
10 Best Movies Like The Runaway
If you loved The Runaway, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Runaway for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother....

Palindromes
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Runaway for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revo...

Rocks
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Runaway for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and...

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Runaway for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities....

Rebel Without a Cause
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Runaway for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some sta...

Wildlike
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Runaway for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she ru...