ROAD FILMS


Examples



Road Films
Part 1 | Examples

Selection of Greatest Road Films:


Greatest Early Road Films:
It Happened One Night (1934)
You Only Live Once (1937)
Persons in Hiding (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The 'Road to..." Movies (1940-1947, 1952, 1962)
They Drive By Night (1940)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Detour (1945)
Gun Crazy (1949)
They Live by Night (1949)
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
La Strada (1954, It.) (aka The Road)
The Wild One (1954)
Bus Stop (1956)
Wild Strawberries (1957, Swe.)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
The Searchers (1958)
Thunder Road (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)

Greatest Recent Road Films:
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
The Sadist (1963) (aka Profile of Terror)
The Great Race (1965)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Easy Rider (1969)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Duel (1971)
Two Lane Blacktop (1971)
The Vanishing Point (1971)
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
The Getaway (1972)
Badlands (1973)
American Graffiti (1973)
The Last Detail (1973)
Paper Moon (1973)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Big Bad Mama (1974)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Harry & Tonto (1974)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
Thieves Like Us (1974)
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)
Cannonball (1976)
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Coast to Coast (1980)
Bustin' Loose (1981)
The Cannonball Run (1981)
48 Hours (1982) (aka 48 Hrs.)
The Road Warrior (1982) (aka Mad Max 2 (1981))
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Fandango (1985)
Lost in America (1985)
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
The Sure Thing (1985)
Crossroads (1986)
Something Wild (1986)
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)
Midnight Run (1988)
Rain Man (1988)
Powwow Highway (1989)
Coupe de Ville (1990)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Dutch (1991) (aka Driving Me Crazy)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Guncrazy (1992)
The Living End (1992)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
Josh and S.A.M. (1993)
Kalifornia (1993)
True Romance (1993)
The Vanishing (1993)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
The Chase (1994)
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
The Getaway (1994)
Love and a .45 (1994)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Boys on the Side (1995)
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
Crash (1996)
Flirting With Disaster (1996)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Smoke Signals (1998)
The Straight Story (1999)
Tumbleweeds (1999)
Almost Famous (2000)
Duets (2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Road Trip (2000)
Joy Ride (2001)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001, Mex.)
About Schmidt (2002)
Crossroads (2002)
Interstate 60 (2002)
Twentynine Palms (2003, Fr.)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Sideways (2004)
Broken Flowers (2005)
Borat (2006)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
The Bucket List (2007)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Death Proof (2007)
Five Dollars a Day (2008)
The Lucky Ones (2008)
My One and Only (2009)
Ready or Not (2009)
Due Date (2010)
Cloudburst (2011, Can/US)
Nebraska (2013)
Grandma (2015)
Magic Mike XXL (2015)
Paper Towns (2015)
Green Book (2018)
Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood (2019)




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