Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Road Movie: 38 Films to Rent on VHS
- 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…