Car breakdown movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant car breakdown movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological, tense and slasher films and TV shows about / with car breakdown, murder, suspense, death, blood, danger, serial killer, violence, car accident and survival plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
car breakdown
TOP 10 movies tagged as car breakdown: Curve (2015), Open Desert (2013), Breakdown (1997), Love You Like Christmas (2016), Wrong Way (1972), In Your Absence (2008), The Town Christmas Forgot (2010), Full Speed (2016), Forever Never Anywhere (2007), The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984).
Best films
List of car breakdown movies
10K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young woman becomes trapped in her car after a hitchhiker causes her to have an automobile accident.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, scenic, tense ...
Plot:
trapped, survival, suspense, car breakdown, hitchhiker, psychopath, on the road, fear, serial killer, female protagonist, fire, deathtrap ...
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Genre: Adventure, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's supposed to be a dream vacation with the man she loves, but trapped in the open desert with no water, in the deadly heat and with a seductive stranger, Lucie St. James' dream quickly turns into a nightmare. A life or death battle ...
Style:
serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, disturbing ...
Plot:
desert, survival, wilderness, stranded, one night stand, cheating fiancee, car breakdown, struggle for survival, stranded in the desert, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love triangle ...
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57K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, road movie, tense, scenic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, suspense, chase, uncover truth, murder, road trip, conspiracy, highway, desert, ransom, car breakdown, car ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, arizona, massachusetts, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Maddie, a high-powered marketing executive, is on her way to a client’s wedding but her plans are derailed by car trouble. When a fork in the road leads her to Christmas Valley, a town in love with Christmas, an unexpected encounter and a group of ...
Style:
sweet, entertaining, romantic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, small town, single father, holiday, fall in love, car breakdown, happy ending, father daughter relationship, winter, unlikely couple, opposites attract, christmas spirit ...
Place:
new york, ohio
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223
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Two girls are driving home when their car breaks down in the country. They are kidnapped by a gang of drug-crazed hippies, and repeatedly raped. They escape, but soon run into a death cult who plan to gang-rape the girls, then kill them. Meanwhile, ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
gang rape, rape, rape victim, police, violence, car breakdown, rapist, woman with a gun, kidnapping, hippie, cult, female nudity ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows ...
Style:
road movie, feel good, humorous, entertaining, campy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
gay, transvestism, friendship, small town, gender bending, cross dressing, on the road, female impersonator, road trip, gender, culture clash, lgbt ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
nebraska, london, california, australia, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
13-year-old Pablo is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to help Pablo with his transition from childhood to adolescence, and give him some advice on sex, love and ...
Style:
emotional, serious, surprise ending, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, boy, stranger, masturbation, teenage girl, male nudity, lgbt child, village, flashback, surrogate father, sexual exploration, man boy relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, andalusia
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An urban family that can’t seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town’s home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town’s problems but ...
Style:
sincere, touching, humorous, captivating
Plot:
christmas, stranded, mayor, husband wife relationship, old man, car breakdown, abandoned mine, interracial friendship, father son relationship, party, intergenerational friendship, contest ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A family together with their grandpa go on a vacation, when their new car won't stop and it nearly escapes crashing into a hundred cars.
Style:
feel good, captivating, funny, road movie, light ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family problems, obsessive quest, chase, family in danger, highway, speed, parents and children, husband wife relationship, car breakdown, father son relationship, travel, family relations ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Never at the sea.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, witty ...
Plot:
isolation, humiliation, sarcasm, new love, social relations, forest, experiment, car breakdown, trapped, rage, anger, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, europe
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of young and wild motocross racers venture through the desert and are stranded at an old mining ranch. They soon realize that they are being watched by a group of savage cannibals unknown to the civilized world. The film is full of ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, splatter, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, cannibalism, psychopath, cannibal, survival, desert, killer, dog, violence, motorcycle, stereotypes, runaway ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, splatter, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, torture, cannibalism, murder, cruelty, violence, sadism, kidnapping, cannibal, massacre, monster ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, scary, mind bending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
doppelganger, dream, broken mirror, nightmare, fear, murder, investigation, haunted by the past, embassy, girlfriend, woman in danger, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
Style:
scary, twist ending, mind bending, surreal, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monster, supernatural, survival, creature, deathtrap, zombie, fear, cabin in the woods, dark humor, trapped, death, werewolf ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A pair of comic book writers begin to notice scary similarities between the character they created and horrific real-life events.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, perverse
Plot:
road trip, serial killer, serial murder, investigation, murder, drawing, violence, small town, crime scene, suspense, fire, masked killer ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina, and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site’s most infamous local, the last ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, torture, sadistic horror, killing spree, violence, escape attempt, chase, tourist, deathtrap, decapitation, strong violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.
Style:
road movie, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
dark humor, serial killer, tourist, caravan, misfit, jealousy, murderous pair, satire, road trip, macabre, crime gone awry, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In this reimagining of the 2010 Mexican film of the same name, director Jim Mickle paints a gruesome portrait of an introverted family struggling to keep their macabre traditions alive, giving us something we can really sink our teeth into.
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
cannibalism, macabre, cannibal, rain, death, suspense, small town, religion, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, missing person ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, delaware
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After suffering the recent loss of his wife, David Reynolds decides to take his family on a cathartic trip to her home village in Columbia. While en route, they get into a car accident and seek refuge in a secluded inn. While there they find a ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, spooky ...
Plot:
supernatural, possession, confined, parents and children, curse, murder, punishment, travel, ghost, teenager, house, basement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, south america
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful, controversial ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
killer child, child protagonist, murder, boy, father son relationship, boy in peril, motel, suspense, boyhood, dog, lonely, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When tragedy rocks Blackfoot High, rebellious outsider Maddy Killian shocks the student body by joining the cheerleading squad. This decision drives a rift between Maddy and her ex-girlfriend Leena Miller — a loner who claims to practice the dark ...
Style:
scary, humorous, suspenseful, queer horror, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, witch, murder, teenage life, graphic violence, youth, rivalry, cheerleader, lesbian relationship, rape, man punching a woman, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her ...
Style:
atmospheric, dark, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, suspense, brutality, isolation, spirit, revenge, demon, dark secret, snow, demonic possession ...
Time:
80s, 70s
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When young urbanites Ian and Sam decide to go camping, they arrive at their isolated destination to discover another tent already set up, but no sign of its owners. With the other campers at large, Ian and Sam's discovery of a child wandering ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, poignant ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
camping, serial killer, rape, dog, doctor, baby, suspense, violence, murder, travel, survival, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
australia
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are ...
Style:
disturbing, slasher, psychological, dark, tense ...
Plot:
desert, occult, murder, monster, supernatural, macabre, suspense, highway, home invasion, survival, occult ritual, masked killer ...
Place:
arizona
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199K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, dark fantasy, enigmatic, gothic ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, psychic power, hotel, psychic, murder, doctor, suspense, native american, mind game, fear, magician ...
Time:
year 2019, 20th century, 2010s, year 1980, 80s ...
Place:
new jersey, iowa, ohio, florida, colorado ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stranded at the side of the road after a tire blowout, a group of friends become targets for an enigmatic sniper.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, captivating, splatter ...
Plot:
survival, suspense, sniper, murder, no survivors, on the road, car accident, shooter, gunned down, survival horror, serial killer, car breakdown ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, enigmatic ...
Plot:
supernatural, deal with the devil, devil, basement, paranoia, isolation, evil, family in danger, suspicion, fear, family bonds, neurosis ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The movie begins innocently enough - a group of technology addicted teenagers finds themselves in an off-line camp. However hiking in the woods with no smartphone in sight will not go as planned. They will have to fight for their lives against ...
Style:
slasher, splatter, stylized, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basement, camp, forest, suspense, camping, rage, lake, machete, first love, friendship, monster, track down ...
Place:
poland
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14K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
On a hiking trip to rekindle their marriage, a couple find themselves fleeing for their lives in the unforgiving wilderness from an unknown shooter.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, touching, psychological, brutal
Plot:
manhunt, pregnancy, suspense, survival, snow, northern lights, racism, racial slur, hunter, life & death, macabre, couples ...
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but they end up summoning more than they bargained for.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychotronic, disturbing, slasher ...
Plot:
satanism, satanist, demon, suspense, demonic possession, evil spirit, possession, occult, curse, kidnapping, ghost, supernatural ...
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