Runaway
Genres
Overview
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 oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, until he reaches there.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
124 min
Release Date
1958-06-24
Status
Released
Original Language
Bengali
Vote Count
3
Vote Average
6.3
Param Bhattaraka Lahiri
Kanchan
Kali Bannerjee
Haridas
Padmadevi
Mother
Keshto Mukherjee
Ishu Bhelkiwala
Satindra Bhattacharya
Mini's father
Niti Pandit
Mini's mother
Gyanesh Mukhopadhyay
Father
Nripati Chatterjee
Feriwala
Jahar Roy
Non-Bengali man
Shriman Deepak
Bechu Singha
Nani Ganguly
Jayanto Chattopadhyay
6.3
Calcutta
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
1946-12-20 | en
0.0
The Circus Kid
In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.
1928-10-07 | en
0.0
Reckless Age
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 of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
1944-08-01 | en
7.5
Devdas
In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.
2002-07-11 | hi
7.3
Mia and the White Lion
A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
2018-08-02 | fr
7.6
Charulata
In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.
1964-04-17 | bn
7.6
The Stranger
A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
1991-05-07 | bn
7.2
The Adversary
Siddhartho Chowdhury, a brilliant young medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his father's sudden demise. He is forced to navigate the high unemployment rate and the communist socio-political climate of 1960s Calcutta in search of a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.
1970-10-27 | bn
6.0
Turnaround
A 12-year-old girl goes on a car ride with a man she met online to prove she is not a child anymore.
2015-11-01 | fi
6.9
The Search
In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.
1948-03-26 | en
6.1
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
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 chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games when the evil candy vendor, Harry Tupper, convinces Toby that his Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel don't love him or want him back. Toby resigns himself to circus life, but when he finally realizes that Tupper lied to him, and that his aunt and uncle truly love him, Toby happily returns home once again.
1960-01-21 | en
8.1
Apur Sansar
Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.
1959-05-01 | bn
7.9
Aparajito
Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother.
1956-10-11 | bn
5.0
The Places of a Fugue
Directed by French author Geroges Perec, Les Lieux d'une fugue is an autobiographical account of the writer's experience of running away from his aunt's house at age 11. As much a meditation on the streets of Paris as it is personal narrative, Les Lieux d'une fugue examines how Perec's verbal games play out alongside a movie camera.
1978-07-06 | fr
7.0
The Unloved
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 her struggle to cope with the system; her only saving being her self-belief and certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit.
2009-05-17 | en
4.0
OMG
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 over her texting habits, Kaylee runs away to her understanding grandma’s house. All is going well until Kaylee’s cell phone battery runs out.
2012-06-01 | en
6.6
City of Joy
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
1992-04-15 | en
6.8
Company Limited
The chronicles of Shyamalendu Chatterjee, an ambitious and self-made young man, as he rises his way up the corporate ladder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2001.
1971-09-24 | bn
7.3
The Cloud-Capped Star
A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
1960-04-13 | bn
0.0
Biye Not Out
Rina and Nikhil have been married for eight years and feel that their marriage has become lifeless. Their situation worsens after their former lovers enter their lives.
2014-02-21 | bn