems, coming of age, youth, hopes, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa, new york
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Tough ex-con Glenn Barnes gets paroled from prison after serving a sentence for manslaughter. Glenn plans to reopen his old nightclub the Garage on 42nd Street. Vicious rival nightclub owner Farrell threatens to take drastic measures if Glenn goes ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film
Plot:
exploitation, prison, guts, prostitution, pimp, decapitation, violence, blood, death, murder, revenge, times square manhattan new york city ...
Time:
80s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had
Style:
thought provoking, uplifting, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
elderly, aging, poor, neighborhood, survival, eviction, friendship, interracial relations, urban ghetto life, teenage life, friends, urban ghetto ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Study of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the ...
Style:
independent film, black cinema
Plot:
black man white woman relationship, marriage, racism, racial issues, blaxploitation, black history, racial discrimination, prejudice, child custody, miscegenation, voice over narration, wedding ...
Place:
ohio, columbus ohio, midwest
Similarity:
30%
120
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A 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.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
pedophile, runaway, street walker, barber, drug, street prostitution, poverty, girl, nudity, vice squad, teenage runaway, sisterhood ...
Place:
malibu california, seattle, los angeles, santa monica california
Similarity:
29%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A juvenile is mad at his mom so he leaves his home in San Francisco to join a charismatic LSD guru's cult in Spain and turns on, tunes in, and drops out. He also gets involved in murder.
Style:
psychedelic, black and white, crime drama, independent film, grindhouse ...
Plot:
counterculture, lsd, exploitation, hippie, drug dealer, cult leader, youth culture, young adult, manipulation, murder, sexploitation, hedonism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
spain, san francisco
Similarity:
28%
607
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A group of young hopeful teenagers who have come to Hollywood in the hopes of an acting career find that the business is harder than they had ever imagined.
Style:
bleak, captivating, independent film
Plot:
aspiring actress, teenager, sexploitation, frustration, teenage prostitution, poverty, desperation, survival, urban, street prostitution, sex work, friendship ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Hustler ERIC COYLE, 19, has secured early release from prison by informing on his drug dealer, BENNIE. He immediately begins reassembling his former life, including girlfriend, HEATHER, former pimp, DOLORES and his best john, TOMMY. Desperate to ...
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
friendship, family relations, law enforcement, rivalry, haunted by the past, danger, escapades, criminal, twists and turns, police, friend, dishonesty ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A teenage girl and her boyfriend set off on an eventful road trip up the coast of California hoping to figure out the meaning of love and life.
Style:
retro, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, motorcycle, teenager, young love, road trip, self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, relationships, grownups, problem, love affair ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a young prostitute is murdered and left in a rubbish heap, her mother does everything to track down the killer.
Style:
sad
Plot:
forced prostitution, murder, prostitution, trouble, troubled teen, murder of daughter, physical abuse, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, pimp, abusive boyfriend, loss of daughter ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficulties including a pregnant girlfriend. In Ohio, he meets another homeless teen, who escorts him to ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, friendship, on the road, father, prison, friends, youth, social misfits, hopes, self discovery, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
indiana, oklahoma, usa, salt lake city utah, philadelphia ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
Style:
underground film, avant garde, experimental, independent film, art film ...
Plot:
art, lgbtq, exploitation, filmmaking, designer, surrealism, male nudity, house, hotel, dominatrix, midnight, blue
Time:
60s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
25%
Related movie lists
