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 road movie, suspense, serious, realistic, intense and entertaining films and TV shows about / with car journey, road trip, cigarette smoking, survival, violence, on the road, runaway, redemption, flashback and brutality plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Finland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as car journey: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Rocky Road to Berlin (2024), American Idiots (2013), Adventure or Luxury (2017), The Fearway (2023), What Lies Ahead (2019), The Man in the Hat (2020), In the Affirmative (1964), Kafou (2017), Berlin Falling (2017).
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List of car journey movies
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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Genre: Adventure
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of the novice musician Kuzma. Three days before the planned concert he goes with his friend Bard to Berlin for the old car "Pobeda". It is said that there is a collector ready to exchange the yellow beast for the Mercedes-Benz ...
Style:
emotional, comedy drama, indie film, uplifting, poignant ...
Plot:
road trip, self discovery, car journey, coming of age, identity, friendship, personal growth, aspiring musician, love interest, bittersweet, nostalgia, vintage car ...
Place:
berlin germany, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Four friends embark on a cross-country journey to Las Vegas in an old RV to stop a wedding and save a friend from losing the love of his life.
Style:
buddy comedy, road movie, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, race against time, masturbation, friends, travel and leisure, relationships, car journey, cross country trip, travel, traveler, highway travel ...
Place:
usa, las vegas
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Genre: Adventure
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Russ Malkin, experienced television adventurer and Charley Speed, award-winning supermodel are chalk and cheese when it comes to travel.
Style:
exciting, light, feel good, entertaining, witty ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
travel, road trip, television, luxury, travel and leisure, journey, traveler, adventure hero, joyride, car trip, tv host, trip ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A young couple travelling down the freeway seem to be unable to get off the road after being hunted by someone intent on keeping them on the road.
Style:
tense, road movie, suspense, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
couples, highway, pursuit, chase, entrapment, on the road, car journey, travel, road trip, time warp, time, road accident ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When two young women embark on a road trip from Georgia to New York, an unseen peril emerges that grows stronger with each passing mile.
Style:
bleak, serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
road trip, travel, women, woman, woman with a gun, female protagonist, car journey, traveler, cross country trip, highway travel, female friendship, isolation ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Man In The Hat sets off from Marseilles in a small Fiat 500. On the seat beside him is a framed photograph of an unknown woman. Behind him is a 2CV into which is squeezed Five Bald Men. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off? As ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
french countryside, journey, travel and leisure, traveler, cross country trip, car journey, machine, hunted, travel, car, pursuit, automobile ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The film is a road movie that follows a middle aged man who gives a young woman a lift. On the car radio, news bulletins warn the population against a recently escaped sadist who is known to prey on young women and children. Lelouch often cuts away ...
Style:
road movie, suspense, tension, noir
Plot:
car journey, isolation, young woman, mistrust, chance meeting, paranoia, character study, minimalism, moral ambiguity, social commentary, car, woman ...
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Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Haiti
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
Doc and Zoe are just hired for the night to deliver an unknown package. At a crossroad, they stumble upon a dog. In Haiti, each crossroad requires a sacrifice.
Style:
suspense, independent film, atmospheric, road movie, dark ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, sacrifice, car journey, moral dilemma, street life, social commentary, realism, character study, urban decay, claustrophobia, minimal dialogue, slow burn ...
Place:
latin america, haiti
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Frank left his life as a soldier behind and wants to rebuild his life in Brandenburg. He is on his way to meet his daughter, Lily, after a long time of not seeing her. As he stops at a gas station he meets Andreas, who needs a ride to Berlin. ...
Style:
suspense, serious, disturbing, tension, rough ...
Plot:
male male relationship, post traumatic stress disorder, nothing goes right, characters in danger, drinking problem, social problems, breaking the law, weapons, kidnapping, hostage, war veteran, road trip ...
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A family with a past and trauma, encounters a series of strange incidences, in a car journey on their way home and runs into trouble in a windmills farm.
Style:
tense, creepy, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
trauma, family drama, road trip, protective parent, isolation, supernatural, car journey, claustrophobia, haunting, survival, slow burn, supernatural horror ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Uganda
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
As word spreads that there is a serial killer at large who continues to commit murder, an off-duty police officer must return an elderly witness who lives in a remote part of Uganda back to town. Along the way, the policeman gives a ride to an ...
Style:
road movie, tension, suspense, psychological thriller, twist ending ...
Plot:
serial killer, secrets, car journey, deception, moral ambiguity, murder, claustrophobia, slow burn, interrogation, single, isolation, investigation ...
Place:
africa, uganda
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on true events, Yolda is the story of Yilmaz Guney, at the time the most celebrated filmmaker in Turkey, and the final years of his life in prison.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, intense, period piece, road movie ...
Plot:
biopic, authoritarianism, oppression, political repression, character study, kurd, surveillance, exile, resistance, tragic hero, human rights, autobiography ...
Place:
kurdistan
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The Enos duo convince Cletus, aka The Bandit, to come out of hiding and help them promote their new restaurant. With a little coaxing, he agrees, producing an almost-creaky Trigger as his mode of transport. But his nemesis, Sheriff Buford T. ...
Style:
road movie, action comedy, fast, realistic, not serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, road trip, female nudity, sheriff, on the road, pursuit, fish, retirement, nudist, car chase, ku klux klan, trucker ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
texas, florida, usa, miami
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The first motion picture film by Agnieszka Holland about loneliness, longing for affection, and misfortune. Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with a inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, ...
Style:
bleak
Plot:
loneliness, poverty, alienation, isolation, social realism, female protagonist, single mother, theft, tragic romance, working class, melancholy, desperation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
eastern europe, west berlin west germany, poland
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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, thought provoking, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
female protagonist, on the road, border crossing, border, taxi, breakup, society, friendship, political unrest, culture clash, storytelling, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
israel, jordan, jerusalem, palestine, middle east ...
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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, musician, showbiz, artists and showbiz, amusement park, couple relations, filmmaker, road trip, art, on the road, rock ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, germany, lisbon portugal, europe
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35K
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, 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, spoof, funny, teen sex comedy, satirical ...
Audience:
kids, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
spy, time travel, reluctant partners, cloning, james bond spoof, time machine, spy spoof, female spy, secret agent, sexual joke, satire, save the world ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 60s, 20th century, year 1969 ...
Place:
seattle, big ben london, washington d.c., london
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72K
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:
disturbing, erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexuality, hospital, erotica, obsession, sex, lust, car accident, sexual perversion, sex scene, female nudity, husband wife relationship, deviant sex ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place:
los angeles, canada
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167K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he’s just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. ...
Style:
road movie, crime drama, exciting, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
old man, drug cartel, drug smuggling, drug, dea, drug crime, pickup truck, mexican drug cartel, police, driver, cartel, mountain ...
Time:
2000s, year 2017, 2010s, year 2005, year 1958
Place:
mexico, texas, chicago, el paso texas, south america ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, talky, clever, stylized ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
billiards, gambling, casino, hustler, on the road, scam, possessiveness, great ending, mentor, business, manipulation, road trip ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place:
chicago, atlantic city new jersey, usa, california
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Vacation turns disaster when Houston grad Kyle and her friends survive a plane crash in the desolate Louisiana everglades, only to discover there's something way more dangerous lurking in the shallows.
Style:
absurd
Plot:
alligator, airplane crash, animal attack, swamp monster, survival horror, raft, burned alive, gas station, plane crash survivor, female college student, college student, map ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and ...
Style:
parody, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, mutant, apocalypse, chaos, dystopian future, dark humor, danger, wasteland, post-apocalyptic future, survivor, private detective ...
Time:
future, year 1985, 1940s, year 1986, 80s ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. ...
Style:
epic, slapstick, road movie, funny, spoof ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
swashbuckler, royalty, car, racing, sword fight, auto racing, mechanic, on the road, race, steampunk, cowboy, duel ...
Time:
1900s, turn of the century, victorian era, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, paris france, alaska, siberia, america ...
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263K
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, Finland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
Style:
epic, thrilling, independent film, road movie, suspense ...
Plot:
civil war, war photographer, fictional war, president, photojournalist, dystopia, violence, soldier, photographer, journalist, white house, photograph ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
washington d.c., west virginia, brooklyn new york city, texas, new york ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.
Style:
dark, atmospheric, serious, satanic, tense ...
Plot:
devil, good versus evil, prophecy, angel, afterlife, supernatural, god, religion, vicious, christianity, religions or cults, heaven ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, arizona, california
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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:
psychological, realistic, serious
Plot:
nature, wilderness, forest, freedom, rabbit, lapland, survival, nordic, midlife crisis, woods, introspection, misfit ...
Time:
70s
Place:
scandinavia, finland, europe, helsinki finland
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1.2M
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, suspense, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
isolation, hotel, insanity, supernatural, psychopath, stephen king, ghost, snow, imaginary friend, danger, evil, haunting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, persia, usa, miami ...
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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 ...
Style:
black and white
Plot:
jealousy, parent grown child relationship, department store, lust, hitchhiking, arrest, nudity, father son relationship, middle aged man, missing son, extramarital affair, dead body ...
Time:
60s
Place:
finland
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