Car journey movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant car journey movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, road movie, serious, weird, cult film and humorous films and TV shows about / with car journey, chase, dialogue, storytelling, culture clash, redemption, mentor, catastrophe, runaway and road trip plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, France, Finland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as car journey: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Traffic (1971), No Man's Land (2013), Free Zone (2005), Wild at Heart (1990), Boys on the Side (1995), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), Lisbon Story (1994), Sorcerer (1977), Are We There Yet? (2005).
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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, light, funny, touching ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
road trip, thanksgiving, travel, holiday, train, buddy, snow, airplane, on the road, railway, husband wife relationship, airport ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, illinois, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mr. Hulot is the head designer of the Altra Automotive Co. His latest invention is a newfangled camper car loaded with outrageous extra features. Along with the company's manager and publicity model, Hulot sets out from Paris with the intention ...
Style:
road movie, stylized, sexy, light, intense ...
Plot:
car, art, satire, on the road, technology, twists and turns, truck, time, creativity, dreams, adaptation, memory ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
amsterdam, france, paris france, new jersey, europe ...
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: China
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The film starts with a story about how two monkeys band together and cooperate to survive in the wild, which is used to illustrate how human society is formed. By casting its characters in a desolate, uninhabited no man's land, the film ...
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, lawyer, disorder, escapades, on the road, twists and turns, murder, law enforcer killer, faked death, buddhism, chinese, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Shaun gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing
Style:
exciting, serious, entertaining, realistic, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, manly, boys' night
Plot:
car, car chase, car race, street racing, high school, race, newcomer, auto racing, car racing, troublemaker, gangsters, betrayal ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, Belgium, France, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large of sum of money.
Style:
road movie, serious, thought provoking, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
female protagonist, border crossing, on the road, breakup, society, friendship, taxi, israeli, american, culture clash, political unrest, jewish ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
israel, jordan, jerusalem, middle east, saudi arabia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
road movie, surreal, sexy, avant garde, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
surrealism, murder, betrayal, forbidden love, on the run, violence, hallucination, sex scene, rape, domineering mother, hitman, cult ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, new orleans, austin texas, canada, california ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh ...
Style:
road movie, touching, sentimental, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
lesbian, aids, friendship, road trip, pregnancy, women, gay, lgbtq, african american, violence, lgbt, bittersweet ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, pittsburgh, new york, pakistan, los angeles ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe -- '70s kingpin Goldmember. While pursuing the team of villains to stop them from world ...
Style:
parody, humorous, funny, not serious, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
time travel, spy, save the world, father son relationship, undercover, disorder, good versus evil, master villain, heroic mission, espionage, james bond spoof, satire ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1975, 2000s ...
Place:
japan, belgium, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lisbon Story is Wim Wender’s homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterous postcard of a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
filmmaking, movie business, showbiz, artists and showbiz, amusement park, couple relations, musician, road trip, filmmaker, art, rock, car journey ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal, germany, europe
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23K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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, dark, cynical, political ...
Plot:
truck, terrorist, criminal, existentialism, jungle, survival, politics, expedition, oil, mission, bus, bandit ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
south america, nicaragua, paris france, jerusalem, new jersey ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly harrowing New Years Eve. When Suzanne's work keeps her in Vancouver for the holiday, Nick offers to bring her kids to ...
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, road movie ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
children, road trip, mischievous children, on the road, family relations, couple relations, nothing goes right, parents and children, single parent, love and romance, disorder, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, canada, portland oregon, plymouth
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152K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
Style:
surprise ending, exciting, suspenseful, clever, political ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
secret service, terrorism, assassination attempt, conspiracy, bomb, assassination, president, suspense, terrorist, chase, twists and turns, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When diabolical genius, Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo’, Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself – with the help of American agent, Felicity Shagwell – to stop the dastardly plan. ...
Style:
parody, funny, satirical, campy, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night
Plot:
spy, time travel, cloning, secret agents, save the world, clones, satire, james bond spoof, race against time, good versus evil, time machine, heroic mission ...
Time:
90s, 60s, 20th century, year 1999, year 1969 ...
Place:
london, seattle, big ben london, washington d.c.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of ...
Style:
serious, exciting, stylized, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
car chase, chase, car, tough guy, lone hero, gunfight, martial arts, fight scenes, transportation, escapades, tough heroes, fight ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, nice france, hong kong, europe, cannes ...
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62K
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, sexuality, lust, erotica, deviant sex, car accident, sex scene, car, sexual perversion, female nudity, hospital, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic
Plot:
nature, forest, wilderness, survival, midlife crisis, freedom, lapland, rabbit, misfit, introspection, animal life, friends ...
Time:
70s
Place:
finland, europe, helsinki finland
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1.0M
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, psychedelic ...
Plot:
isolation, hotel, insanity, ghost, psychopath, supernatural, suspense, snow, imaginary friend, evil, winter, caretaker ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, usa, florida, miami ...
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120K
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, depressing, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
aging, small town, road trip, dysfunctional family, obsessive quest, honest, relationships, tragedy, eccentricity, elderly, delusion, social relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, montana, california
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Plot:
abortion, pregnancy, abortion rights, feminist, housewife, illegal abortion, woman, doctor, unwanted pregnancy, car journey, lawyer, deception ...
Time:
60s
Place:
chicago illinois
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
Style:
road movie
Plot:
outsider, drifter, ex-lover, on the run, road trip, wanted, stolen painting, revenge, spring, crime boss, winter, bullet wound ...
Time:
80s
Place:
helsinki finland, finland, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.
Style:
art house, emotional, visually appealing, depressing, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay asian, lgbtq, loneliness, love, lgbt, melancholy, sexuality, relationships, gender, couples, gay interest ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, year 1996
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina, hong kong, china, asia ...
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Finland
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Giancarlo Rosso, a professional assassin from Sicily, is sent to Finland to kill a very specific target. When he reaches the country, he discovers that the target is one of his past loves.
Style:
road movie
Plot:
road trip, italian mafia, wounded, bank robbery, assassination attempt, drunk, armed robbery, pizzeria, bullet wound, fish out of water, flashback, one night stand ...
Time:
80s
Place:
sicily, italy, helsinki finland, finland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those of a notorious escapee and alcoholic ex-cop. As the unlikely trio plots a ...
Style:
tense, stylized, neo noir, cerebral, bleak ...
Plot:
heist, gangsters, organized crime, nightclub, robbery, mafia, suspense, thief, gunfight, prison, existentialism, police investigation ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, marseille, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Well-known actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught by a provincial girl’s video plea for help—oppressed by her family to not pursue her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help ...
Style:
sentimental, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, cult film
Plot:
empowerment, social justice, tradition, missing girl, passion, missing person, young girl, actress, family relations, society, friendship, existentialism ...
Time:
2010s, year 1979
Place:
iran
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Shiva, an engineering graduate, is not serious about his job or future even when his friends advise him about life. He falls in love with a girl he saw at a bus stop and finally gets to ride with her in a car.
Style:
romantic, captivating, tense, exciting, feel good ...
Plot:
road trip, fall in love, unemployment, couples, friendship, criminal heroes, love and romance, gangsters, kidnapping, car journey, love interest, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
Style:
road movie, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, stalking, truck, obsession, fear, stepfather stepson relationship, car chase, boy, road trip, killer, obsessive quest, psychopath ...
Time:
70s
Place:
rome italy, paris france, france, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son ...
Plot:
car journey, age difference, affair, hitchhiker, skinny dipping, hidden corpse, summer, femme fatale, morality, police investigation, older man younger woman relationship, menage a trois ...
Time:
60s
Place:
finland
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11K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Strangers trapped at an eerie travel oasis in the desert must unravel the mystery behind their visions of dying people while they are preyed upon by a decaying creature.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, scary, slasher, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, survival, psychopath, youth, confined, murder, characters killed one by one, monster, dead teenager, puzzle, mysticism ...
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.
Style:
scary, splatter, atmospheric, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, post apocalypse, virus, survival, zombie apocalypse, living dead, zombie attack, walking dead, zombie outbreak, plague, shopping mall ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
usa, midwest, wisconsin
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432K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country ...
Style:
feel good, exciting, light, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
car, disney, friendship, car race, small town, happy ending, social relations, mentor, sport, road trip, desert, auto racing ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, 50s
Place:
california, arizona, los angeles, usa
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