runaway child movies

Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001)
6.372 / 10

Family, Animation, Romance, Adventure

Lady and Tramp's mischievous pup, Scamp, gets fed up with rules and restrictions imposed on him by life in a family, and longs for a wild and free...

Mia and the White Lion (2018)
7.295 / 10

Adventure, Family, Drama

A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
6.818 / 10

Adventure, Drama, Family

A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and...

Joyride (2022)
5.9 / 10

Comedy, Drama, Crime

12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they've raised in her name. Grabbing the cash,...

The Search (1948)
6.9 / 10

Drama, War

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother...

The Unloved (2009)
6.8 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow...

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)
6.1 / 10

Drama, Family

Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky...

Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976)
5 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

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...

Reckless Age (1944)
0 / 10

Adventure, Comedy, Music, Drama

Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one...

Runaway (1958)
6.3 / 10

Drama

Kanchan, all of eight years old, is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother...

Va, petite! (2003)
2 / 10

Marie is twelve. When she must return to boarding school after summer vacation, she runs away. After five years at sea, François, 35, anchors ship...

La bellissima estate (1974)
0 / 10

Drama

A mother keeps making excuses for why her son's father has not returned home. Jon Marco, just celebrating his ninth birthday, concludes his parents...

Big Fella (1938)
7 / 10

Music, Drama

Singing Marseilles docker Joe is hired by wealthy English couple, the Oliphants, to find their missing son Gerald. When Joe finds him, he learns...

Cracked Eggs and Noodles (2005)
5.1 / 10

Comedy, Drama

An advocate of sex, but not of marriage, bachelor Daegyu (played by singer-turned-actor Im Changjeon), 26, produces bootleg music albums for a...

The Circus Kid (1928)
0 / 10

Family, Drama

In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.

Johnny on the Run (1953)
7 / 10

Family, Adventure

A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after...

Turnaround (2015)
6 / 10

Drama

A 12-year-old girl goes on a car ride with a man she met online to prove she is not a child anymore.

The Prodigal Tale (2004)
9 / 10

Family, Drama, Music

Set in an Aussie farmhouse and a 50's style diner, Rocfish presents this classic tale of a Father's love for his runaway child.

The Boy Who Disappeared (1984)
8 / 10

Family, Drama

Fed up with his quarreling middle class parents, thirteen-year-old Jonas runs away from home. He seeks his freedom in the woods, where he befriends a...

OMG (2012)
4 / 10

Drama, Family

Kaylee, a 14-year-old emo-goth, thinks she is top of the food chain when it comes to being misunderstood. After a monster fight with her parents...