Road Movie Bucket List

Watch the 2020 film Nomadland, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2021.

An old professor drives to receive an honour and revisits his life in dreams.

A pianist and his bouncer-driver tour the 1962 Deep South with the Negro Motorist Green Book.

A hustler drives his autistic savant brother across America and turns into a person.

Watch the film Wild at Heart directed by David Lynch

Watch The Straight Story, a 1999 American road drama film directed by David Lynch

A saxophonist, a runaway and a petty thief rob their way to the sea; the second flop before Joint Security Area.

Norah Jones drives across America after a breakup; Wong's English-language road film.

Pee-wee Herman crosses America after his bicycle is stolen; Burton's first feature.

Hunter S. Thompson's drug run to Las Vegas, with Depp and Del Toro.

Agnes Varda and the photographer JR paste giant portraits on French villages.

Young Che Guevara rides across South America in 1952; Gael Garcia Bernal and Walter Salles.

A cowherd and a student dream of Paris on a motorbike with horns; Senegal's New Wave.

A letter writer at Rio's station takes an orphan across Brazil to find his father.

Christopher McCandless walks into Alaska and the abandoned bus; Sean Penn's adaptation of Krakauer.

An old Wolverine and a dying Professor X on a road trip; the superhero film as western.

Bruce Dern drives to collect a sweepstakes prize that does not exist, in black and white.

A family drives a VW bus to a child beauty pageant; the push-start.

Two friends on a wine tour of Santa Barbara; the film that hurt Merlot sales.

Harry Dean Stanton walks out of the desert; the peep-show conversation with Nastassja Kinski.

Two women, a Thunderbird and the Grand Canyon; Ridley Scott's road movie that ends in the air.

Sissy Spacek narrates a killing spree across the Dakota plains; Malick's debut.

Kermit crosses America by bicycle to Hollywood; "Rainbow Connection".

Jack Nicholson as an oil-rig worker who was once a concert pianist; the chicken salad scene.

Belmondo and Karina drive south in primary colours; Godard at his most alive.

Two bikers ride to New Orleans with Jack Nicholson in tow; the counterculture on film.

Two teenagers and an older woman drive to a beach that may not exist.

A 15-year-old is sent on tour by Rolling Stone and grows up on the bus.

A runaway heiress and a reporter on a bus; the romantic comedy blueprint, and the first clean sweep of the big five.

A salesman is hunted down a desert highway by a truck with no visible driver.