Road trip movies and TV shows – page 2
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin (Ben Stiller) decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and an inept yet ...
Style:
road movie, black comedy, sexy, witty, funny ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, road trip, mistaken identity, adoption, on the road, gay couple, farce, misunderstanding, attraction, acid trip, baby, adopted son ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new mexico, new york, michigan, usa, san diego california ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
Style:
road movie, touching, humorous, hilarious, melancholic ...
Plot:
road trip, salesman, overprotective mother, highway, travel, family relations, single parent, parents and children, parent child relationship, protective parent, drinking, mother ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, middle east, las vegas, new jersey, san francisco
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, teen, funny, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night, kids
Plot:
road trip, brutality, nothing goes right, wedding, father daughter relationship, family relations, college, on the road, parents and children, campus, high school, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, indiana, washington d.c., illinois, north america ...
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580K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Style:
road movie, inspirational, sincere, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
autism, road trip, redemption, disability, mentally challenged, brother brother relationship, siblings relations, runaway, self discovery, mathematics, psychiatry, life changing ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place:
las vegas, california, ohio, cincinnati ohio, columbus ohio ...
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673K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line relied on ...
Style:
feel good, road movie, uplifting, funny, inspirational ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
racism, road trip, musician, interracial friendship, travel, lgbtq, racial prejudice, journey, friendship, driver, black american, dignity ...
Time:
60s, year 1962, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
southern usa, bronx new york city, america, birmingham alabama, new york ...
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10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
On the way from Berlin to Portugal in her rusty '303' camper van, young biology student Jule picks up hitchhiker Jan. While having intense conversations about everything and the world, they try not to fall in love.
Style:
road movie, sincere, melancholic, light, aesthetic ...
Plot:
conversation, trip, road trip, love and romance, highway travel, travel, love, student, friendship, teenager, storytelling, trucker ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
europe, germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
Style:
feel good, road movie, funny, light, hilarious ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens
Plot:
thanksgiving, road trip, holiday, train, travel, airplane, on the road, airport, husband wife relationship, railway, buddy, traveling salesman ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
chicago, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, illinois, new york ...
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12K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to ...
Style:
road movie, sexy, philosophical, realistic, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
road trip, self discovery, motorcycle, terminal illness, travel, cancer, love story, depression, solitude, coming of age, beautiful scenery, wanderlust ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, pacific ocean, ontario canada, toronto ontario canada, british columbia
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920K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. ...
Style:
funny, humorous, cult classic, absurd, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
buddies, party, bachelor party, buddy, comedy of errors, nothing goes right, friendship between men, hung over, friends, memory loss, road trip, stupidity ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, iran, america, north america ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
20 years after the dimwits set out on their first adventure, they head out in search of one of their long lost children in the hope of gaining a new kidney.
Style:
buddy comedy, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
road trip, stupidity, friendship, on the road, nothing goes right, prank, farce, friends, disorder, goofy hero, misfit partners, escapades ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, el paso texas, rhode island
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from ...
Style:
road movie, serious, rough, realistic, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
road trip, friendship, on the road, love triangle, unrequited love, gangster, young heroes, buddies, love and romance, self discovery, young couple, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
seattle, las vegas, usa
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104K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Party animal Tommy Callahan is a few cans short of a six-pack. But when the family business starts tanking, it's up to Tommy and number-cruncher Richard Hayden to save the day.
Style:
road movie, humorous, slapstick, cult classic, clever ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids
Plot:
road trip, father son relationship, dumb, stupidity, nothing goes right, odd couple, death of father, skinny dipping, twists and turns, on the road, entrepreneurship, immaturity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, wisconsin, chicago, ohio, seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
Style:
funny, hilarious, absurd, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
road trip, stupidity, identity, female criminal, male female friendship, sarcasm, foul language, nothing goes right, stolen identity, identity theft, hotel room, train station ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
florida, miami, usa, colorado, missouri ...
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10K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Style:
road movie, lyrical, talky, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, friendship, map, partner, buddies, hopes, human nature, couple relations, self discovery, liberal, couples ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, london, portland oregon, europe, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.
Style:
romantic, futuristic, sweet, realistic, rom com ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, date night, girls' night ...
Plot:
mars, love story, teenage love, astronaut, life & death, nasa, road trip, travel, teenager, relationships, beautiful scenery, space mission ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2017
Place:
usa, california, las vegas
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father.
Style:
tragicomedy, ironic, captivating, dark comedy, road movie ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, underage, murder, psycho, road trip, teenage love, relationships, dark humor, love, psychopath, enemies to lovers, tragic love ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom
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279K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, unusual plot structure, parody, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night
Plot:
alien, road trip, benign alien, chase, first contact, ufo, alien encounter, space and aliens, space travel, buddies, friends, disorder ...
Time:
year 2011, 1940s, year 2009, future, 80s ...
Place:
nevada, arizona, austin texas, usa, england ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in ...
Style:
road movie, feel good, touching, cult classic, visual ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
road trip, old age, brother brother relationship, elderly man, on the road, small town, senior citizen, determination, aging, family feud, illness, highway ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
iowa, mississippi, nebraska, usa, wisconsin
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her ...
Style:
road movie, depressing, suspense, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
road trip, abortion, lgbtq, lesbian, grandmother granddaughter relationship, pregnancy, writers, aging, grandparent grandchild relationship, friendship, lesbian relationship, death of partner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two drag-queens and a transsexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman ...
Style:
road movie, melancholic, lgbt cinema, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, transsexual, road trip, drag queen, gay slur, lgbtq, desert, gender bending, gay interest, transvestism, bus, gay father ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place:
australia, sydney australia, south australia
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128K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Style:
road movie, black and white, depressing, humorous, meditative ...
Plot:
road trip, small town, dysfunctional family, aging, elderly, confronting the past, on the road, relationships, old age, obsessive quest, character study, honest ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
montana, nebraska, usa, california
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Bahrain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.
Style:
road movie, semi serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
road trip, soldier, friendship, homecoming, life is a bitch, loss of friend, wartime life, on the road, war on terror, women in the military, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, iraq, missouri, new york, las vegas ...
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111K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life-dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge-he ...
Style:
teen, exciting, road movie, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage love, teenager, adolescence, youth, friendship, love, teenage girl, road trip, travel, friends, unrequited love ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
usa, peru, florida, orlando florida, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Puerto Rico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ana meets Rafa in a chance encounter and they embark on a road trip to try and save him from bankruptcy, or worse.
Style:
captivating, realistic, humorous, sincere, road movie
Plot:
road trip, friendship, journey, illegal gambling, save the day, bankruptcy, girl, father daughter relationship, gas station, natural disaster, con man, tax evasion ...
Place:
puerto rico
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of ...
Style:
atmospheric, road movie, sentimental, psychological, romantic ...
Plot:
road trip, love and romance, love story, passion, melancholy, travel, loneliness, longing, waitress, cross country, poker, casino ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, china, tennessee, new york, memphis ...
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81K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
kidnapping, truck driver, truck, prank, twists and turns, paranoia, psychopath, brother brother relationship, torture, brutality, road trip, trap ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, north america, colorado, salt lake city utah, nebraska ...
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35K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
kidnapping, psychopath, trapped, chase, road rage, maniac, survival, kidnapped woman, highway, lost in the woods, cruelty, stalker ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, talky, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
road trip, satire, on the road, motor home, self discovery, quitting a job, cross country trip, married couple, fired from the job, marriage, couples, fish out of water ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1985
Place:
las vegas, arizona, nevada, new york, los angeles ...
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112K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Style:
surreal, sexy, road movie, black comedy, psychedelic ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
road trip, murder, surrealism, violence, sex scene, forbidden love, rape, domineering mother, haunted by the past, dark humor, psychopath, female nudity ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, new orleans, southern usa, austin texas, california ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two guys serendipitously meet at a time when they both find themselves at personal crossroads and decide to embark on an unplanned road trip across the American Southwest.
Style:
road movie, humorous, captivating, funny, light ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, nothing goes right, encounter, escapades, buddies, cross country, disorder, new life, coming of age, mission, woman ...
Place:
usa, las vegas, albuquerque new mexico
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