Runaway child movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant runaway child movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, emotional, sincere, serious and feel good films and TV shows about / with runaway child, runaway, youth, coming of age, children, boy, family relations, mother daughter relationship, friendship and little boy plots mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as runaway child: Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Eva & Leon (2015), The Children of Times Square (1986), 25 Kids And A Dad (2003), Nocturna (2015), Fast Color (2018), Cracked Eggs and Noodles (2005), The Florida Project (2017), Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns (1985), Ecstasy (2011).
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List of runaway child movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them ...
Style:
atmospheric, sentimental, surreal, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, date night, teens
Plot:
children, coming of age, island, camp, boy scout, first love, youth, adolescence, journey, search party, orphan, social misfits ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1965
Place:
new england, usa, plymouth, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A privileged woman and an orphan boy meet and somehow become friends.
Style:
sincere, feel good, light, psychological, unusual plot structure
Plot:
orphan, disguise, train, runaway child, boy, search for mother, friends, friendship, youth, piano, birthday party, letter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, rome italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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.(IMDB)
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak, rough
Plot:
runaway, youth, drug dealer, gang, street kid, coming of age, juvenile delinquent, drugs, children, street life, child in peril, urban ghetto ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: China
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Zhao Guang is a hard-working chicken farmer whose self-made life has led him to dedicate himself to running the orphanage at his native Chinese village. His success with children leads him to local celebrity status, including a speech on national ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
child, orphanage, unhappiness, philanthropist, farm, orphan, runaway child, adoption, child custody, custody, society, care ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two New Orleans detectives become embroiled in a centuries-long feud between two secretive factions of vampires while investigating a runaway child's case. Torn between their everyday lives and the dangerous lure of immortality, the detectives ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, bleak
Plot:
vampire, female vampire, police, feud, police detective, runaway child, runaway, monster, creature, murder, victim, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.
Style:
psychological, sincere, touching, tense, unusual plot structure
Plot:
superhero, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, daughter, family home, mother, countryside, family relations, supernatural power, supernatural, runaway, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
midwest
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An advocate of sex, but not of marriage, bachelor Daegyu (played by singer-turned-actor Im Changjeon), 26, produces bootleg music albums for a living. One day, he comes across a plucky, nine-year-old boy named Jeon Ingwon (played by Lee Inseong) who ...
Plot:
runaway child, road trip, boy, cooking, parent child relationship, father son relationship, noodles
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Style:
touching, captivating, sincere, aesthetic, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
children, mother daughter relationship, friendship, poverty, eviction, motel, social services, little girl, summer, childhood, female friendship, single mother ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
florida, orlando florida
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: East Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The 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.
Style:
fairy tale, modern fairy tale
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, strong female character, rat, strong female lead, tomboy, runaway, children, young love, monarchy, king, runaway child, tough girl ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
ECSTASY is a contemporary and relevant film about how drugs transcend all borders of society and affect every facet of our lives. But when it leaves it takes away your soul. A new party drug arrives on the rave scene in a college town and is ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
lifestyle, depression, college, sexual promiscuity, drug abuse, life is a bitch, youth, family problems, parents and children, sex, drug addiction, drugs ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Style:
touching, road movie, emotional, exciting, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
prodigy, coming of age, loneliness, young heroes, children, childhood, cowboy, dysfunctional family, tragedy, unlikely friendships, train, train travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montana, usa, washington d.c., chicago illinois
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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, cult film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alcoholic mother, teenage prostitute, prostitute, pimp, hustler, runaway child, sex with a minor, probation, sex worker, street prostitution, fake identification, loss of innocence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Ronya lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronja ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, semi serious, feel good, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
friendship, forest, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, adventurer, castle, boy, rivalry, family relations, nudist, mischievous children, parents and children ...
Time:
year 1984
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
Style:
serious, captivating, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gender, transsexual, childhood, youth, friendship, child protagonist, children, family relations, self discovery, society, sexual identity, coming of age ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The wild and energetic journey of 9-year-old girl Benni through all possible stations of German Child Proctective Services.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, psychological, sincere, intense ...
Plot:
problem child, teenager, school, parents and children, social outcast, outcast, fighting the system, social problems, society, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems ...
Place:
germany, central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Les Diables (The Devils) chronicles the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, emotional, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
autism, brother sister incest, incest, coming of age, mentally challenged, escape, on the run, life is a bitch, orphan, society, kids in trouble, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
marseille, france
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life ...
Style:
fairy tale, touching, funny, feel good, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
disney, jungle, childhood, talking animals, bear, orphan, feral child, friendship, human animal relationship, animal life, animals, good versus evil ...
Time:
60s, 1890s, 19th century
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Director François Truffaut makes a rare on-screen appearance in one of his most unusual films. Based on a true story, the film follows the discovery of a feral child (Jean-Pierre Cargol) who's grown up wild in the forest in late-18th-century ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, sexy, breathtaking, harsh ...
Plot:
education, coming of age, children, youth, doctor, feral child, psychology, deaf, boy, teacher, nude, transformation ...
Time:
18th century, 1790s, 70s, 19th century
Place:
paris france, france, tokyo, new jersey, south of france ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Fiction on children who ran away from who and lives near the railway station
Style:
intense
Plot:
real life, runaway child, railway
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
The story of Ted and Jackie, two London kids who decide to run away to Liverpool and, from there, stow away on a ship bound for Jamaica - the home of Jackie's estranged father.
Plot:
police officer, children, soccer, runaway child, missing father, jamaican, little boy, friendship between boys, police, british, runaway, theft ...
Place:
liverpool, london
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Break in the Sun is a British television serial made by the BBC in 1981.
The series, written by Bernard Ashley, was considerably more gritty and controversial than standard BBC children's serial fare up until that time, dealing with a young ...
Plot:
boat, runaway child, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, amusement park, mother daughter relationship, seaside, child protagonist, female protagonist, stepfather, runaway, abusive stepfather, bed wetting ...
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This singularly off-beat and original period mystery thriller drama curio set in the late 1800's plays like an arrestingly bizarre and inspired cross between "Tom Sawyer" and "Night of the Hunter." Lonely, miserable orphan ...
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
orphan, preacher, runaway, skinny dipping, candy, runaway child, foster child, foster home, civil war, confederate soldier, church, countryside ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Uncle and Nephew make a great team
Plot:
cripple, handicapped, family relations, suspicion of adultery, family reunited, rescue from drowning, suicide attempt, woman in danger, pregnancy, runaway child, extortion, scheme ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
Story:
Kevin, an angry boy on Earth, is mad because he has to move away from his friend Donna. Declaring that he doesn't care, he decides to run away and ends up in The Land Without Feelings, which is ruled by Professeur Coldheart. The Care Bears, ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
cartoon bear, abandoned, desire, heart, moving, award, meeting, best friend, children, wind, balloon, poisoned drink ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat.
Plot:
police officer, car chase, serial killer, lapd, ex cop, runaway child, retirement, mistaken identity, drug dealer, adoption, prostitute, murder ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1870s Florida, a rural family struggles to survive. A lonely twelve-year-old son, Jody (Wil Horneff), the lone surviving child, against his mother's better judgment eventually persuades his parents to allow him a pet fawn, which Jody grows ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious
Plot:
youth, animals, killing a pet, runaway, family relations, coming of age, countryside, friends, animal life, power relations, pets, orphan ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
florida, usa
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Genre: Family
Country: France, UK, South Africa
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A township near Cape Town. Two young teens, Madiba and Sipho, find a gun and a camera. Sipho takes the gun, and Madiba the camera, sealing their fate.
Style:
sincere, serious, thought provoking, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
friends, discrimination, teaching the ways of the world, racism, road not taken, society, coming of age, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, boy, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shows us a weekend in the life of a family torn by disputes and disappointments.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
youth, family relations, custody, starting over, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, couples, love and romance, single parent, child custody, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brussels, belgium, europe
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lily Covington, a Manhattan housekeeper, embarks on a trip to the rural Alabama town of her youth. To Lily's surprise, her employer's nine-year-old son Michael stows away for the ride. Together, Lily and Michael realize just how alike and ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
youth, family relations, interracial relations, nanny, society, switching roles, on the run, missing person, racism, kidnapping, bittersweet, sheriff ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, alabama, usa, southern usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young boy develops a passion for archeology and tries to unravel the truth about his ancestry.
Style:
semi serious, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
youth, family relations, parents and children, curses spells and rituals, small town, riddles and clues, chaos and mayhem, small town life, young heroes, escapades, coming of age, obsessive quest ...
Time:
90s, 50s
Place:
congo, holland, brussels, belgium
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