Highway movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant highway movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out road movie, suspenseful, serious, cult film, realistic and scary films and TV shows about / with highway, murder, suspense, car, road, chase, danger, road trip, on the road and death plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
highway
TOP 10 movies tagged as highway: Wrecker (2016), Amber Alert (2012), Unhinged (2020), Southbound (2015), Roadside Massacre (2012), Home (2008), Alone (2020), Breakdown (1997), Tailgate (2019), Desperation (2006).
Best films
List of highway movies
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Best friends Emily and Lesley go on a road trip to the desert. When Emily decides to get off the highway and take a "short cut," they become the target of a relentless and psychotic trucker who forces them to play a deadly game of cat and ...
Style:
scary, bleak, slasher, exciting
Plot:
highway, road rage, suspense, friend, best friends, hit and run, night, death, road trip, murder, false accusation, desert ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When a group of friends decides to follow a car they've seen posted on an Amber Alert, things start to go very wrong.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
highway, found footage, mysterious man, missing child, friendship, confined, group of friends, violence, psychopath, murder, rescue, car ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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71K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A case of road rage turns into full-blown terror when an unstable driver follows a woman and her son.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, road movie, tense ...
Plot:
psychopath, suspense, road rage, driving, mentally unstable, threat, car chase, maniac, survival, violence, stalker, woman in danger ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
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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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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Five college friends take a detour while traveling to their spring break destination. They end up in the remote mountain town of Blueridge, where Karen (Marina Resa) believes her older sister went missing 2 years before. After a few odd encounters ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, road movie
Plot:
highway, murder, uncover truth, suspense, group of friends, missing girl, hotel, zombie, redneck, terror, serial killer, killer ...
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5K
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) and Michel (Olivier Gourmet) live with their three children in a remote house next to an abandoned highway using it as an extension to their property. One day without warning, construction workers begin to upgrade the road ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, realistic, stylized, surreal ...
Plot:
highway, isolated house, car, house, traffic, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, privacy invasion, family life, eccentric family, rebellion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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22K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, dark, scary ...
Plot:
suspense, trapped, kidnapping, chase, survival, hunter, kidnapped woman, road rage, psychopath, highway, struggle for survival, maniac ...
Place:
oregon
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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: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A cocksure, road-raging family man finds himself pursued and terrorized by the vengeful van driver he chooses to tailgate.
Style:
slasher, brutal, road movie, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
road rage, driving, highway, suspense, psychopath, serial killer, chase, car chase, stalker, mental illness, threat, woman in danger ...
Place:
netherlands
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, splatter ...
Plot:
small town, sheriff, highway, curses spells and rituals, survival, supernatural, mine, murder, mysterious character, family in danger, chinese, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nevada, usa, vietnam, salt lake city utah
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73K
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, atmospheric, exciting, psychological, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, car chase, truck, chase, road rage, car, psychopath, truck driver, survival, stalking, highway, mysterious villain ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, canada, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Germán, an honest family man, sees how his whole world wobbles the night when, driving home, accidentally runs over two teenage girls. From that moment, Germán will have to do everything in his power to prevent his life from being destroyed ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
highway, accident, police investigation, teenager, birthday, birthday party, youth, suspense, society, life is a bitch, disorder, parents and children ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
Style:
road movie, talky, philosophical, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot:
highway, friendship, wilderness, isolation, character study, forest, workplace, workplace situations, buddies, driver, letter, friendship between men ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place:
texas, austin texas, new jersey, usa
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Genre: Action, 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, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, hitchhiker, desert, psychopath, insanity, macabre, chase, stalking, paranoia, car chase, psycho killer, suspense ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, california, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Style:
road movie, surreal, witty, enigmatic, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
road trip, dream girl, self discovery, life philosophy, alternate reality, choice, wish come true, self fulfillment, on the road, hopes, alternate dimension, twists and turns ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Charlie and Rachel run away from home to get married in Las Vegas. But they get attacked by a zombie who takes Rachel with him to hell, where she will become one of Satan's brides
Style:
semi serious, scary, road movie, campy, humorous ...
Plot:
zombie, supernatural, rescue, undead, chase, fiance fiancee relationship, woman in danger, on the road, legends and myths, good versus evil, dark humor, demon ...
Place:
las vegas, 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, surprise ending, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
evil wins, truck driver, truck, psychopath, serial killer, sadistic horror, psycho killer, road rage, murder, graphic violence, highway, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
While driving through the kilometer 31 of a lonely road, Agata Hameran hits a boy. She leaves her car to help the victim and another car runs over her and she falls in a deep coma. Her twin sister Catalina telepathically feels the pain of Agata and ...
Style:
scary, serious, enigmatic, bleak, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, twins, murder, teenage life, haunted by the past, supernatural, afterlife, vengeance, isolation, estrangement, supernatural power, coma ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Three mountain men live a simple life in a forest, until a construction crew shows up to make a park, and the men are prepared to defend their land and lifestyle by any means necessary.
Style:
slasher
Plot:
highway, hicksploitation, redneck, woman with a gun, nightmare, murder, mountain, hillbilly, construction, accidental death, construction worker, hitchhiking ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway.
Style:
slasher, road movie, psychotronic, neo noir, perverse ...
Plot:
truck, serial killer, murder, on the road, hitchhiking, australian outback, suspicion, highway, strangulation, paranoia, framed for murder, van ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, melbourne australia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When his wife goes into a troubled labor while he is on the road over 1200 miles away James Kowalski, an ex race car driver and a former Army Ranger, attempts to elude police while trying to get home. After numerous chases he turns into a Native ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, road movie, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police chase, car chase, on the road, chase, obsessive quest, highway, americana, getting home, law enforcement, fighting the system, race against time, car ...
Time:
90s
Place:
albuquerque new mexico
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. ...
Style:
road movie, suspenseful, entertaining, stylized, humorous ...
Plot:
car, cult, distopia, car chase, rivalry, dark hero, visceral, exploitation, reckless driving, contests and competitions, car racing, highway ...
Time:
future, 70s, 20th century, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
Style:
psychological, serious, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, mind game, police investigation, on the run, dishonesty, chase, law enforcement, rivalry, who done it, desert ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, nevada
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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, emotional, motivational ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
road trip, disney, old age, on the road, small town, brother brother relationship, family feud, illness, reconciliation, travel, nature, highway ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
iowa, mississippi, usa, wisconsin
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A man with a dark past hitches a ride that turns into a road trip to hell and leads him to the revelation of a family secret of biblical proportions.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
hitchhiker, supernatural, redemption, murder, death of father, supernatural power, highway, guilt, suspense, evil child, devil, preacher ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a GPS with a mind of its own.
Style:
road movie, feel good, humorous, captivating, light
Plot:
road trip, love, one night stand, infidelity, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, sexual attraction, cheating wife, marriage, on the road, middle age romance, highway ...
Place:
florida, new york, atlantic ocean
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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, emotional, sexy, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
road trip, friendship, feminism, female friendship, fugitives, rape, escapades, gender, women, female protagonist, waitress, revenge ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
arizona, southern usa, oklahoma, california, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a carful of maniacs.
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
witnessing a crime, psychopath, gang, kidnapping, woman in danger, serial killer, missing person, rescue, family in danger, hostage, father son relationship, road trip ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.
Style:
twist ending, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, dark
Plot:
urban legend, suspense, friendship, legends and myths, legend, mysterious man, highway, supernatural, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, fear, college ...
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