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