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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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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.
Highway 61 (1991): Dir. Bruce McDonald
Feat. Don McKellar, Valerie Buhagiar, Peter Breck; Don McKellar and Valerie Buhagiar reunite for this pseudo–sequel to Bruce McDonald's ROADKILL as a couple of kooky Canadians who travel the…
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…
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…
Roadkill (1989): Dir. Bruce McDonald
Feat. Valerie Buhagiar, Don McKellar; This first road movie from dir. Bruce McDonald (HIGHWAY 61) is possessed of a naive charm and raw energy that characterizes many of the best indie…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…

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