Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Road Movie: 107 Films to Rent on DVD
- Vagabond (1985)
- Dir. Agnes Varda
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire
- Award–winning drama that artfully presents poetic moments from young vagabond Sandrine Bonnaire’s last month alive, listlessly drifting…
- Paris, Texas (1984)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski
- The German director takes his enigmatic, dilatory style Stateside for this intoxicating work about a mysterious mute loner in search of his missing…
- Stranger than Paradise (1984)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. John Lurie
- Jarmusch's breakthrough and best film is the shaggy dog tale of three deadbeats, a slavic grandmother and one endless trip to Florida. The style is…
- Freedom (1982)
- Dir. Scott Hicks
Feat. Jon Blake, Mare Winningham, Jad Capelja…
- Low–budget Aussie coming–of–age drama centred on a rebellious teen who runs away from home to join a travelling carnival, only to…
- Backroads (1977)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Bill Hunter
- This short road–movie was a moody debut for dir. Noyce, laying out the tale of two drifters (one black, one white) who steal a car for an…
- Kings of the Road (1976)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Rudiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer
- Two men embark on an odyssey of discovery along Germany's East/West border. A thoughtful, illuminating road movie that will ultimately reward…
- Passenger, The (1975)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider
- Jack Nicholson stars in this slow but absorbing parable about a dissatisfied TV journalist on location in Africa, who exchanges his identity with a…
- Wrong Move (1975)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Rudiger Vogler, Nastassja Kinski
- A young writer works through his artistic angst and laments the decline of German society in Wenders disquieting road movie. Downbeat, but compelling…
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Harvey Keitel…
- Resonant account of a young widow trying to secure self–assurance and financial stability for herself and her pre–teen son. Scorsese's…
- Alice in the Cities (1974)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Rudiger Vogler, Yella Rottlander, Lisa Kreuzer
- A German journalist's homeward trek is diverted through various cities when he helps a young companion re–locate her family. Wenders'…