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EO (2022): Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski; Veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski returns with this Cannes Jury Prize–winner — a unique, visually expressive and sometimes bleak…
Antoinette in the Cevennes (2020): Dir. Caroline Vignal
Feat. Laure Calamy, Benjamin Lavernhe, Olivia Cote…; A warm hearted French comedy from writer director Caroline Vignal, starring Laure Calamy as a school teacher on a journey of self–discovery in…
Man in the Hat, The (2020): Dir. Stephen Warbeck, John-Paul Davidson
Feat. Ciaran Hinds, Stephen Dillane, Maïwenn …; Road–trip comedy–musical about a man who sets off from Marseilles in a small Fiat 500, with five angry men in a Citroën Dyane…
Trip to Greece, The (2020): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Michael Towns…; The fourth and final gastronomic expedition of British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, who play fictionalised version of themselves retracing…
Come As You Are (2019): Dir. Richard Wong
Feat. Grant Rosenmeyer, Hayden Szeto, Ravi Patel…; A remake of the acclaimed Belgian film 'Hasta La Vista', this endearing and often funny bro comedy follows three young men with disabilities who hit…
King, The (2017): Dir. Eugene Jarecki; Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki travels in a 1963 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud once owned by Elvis Presley and along his state–wide journey amasses a…
Kodachrome (2017): Dir. Mark Raso
Feat. Ed Harris, Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen; Heartfelt father–son road trip drama shot entirely on Kodak motion picture film. Jason Sudeikis plays a son who takes his father and his…
Pop Aye (2017): Dir. Kirsten Tan
Feat. Thaneth Warakulnukroh; Quietly uplifting road trip dramedy following a disillusioned Bangkok architect who embarks on a trek across the idyllic Thai countryside with the…
Romantic Road (2017): Dir. Oliver McGarvey; Leading London lawyer and his wife re–define later life by motoring across rural India in their battered 1936 Rolls Royce, to get to a human…
Trip to Spain, The (2017): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon; Spoiled–rotten comedians Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan return for the third round of gastronomic tourism and improvised comedy – a tango…
American Honey (2016): Dir. Andrea Arnold
Feat. Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough…; Esteemed British director Andrea Arnold changes pace in her American debut, taking a cast of mostly non–actors through a poetically…
Burn Burn Burn (2016): Dir. Chanya Button
Feat. Laura Carmichael, Hannah Arterton, Joe Dempsie…; Agreeable British dramedy with two woman hitting the road to scatter their friends ashes in four different locations.
David Brent: Life on the Road (2016): Dir. Ricky Gervais
Feat. Ricky Gervais, Ben Bailey Smith, Andy Burrows…; Ricky Gervais returns to his most beloved creation as David Brent takes his musical 'talents' on the road, on an increasingly disaster–filled…
Dear Eleanor (2016): Dir. Kevin Connolly
Feat. Isabelle Fuhrman, Liana Liberato, Jessica Alba…; Family–friendly drama follows two teenage girls who travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of…
Dirty Grandpa (2016): Dir. Dan Mazer
Feat. Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Zoey Deutch…; Robert De Niro sullies himself in this crass comedy as the dirty Grandpa of the title traveling cross–country with his uptight grandson.
Saint Amour (2016): Dir. Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde, Gerard Depardieu; Warm–hearted road movie following a disheartened cattle breeder who embarks on a wine trail through France with his father (Depardieu) and a…
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015): Dir. Walt Becker
Feat. Jason Lee, Justin Long, Jesse McCartney…; More squeaky inanities as Alvin and the gang head cross–country to prevent Dave getting married.
Last Cab to Darwin (2015): Dir. Jeremy Sims
Feat. Michael Caton, Jackie Weaver, Emma Hamilton…; A sentimental, fair–dinkum Australian drama that stars Michael Caton (THE CASTLE) as a terminally–ill taxi driver who embarks on a road…
Mississippi Grind (2015): Dir. Anna Boden , Ryan Fleck
Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Ryan Reynolds, Sienna Miller…; Atmospheric road movie about a gambler facing financial ruin and his unlikely friendship with a charismatic young poker player.
Pa Boys, The (2014): Dir. Himiona Grace; A small, nicely formed road movie of following a three–piece Wellington reggae band as they tour the North Island. At its heart a celebration…
Tammy (2014): Dir. Ben Falcone
Feat. Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates…; After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard–drinking grandmother.
Trip to Italy, The (2014): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon; More of the same is not a bad thing when concerning another gastronomic trip with British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. Here, the prickly…
What We Did on Our Holiday (2014): Dir. Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin
Feat. Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Billy Connolly…; Amiable British comedy with Rosamund Pike and David Tennant as a bickering, divorcing couple, who take their kids from London to Scotland, to visit…
Charley Boorman's South African Adventure (TV Series) (2013): Feat. Charley Boorman; Charley Boorman (LONG WAY ROUND) tackles 6,000 miles of South African terrain in this latest solo adventure from the intrepid motorcyclist.
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013): Dir. Sebastián Silva
Feat. Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann; Michael Cera plays a twentysomething space cadet whose drug–influenced summer in Chile takes a turn when he meets an annoying…
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013): Dir. Jeff Tremaine
Feat. Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll; Regular Jackass Johnny Knoxville plays a randy octogenarian (complete with makeup and prosthetics) who bundles up his grandson for a debauched road…
Nebraska (2013): Dir. Alexander Payne
Feat. Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb…; Alexander Payne's latest road movie finds an aging Bruce Dern making the trip to central Nebraska with his estranged son to collect on an elusive…
On My Way (2013): Dir. Emmanuelle Bercot
Feat. Catherine Deneuve; A fine late–life outing for the ageless Catherine Deneuve, here playing a free–spirited grandmother who takes to the road with her…
Prince Avalanche (2013): Dir. David Gordon Green
Feat. Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch; Two highway road workers pass the time in the Texas wilderness in this laconic return–to–form for indie darling David Gordon Green.
Volcano, The (Eyjafjallajökull) (2013): Dir. Alexandre Coffre
Feat. Dany Boon, Valérie Bonneton; When the eruption of an Icelandic volcano diverts their flight plans to Greece, a squabbling ex–couple must hit the road together if they are…
We're the Millers (2013): Dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts…; A small–time pot dealer (Sudeikis) commandeers a fake family and a beat–up RV as a front to smuggle a haul of marijuana across the…
Arthur Newman (2012): Dir. Dante Ariola
Feat. Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Anne Heche…; Two troubled souls trying to leave their pasts behind shack up in this moody American road movie, a fine vehicle for the talents of Colin Firth and…
Guilt Trip, The (2012): Dir. Anne Fletcher
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen, Colin Hanks…; An entrepreneur (Seth Rogen) is guilt–tripped into bringing his neurotic New Jersey mother along for an important cross–country business…
Hit & Run (2012): Dir. David Palmer, Dax Shepard
Feat. Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper…; Comic chase film with Dax Shephard as a former getaway driver trashing his Witness Protection identity in order to get his girlfriend to a dream job…
Jackie (2012): Dir. Antoinette Beumer
Feat. Carice Van Houten, Jelka van Houten, Holly Hunter; Two Dutch sisters (played by real life siblings Carice and van Houten) trek from the Netherlands to mid–west America in aid of a mother they've…
Just Like a Woman (2012): Dir. Rachid Bouchareb
Feat. Sienna Miller, Golshifteh Farahani, Roschdy Zem; Sienna Miller plays a Chicago housewife who joins a North African belly dancer en route to Santa Fe in this light comedy of…
On the Road (2012): Dir. Walter Salles
Feat. Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart…; Handsomely mounted adaptation of Kerouac's counter–culture classic of a young writer whose life is profoundly shaken by the arrival of the…
Two Little Boys (2012): Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Bret McKenzie, Hamish Blake, Maaka Pohatu…; Set in the early 90's, this Kiwi "mullet" comedy follows the arrested development of two 'bogan' mates whose situation and relationship goes…
Welcome Aboard (2012): Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Patrick Chesnais, Jeanne Lambert, Miou-Miou; No stranger to movies about unlikely friendships, dir. Jean Becker balances sentiment with pathos in this finely drawn character study of a…
Cloudburst (2011): Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Ryan Doucette; A longtime lesbian couple hit the road for Canada so they can legally marry in this moving road movie.
Italy: Love It or Leave It (2011): Dir. Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi; This thoroughly engaging road trip throughout picturesque Italy doubles as a serious critique of a nation beset by various social, economic, and…
Las Acacias (2011): Dir. Pablo Giorgelli
Feat. Germán de Silva, Hebe Duarte; An improbable gem of the road movie genre, about the slow–forming relationship between a long–haul truck driver and the woman (and…
Magic Trip (2011): Dir. Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood; Recovering 16mm footage shot during the maiden voyage of the psychedelic 'Magic Bus', this documentary reassembles a visual snapshot of the legendary…
Natural Selection (2011): Dir. Robbie Pickering
Feat. Rachael Harris, Matt O'Leary, John Diehl; A devout Christian locked in a sexless marriage forms an unlikely bond with a troubled man conceived from her husband's sperm donations in this…
Paul (2011): Dir. Greg Mottola
Feat. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen…; The creators of SHAUN OF THE DEAD and HOT FUZZ make a beeline for America's UFO heartland in this comedy about two sci–fi nerds who befriend a…
This Must Be the Place (2011): Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Feat. Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch…; Sean Penn is all affectation as a retired, depressed glam rocker who sets off on an American road trip in search of a Nazi war criminal in this…
Africa United (2010): Dir. Debs Paterson
Feat. Eriya Ndayambaje, Roger Nsengiyumva; An aspiring Rwandan footballer attracts a throng of like–minded soccer fans on a road trip to Johannesburg for the opening ceremony of the 2010…
Due Date (2010): Dir. Todd Phillips
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan…; Raucous road movie with Robert Downey Jnr as a jittery father–to–be forced to catch a ride with the eccentric Galifianakis in order to…
Expecting Mary (2010): Dir. Dan Gordon
Feat. Olesya Rulin, Elliott Gould, Linda Gray…; Good–natured road movie tale with a pregnant teenager heading to California in search of her father, but who she encounters along the way will…
Mad Bastards (2010): Feat. Dean Daley-Jones, Lucas Yeeda, Greg Tait…; Affecting tale of a violent father traveling thousands of miles across barren Australian landscape to see the troubled son he's never met. With a…
My Name is Khan (2010): Dir. Karan Johar
Feat. Shahrukh Khan, Kajol , Christopher B. Duncan; Well–meaning plea for racial tolerance with an Aspergers–afflicted Muslim detained in the U.S. as a terrorist and undertaking a journey…
Trip, The (2010): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon; Comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a jovial restaurant tour of the North of England in this hilarious culinary road trip movie derived…
Vincent Wants to Sea (2010): Dir. Ralf Huettner
Feat. Florian David Fitz, Karoline Herfurth, Heino Ferch…; Likeable though lightweight road comedy in which a Tourette's sufferer escapes from a clinic with two others (an obsessive and an anorexic) and…
Away We Go (2009): Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Catherine O'Hara…; An ersatz hipster road movie that follows a 30–something expectant couple as they travel across America looking for the perfect place to start…
Everybody's Fine (2009): Dir. Kirk Jones
Feat. Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale…; Sincere remake of the Italian drama with De Niro stepping into Marcello Mastroianni's shoes as the widower travelling across country to visit his…
Last Ride (2009): Dir. Glendyn Ivin
Feat. Hugo Weaving, Tom Russell; Hugo Weaving toughens up as a violent, quick–tempered low–life whose desperation and escalating crimes result in him fleeing across South…
Open Road, The (2009): Dir. Michael Meredith
Feat. Justin Timberlake, Jeff Bridges, Ted Danson…; Pleasant road movie finds Justin Timberlake looking inward as an out–of–form minor–leaguer resigned to seeking out his estranged…
Prime Mover (2009): Dir. David Caesar
Feat. Michael Dorman, Emily Barclay, Ben Mendelsohn…; Though far from original, this delightful Aussie road movie springs a few surprises in its sometimes–whimsical fable of truck mechanic whose…
Road, Movie (2009): Dir. Dev Benegal
Feat. Abhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee; A literal road movie inspired by the flickering image, this Indian travelogue follows a ragtag group across the country, whose mode of transport…
S. Darko (Donnie Darko 2) (2009): Dir. Chris Fisher
Feat. Daveigh Chase, Briana Evigan, James Lafferty…; Tricky sequel to DONNIE DARKO with Donnie's sparkle–motion sister Samantha suffering apocalyptic visions and dodging meteorites. Although this…
Sherman's Way (2009): Dir. Craig M. Saavedra
Feat. James LeGros, Enrico Colantoni, Michael Shulman; Whimsical road–trip comedy sees an uptight Yale law student (Shulman) hitching a memorable ride with a washed up ski pro (LeGros).…
Wah Do Dem (What They Do) (2009): Dir. Sam Fleischner, Ben Chace
Feat. Sean Bones, Carl Bradshaw, Norah Jones; A young indie musician suffers solo through a disaster–prone Caribbean holiday in this shaggy road movie with a sweetly comic sensibility.…
Wind Journeys, The (2009): Dir. Ciro Guerra; A Colombian accordion player makes the long trek to return his instrument – believed to be cursed by the devil – to a former mentor, in…
$5 A Day (Five Dollars a Day) (2008): Dir. Nigel Cole
Feat. Christopher Walken, Alessandro Nivola, Sharon Stone…; Lightweight comedy with the conservative son of a thrifty conman begrudgingly joining his father on the road –– after being released from…
By Any Means (TV Series) (2008): Feat. Charley Boorman; Globe–trotting adventurer and Ewan McGregor's best mate – Charley Boorman, from LONG WAY DOWN & LONG WAY ROUND fame, is back with a solo…
Cracking The Colour Code (TV Series) (2008): Dir. Hugh Piper; Stimulating series journeying across six continents to investigate how humans from different cultures and backgrounds view, make and take meaning…
El Camino (2008): Dir. Erik S. Weigel
Feat. Leo Fitzpatrick, Elisabeth Moss, Christopher Denham…; Affecting road–movie with three strangers travelling across America with their friend's ashes.
Fanboys (2008): Dir. Kyle Newman
Feat. Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler…; Goofy comedy focused around a group of friends who hatch a plan to infiltrate the Skywalker Ranch and steal an early copy of STAR WARS: EPISODE 1…
Freebird (2008): Dir. Jon Ivay
Feat. Phil Daniels, Gary Stretch, Geoff Bell; Three Welsh bikers head to the countryside in search of an elusive cannabis farm, only to have their nice weekend turn into a madcap mission through…
Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes (2008): Dir. Peter Rosen; Delightful documentary chronicling a life on the road for American entertainer Garrison Keillor, whose radio show A Prairie Home Companion is a…
Girl's Best Friend (2008): Dir. Peter Svatek
Feat. Janeane Garofalo; Cynic–Queen Garofalo plays a jaded music critic sent on a cross–country journey with an inherited Jack Russell pup in order to work on…
Hush (2008): Dir. Mark Tonderai
Feat. William Ash, Christine Bottomley, Andreas Wisniewski; Highway thriller concerning a yappy young Manchester couple who commit an innocent indiscretion on the road, plunging them into a race for their…
Simone Young - To Hamburg From Downunder (2008): Dir. Ralf Pleger; Perceptive documentary following renowned Australian conductor and Sydney Opera House Director Simone Young on her return journey from Europe to…
Soul Men (2008): Dir. Malcolm D Lee
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, Sean Hayes…; Fitfully amusing musical comedy with Jackson and Mac starring as two estranged soul singers traveling cross–country together to sing at a…
Stephen Fry In America (TV Series) (2008): Feat. Stephen Fry; Over ambitious – yet highly amusing – doco series sees beloved Brit comic Fry travel around all 50 states of the USA in a black cab, in…
Strange Wilderness (2008): Dir. Fred Wolf
Feat. Steve Zahn, Jonah Hill, Justin Long; Unremittingly stupid stoner comedy about a bunch of losers who go on a search to find Bigfoot in order to save their abysmally–rated wildlife…
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008): Dir. Morgan Spurlock
Feat. Morgan Spurlock; With his first baby on the way, SUPER SIZE ME’s Morgan Spurlock decides to go off in search of the world’s most wanted criminal, learning more…
Yellow Handkerchief, The (2008): Dir. Udayan Prasad
Feat. William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart…; Set in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this delicately shaded road movie has two itinerant teens forming an unlikely bond with a man fresh out of…
Blue State (2007): Dir. Marshall Lewy
Feat. Anna Paquin, Breckin Meyer, Nick Ouellette; Politically skewed road movie following an ardent liberal who makes good on a drunken promise to move to Canada if George Bush wins the…
Bucket List, The (2007): Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes; Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman star in this endearing aging–buddy flick about two terminally ill elderly gentlemen who throw caution to the…
Camille (2007): Dir. Gregory Mackenzie
Feat. Sienna Miller, James Franco, David Carradine…; A kooky road movie with a macabre twist, Sienna Miller plays a ditzy Southern sweetheart who believes she can change her new petty–crim husband…
Elvis And Annabelle (2007): Dir. Will Geiger
Feat. Max Minghella, Blake Lively, Joe Mantegna…; Oddball indie romance sees a beauty queen (Lively) die in an accident, only to share an unlikely romance with a young man when she is unexpectedly…
Go-Getter, The (2007): Dir. Martin Hynes
Feat. Lou Taylor Pucci, Zooey Deschanel, Jena Malone; Coming–of–age road trip drama situated around an inquisitive teen (THUMBSUCKER's Pucci) who throws caution to the wind after a painful…
Gone (2007): Dir. Ringan Ledwidge
Feat. Scott Mechlowicz; Ominous, slow–burn Outback thriller follows a British couple, traveling through remote Australia, who give passage a mysterious American along…
Hitcher, The (2007): Dir. Dave Meyers
Feat. Sophia Bush, Sean Bean; Gore–laden remake of the roadtrip from hell, with a brooding Sean Bean subbing for Rutger Hauer as a deranged hitchhiker on the…
In the Hands of the Gods (2007): Dir. Benjamin Turner, Gabe Turner; Uplifting documentary following five soccer fanatics who take up street busking in order to travel to Buenos Aires and meet their hero Diego…
Into the Wild (2007): Dir. Sean Penn
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt…; With his trademark earnestness, Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer's nonfiction book about a 22–year–old who dropped out of society in the…
Long Way Down (TV Series) (2007): Feat. Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman; The movie star (Ewan McGregor) and best mate (Charley Boorman) return for round two of their play–it–by–ear motorcycle detour, this…
Moving Mcallister (2007): Dir. Andrew Black
Feat. Mila Kunis, Jon Heder, Rutger Hauer…; By–numbers road trip comedy in which a squeaky–clean law firm intern drives his boss's niece (THAT 70S SHOW's Kunis) cross–country,…
My Blueberry Nights (2007): Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Feat. Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn…; Urban romantic Wong Kar–wai transposes the style and erstwhile longing of his Hong Kong mood pieces to the United States, with songbird Norah…
Robbie Coltrane's Incredible Britain (TV Series) (2007-2008): Feat. Robbie Coltrane; Cherished British actor Robbie Coltrane takes a journey through the back–blocks of Britain in his Jag roadster to uncover the weird and…
Senator Obama Goes to Africa (2007): Dir. Bob Hercules; Succinct documentary following Barak Obama's emotional journey with his family to Africa in 2006 in the wake of becoming the newly elected U.S.…
Wild Hogs (2007): Dir. Walt Becker
Feat. John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence…; Manchild comedy of four discontent male suburbanites who take to the road on Harleys in search of America and themselves. No…
10 Items Or Less (2006): Dir. Brad Silberling
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Paz Vega, Jonah Hill; Sugary character drama concerning a chance encounter between a mature actor and a jaded checkout chick that seriously impacts on both their lives.…
Bonneville (2006): Dir. Christopher Rowley
Feat. Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen…; Endearing road dramedy featuring a trio of Mormon friends that set out for Santa Barbara in a vintage 66' Bonneville Convertible to deliver the ashes…
Borat (Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan) (2006): Dir. Larry Charles
Feat. Sacha Baron Cohen; A savage, often side–splitting, satire from balls–of–steel British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who moves a minor character from his…
Figure 8000 (2006): Dir. Lindon Puffin; Former glam rock front man of The Puffins, Lindon Puffin, takes to the road as an under–resourced solo act, touring with a single roadie in a…
Kiss Me Baby (Baciami Piccina) (2006): Dir. Roberto Cimapnelli
Feat. Neri Marcore, Vincenzo Salemme, Elena Russo; Elegant blend of love–story, witty road movie and historical drama tells the story of a couple on their honeymoon at the most unlikely of times…
Last Stop For Paul (2006): Dir. Neil Mandt
Feat. Neil Mandt, Marc Carter; Global road–movie–on–a–shoestring follows two friends as they travel to more than 20 countries to scatter their friend's…
Little Miss Sunshine (2006): Dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Feat. Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette…; The little film that could, this endearing, whole–hearted indie underdog shunts a screwball family on an eventful roadtrip across America, lead…
Old Joy (2006): Dir. Kelly Reichardt
Feat. Will Oldham, Daniel London; Downbeat naturalism is the tramping ground for this meditative, softly spoken indie of two distanced friends who reunite for a weekend camping trip…
RV (Runaway Vacation) (2006): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Robin Williams, Jeff Daniels, Cherly Hines…; Amusing recyled family–disaster comedy with Robin Williams behind the wheel of a lumbering bus–wagon (or 'RV') and determined to make his…
TranSylvania (2006): Dir. Tony Gatlif
Feat. Asia Argento, Birol Unel, Amira Casar; Tony Gatlif tones his freewheeling musical romanticism down a notch, but doesn’t discard the ramshackle sensuality of his earlier films, in this…
Are We There Yet? (2005): Dir. Brian Levant
Feat. Ice-Cube, Nia Long, Jay Mohr; Broad, but essentially successful comedy has a determined Ice–Cube proving to his girlfriend that he is 'child friendly' by transporting her…
Broken Flowers (2005): Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Bill Murray, Julie Delpy, Frances Conroy…; A beguiling middle–age lament starring Bill Murray, unfurled in typical low gear by the world's 'coolest' director, Jim Jarmusch. Playing an…
Everything is Illuminated (2005): Dir. Liev Schreiber
Feat. Elijah Wood; An ambitious debut for dir. Schreiber, telling the deadpan, yet wistful tale of an earnest NYC Jew (Wood) who travels to the Ukraine to find the…
Puffy Chair, The (2005): Dir. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Feat. Mark Duplass, Katie Aselton, Rhett Wilkins; A failed musician hits the road with his girlfriend to collect the "puffy chair" they've bought on E–Bay in this indie gem that keenly…
Route 66 Marathon Tour - Chicago to LA (2005): America's hallowed Route 66 is traversed from east to west in this epic 2500 mile roadtrip. A nostalgic and lively journey through the small towns,…
Transamerica (2005): Dir. Duncan Tucker
Feat. Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers; Gender–bender road drama with a winning central performance by 'Desperate Housewife' Felicity Huffman as a transsexual about to take the final…
Bombon (El Perro) (2004): Dir. Carlos Sorin
Feat. Juan Villegas; A middle–aged man (Villegas), struggling to maintain his meager lifestyle working as a mechanic in remote Patagonia, and selling knives on the…
Bondi Tsunami (2004): Dir. Rachael Lucas
Feat. Keita Abe, Taki Abe, Nobuhisa Ikeda…; A surfee, road–movie oddity in which two Japanese surfers travel the breaks and landmarks of Australia, in a beer–fueled dope…
Coast to Coast (2004): Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Judy Davis, Selma Blair…; Audience faves Judy Davis and Richard Dreyfuss play a married couple on the verge of divorce who take a road trip together in this witty but…
Elvis Has Left the Building (2004): Dir. Joel Zwick
Feat. John Corbett, Kim Basinger, Denise Richards…; A goofy roadtrip from the dir. of MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, in which a depressed advertising executive (Corbett) hooks up with a cosmetics saleswoman…
Eurotrip (2004): Dir. Jeff Schaffer
Feat. Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg…; The makers of ROADTRIP detour into the (moderately) 'bad taste' potential of a European holiday, as an American student attempts to track down a…
Exils (Exiles) (2004): Dir. Tony Gatlif
Feat. Romain Duris; Possibly dir. Gatlif's most exuberant and personal film yet, this observes a bohemian French couple's journey southwards to their family's respective…
Land of Plenty (2004): Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Michelle Williams, John Diehl; There's good intentions aplenty in dir. Wenders latest dramatic meditation on the state of post–9/11 America, set mainly around the…
Long Way Round (TV Series) (2004): Feat. Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman; An engrossing 'reality' show which tags along with actor Ewan McGregor (TRAINSPOTTING) and his best friend Charley Boorman on an improvised…
Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (2004): Dir. Walter Salles
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mercedes Morán; Sumptuously filmed two–wheeled road trip across 1950s South America with the youthful, asthmatic Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Bernal), and friend…
Sideways (2004): Dir. Alexander Payne
Feat. Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen…; Reserve quality odd–couple comedy–drama from the consistent talent behind ELECTION and ABOUT SCHMIDT, about two middle–aged friends…
Behaviours of the Backpacker (2003): Dir. Sandor Lau; Chinese/Hungarian–American film student, Sándor Lau, walked 500km alone from Auckland to Cape Reinga – New Zealand's geographic and…
Brown Bunny, The (2003): Dir. Vincent Gallo
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Chloe Sevigny; Notoriously egocentric gem from Vincent Gallo, who stars, directs, writes, shoots, edits and produces an intriguingly desultry road–trip across…
Go Further (2003): Dir. Ron Mann
Feat. Woody Harrelson; A quirky, semi–stoned travelogue that gets on the bus with activist–actor Woody Harrelson and his entourage on a 'consciousness raising'…
Koktebel (2003): Dir. Boris Khlebnikov, Alexei Popogrebsky
Feat. Gleb Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich; A delicately imagined journey through the Ukrainian countryside in the company of a widower and his 11–year old son, who set off on foot from…
Travellers and Magicians (2003): Dir. Khyentse Norbu
Feat. Tsewang Dandup, Sonam Lhamo; A puckishly effective road movie from the Himilayan kingdom of Bhutan, this follows a young villager who gets the opportunity to travel forth from…
Twentynine Palms (2003): Dir. Bruno Dumont
Feat. Katia Golubeva, David Wissak; Provocative in both form and content, dir. Dumont (L'HUMANITE) crafts an opaque thriller around a dysfunctional couple's 'holiday' in the American…
Historias Minimas (Intimate Stories) (2002): Dir. Carlos Sorin
Feat. Javier Lombardo; Gentle, uneventful road movie drifts between three separate journeys from a remote village in Argentina to San Julian. Softly observed, this quietly…
Monday Morning (Lundi Matin) (2002): Dir. Otar Iosseliani
Feat. Jacques Bidou; A whimsical comic journey for a French factory worker, who uproots from his village and family in search of philosophical and liquid refreshment in…
Rat Race (2002): Dir. Jerry Zucker
Feat. John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Rowan Atkinson…; A contemporary re–race of IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, wealthy John Cleese devising a money–scramble for $2 million among…
Suddenly (2002): Dir. Diego Lerman
Feat. Carla Crespo, Tatiana Saphir, Veronica Hassan; Grimy, punkish road movie morphs that into a rather tender tale with two tough girls from the hood kidnapping a local shop girl and taking her on an…
Arthur's Dyke (2001): Dir. Gerry Poulson
Feat. Pauline Quirke, Dennis Waterman; Typically British comedy concerns three student friends who reunite after several decades to complete a long distance walk across the Welsh…
Beneath Clouds (2001): Dir. Ivan Sen
Feat. Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt; A standout Australian drama of recent festivals, this elevates a slimly plotted road movie concerning two Aborigine teens (one light–skinned,…
Eureka (2001): Dir. Shinji Aoyama
Feat. Aoi Miyazaki, Koji Yakusho; Unforgettably beguiling Japanese road trip movie shot in sepia–toned cinema scope, following the existential odyssey of a group of emotionally…
Four Days (2001): Dir. Curtis Wehrfritz
Feat. Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin Zegers…; This accomplished 'existential thriller', based on 60s crime novel by John Buell, fuses genre conventions with weightier concerns about loneliness…
Interstate 60 (2001): Dir. Bob Gale
Feat. James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Kurt Russell…; An appealingly quirky teen road movie from the writer of the BACK TO THE FUTURE series, in which Marsden sets out on the mythical American highway,…
Roadkill (Joy Ride) (2001): Dir. John Dahl
Feat. Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski; A popcorn thriller that breathes white–knuckle life into road movies well travelled – a practical joke involving CB radios has sinister…
Snakeskin (2001): Dir. Gillian Ashurst
Feat. Melanie Lynskey, Dean O'Gorman, Boyd Kestner…; Searching for a little excitement in those hills due west of Christchurch, NZ, Melanie Lynsky and Dean O’Gorman are sucked into a series of private…
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too!) (2001): Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna; Acclaimed universally (and here in NZ beset with censorship wrangles), this Mexican joyride, taken by two teenage boys and an older woman, is indeed…
Blackboards (2000): Dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
Feat. Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari; Set in politically unstable Kurdistan, this followup to THE APPLE by dir. Makhmalbaf, traces the adventures of a group of teachers searching the…
Committed (2000): Dir. Lisa Krueger
Feat. Heather Graham, Luke Wilson; Wacky road comedy vehicle for Heather Graham, who plays a jilted wife trailing after her estranged hubby (Luke Wilson). Along the byways she meets a…
Himalaya (2000): Dir. Eric Valli
Feat. Thilen Lhondup, Gurgon Kyap, Lhakpa Tsamchoe…; A journey into the life of a remote Nepalese village which relies on an annual pilgrimage to collect salt from the Tibetan side of the Himalayas,…
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson…; The Coen Brothers' return to their best form with what they neatly describe as the Rolls–Royce of 'hayseed' movies (by which they mean a…
Pilot Guides (TV Series) (2000): Travel series inspired by the LONELY PLANET backpacker books and hosted by enthusiastic intrepid travellers as they explore the four corners of the…
Road Trip (2000): Dir. Todd Phillips
Feat. Tom Green; How you take this sophomoric comedy depends on your appreciation of the bizarro hi–jinks of MTV 'personality' Tom Green, or just plain how old…
Straight Story, The (2000): Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Richard Farnsworth; Far from wild at heart, this soft–peddle road movie from the infamous David Lynch is a serene, supremely dignified fable (though based on a…
Crazy in Alabama (1999): Dir. Antonio Banderas
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffiths, Rod Steiger; Antonio Banderas' directorial debut is an amiable film of two halves, split between a dramatic re–telling of the civil rights struggle in 1960s…
Finding Graceland (1999): Dir. David Winkler
Feat. Johnathon Schaech, Harvey Keitel, Bridget Fonda; Heartbroke Johnathon Schaech is speeding away from his ex–wife when he picks up Harvey Keitel, an Elvis impersonator who takes his…
Forces of Nature (1999): Dir. Bronwen Hughes
Feat. Ben Affleck, Sandra Bullock; Cutesy–pie screwball romance with wedding–bound hunk Ben Affleck enduring savage weather and travel catastrophes while saddled with kooky…
Siam Sunset (1999): Dir. John Polson
Feat. Linus Roache, Danielle Cormack; Bright brain candy that puts a surreal, antipodean tilt on road–movie/black comedy familiarities, with dazed Brit Linus Roache suffering an…
Central Station (1998): Dir. Walter Salles
Feat. Fernanda Montenegro; A cantankerous woman who writes letters for the illiterate at Rio De Janeiro's train station obliges to help a 9–year–old boy locate his…
Perdita Durango (1998): Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem; Derivative English language debut from the promising director of Spanish cult faves ACCION MUTANTE and DAY OF THE BEAST. Typical of writer Barry…
Smoke Signals (1998): Dir. Chris Eyre
Feat. Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard; Entirely made and funded by Native American Indians, this is both a fresh, palpably authentic portrait of a minority culture and an engrossing…
American Perfekt (1997): Dir. Paul Chart
Feat. Robert Forster, Amanda Plummer, David Thewlis; The most familiar of premises, an American desert road–trip entangling three motorists with a series of mysterious killings is elevated by an…
Breakdown (1997): Dir. Jonathan Mostow
Feat. Kurt Russell, Kathleen Quinlan, J.T. Walsh; With Kurt Russell driving and Kathleen Quinlan in the passenger seat, buckle up for a tight, lean car–trip thriller that heads out across…
Dream with the Fishes (1997): Dir. Finn Taylor
Feat. David Arquette, Brad Hunt; Its 'indie' Americana revisited – two mismatched loners on the ultra–hip road to oblivion or redemption – whichever comes first. …
I Went Down (1997): Dir. Paddy Breathnach
Feat. Peter McDonald, Antoine Byrne, David Wilmot…; Irish filmmakers lift a few steps from the TRAINSPOTTING lads and the Coen Bros for this deadpan skid into misadventure, amongst a crew of criminal…
Kiss or Kill (1997): Dir. Bill Bennett
Feat. Frances O’Connor, Matt Day; Many critics confounded our suspicions that this was going to be yet another vapid, pretentious, cheap–shot road–movie that exploits the…
Life Less Ordinary, A (1997): Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter; Round three for the creators of SHALLOW GRAVE and TRAINSPOTTING this time takes Ewan McGregor Stateside for a screwball comic–fantasy embroided…
Niagara Niagara (1997): Dir. Bob Gosse
Feat. Robin Tunney, Henry Thomas, Michael Parks…; If you have the stamina to hit the road again with another pair of white–trash, gun–crazy young lovers (who meet while shoplifting), this…
True Love and Chaos (1997): Dir. Stavros Andonis Efthymiou
Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Noah Taylor, Miranda Otto; A half–baked script straight out of the same Melbourne film school that produced LOVE & OTHER CATASTROPHES leaves an Aussie brat–pack…
Western (1997): Dir. Manuel Poirier
Feat. Sergi Lopez, Sacha Bourdo; Soulfully transposing the conventions of the Western to the forlorn landscapes of modern–day Brittany, this road movie owes equal allegiance to…
Freeway (1996): Dir. Matthew Bright
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland; Grim white trash road–movie black comedy made of The Brothers' Grimm's "Little Red Riding Hood" sends young Reese Witherspoon on a lost highway…
Gallivant (1996): Dir. Andrew Kotting; An engrossing ‘gallivant’ around the coastline of Great Britain (and the parameters of experimental documentary) with the filmmaker, his…
Get On the Bus (1996): Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Danny Glover, Will Smith, Wesley Snipes; A highly combustible mixed–bag of black men journey by bus to the Million Man March in Washington DC, a march of affirmation for a troubled…
Guantanamera (1996): Dir. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabio
Feat. Carlos Cruz, Mirta Ibarra, Jorge Perugorria…; A quirky mix of low–speed road movie and romantic comedy following the unsteady progress of a funeral procession across the length of Cuba…
Hardcore Logo (1996): Dir. Bruce McDonald
Feat. Bernie Coulson, John Pyper-Ferguson, Callum Keith Rennie…; This Canadian punk music 'mockumentary' is not just simply another son–of–SPINAL TAP, taking an edgier, bleaker comic look at the…
Normal Life (1996): Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Ashley Judd, Luke Perry, Kate Walsh…; Based on a true story of a by–the–book cop who turns to bank–robbing with a bit of encouragement from his off–the–boil…
To Wong Foo...Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1996): Dir. Beeban Kidron
Feat. Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, John Leguizamo; After PRISCILLA blazed the trail, the Yanks jump on the drag–wagon, with surprisingly likeable results. A Hollywood trip is waylaid in…
Boys On the Side (1995): Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore; Strangers hit the road together and share more in common than they expect. As disparate women–of–the–nineties the three stars keep…
Butterfly Kiss (1995): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Amanda Plummer, Saskia Reeves; The twisted underbelly of the female–buddy movie. Bewitching and bloody road movie that traverses the wastelands (moral and otherwise) of '90s…
Doom Generation, The (1995): Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech; The boundaries of good taste are demolished in this white–trash road movie obsessed with teenage sex and scatology. The joke turns cruel in the…
Dumb and Dumber (1995): Dir. Pete Farrelly, Bob Farrelly
Feat. Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly…; One of Jim Carrey's funniest comic vehicles yet, a road movie of sorts in which two halfwits attempt to return a suitcase full of cash to its…
Kamikaze Taxi (1995): Dir. Masato Harada
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Kazuya Takahashi, Reiko Kataoka; An apprentice gangster fouls up his first major assignment and flees Tokyo in a taxi, the driver of which turns out to be a unlikely confident with a…
Mad Love (1995): Dir. Antonia Bird
Feat. Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore; An apple–pie American boy (Chris O'Donnell) hightails it with free–spirit wild child Drew Barrymore, an ex–hospital patient who is…
Molom (1995): Dir. Marie Jaoul De Poncheville
Feat. Molom Tseded, Yonden Yondejunai; Mystical travelogue of a spiritual nomad/shaman who comes to earth as an eagle, then traverses the breathtaking landscapes of rural Mongolia as the…
Staggered (1995): Dir. Martin Clunes
Feat. Martin Clunes, Griff Rhys-Jones, Michael Praed; As a rather extreme stag party prank, Martin Clunes ('Men Behaving Badly') is left naked on a beach in the wop–wops. His protracted voyage back…
Tommy Boy (1995): Dir. Peter Segal
Feat. Chris Farley, David Spade, Brian Dennehy…; The apex of stout American comic Farley's short career, as a small town saviour struggling to keep to an auto–parts factory open. Padded out…
Cold Fever (1994): Dir. Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Feat. Masatoshi Nagase, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens…; Stylish one–off depicts a Japanese businessman's pilgrimage to Iceland, to where his holidaying parents died. Taking its cues from the…
Love and a 45 (1994): Dir. C.M. Talkington
Feat. Rory Cochrane, Michael Bowen; A Tarantino knock–off in which lovers–on–the–run go wild at heart in a world of eccentric misfits, ultra–violence,…
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert (Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, The) (1994): Dir. Stephan Elliot
Feat. Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce; Three drag queens drive to Alice Springs in a bus called Priscilla. A perfect ensemble cast make this classic "out" in the outback roadtrip as…
Spider and Rose (1994): Dir. Bill Bennett
Feat. Ruth Cracknell, Max Cullen; A light Ozzie road movie about a special friendship between her elderly widow and a rebellious young ambulance driver entrusted to escort her home.…
From the East (1993): Dir. Chantal Akerman
Feat. Natalia Chakhovskaia; Travelogue documentary shot on 16mm which describes the lives of people in Poland, Russia and East Germany before the collapse of the Soviet…
Kalifornia (1993): Dir. Dominic Sena
Feat. Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny…; Crime–movie–on–wheels that rises above its fashionably glossy veneer with a script and performances that progressively whitens the…
Tango (1993): Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Noiret, Richard Bohringer; Left by his wife, Thierry Lhermitte hits the road to track her down with the help of his misogynist uncle, Phillippe Noiret. Hitman Richard Bohringer…
Absent Without Leave (1992): Dir. John Laing
Feat. Craig McLauchlan; Craig McLauchlan from Neighbours stars as a love–struck newly–wed on the run from the army during WW2. Slight nostalgia with lots of…
Ip5 (1992): Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix
Feat. Yves Montand, Olivier Martinez, Sotigui Kouyate…; Beineix's visual flair props up this slight story of a graffiti artist and his young pal who journey in search of escape and/or love. They meet an…
Leaving Normal (1992): Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Christine Lahti, Meg Tilly; Post–THELMA AND LOUISE female–bonding drama with the ever–likeable Christine Lahti and Meg Tilly, who abandon their lives of…
Roadside Prophets (1992): Dir. Abbe Wool
Feat. John Doe, Adam Horovitz; An imperfect but engaging reworking of the '70s road movie for Generation Xers. John Doe and Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz pair as free–wheeling…
Arizona Dream (1991): Dir. Emir Kusturica
Feat. Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Lili Taylor; A young Inuit dreamer is called to Arizona for his uncle's wedding, where he is bewitched by a neurotic mother–daughter team. An eccentric…
Bright Angel (1991): Dir. Michael Fields
Feat. Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard…; Sombre mid–western road movie avoids genre cliches and maintain its grip once it takes hold.
Danzon (1991): Dir. Maria Novaro
Feat. Maria Rojo; Lovely film about a phone operator and mother in Mexico City enthralled by the popular Cuban dance, known as "danzon". When her regular dance partner…
Highway 61 (1991): Dir. Bruce McDonald
Feat. Peter Breck; Two kooky Canadians travel the length of the famous highway in a Ford Galaxy 500 with a zany self–styled Satan in hot pursuit. Hip adolescent…
Highway Patrolman (1991): Dir. Alex Cox
Feat. Roberto Sosa, Bruno Bichir, Vanessa Bauche; A wayward film–maker returns to form in using road–movie conventions to enrich this tale of poverty, drugs, prostitution and rampant…
Merci La Vie (1991): Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg; Two young girls bond on a magical, mysterious tour played out against shifts in time, from the present to Occupied France. The audacious mix of ideas…
Until the End of the World (1991): Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill; Wim Wenders dream project, shot in nine countries, concerns global ambling at the end of the millenium before developing its best idea about…
Delusion (1990): Dir. Carl Colpaert
Feat. Jim Metzler, Jennifer Rubin, Kyle Secor…; Quirky cousin of ROADSIDE PROPHETS and HIGHWAY 61 adds a suspense element to its road–bound trio of odd–balls; a computer nerd with a…
Road to God Knows Where, The (1990): Dir. Uli M. Schuppel
Feat. Nick Cave; A candid and thorough observation of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on tour in Europe. Shot in black and white, and although in English it comes…
Sheltering Sky, The (1990): Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Campbell Scott…; John Malkovich and Debra Winger play a troubled, upper–class American couple who discover 'themselves' while on trek through the North African…
Thelma and Louise (1990): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel…; Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon take action and escape their housebound repression in a T–Bird, but discover the road to freedom is littered…
Wild at Heart (1990): Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd…; Disturbing, provocative and always stylish, the director parodies himself and many other great film–makers in this mother of all road movies.…
Eversmile, New Jersey (1989): Dir. Carlos Sorin
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Mirjana Jokovic; Oddball dramedy with Daniel Day–Lewis taking on the role of a dentist travelling by motorbike through South America to provide locals with free…
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, Total Balalaika Show) (1989): Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Jim Jarmusch; Laconic, often funny road movie follows an awful Soviet rock group with outlandish hairstyles across backwater USA. Director is Europe's answer to…
Palin Travel Collection (1989-2007): Feat. Michael Palin; Comprehensive 19–disc set containing all of Michael Palin's BBC travel documentary series including; Great Railway Journeys, Around the World…
Starlight Hotel (1989): Dir. Sam Pillsbury
Feat. Greer Robson, Bruce Phillips, Alison Fraser; A young runaway in search of her father and a reluctant fugitive become unlikely partners who manage to keep one step ahead of the police. Shot on…
Ariel (1988): Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpaa; A redundant miner takes his newly acquired Thunderbird to Helsinki in search of financial and emotional security, but is hampered with rotten luck. A…
Cohen and Tate (1988): Dir. Eric Red
Feat. Roy Scheider, Adam Baldwin; A nine–year–old witness to a gangland murder is kidnapped by two neurotic thugs who can't bear each other. Inventive road–movie…
Midnight Run (1988): Dir. Martin Brest
Feat. Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin; A cleverly plotted non–stop action jaunt across the States with a bounty hunter hired to bring a crooked accountant back to L.A. before the…
Never Say Die (1988): Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Temuera Morrison; Geoff Murphy re–applies his GOODBYE PORK PIE formula for this good–natured action yarn which posits Temuera Morrison as an unwitting…
Rain Man (1988): Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino; Oscar–winning road drama featuring Dustin Hoffman's virtuoso performance as the idiot savant brother of Tom Cruise, who does equally well in a…
Dudes (1987): Dir. Penelope Spheeris
Feat. Jon Cryer, Catherine Mary Stewart; A wacky road movie about a trio of New York punks who attempt to get to LA in a VW. They bargain on fame and fortune, but end up with serious…
Mark II (1987): Dir. John Anderson; Three unemployed Maori youth embark on a bumpy ride south in their Mark II Ford Zephyr. The young novice actors exude charm and raw energy that…
Roadkill (1987): Dir. Bruce McDonald
Feat. Don McKellar; A sputtering first road movie from dir. McDonald (HIGHWAY 61), with a brilliant New Wave soundtrack adding octane to the patchy storyline and…
Gladiator, The (1986): Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Ken Wahl, Robert Culp, Nancy Allen; Telemovie excursion for Abel Ferrara (BAD LIEUTENANT), pummeling viewers with a patented and occasionally intriguing exercise in petrolhead…
Hitcher, The (1986): Dir. Robert Harmon
Feat. Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh…; One of the best and most terrifying thrillers to be made in the '80s. A superbly controlled, often shocking account of a young motorist who is…
Fandango (1985): Dir. Kevin Reynolds
Feat. Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson, Sam Robards…; Kevin Costner landed his first leading role in this nostalgic comedy/drama about five college students from Texas in 1971 who go on a last road trip…
Lost in America (1985): Dir. Albert Brooks
Feat. Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty; Albert Brooks and Julie Hagerty give up their stressful yuppie lifestyle to travel in a road–home across America, but things don't go quite to…
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985): Dir. Amy Heckerling
Feat. Beverly D'Angelo, Chevy Chase, John Astin; Second in National Lampoon's 'Vacation' series sees the Griswald family off to Europe for a round of slapstick shenanigans with the English, French,…
Sure Thing, The (1985): Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Tim Robbins…; Early John Cusack film puts an agreeable spin on the plot of IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, where he and female–nemesis Daphne Zuniga uncomfortably…
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…
Goodbye Pork Pie (1981): Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Tony Barry, Kelly Johnson, Claire Oberman…; This little beauty was the first Kiwi film to make international inroads. An amoral tale about a gang of misfits who travel the length of the country…
Mad Max II - The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2) (1981): Dir. George Miller
Feat. Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence; Studio–backed sequel retains the integrity of the first while sprucing up the artillery, pyrotechnics and going for a more futuristic style.…
Road Games (1981): Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis; Inventive and at times intense, this road thriller has truckdriver Keach traversing the outback, while a serial killer is on the loose. Effectively…
Mad Max (1979): Dir. George Miller
Feat. Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Steve Bisley…; Mel Gibson made his international splash in an apocalyptic, futuristic actioner charged with a fierce energy that only a paltry budget can bring.…
Mad Max Anthology, the (1979-2015): Dir. George Miller; All four MAD MAX films in one box set.
Radio On (1979): Dir. Christopher Petit
Feat. David Beames; Rambling, meditative car–trip through a lonely B&W England as David Beames travels from London to attend his brother's funeral in Bristol. A…
Stalker (1979): Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsyn; A stark, apocalyptic vision into a world where the Stalker guides those who wish to enter the forbidden Zone. Intimate, dilatory work conjures images…
Stone (1979): Dir. Sandy Harbutt
Feat. Ken Shorter, Sandy Harbutt; Hailed as one of the great bikie movies, but with a few unintentional laughs along the way as renegade cop Stone (a John Farnham look and…
Convoy (1978): Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine; Derived from the eponymous pop anthem, Kris Kristofferson's 'Rubber Duck' musters a band of disgruntled truckees to wage a protest.
Corvette Summer (1978): Dir. Matthew Robbins
Feat. Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche…; Benign comedy with Hamill heading to Vegas in pursuit of a Corvette Stingray stolen from his auto–shop class.
Driver, The (1978): Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani…; Memorable exercise in action stylistics from dir. Hill (THE WARRIORS), which opposes specialist getaway driver Ryan O’Neal with maniacal cop Bruce…
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…
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977): Dir. Vincent McEveety
Feat. Dean Jones, Don Knotts; Second sequel to THE LOVE BUG, starring everybody's favourite Volkswagen, adds the extra panache to the Paris–Monte Carlo race.
Cannonball (1976): Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. David Carradine, Paul Bartel; A kind of contemporary sequel to DEATH RACE 2000, David Carradine and Paul Bartel reteam for this self–consciously tacky road movie. Carradine…
Gumball Rally (1976): Dir. Charles Bail
Feat. Michael Sarrazin, Gary Busey, Raul Julia; Dir. by stunt specialist Bail, this car race indulgence depicts an illegal jaunt across America with hotrods, motorbikes, sports cars and grand prix…
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…
Death Race 2000 (1975): Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone; Hilarious black comedy from the director of EATING RAOUL, about a road race across the States where one can gain points from killing pedestrians…
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…
Race with the Devil (1975): Dir. Jack Starrett
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates; Peter Fonda, Warren Oates and their bell–bottomed chicks go east in a Winnebago, but are plagued en route by an occult conspiracy. Memorably…
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'…
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke…; Countercultural couple Mary and Larry commandeer a muscle car, a mechanic, and a whole lotta highway in this hard and fast rev–up of the chase…
Harry & Tonto (Harry and Tonto) (1974): Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Rene Enriquez…; Art Carney won the Oscar for his performance as a retiree embarking on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.
Macon County Line (1974): Dir. Richard Compton
Feat. Alan Vint, Jesse Vint, Cheryl Waters…; An under–rated, gritty kids vs. rednecks thriller in the EASY RIDER tradition about three youngsters pursued on Georgian byways for a gruesome…
Sugarland Express, The (1974): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Goldie Hawn; Spielberg's second feature is a redneck road comedy deployed with consummate skill. Goldie Hawn features in what is probably her best role.
Wim Wenders Road Movies (Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, Kings of the Road) (1974-1976): Dir. Wim Wenders; Boxset compilation of a further three Wim Wenders touchstones, each variations on the quintessential road movie.
Electra Glide in Blue (1973): Dir. James William Guercia
Feat. Robert Burke; Patrolling the Arizona desert highways, a naïve, lonely motorcycle cop (Robert Burke) makes up in idealism what he lacks in height, and dreams of…
Paper Moon (1973): Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal; An inventive and enjoyable pastiche of the films from the golden age. Ryan O'Neal stars as a con–man who befriends a 9–year–old…
Scarecrow (1973): Dir. Jerry Schatzberg
Feat. Gene Hackman, Al Pacino; Modest drama charts the therapeutic relationship between two drifters who seek redemption. Sombre moral tale about ordinary people is the kind rarely…
Boxcar Bertha (1972): Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Barbara Hershey, David Carradine; Dir. Scorsese's first 'for hire' effort, constructing an atmospheric and reasonably sturdy period gangster film, set in the Depression. Produced by…
Duel (1971): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Dennis Weaver, Tim Herbert, Charles Peel…; Steven Spielberg's first feature film and still one of his best, about a man pursued by a faceless psychopath in a huge diesel truck. Required…
Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, The (1971): Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Arthur Brauss; Enigmatic tale of a maturing goalkeeper who abandons his soccer team and ambles about Germany. Dir. Wender's typical sketchbook narrative provides…
Horsemen, The (1971): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance…; An ambitious historical epic concerns the quest of an Afghani tribal horseman (Sharif) to regain his honour after losing a ritual Buzkashi…
J.C. (Iron Horsemen) (1971): Dir. William McGaha
Feat. William McGaha, Slim Pickens; Fairly typical hippie turkey, in which dir. McGaha stars as a deluded bikie who thinks he is Jesus Christ reborn and leads his pack of…
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971): Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates; Ambling across a relentless roadscape of diners and gas stations, young petrol–heads James Taylor (yes, the pop singer) and Dennis Wilson (yes,…
Vanishing Point (1971): Dir. Richard Serafian
Feat. Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger…; A loner accepts a challenge to drive his Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours, with the fuzz in pursuit and help from blind DJ,…
Five Easy Pieces (1970): Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Karen Black; A fascinating, complex character study of a talented drifter (Jack Nicholson) who returns to his affluent but dysfunctional family. Karen Black is…
Wanda (1970): Dir. Barbara Loden
Feat. Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins; The sole writing/directing credit of Barbara Loden, whose command of verite storytelling is matched by her own astonishing performance as a feckless…
Alice's Restaurant (1969): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick…; Loosely built around the adventures of hippie troubadour Arlo Guthrie (son of Woody and star of WOODSTOCK), as he wanders rural America asking…
Easy Rider (1969): Dir. Dennis Hopper
Feat. Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson; The definitive rebel movie sees Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper motorcycle across the southwest in search of the 'Real America'. Jack Nicholson's…
Rain People, The (1969): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. James Caan; A woman hits the road to escape her suffocating marriage, but finds her new circumstances no more satisfactory. A thought–provoker from…
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966): Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Tura Satana, Haji; Russ Meyer’s most famous film is the ultimate “fast cars, fast women” fantasy about three go–go dancers who find trouble in the desert…
San Ferry Ann (1966): Dir. Jeremy Summers
Feat. Barbara Windsor, David Lodge, Wilfred Brambell…; Dialogue–free comedy about a group of rag–tag British travellers travelling on the San Ferry Ann from Dover to France and getting up to…
Two for the Road (1966): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney; Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney play a married couple who reflect on their twelve year marriage while driving through France in a sports car with…
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963): Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar…; Spencer Tracy leads a countless cast of cameos for a slapstick epic centering around a frantic search for buried bank loot. Your attention might…
Thunder Road (1958): Dir. Arthur Ripley
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon…; Effective, gritty road movie about a mountain man moonshiner at war with both authorities and big–city competitors. An unusually personal…
La Strada (The Road) (1955): Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Anthony Quinn; Fellini hit his stride and won a Foreign Film Oscar with this gentle road odyssey about a simple–minded clown whose loyalty to her boorish…
Gun Crazy (1948): Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. John Dall, Peggy Cummins; Cocked with outstanding set pieces, daring twists and a desperate, exciting romanticism, this 'B–movie' thriller makes the grade with any of…

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