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1. Searching (III) (2018)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After his teenage daughter goes missing, a desperate father tries to find clues on her laptop.
Director: Aneesh Chaganty | Stars: John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Michelle La
Votes: 180,314 | Gross: $26.02M
2. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Votes: 11,131
3. Short Term 12 (2013)
R | 96 min | Drama
A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton | Stars: Brie Larson, Frantz Turner, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever
Votes: 91,925 | Gross: $1.01M
4. Dirty Girl (2010)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
It's 1987 and Danielle, the high-school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joa and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
Director: Abe Sylvia | Stars: Juno Temple, Jeremy Dozier, Milla Jovovich, Zach Lasry
Votes: 11,362 | Gross: $0.05M
5. 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: 20,856
6. Dear Zoe (2022)
R | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
When Tess and her family suffer an unimaginable loss, she finds support from a surprising source: her biological father - a lovable slacker from the wrong side of the tracks - and the charming but dangerous juvenile delinquent next door.
Director: Gren Wells | Stars: Sadie Sink, Theo Rossi, Jessica Capshaw, Justin Bartha
Votes: 1,457
7. Jolene (2008)
R | 121 min | Drama
A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling cross-country experiencing life, love and heartbreak.
Director: Dan Ireland | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Frances Fisher, Rupert Friend, Dermot Mulroney
Votes: 5,155
8. 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: 1,196
9. Lola (1961)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott
Votes: 7,549
10. Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
PG | 106 min | Drama
In 1950s Mississippi, teenager Bobbie Lee Hartley navigates her blossoming hormones as she is courted by Billy Joe McAllister, who is headed for tragedy.
Director: Max Baer Jr. | Stars: Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Joan Hotchkis, Sandy McPeak
Votes: 2,174
11. Cherry (I) (2010)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
An Ivy League freshman gets an unexpected education when he falls for an older woman and her 14 year-old daughter develops a crush on him.
Director: Jeffrey Fine | Stars: Kyle Gallner, Laura Allen, Britt Robertson, Matt Walsh
Votes: 5,217 | Gross: $0.01M
12. Ballet Shoes (2007 TV Movie)
PG | 85 min | Drama, Family, Musical
In 1930s London, three orphan girls are adopted by their great uncle, who is an eccentric paleontologist, and his niece.
Director: Sandra Goldbacher | Stars: Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, Lucy Boynton, Emilia Fox
Votes: 9,185
13. Sin of Innocence (1986 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 134 min | Drama
When widower David marries divorcee Vicki, David's teenage son, Tim and Vicki's teenage daughter, Jenny become romantically involved. This makes David and Vicki VERY uncomfortable and Vicki's ex-husband Andy furious.
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Bill Bixby, Dee Wallace, Megan Follows, Dermot Mulroney
Votes: 420
14. Bastards (2013)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Romance
Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy - though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille, Michel Subor
Votes: 3,750 | Gross: $0.01M
15. Broken Mirrors (2018)
104 min | Drama
Shadowed by a strict, military father who inflicts severe methods of punishment as a form of discipline, seventeen year old Ariella commits a grave error that her father isn't willing to punish her for.
Directors: Aviad Givon, Imri Matalon | Stars: Shira Haas, Yiftach Klein, Renana Raz, Yoav Rotman
Votes: 259
16. Little Ladies of the Night (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Kyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to ... See full summary »
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: David Soul, Louis Gossett Jr., Linda Purl, Clifton Davis
Votes: 216
17. Chloé (1996 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere to go. Then she finds Jean-Michel, a charming young man who will lead her to prostitution.
Director: Dennis Berry | Stars: Anna Karina, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Claude Adelin, Nozha Khouadra
Votes: 427
18. Child Bride of Short Creek (1981 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Partially based on the true events surrounding a rural religious cult in the American Midwest, and how the members' children suffered for their parents' fanaticism.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Christopher Atkins, Diane Lane, Conrad Bain, Kiel Martin
Votes: 353
19. 27 Missing Kisses (2000)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The summer adventures of teenaged Sybilla, who falls in love with a middle-aged father while being romanced by his teenaged son.
Director: Nana Dzhordzhadze | Stars: Nutsa Kukhianidze, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Shalva Iashvili, Pierre Richard
Votes: 1,522
20. Caroline? (1990 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his untrusting son and supposedly mentally handicaped daughter. But one question stands in her way: is she really Caroline?
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Stephanie Zimbalist, Pamela Reed, George Grizzard, Patricia Neal
Votes: 518
21. American Nightmare (1983)
R | 88 min | Horror, Crime, Thriller
A man investigates the disappearance of his sister with the help of her roommate. He uncovers a trail of prostitution, incest, blackmail...and murder.
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Lawrence Day, Lora Staley, Neil Dainard, Lenore Zann
Votes: 572
22. Teenage Tramp (1973)
R | 80 min | Crime, Drama
Wayward, uninhibited young runaway Kim has fallen in with a bad crowd. She decides to flee them and head to the West Coast to reunite with her uptight, neurotic, estranged older sister ... See full summary »
Director: Anton Holden | Stars: Robin Lane, Alisha Fontaine, Anthony Massena, Don Jarrell
Votes: 189
23. My Skinny Sister (2015)
95 min | Drama
Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal.
Director: Sanna Lenken | Stars: Rebecka Josephson, Amy Deasismont, Annika Hallin, Henrik Norlén
Votes: 1,776
24. The Flapper (1920)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
Ginger grows up in a slow town. Because of her wild attitude, her father decides to send her to a strict boarding school. Despite the strictness, the girls have fun getting into flapper lifestyle trouble including flirting.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Olive Thomas, Theodore Westman Jr., William P. Carleton, Warren Cook
Votes: 431
25. The Marker (2017)
80 min | Crime, Thriller
Noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman's ghost.
Director: Justin Edgar | Stars: Frederick Schmidt, Ana Ularu, John Hannah, Struan Rodger
Votes: 507
26. Velké trápení (1975)
87 min | Drama, Family
After the separation of her parents from her father, a 13-year-old girl is placed in an orphanage where she has difficulty settling in, but then begins to break away from her father because she sees through his selfishness.
Director: Jirí Hanibal | Stars: Renata Masková, Jana Stepánková, Bozena Böhmová, Eduard Cupák
Votes: 31
27. Lotus (III) (2020)
17 min | Short, Drama
In 1941, a Greek teenager falls for an Italian soldier. She does not realize her kid sister has also fallen for the soldier. The younger girl's attempt to seduce her sister's boyfriend ends in tragedy.
Director: Marietta Pappa | Stars: Anna Valeria Giannotti, Loukia Konidari, Nikos Kaloudis, Natalia Kapodistria
28. Katorse (1980)
Drama, Romance
Too much too soon--a child--a woman at 13--and a mother at 14.
Director: Joey Gosiengfiao | Stars: Dina Bonnevie, Alfie Anido, Gabby Concepcion, Janet Bordon
Votes: 22
29. Twisting Fate (2016)
107 min | Drama
Claire is 17 years old. With her family, she spends her holidays in South Africa when her family disappears in an accident. By a stroke of fate, she escapes the drama.
Director: Christophe Lioud | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Daniel Njo Lobé, Marie-Christine Barrault, Naomi Amarger
Votes: 74
30. Dead Girls (2014)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
Three stories of abused and forsaken girls who return from the dead to take their revenge.
Directors: Neal E. Fischer, Del Harvey | Stars: Jessica Oberhausen, Joe Caballero, Rebecca Mullins, Aubrey Joyce Tunnell
Votes: 238
31. Navidad (2009)
99 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple are shocked to find a teen runaway collapsed in their abandoned rural home. Unable to leave her alone, they allow her to join them on a strange night as they recover a few ... See full summary »
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Manuela Martelli, Diego Ruiz, Alicia Rodríguez
Votes: 296
32. To a Safer Place (1987)
58 min | Documentary
A victim of child abuse visits her family to heal the trauma she and her siblings experienced at the hands of their abusive father.
Directors: Beverly Shaffer, Shirley Turcotte | Stars: Shirley Turcotte, Gloria Demers
Votes: 10
33. L'eau vive (1958)
96 min | Drama
Old Félix, a prosperous land owner in Haute Provence, will be expropriated because a dam is being built on the River Durance and his estate is to be flooded. He receives thirty million ... See full summary »
Director: François Villiers | Stars: Pascale Audret, Charles Blavette, Henri Arius, Odette Barencey
Votes: 74
34. La Grieta (2015)
3 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Clara, at only thirteen years old, has had to go through an experience that produced a crack inside her, that same break will allow her to see with different eyes.
Director: Victoria Giménez | Stars: Juan Casalas, Javier Diano, Rosa Gómez, Bernard Lamarque
35. Rebellious Daughters (1938)
Approved | 69 min | Drama
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Marjorie Reynolds, Verna Hillie, Sheila Bromley, George Douglas
Votes: 87
36. The Girl in the Sneakers (1999)
110 min | Drama, Family
In 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... See full summary »
Director: Rasoul Sadrameli | Stars: Pegah Ahangarani, Majid Hajizadeh, Akram Mohammadi, Abdolreza Akbari
Votes: 886
37. Next to Nothing (2004 Video)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
- DRAMA (2004) A young girl moves in with her estranged father. She joins a family with a new stepmother and two teenaged stepsisters.
Director: Tim Everitt | Stars: Katherine Everitt, James Wellington, Georgiana Tarjan, Kim Knight
Votes: 23
38. Delinquent Daughters (1944)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama
A town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: June Carlson, Fifi D'Orsay, Teala Loring, Mary Bovard
Votes: 409
39. Divorce Iranian Style (1998)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
A documentary about real divorce cases in Iran's tribunals.
Directors: Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Votes: 555
40. Favourites (2019)
18 min | Short, Drama
After falling out with her mother, young Sofia hitchhikes southwards in search of the father she never had.
Director: Martin Monk | Stars: Renate Baier, Christian Dolezal, Günther Lainer, Lia Wilfing
Votes: 74
41. Okruch lustra (1979 TV Movie)
65 min | Drama
"Mirror crumbs" is a story of a 15-year-old suffering from scoliosis who goes to the hospital in Konstancin, where she stays in a children's hospital among other patients dealing with various conditions.
Director: Andrzej Zajaczkowski | Stars: Bogdan Bentyn, Iwona Biernacka, Sylwester Biniek, Malgorzata Bogdanska
42. The Clown Statue (2016)
9 min | Short, Horror
Susan is so grateful for a babysitting job. She hears something in the storage room but all she sees is a statue of a clown.
Director: David Heavener | Stars: Adena Heavener, D. Brent Heavener, David Heavener, HarmonieRose Heavener
43. The White Sin (1924)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Smalltown runaway teen Hattie Lou is hired as maid for the Van Gore family, bound for the South Seas on their yacht. On board she falls for the son Spencer, who "marries" her in a mock wedding. A baby and hard times result from the union.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Madge Bellamy, John Bowers, Francelia Billington, Hallam Cooley
Votes: 31
44. Runaway (2001)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary
Runaway 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.
Directors: Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Votes: 77
45. Groomed (II) (2021)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama
Every day, everywhere, hundreds of thousands of children are being 'groomed'- will you be prepared when traffickers try to target you or your loved ones? Know the signs and apply them.
Director: Travis Plunkett | Stars: Rebecca Cary, Bailey Clawson, Stephanie Clawson, Jordan Collins
46.
Dallas (1978–1991)
Episode:
Runaway
(1978)
TV-PG | 48 min | Drama, Romance
Young Lucy's upcoming birthday party has everyone excited for various reasons, except Lucy, who can't even invite her mother to the party. It's only after she decides to run away and takes ... See full summary »
Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Barbara Bel Geddes, Jim Davis, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray
Votes: 209
47.
East Side/West Side (1963–1964)
Episode:
The Street
(1964)
60 min | Drama
After her mother's boyfriend abuses her, a teenager runs away from home and tries to survive on the streets.
Director: Ron Winston | Stars: George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, Linden Chiles
Votes: 14
48.
Hard Time on Planet Earth (1989)
Episode:
The Way Home
(1989)
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Jesse befriends and tries to help a runaway juvenile delinquent reunite with her worried upper class folks. However, two crooked cops stand in his way.
Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: Martin Kove, Darcy Marta, Karen Landry, James Handy
Votes: 14
49.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Heart of Darkness
(1984)
TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Investigating a porn baron, Crockett and Tubbs become involved with an undercover FBI agent who may have gone native and become a criminal, and may have murdered an underage porn starlet. ... See full summary »
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 964
50.
Babylon Berlin (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #3.12
(2020)
TV-MA | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Litten remembers a legal loophole that could save Greta's life. Charlotte visits the inn mentioned in her mother's love letters. Wall Street crashes.
Directors: Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries | Stars: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Leonie Benesch, Lars Eidinger
Votes: 697