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- A coming-of-age biographical film about the 1970s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways. The relationship between band members Cherie Currie and Joan Jett is also explored.
- Thomas and Bea are now married and living with Peter and his rabbit family. Bored of life in the garden, Peter goes to the big city, where he meets shady characters and ends up creating chaos for the whole family.
- A runaway girl hitch-hikes west to the coast of southern California, where she meets different people, many wanting to sleep with her, including a lesbian prostitute and the older man initially giving her a ride to Venice Beach.
- The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.
- Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty are brought up together in the East End. As the daughter of a prostitute, Madge, Cathy's life is difficult, especially when everyone assumes that she will be following in her mother's footsteps.
- In a Dixie small-town, the late Sheriff was quite content to preside over a truly segregated community. There the rich brothers, Harlan and Mason Davis, are lords. His successor, World War II veteran Frank Richards, has a more modern view on justice and equality, which doesn't help his social acceptance anywhere. He also has doubts about the mysterious masked 'peg-leg' to whom all murders where ascribed. Harlan is shot after an African-American boy threatens him with a gun to stop his old-fashioned 'liberalities'. Frank and the prosecutor's retired dad, agree to act as defense council, investigate, cued by the boy's Caucasian playmate, Luke Winter, and turn both case and town around.
- Psychologist David McKay tracks down runaways from bad or broken homes and tries to help them rebuild their lives. He's helped by his girlfriend Karen Wingate, and by Mark Johnson and Susan Donovan, two former runaways he found and adopted.
- Two young women escape from an insane asylum and are taken in by a travelling erotic dance troupe. When the travelling show is raided by the police they are out on the lamb again.
- The loosely intertwined stories of three separate teenage runaways who concurrently end up in the counter-culture Old Town of Chicago is presented, each, generally good from what would be considered a financially comfortable environment, who ran away for a different reason, but each who is ill prepared for life starting from scratch on his or her own. Deanie Donford is escaping from the control wielded by her shrewish, holier-than-thou mother who believes every action Deanie does is an invitation for sex. Dewey Norson is being threatened by a girl he does not love regarding her pregnancy - he who may or may not be the father - something he felt he could not tell his parents despite having a good relationship with them. And Shelly Allen feels like her widowed advertising executive father, Raymond Marquis Allen, is more interested in her as a test case for his work than as a daughter who he truly loves and understands. The three end up in different situations in the Old Town, some supportive, some less so, and some which outwardly are so but mask a hidden nefarious agenda in preying on the vulnerability of runaways who are looking for that support just to get by.
- After their home life is turned upside down, three children and the family's donkeys escape across the backbone of Northern England, confronting both the harsh landscapes and what it means to be siblings.
- Set in modern-day Scotland, an unhappy teen, Mathilda, decides to leave her troubled home. But this is the last time that she will ever consider running away. Without a penny to her name and only a backpack for company, she hitchhikes her way to the remote Highlands. As the day draws to a close, she finds an uninhabited cottage to call home for the night. But loneliness starts to creep in. Maybe home wasn't that bad after all? No. She can't go back. But she longs for some company. After a couple of snips and scrawls with a pen, she crafts a friend out of an old fishing net and an empty cereal box. Joy at last. Until she is awoken in the night by a cold, dark stare...
- A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.
- After heavy fog prevents all aircraft from leaving London airport, a group of passengers take an airline bus to get them to an alternative airport. However, one amongst their number is the mastermind behind a bullion robbery at the airport... and particularly keen to escape the fog.
- A boy escapes from the reformatory and hides in a young girl's house.
- A sleuth has to figure out who is threatening an heiress while she's aboard a train.
- On the run from murderers, two men disguise themselves as women and join an all girl band.
- The Rainbow Celebration is almost near as everyone in Ponyville prepares and awaits the first rainbow of the season. Meanwhile at the magical city of Unicornia, Cheerilee is teaching a young unicorn pony named Rarity about being a Rainbow Princess and her duties to make the First Rainbow of the Season using the magic wand. Rarity is still young and she accidentally uses the wand, which in turn teleports her into the middle of Breezie Blossom. Cheerilee, Brights Brightly and Whistle Wishes venture outside Unicornia in search of her. Rarity befriends the Breezies and they visit Ponyville and later Rarity feels homesick. Pinkie Pie, Minty, Rainbow Dash, Spike and the Breezies help her get home, just in time for the first rainbow of the season.
- Three bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot.
- The Runaway Bunny brings the illustrations of Clement Hurd and the poetry of Margaret Wise Brown to animated life for the first time. Featuring a restless little bunny who dreams of leaving home, the film is an exploration of love and childhood. Woven throughout the story are songs that accompany the bunny on his imaginary, magical adventures into the world and back home to the comfort of his mother's love.
- A movie actress, mistakenly thinking she has killed a fellow actor, goes on the run and finds herself taken in by a Kentucky mountain family.
- A young socialite and a rich playboy elope to Atlantic City. However, she soon realizes he's not the man she wants him to be and tries to call off the wedding. A jewelry store robbery, murder and other mayhem are soon involved.
- A prince in disguise saves a runaway princess from becoming a forger's dupe.
- The Runaways performs in the music video "Cherry Bomb" from the album "The Runaways" recorded for Mercury Records . The music video features the band performing on a darkened stage under colored lights against a black background. Cherie Currie wears white lingerie and sings while the band plays around her.
- A teenager runs away from a foster home after being accused of stealing a bicycle. During a storm a leopard escapes from a wildlife park. The boy and the leopard shelter on a farm, and the boy is able to treat the animal for shotgun wounds. When the farmer returns from holiday, the boy gets a job at a local kennels, while the leopard escapes to a nearby army firing range where it is in great danger.
- After thirty years in hiding a notorious Outlaw is discovered by his long time bounty hunters, before his execution he recounts his experiences with crime, loss and love.
- The story of a man seeking political asylum in France.
- Two friends go AWOL in Italy, World War II. One battles PTSD while the other double-crosses his way into a local crime syndicate.
- A series of live performances, award-winning hit songs and interviews chronicle the life and legacy of one of rock-n-roll's most unrecognized legends, Del Shannon, showing the strong impact, influence and far-reaching effects he's had on the music industry - even years after his untimely death.
- The story of a man who dared to love beyond all limits. Faith jumps into action in this tale set in turn of the century Japan.
- In this farcical comedy, the scheming Behrouz hatches a plan to marry the wealthy Sima in order to become rich. Little does he know, however, that Sima's father has gotten wind of his dastardly motives, and enlists the help of a friend. A lesson in morality, this well-shot film combines the hilarious with bittersweet drama.
- A young Mexican boy runs away from an orphanage in California to search for his father in Mexico. On the way he takes a greyhound pup from a kennel in which he spent the night, and meets up with a priest who decides to help the boy find his father.
- Jodie Whittaker voices an animated version of the Thirteenth Doctor, who recruits the viewer as her unlikely assistant in a race against time to return a strange and potentially dangerous creature called Volta to his home planet.
- Jane meets the elusive Louis for the first time at a party in Paris. Their complex romance will provoke an artistic avalanche within Jane, and lead her to accept an invitation to the south of France where she hopes to see him again.
- Paulina Thorpe finds herself trapped between her past and her present when authorities question her about her criminal friend on the run.
- The Princess Priscilla of Rurilia was a refined and dainty young woman, and had never worried about love or sweethearts. It came as a shock to her when her uncle, who presided over the small country, announced that she was to marry Prince Wilhelm of Ogram, one of their neighbors. Perhaps the princess might have acquiesced had it not been that she took a great dislike to Prince Wilhelm, a man of bad habits and n terrible reputation. Anyway, the princess told her uncle she would never marry the prince, and the king retorted in a way purely regal; he ordered his niece to remain a close prisoner in her rooms until she was prepared to obey his commands. It never struck the king that the princess would run away, but that was precisely what she did. So, aided by her faithful nurse, they arrived in America in course of time, and as they had money and jewels, the problem of high cost of living did not bother them at first. At last their money did run out, and the old nurse, becoming sick, had to be removed to a hospital. The doctor who attended her was a kindly old man, and he secured the princess a job as maid in the home of a wealthy family, never suspecting that she was of royal blood. The real man arrived in the shape of the wealthy brother of the mistress. He fell violently in lore with the maid and proposed to marry her, but at first she coyly refused him. Womanlike, she wanted to appear her best on such an occasion, and her chance came. The minister from Ruralia called upon the mistress of the princess, and to his surprise met one of his royal house in servant's garb. The princess induced him to keep her secret, and also to get an invitation for her to the ball, which was to be given at the house. There the princess appeared in all her splendor. The diplomat accompanying her expected that she would announce her intention of returning to her home; to his surprise, however, she took this occasion to accept her lover, remarking that she preferred an honest man's love to a throne.
- Nineteen brides, scattered over four continents, run off on their wedding day. Reality and fiction merge when random people from different cultures contemplate why the brides run away.
- A laundry man parks his horse-drawn cart to make a delivery. While he is inside, his horse sees a bag of oats and starts to eat them. By the time the man comes back outside, the horse has eaten a whole bag of oats, and has so much energy that he begins to race out of control.
- A moralistic modern-day fable in which a deceptive young trickster gets his just deserts.
- It tells the extraordinary life story of Kazimierz Piechowski, former Auschwitz prisoner no. 918, who organized one of the most amazing escapes from the camp.
- Billy, a station hand, and Ruth, a telegraph operator, are sweethearts. Ruth, however, declines to marry the boy because of his small salary. Rand, a freight conductor, is also in love with Ruth. Billy secures a transfer and becomes a brakeman. He is assigned to Rand's train. The freight conductor shows his dislike for the boy. During one of the runs. Rand and Billy engage in a fist fight and the conductor is badly beaten. He vows to get even. Two tramps steal aboard the train. Rand hires them to attack Billy. The latter puts up a smashing fight and is only beaten when one of the tramps hits him with a blackjack. Billy fails dazed and is thrown from the train into a river. The water revives the boy and he swims to shore. He flags a train and is taken back to the station in a serious condition. Later, Billy's mother persuades him to give up his perilous position. Ruth, believing his resignation due to cowardice, breaks their engagement. Rand brands the boy as a quitter. The conductor receives orders sidetracking his train until the Fast Mail passes. Further up the line, a car breaks loose from a freight and dashes down the hill. Ruth is ordered to stop the Fast Mail, but the warning comes too late. She pleads with Rand to halt the runaway, but the man declines, saying he can do nothing. Billy overhears the conversation. Dashing over to Rand's side-tracked freight, he climbs to the roof of a ear. The runaway approaches and Billy leaps aboard it as it flashes by. Crawling to the brakes, the boy claps them on. The runaway car stops just in time to avoid a terrible collision with the Fast Mail. His heroic conduct brings promotion to Billy and with it Ruth's consent to be his wife.
- Redding Police investigated the disappearance of Sherri Papini, a mother of two, and soon after her reappearance it turns out there is much more to the story.
- Alice Avery, the orphaned daughter of an actress, is raised to adulthood in a small town by her strict Aunt Jane and Uncle Ezra. When artist Richard Danforth comes to town to rest, Alice falls in love with him. When he leaves, he promises that if Alice comes to New York he will care for her, so Alice decides to follow him there over the objections of her aunt and uncle, who want her to marry a local boy. In New York, Richard is surprised by her appearance and sends for Sarah, Alice's childhood guardian, to look after her. Nancy Arnold, one of Richard's models, is in love with him and jealous of Alice, and Alice is jealous of her. When Alice interrupts a quarrel between Richard and Nancy over her, she decides to run away and get a job on the stage. She becomes a famous actress and eventually is found by Richard, who realizes that he is in love with her. She then gives up the stage to become his wife.
- Little Freddie is the son of Bank Clerk Jackson; his only playmate is Bunkie, a simple-minded old man who lives across the road. Jackson returns from work one evening to find the pair engaged in a friendly scuffle. He takes the boy into the house and orders the eccentric old man to go home. That night Freddie decides to run away. He crawls over the back porch, goes to Bunkie's window, and induces him to join him. It is a dark night and they lose their way in the woods. During the night a band of desperadoes visits the bank in which Jackson is employed and escape with several packages of valuables. They cross the pathway of the two runaways, whose identity they do not detect, and believing that they're being pursued, they hide the money in a cave. Through a peculiar chain of circumstances, the next morning Jackson is accused of the robbery and is placed in jail. Meanwhile Bunkie and Freddie find a resting place in the cave and discover the package of valuables. While they inspect their newfound wealth, the sheriff comes along, discovers them, and escorts them back to the bank, where explanations follow and Jackson is liberated.
- Set in San Francisco at the end of the depression, "The Runaway", is a fable about a homeless man named Henry Blossom who is unexpectedly befriended by a nine-year old runaway girl named Lillie Whitaker. A partnership forms and a friendship blossoms, as the two become a successful street-performing duo. Meanwhile, both the police and Lillie's rich and powerful father J.W. Whitaker and socialite mother, search for their abducted daughter.
- A whimsical and fantastical adventure about an old maintenance man fighting to protect what he cares most about in this world; his one true love, Grace... who incidentally is also a 7 foot tall furnace.
- A behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of the 2005 film RUNAWAY, shot by various crew members throughout the course of the shoot.
- A man is confronted by the six-year old son he didn't know he had.