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1) Allure
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Laura (Evan Rachel Wood, *Westworld*) works as a house cleaner for her father's company but her personal life is not so pristine. Rough around the edges, looking for love in all the wrong places, her heartbreaking behavior points to hardships of the past. One day on the job, in yet another house, Laura meets Eva (Julia Sarah Stone), a quiet teenager unhappy with her disciplined life. In Eva, Laura rediscovers an innocent tenderness. In Laura, Eva...
2) Little birds
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles. But in the big city, Lily and Alison quickly fall into the boys' world of scams and petty crime. Lily is determined to stay and make it work, while Alison is overwhelmed and eager to return home. When an idea is hatched to use Lily as bait for men with money to steal, things quickly escalate to a life-changing moment....
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Stranded on an island in a post-apocalyptic world, teenager Dinky and her friends hatch a dangerous plan to escape in the hope of finding a better life. Meanwhile, her old friend Birdboy has shut himself off from the world, pursued by the police and haunted by demon tormentors. But unbeknownst to anyone, he contains a secret inside him that could change the world forever. Based on his own graphic novel, a darkly comic, mind-bending fantasy.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
James is pretty sure he's a psychopath, emotionally detached, cold and disdainful, and he's decided he's ready to graduate from killing animals. He thinks it might be interesting to kill something bigger, a human, and he's got the perfect person in mind. Alyssa is new in school and upon seeing James she thinks she may have found a soulmate.
5) The way back
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1941 three men walked out of the Himalayas into India. They has survived a 4,000 mile walk to freedom. While there is disagreement on whether or not this is a true story, this film is a textbook example of the "man vs. Nature-red-in-tooth-and-claw" survival film. Janusz, a Polish prisoner of war, is forced to sign a false confession and shipped off to Siberia to rot in the most brutal prison system in the world--the Gulag. In prison, he meets a...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Boris Yellnikoff is a lifelong New York resident who attempts to impress his ideologies of religion, relationships, and the randomness of existence onto anyone who will listen. But when he begrudgingly allows Melodie St. Ann Celestine, a naïve Mississippi runaway, to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl's worldly views to match his own. When it comes...
Series
Criterion collection volume 929
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Follows the trials and tribulations of Dawn Davenport. Her life is ruined when her parents refuse to get her a pair of 'Cha-Cha heels' for Christmas. This is the original, uncut, full-length version of the film.
8) Orphan horse
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A young runaway bonds with an orphaned horse and is offered shelter by the farmer in exchange for her help with the troubled horse.
9) Mad love
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
"A wild and sexy story of two passionate young people who take to the road for the incredible adventure of their lives! Straitlaced Matt is immediately captivated by Casey, the beautiful and unpredictably rebellious new girl in town who refuses to play by the rules! But when they're faced with permanent separation, they decide to leave everything behind and run away together ... and run head-on into the kind of passion, fun and excitement you won't...
10) Mercury plains
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A troubled young man runs away to Mexico, where he is recruited to join a paramilitary group of teens fighting the drug cartels. Isolated in the desert, he proves himself by becoming The Captain's top soldier, but questions the group's true purpose. As the Mexican police close in, he realizes that his only way out is to escape back to America, but first he must outwit The Captain.
11) Psych-out
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
During the height of the 60's counterculture revolution, a deaf runaway arrives in the Haight-Asbury district of San Francisco in search of her brother.
12) Tenderness
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Lori Cranston is a confused fifteen-year-old dreamer in search of an escape from her troubled home life. She discovers and becomes enthralled with Eric, a young man with a violent past. As they embark on a harrowing journey, a hardened local cop, who has been following Eric for years, is intent on exposing him as a serial killer before Lori's fate is determined.
13) Female trouble
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Original uncut full-length version.
Language
English
Description
"[M]ean teen Dawn Davenport [Divine] ... turns to a life of crime when her parents fail to give her the cha-cha heels she wants for Christmas. With her illegitimate daughter [Mink Stole] and delinquent girlfriends beside her, she becomes a bizarre canvas for the fascist Lipstick Beauty Salon owners [David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce]. A media star obsessed with the idea that 'crime is beauty, ' her story comes to a shocking conclusion!"--Container....
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
(Forget Paris) An NBA referee and an airline rep think they've found happiness together, until they meet each other's family and friends.
(Father's day) A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
(My giant) Billy Crystal plays a Hollywood agent who stumbles upon Max, a giant living in Romania, and tries to get him into the movies.
15) The runaway
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Set in seedy East London and the sleazy streets of London's Soho, The Runaway is a period thriller of crime and corruption that follows the turbulent lives of two star-crossed childhood sweethearts. Written by Martina Cole and stars Alan Cumming.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1080
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 1983, director Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall set out to tell the stories of homeless and runaway teenagers living on the margins in Seattle. Streetwise follows an unforgettable group of kids who survive by hustling, panhandling, and dumpster diving. Its most haunting and enduring figure is iron-willed fourteen-year-old Erin Blackwell, a.k.a. Tiny; the project's follow-up, Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1079/1080
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 1983, director Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall set out to tell the stories of homeless and runaway teenagers living on the margins in Seattle. Streetwise follows an unforgettable group of kids who survive by hustling, panhandling, and dumpster diving. Its most haunting and enduring figure is iron-willed fourteen-year-old Erin Blackwell, a.k.a. Tiny; the project's follow-up, Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell,...
19) The way back
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs to...
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