On the road movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant on the road movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, road movie, weird, cult classic, melancholic and harsh films and TV shows about / with on the road, road trip, runaway, storytelling, dialogue, catastrophe, mentor, travel, car and culture clash plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as on the road: On the Road (2012), Lost (2004), We're the Millers (2013), Into the Wild (2007), Up in the Air (2009), Paris, Texas (1984), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), The Road (2009), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), Midnight Run (1988).
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List of on the road movies
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, UK, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
Style:
road movie, sexy, inspirational, period piece, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
road trip, on the road, writers, beat generation, homoeroticism, nude, infidelity, homoerotic friendship, bisexual, travelogue, beatnik, poetry ...
Time:
1940s, year 1948, 1950s, year 1951, year 1949 ...
Place:
nebraska, arizona, california, usa, virginia ...
Is relevant?
2K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Trapped in a maze of endless desert highways, bound by a vital deadline, and pursued by an unseen menace....Jeremy Stanton is about to take the longest ride of his life. He will learn that when you reach the crossroads of life...you must be careful ...
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
on the road, map, heist, chases and races, danger, race against time, road trip, husband wife relationship, die hard, desert, isolation, rain ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, nevada, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.
Style:
hilarious, road movie, humorous, laugh out loud, not serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, family outing, adult
Plot:
road trip, on the road, nothing goes right, parenthood, journey, smuggling, camping, marijuana, adolescence, homeless teenager, drug dealing, pretense ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, usa, colorado, arizona, north america ...
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692K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, road trip, freedom, isolation, solitude, journey, life philosophy, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery, nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1992 ...
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, northern california, america ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Style:
road movie, humorous, funny, hilarious, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
treasure hunt, on the road, race, car chase, treasure, road trip, competition, chase, greed, money, twists and turns, disorder ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1916, 70s
Place:
california, usa
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359K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
George Clooney plays the dry cynical character of Ryan Bingham, an executive who specializes in "downsizing". Ryan lives out of his suitcase, traveling the country for the sole purpose terminating unwanted employees day after day. Just as ...
Style:
touching, sexy, romantic, rom com, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
loneliness, on the road, travel, couples, hotel, business trip, airport, love affair, downsizing, business, love and romance, motivational speaker ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, dallas texas, las vegas, iran, usa ...
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139K
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Style:
road movie, touching, surreal, atmospheric, lyrical ...
Plot:
amnesia, father son relationship, desert, redemption, on the road, road trip, relationships, memory, melancholy, motel, reconciliation, drifter ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
texas, los angeles, houston texas, california, america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style:
road movie, feel good, melancholic, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, honest, obsessive quest, escapades, coming of age, suicide attempt, journey ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, north america ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, woman in danger, heroine, manipulation, revenge, fear, showdown, death of boyfriend, framed for murder, violence, arrest ...
Place:
texas, usa
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269K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, father son relationship, distopia, end of the world, cannibalism, starvation, dystopia, on the road, journey ...
Time:
future, year 2009, near future, distant future, 2000s ...
Place:
pittsburgh, usa, north america, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gain a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they ...
Style:
road movie, meditative, atmospheric, grindhouse, disturbing ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
car chase, on the road, mechanic, hitchhiker, auto racing, road trip, existentialism, desert, rivalry, drag racing, driving, wager ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s, 1950s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., santa fe new mexico, north america, tokyo
Is relevant?
103K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
An accountant embezzles $15 million of mob money, jumps bail and is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia.
Style:
road movie, funny, cult classic, talky, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
road trip, on the road, bounty hunter, chase, race against time, hitman, train, buddy cop, odd couple, partner, chases and races, mafia ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, usa, new york, manhattan new york city, chicago ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sincere, road movie ...
Plot:
on the road, starting over, friendship, wartime life, society, totalitarianism, human nature, life is a bitch, escapades, political unrest, leaving home, hitchhiking ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
brazil, northeast brazil, south america, latin america, germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter ...
Style:
road movie, black and white, stylized, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
on the road, airport, journalist, single mother, photography, stranger, intimacy, road trip, rock concert, child abandonment, strong female character, travel ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
germany, west germany, amsterdam, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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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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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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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Style:
sexy, road movie, erotic, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, sexuality, sex, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, age difference, friendship between men, on the road, threesome, male friendship, gay ...
Time:
year 2001, near future, year 2002, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, mexico city, acapulco mexico ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, character study, alienation, dysfunctional family, drifter, piano, pianist, father son relationship, hitchhiker, oil field, diner ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place:
california, usa, washington state, oregon, northern california ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America playing "Motorama," a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has various encounters with ...
Style:
road movie, surreal, semi serious, humorous, grim ...
Plot:
boy, on the road, youth, juvenile delinquent, american dream, coming of age, partner, contests and competitions, rivalry, obsessive quest, buddies, chases and races ...
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Kowalski works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Francisco, California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
Style:
road movie, grindhouse, independent film, cult classic, exciting ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
car chase, car, driver, hitchhiker, on the road, road trip, radio station, on the run, chase, driving, reckless driving, rattlesnake ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
san francisco, california, colorado, utah, denver colorado ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Clint Eastwood plays a bounty hunter who helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, talky, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
on the road, kidnapping, bail bondsman, bounty hunter, car chase, on the run, baby, tough guy, money, shootout, machine gun, disguise ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
sacramento california, usa, california, las vegas, reno nevada
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A man suspects his girlfriend of being unfaithful. So he sends her a letter, but than finds out that he was wrong. He has 24 hours to stop the package, prevent a disaster, and fall in love. The only problem is the delivery man will not stop until ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, humorous, romantic comedy, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
college, on the road, nothing goes right, youth, partner, infidelity, looking for love, road trip, goofy hero, buddies, unlikely couple, love ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, california, new jersey
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96K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.
Style:
sex comedy, teen sex comedy, sexy, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
road trip, loss of virginity, friendship, coming of age, on the road, high school, public nudity, looking for sex, sex scene, college, virginity, male virgin ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Soon after Thom starts operating as an illegal taxi driver in New York City, Claire hires him to drive her to California after her estranged father suffers a heart attack.
Style:
humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
road trip, taxi driver, enemies to lovers, on the road, couples, unlikely couple, life turned upside down, disorder, love and romance, charm, taxi, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, las vegas, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Style:
road movie, psychological, slasher, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Audience:
date night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
psycho killer, hitchhiker, serial killer, psychopath, desert, stalker, violence, sociopath, stalking, kidnapping, highway, motel ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the ...
Style:
road movie, sexy, erotic, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
road trip, friendship, feminism, female friendship, escapades, fugitives, sexualized violence, attempted rape, revenge, on the road, rape, feminist ...
Time:
20th century, year 1991, 90s
Place:
arizona, southern usa, bolivia, oklahoma, usa ...
Is relevant?
32K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
stockholm syndrome, on the road, fall in love, self discovery, unlikely couple, freedom, character change, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, on the run, travel, road trip, tourism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Style:
road movie, surreal, art house, atmospheric, visual ...
Plot:
on the road, surrealism, lovers on the run, road trip, smuggling, on the run, vietnam war, couples, infidelity, lovers, couple relations, tragic love ...
Time:
20th century, near future, year 1965, 60s
Place:
france, mediterranean sea, paris france, europe, africa ...
Is relevant?
310K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure ...
Style:
humorous, 3d animation, road movie, saga, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, toddlers ...
Plot:
friendship, toy story, travel, on the road, sheriff, astronaut, child, cartoon dog, antique shop, carnival, ventriloquist dummy, cowboy ...
Time:
year 2019, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
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