| Smokey and the Bandit (1977) | 7.0 | |
| Paradise Highway (2022) | 5.7 | |
| Duel (1971) | 7.6 | |
| Vibrator (2003) | 6.9 | |
| Trucker (2008) | 6.5 |
Truck driver movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant truck driver movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out road movie, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious and captivating films and TV shows about / with truck driver, truck, trucker, corruption, violence, chase, revenge, small town, driver and danger plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, Germany, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as truck driver: The Ice Road (2021), Mi camino es amarte (2022), American Romance (2016), Striker (1988), Sorcerer (1977), Duel (1971), The Off Hours (2011), Joy Ride 3: Road Kill (2014), The Architect (2006), Black Dog (1998).
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List of truck driver movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, dramatic ...
Plot:
rescue, cold, avalanche, truck driver, mine, snow, struggle for survival, trapped, snowstorm, risk, mission, self sacrifice ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
canada, north dakota
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Guillermo, a humble and hard-working truck driver, discovers that he has a daughter who was given up for adoption. When he finds that Daniela's adopted daughter Isabella is his biological child, their lives intertwine forever.
Style:
sentimental, captivating, entertaining, dramatic, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
truck driver, family life, infidelity, family drama, adoption, father daughter relationship, family history, family holiday, young daughter, mother and daughter, daughter, child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A series of horrifying murders, the victims, always couples, staged in bizarre collage dioramas with cardboard cutouts and scribbled, childlike messages about the corrupting power of love. The killer's on the loose, and the FBI is looking for a ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, bleak, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
truck driver, fbi, american dream, serial killer, murder, dead son, maniac, murder mystery, death, danger, violence, couples ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Italy, USA, Dominican Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out this mission, but then he's captured, tortured, and forced to deal with the fact that ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film
Plot:
truck driver, shootout, right wing, gun fu, rambo, shot in the groin, bare chested male, sadism, violence, brutality, massacre, blood ...
Place:
nicaragua, miami
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Four criminals from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of unstable nitroglycerin across dangerous jungle.
Style:
road movie, neo noir, political, existential, tension ...
Plot:
terrorist, survival, jungle adventure, driver, criminal, oil, existentialism, on the road, trucker, politics, expedition, road trip ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
south america, bolivia, central america, new jersey, paris france ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Travelling businessman, David Mann, angers the driver of a rusty tanker whilst crossing the Californian desert. A simple trip turns deadly as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Style:
road movie, creepy, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, horror for children
Plot:
car chase, desert, chase, truck, road rage, psychopath, driving, truck driver, duel, mysterious villain, on the road, pursuit ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place:
california, persia, usa, los angeles, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
You're awake when everyone else is asleep. You're standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70mph. You see dusk and dawn everyday because they happen on your way to a time clock and then to a bed. Your off hours are spent trying to ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, sincere, serious, mumblecore ...
Plot:
fall in love, diner, small town, hopes, unfulfillment, bittersweet, society, introspection, love and romance, love affair, working class, waitress ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Rusty Nail is back on the road again looking to punish injustice at every turn - and this time it's with a group of hotheaded street racers on their way to the Road Rally 1000. As they drive through a desolate shortcut on the way to the race, ...
Style:
slasher, scary, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
evil wins, psycho killer, serial killer, truck driver, sadistic horror, road rage, truck, murder, highway, killer car, urban legend, race car ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect designed.
Style:
emotional, serious, melancholic, absurd, crying ...
Plot:
architect, gay interest, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, social differences, family problems, parents and children, society, human nature, youth, life is a bitch, sex scene ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2005
Place:
chicago, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family.
Style:
suspense, road movie, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, teens
Plot:
truck, rescue, car chase, chases and races, chase, fugitives, gang, arms dealer, rivalry, on the run, danger, race against time ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
road movie
Plot:
truck, truck driver, automobile, trucker, toxic waste, car, driving lesson, reckless driving, tourist, cover up, corruption, wine ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when the final package turns out to be a teenage girl.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, road movie
Plot:
human trafficking, truck driver, conspiracy, truck, fbi, family problems, criminal gang, bandit, social problems, criminal, life is a bitch, money problems ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A prostitute looking for her next meal hitches a ride with a trucker that leaves her praying for her next breath.
Style:
extreme horror, disturbing, sadistic, controversial, black and white ...
Plot:
sadism, perversity, captivity, misogyny, sexual cruelty, torture, sex, violence, sexual torture, mercilessness, prostitute, kidnapped woman ...
Time:
year 2016
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Zurich is a musical roadmovie about Nina, who discovers after the death of her great love, truckdriver Boris, he led a double life. Struggling with her feelings she comes to an almost unforgivable deed, and flees. She submerges into the truckers ...
Style:
road movie, melancholic, sincere
Plot:
grief, double life, mourning, female protagonist, road trip, loss, journey, loneliness, escape, secret life, self discovery, betrayal ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
Truck driver Erwin believes that he's helping people when he smuggles refugees, but shocking consequences follow a moment of distraction.
Style:
suspense, tension, serious, disturbing, dramatic ...
Plot:
refugee, police, truck driver, choice, family man, small town, syrian refugee, smuggling, immigration, driver, town, family life ...
Place:
syria
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.
Style:
road movie, funny, cult classic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
road trip, car chase, trucker, truck, on the road, police chase, carsploitation, sheriff, convoy, truck driver, driving, car ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, alabama, mississippi, austin texas, usa ...
Is relevant?
557
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
One of the city's last decent tow truck drivers risks everything on a desperate quest to become king of the road and provide for his struggling family.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
working class, family drama, family problems, money problems, truck driver, life is a bitch, criminal underworld, needing money, driver, criminal, desperation, poverty ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
Style:
sad, realistic, heartbreaking, art house, social ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
sisters, teenage girl, coming of age, sexism, running away from home, sister sister relationship, virginity, teen suicide, islam, women's rights, women, arranged marriage ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, near future, 80s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east, maghreb, israel ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Vultures on the Road - an organized gang of robbers and murderers, which includes even the police. They kill the truck driver's friend, whose wife is expecting a baby. The police (which is cooperating with the bandits), of course, does ...
Style:
road movie, brutal, tense, suspense, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
truck driver, revenge, murder, police corruption, organized crime, corruption, vigilantism, gang, retribution, vigilante, violent, justice ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
While driving to Las Vegas for the bachelor party of her sister Melissa and her fiance Bobby, Kayla stops the car in the gas station to meet her date, Nik, a guy she met on the internet. Nik convinces her to take a secondary road under the protest ...
Style:
slasher, road movie, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
psychopath, fear, road trip, sister sister relationship, serial killer, truck driver, truck, breaking and entering, chase, stealing a car, blood, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Place:
las vegas, usa, utah
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
The show presents the misadventures of two truck drivers, Pedro and Bino, who struggle to make their livings on the roads of Brazil, trying not to be misled by life's traps.
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, satirical, thrilling ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
truck driver, truck, trucker, friendship, road trip, working class, blue collar, driver, social problems, coworker, financial problem, lifestyle ...
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Joe—a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child—meets Julie, a spiritually gifted woman who enlists his help in a desperate effort to find the lost soul of her comatose daughter. But the spirit of ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, emotional, psychological, scenic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychic power, hot and sexy, unfulfillment, supernatural, life & death, ghost, donation, death of daughter, death of wife, seance, love, grief ...
Place:
alabama
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Remy, a seemingly naive and devout young woman, finds herself cast out from her religious cult. With no place to turn, she immerses herself into the underground world of truck stop sex workers. Under the watchful eye of their matriarch and an ...
Style:
slasher, captivating, suspenseful, dread, bleak ...
Plot:
female serial killer, serial killer, female pubic hair, blood, truck driver, sex worker, killing spree, female nudity, brutal rape, woman killed, pickup truck, small town sheriff ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, 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, road movie, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, violence, chase, road trip, couples, highway, conspiracy, desert, uncover truth, murder, danger, car breakdown ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, new mexico, usa, massachusetts, arizona
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ake is a growing young adult but still not mature enough, acording to his father. To master all the necessary qualities of a man he wants him to visit Uncle Che during school holiday.
Style:
semi serious, satirical, psychological, funny, captivating
Plot:
gay, truck driver, travel, male protagonist, brother brother relationship, satire, relationships, changing lives, brothers, escapades, love affair, male female relationship ...
Place:
thailand
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, West Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, bleak, melancholic, experimental ...
Plot:
poverty, prostitution, truck driver, deforestation, amazon, survival, slavery, journey, sexploitation, exploitation, social realism, child prostitution ...
Time:
70s
Place:
brazil
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.
Style:
intense, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
chase, martial arts, trucker, small town, corruption, vengeance, missing person, justice, police corruption, judge, buddies, partner ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, future, 80s
Place:
usa, california, texas
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When truck racer Roger loses everything, he receives a tempting but dangerous offer: to work as the getaway driver for a gang of thieves.
Style:
road movie
Plot:
racing, truck driver, gang of thieves, racecar driver, truck, criminal, bandit, gangster, driver, gang, organized crime, criminal gang ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A long haul truckie who finds that the reality of his existence is far removed from his youthful dreams of owning and driving his own prime mover.
Style:
semi serious, satirical, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
trucker, ambition, truck, truck driver, driving, satire, working class, character study, blue collar, working life, realism, midlife crisis ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A former MMA fighter and his brothers must rescue their kidnapped family from a dangerous crime syndicate after $50M of illegal diamonds gets stolen.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
diamonds, kidnapping, brothers, underground fighting, truck driver, criminal, bandit, gang of outlaws, diamond, criminal gang, gang, organized crime ...
Place:
california, las vegas
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