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 hustler drives his autistic savant brother across America and turns into a person.
A pianist and his bouncer-driver tour the 1962 Deep South with the Negro Motorist Green Book.
Watch The Straight Story, a 1999 American road drama film directed by David Lynch
Watch the film Wild at Heart 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.
Hunter S. Thompson's drug run to Las Vegas, with Depp and Del Toro.
Pee-wee Herman crosses America after his bicycle is stolen; Burton's first feature.
Norah Jones drives across America after a breakup; Wong's English-language road film.
Agnes Varda and the photographer JR paste giant portraits on French villages.
A cowherd and a student dream of Paris on a motorbike with horns; Senegal's New Wave.
Young Che Guevara rides across South America in 1952; Gael Garcia Bernal and Walter Salles.
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.
Bruce Dern drives to collect a sweepstakes prize that does not exist, in black and white.
An old Wolverine and a dying Professor X on a road trip; the superhero film as western.
Two women, a Thunderbird and the Grand Canyon; Ridley Scott's road movie that ends in the air.
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.
Kermit crosses America by bicycle to Hollywood; "Rainbow Connection".
Belmondo and Karina drive south in primary colours; Godard at his most alive.
Jack Nicholson as an oil-rig worker who was once a concert pianist; the chicken salad scene.
Sissy Spacek narrates a killing spree across the Dakota plains; Malick's debut.
Two bikers ride to New Orleans with Jack Nicholson in tow; the counterculture on film.
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.
Two teenagers and an older woman drive to a beach that may not exist.
A salesman is hunted down a desert highway by a truck with no visible driver.
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