Subgenre Sampler
Road Movie: 271 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…