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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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Lucky Them (2013): Dir. Megan Griffiths
Feat. Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church, Oliver Platt…; Toni Collette stars as rock journalist Ellie Klug, who is assigned to write a piece on her former boyfriend, a musician who had disappeared ten years…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Great Journey, The (Grand Voyage, Le) (2004): Dir. Ismaël Ferroukhi
Feat. Nicolas Cazalé; A few weeks before his college entrance exams, a young man finds himself obligated to drive his stubborn father to Mecca. From France through Italy,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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'…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…

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