Films with theme "Road movies", sorted by rating

, 2h21
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes La provence, Transport films, L'usurpation d'identité, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Amy Adams, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye

In 1963, teen-aged Frank Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) lives in New Rochelle, New York with his father Frank Abagnale, Sr. (Christopher Walken), and French mother Paula (Nathalie Baye). When Frank Sr. is denied a business loan at Chase Manhattan Bank due to unknown difficulties with the IRS, the family is forced to move from their large home to a small apartment. Paula carries on an affair with Jack (James Brolin), a friend of her husband. Meanwhile, Frank poses as a substitute teacher in his French class. Frank’s parents file for divorce, and Frank runs away. When he runs out of money, he begins relying on confidence scams to get by. Soon, Frank’s cons increase and he even impersonates an airline pilot. He forges Pan Am payroll checks and succeeds in stealing over $2.

Directed by Ken Burns
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology, Road movies
Actors Tom Hanks, Keith David, Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, John Cullum, Amy Madigan

, 1h47
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Margo Stilley, Claire Keelan, Kerry Shale, Ben Stiller

In an attempt to impress his American girlfriend, Mischa, actor Steve Coogan accepts a commission from the Sunday newspaper, The Observer, to undertake a tour of leading restaurants in the north of England for a column in their monthly food magazine. However, when Mischa, who was expected to accompany Coogan on the tour, insists that they take a break from their relationship and returns to America, Coogan is obliged to search for another companion. After finding that other friends are "busy", he decides with feelings of some ambivalence to invite his former colleague, Rob Brydon, with whom he shares an uneasily competitive relationship. In the course of the trip, they eat a series of gourmet meals and visit sites linked to the Romantic poets Coleridge and Wordsworth, Coogan has casual sex with a couple of women working at their hotels, and the two men indulge in various forms of one-upmanship, including exchanging impersonations of famous actors such as Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, Woody Allen and most notably Michael Caine. At the end of the trip, Brydon returns to a nondescript suburban home and his evidently loving wife and child, while Coogan comes back to a glamorous but lonely riverside apartment: the closing shots show him staring broodingly out of the window. In the end he calls back his agent to reject a deal for the lead role in a US drama to remain close with his family.

Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Documentary films about sports, Documentary films about technology, Road movies

"I Am Dale Earnhardt" creuse profondément au-delà de la légende pour révéler la figure complexe au cœur de "The Intimidator". Il était une idole pour des millions, mais un méchant pour d'autres ; le héros d'un travailleur, mais aussi un chouchou de Madison Avenue ; un mari, un père et un ami, mais aussi un homme solitaire que peu connaissaient vraiment. Sa mort tragique dans le dernier tour du Daytona 500 2001 a envoyé des ondes de choc à travers le pays et l'a immortalisé comme l'une des plus grandes stars que NASCAR ait jamais connues.

, 2h4
Directed by Gérard Oury
Origin France
Genres War, Comedy, Adventure, Historical
Themes French war films, Military humor in film, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Motocyclette, Political films, Road movies, Buddy films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Terry-Thomas, André Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Mike Marshall, Helmuth Schneider, Claudio Brook

Summer 1941. Over Nazi-occupied France, a Royal Air Force B17 Flying Fortress becomes lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. The crew, Sir Reginald, Peter Cunningham and Alan MacIntosh, parachute out over the city, where they run into and are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, and the grumbling conductor of the Opéra National de Paris, Stanislas Lefort. Involuntarily, Lefort and Bouvet get themselves tangled up in the manhunt against the aviators led by Wehrmacht Major Achbach as they help the airmen to escape to the free zone with the help of Resistance fighters and sympathisers.

, 2h7
Directed by John Landis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Le blues, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films, Chase films
Actors John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve Lawrence, Murphy Dunne

"Joliet" Jake Blues (John Belushi) is released from prison after serving three years for armed robbery. Jake is irritated at being picked up by his brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) in the Bluesmobile, a battered former Mount Prospect police car, instead of the Cadillac the brothers used to own. The brothers visit their childhood home, a Roman Catholic orphanage, and learn that it will be closed unless $5,000 in property taxes is collected. The brothers visit an evangelical church service where Jake has an epiphany: they can legitimately raise the funds by re-forming their rhythm and blues band. Elwood calls the quest "a mission from God.

, 2h22
Directed by Imtiaz Ali
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies, Bollywood
Actors Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Dara Singh, Pavan Malhotra, Kiran Juneja, Saumya Tandon

Aditya Kashyap ( Shahid Kapoor) a wealthy industrialist meets his girlfriend at her wedding to another man. Depressed he boards a train without any ticket and while in the train, he bumps into Geet Dhillon( Kareena Kapoor) who is a talkative Punjabi girl who lives in a world of dreams. Initially Aditya finds Geet very irritating because Geet is continually talking without Aditya showing much interest.

, 2h2
Directed by Cameron Crowe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies, Films about virginity
Actors Patrick Fugit, Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand, Jason Lee, Philip Seymour Hoffman

In 1973, William Miller is a 15-year-old boy aspiring to be a rock journalist. His mother, Elaine, wants him to become a lawyer. Shunned by his classmates, he writes for underground papers in San Diego, sharing the love of rock music instilled in him through a gift of albums left behind on the day his sister Anita left home.

, 2h1
Directed by Tony Scott
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Road movies, Gangster films
Actors Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt

Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) watches a Sonny Chiba triple feature at a Detroit movie theater on his birthday where he meets Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette). They go to a diner and flirt with each other. At Clarence's apartment they have sex. She confesses that she is a call girl hired by Clarence's boss as his birthday present. Each claims to have fallen in love and they marry and express their commitment with one another by getting tattoos. An apparition of Elvis Presley (Val Kilmer) tells Clarence that killing her pimp will make the world a better place.

, 1h45
Directed by Andreï Zviaguintsev
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Ivan Dobronravov, Vladimir Garine, Konstantin Lavronenko

In contemporary Russia, Ivan and his older brother Andrei have grown a deep attachment to each other to make up for their fatherless childhood. Both their mother and grandmother live with them. After running home after a fight with each other, the boys are shocked to discover their father has returned after a 12-year absence. With their mother's uneasy blessing, Ivan and Andrei set out on what they believe will be a simple fishing vacation with him.

, 1h50
Directed by Wim Wenders
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Photographie
Actors Rüdiger Vogler, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl, Wim Wenders, Lois Moran, Peter Handke

German writer Philip Winter has missed his publisher's deadline for writing an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and encounters a German woman, Lisa, and her daughter, Alice, who are both doing the same thing. After Lisa leaves Alice temporarily in Phil's care, it quickly becomes apparent that he will have to look after her for longer than he expected. Phil finds himself stuck with Alice, searching various cities of Germany for her grandmother, whose name and address Alice cannot remember. The only clue they have is a photograph of her grandmother's front door with no house number and no one in the shot.

, 1h30
Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Jimmy Conlin, Franklin Pangborn

John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) is a popular young Hollywood director of profitable but shallow comedies (e.g. Ants in Your Plants of 1939). Sullivan is dissatisfied despite his success and tells his studio boss, Mr. Lebrand (Robert Warwick) that he wants his next project to be a serious exploration of the plight of the downtrodden. He asks to make his next film an adaptation of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a socially-conscious novel. Lebrand wants him to direct another lucrative comedy instead, but the idealistic Sullivan refuses to give in. He wants to "know trouble" first-hand, and plans to travel as a tramp so he can return and make a film that truly depicts the sorrows of humanity. His butler (Robert Greig) and valet (Eric Blore) openly question the wisdom of his plan.

, 2h7
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama
Themes Inspiré de l'univers des contes et légendes, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Gerasimos Skiadaresis, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Michael Giannatos, Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996)

Pubescent Voula (Tania Palaiologou) and her five-year-old brother Alexandros (Michalis Zeke) want to see their father, whom they have never met before. Their mother tells them he lives in Germany and so Voula and Alexandros one day secretely leave their home to find him. They go to the Athens Railway Station and try to use the Germany Express, but are removed from the train for not having a ticket. A police officer takes them to a distant uncle, who convinces the officer that the children do not have a father in Germany. He informs him that their mother lied to them, to prevent them from knowing the truth: that they have different fathers and are simply the results of one-night stands. Although Voula and Alexandros eavesdrop on the conversation, they still believe their mother and believe the uncle is lying. When a blizzard suddenly hits the village and no more attention is paid to them, the children manage to escape.

, 2h
Directed by Aparna Sen
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Musical films, Road movies, Bollywood
Actors Rahul Bose, Konkona Sen Sharma, Bhisham Sahni, Surekha Sikri, Anjan Dutt, Bharat Kaul

Meenakshi Iyer (Konkona Sen Sharma), with her infant son, Santhanam, embarks on a bus journey to return to her husband, from her parents' place. At the bus station, Meenakshi and Raja Chowdhury (Rahul Bose) get introduced to each other through a common friend. Raja, a wildlife photographer, is requested by Meenakshi's parents to look after their daughter and baby grandson during the journey.

, 1h44
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Documentary films about sports, Road movies
Actors Jared Leto

The film charts the build up to the 2010 races, and then documents each of the races and their results. These take place along public roads through the Isle of Man, covering 37.73 miles of terrain, and packed with thousands of spectators who have come from all over the world. Using 3D technology, Closer to the Edge captures the 2010 races and attempts to show what motivates the racers.