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25 films tagged road trip
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2006 · Comedy
A family who can barely stand each other drive a failing camper van from New Mexico to California so the youngest can enter a children's beauty pageant. Everyone is having their own bad year.
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2024 · Comedy
Two cousins who have drifted apart take a group tour of Poland to see the town their grandmother left. It is mostly the two of them talking, funny and awkward by turns.
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2000 · Drama
A fifteen-year-old talks a music magazine into sending him on tour with a rising rock band in 1973, without mentioning how old he is. Warm and funny, and most of it happens on the bus.
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2022 · Horror
Two young cannibals meet in 1980s America and drive its back roads together, keeping clear of towns and of others like them. A road film and a first-love story, with a lot of blood in it.
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2021 · Drama
A radio reporter travelling the country interviewing children ends up looking after his nine-year-old nephew for a while. Black and white, quiet, and mostly the two of them talking.
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2016 · Drama
A father raising six children off the grid in the forest has to bring them into ordinary America for the first time. Funny and sad in the same scene, and mostly about what the kids make of him.
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2015 · Romance
A young shop assistant in 1950s New York sells a train set to an elegant woman in the middle of a divorce, and the two start seeing each other. It moves slowly and much of it is glances across rooms.
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2024 · War
Four journalists drive from New York to Washington through a United States at war with itself, trying to reach the president before the fighting does. A road trip, with quiet stretches between loud ones.
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2022 · Drama
A grey donkey is taken from the circus where he worked and passes from one owner to the next across Poland and Italy. There is barely any dialogue and no plot to speak of; you watch what happens to him.
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2018 · Drama
A Bronx bouncer takes a job driving a Black concert pianist through the American South in 1962, guided by a book listing where he is allowed to stop. Two men in a car, talking, for most of it.
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2013 · Drama
A folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village sleeps on other people's sofas, plays a set most nights, and cannot get a record to sell. A week of his life, mostly cold streets and a cat he cannot shake off.
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2017 · Action
An old Wolverine drives a limo near the Mexican border and hides a sick Professor X across it, until a girl with familiar habits needs taking north. A road movie, and much more violent than the ones before.
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2016 · Science fiction
A father takes his eight-year-old son and runs, chased by the church the boy was raised in and by the government. It explains very little, and much of it happens on back roads at night.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2019 · Horror
A grieving American woman tags along with her boyfriend and his friends to a midsummer festival at a remote Swedish commune where the sun barely sets. Long, very bright, and it takes its time.
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2020 · Drama
A seventeen-year-old from small-town Pennsylvania takes the bus to New York with her cousin to get an abortion she cannot get at home. Very little talking, and a great deal of waiting around.
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2020 · Drama
After her town in Nevada empties out, a woman in her sixties packs her life into a van and takes seasonal work across the American west. Not much plot, real people playing themselves, a lot of sky.
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2002 · Crime
An enforcer for an Illinois mob boss in 1931 takes to the road with his twelve-year-old son after a job goes wrong. Slow and quiet, and it tells you more with pictures than with dialogue.
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2004 · Comedy
Two old friends spend a week driving round California wine country before one of them gets married, one talking about wine and the other chasing women. Mostly conversation, and it wanders.
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2022 · Animation
A teenage girl in a seaside town finds a door standing on its own in some ruins, and ends up crossing Japan closing others like it. Big weather, big feelings, and a talking three-legged chair.
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2007 · Comedy
Three brothers who have not spoken since their father's funeral take a train across India on a trip the eldest has planned to the minute. Symmetrical shots, dry jokes, and a lot of luggage.
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2004 · Drama
Two Argentine friends set off up the length of South America on an old motorbike in 1952, one of them a medical student named Ernesto Guevara. Sunny and slow, mostly landscape and conversation.
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2009 · Drama
A man and his young son walk south through a burnt-out America years after everything died, pushing a shopping trolley and hiding from other people. Grey, quiet, and bleak from start to finish.
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2019 · Animation
Woody's new kid makes a toy out of a plastic fork, and when it runs off he sets out to bring it back. Bright and funny, with a long stretch in an antiques shop and a carnival.
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2001 · Drama
Two teenage boys in Mexico City talk an older woman into driving to a beach that may not exist, and the three of them set off. A road trip with a lot of sex talk and a narrator who cuts in.
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2009 · Comedy
A nervous young man with a long list of survival rules crosses a ruined America with a stranger who mainly wants a snack cake. Jokey, quick, and never far from a fight.
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