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Road Movies

In the guise of a comedy or drama, a thriller or romance, the road movie acts as a metaphor for life where during the course of the running time, the characters lives are changed forever by the journey that they are taking. People go through love, loss, redemption and salvation. They are on the road of discovery, learning about themselves and adjusting to the changes and hurdles that the road throws up at them. Finally, there is the destination, the goal which makes the journey worthwhile, where closure is provided and a final catharsis occurs; the literal end of the road. However, if this sounds like too much hard work for you and you just want some good, honest car chases with burning rubber and squealing tires, then look no further than "Car Chase Movies". Just click on the link at left. Pictured: Kowalski and his Dodge Challenger in 'Vanishing Point'.

Road Trip (2000)

6.5/10
Director: Todd Phillips
Starring: Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Amy Smart, Rachel Blanchard

Josh (Breckin Meyer) has a major problem - besides the fact that he is in college in Ithaca, NY and his longtime girlfriend, Tiffany, is in Austin TX.... Read more

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

8.1/10
Director: George Miller
Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne

From director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary Mad Max franchise, comes Mad Max: Fury Ro... Read more

Midnight Run (1988)

7.6/10
Director: Martin Brest
Starring: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto

Robert De Niro plays a bounty hunter assigned to find and return Charles Grodin to a sleazy L.A. bail bondsman. Grodin embezzled millions from the Mob... Read more

Natural Born Killers (1994)

7.3/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr, Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore

Dubbed 'A Clockwork Orange' of the 90s, this all-out audio-visual experience is something that comes along all too rarely. Oliver Stone has, with the... Read more

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

7.8/10
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Paul Dan...

A charming black comedy about life, death and junior beauty contests. Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear head an eccentric family that includes a potty-mo... Read more

Nebraska ( Blu-ray ) (2013)

7.7/10
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk, Will Forte, June Squibb

An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marke... Read more

Nurse Betty (2000)

6.2/10
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Chris Rock, Renee Zellweger, Aaron Eckhart, Crispi...

This unpredictable, darkly comic road fantasy centres on Renee Zellweger, a Kansas waitress who becomes delusional after witnessing her husband's murd... Read more

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

8/10
Director: Victor Fleming
Starring: Ray Bolger, Judy Garland, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, Frank Morgan, Mar...

Follow Dorothy over the rainbow and down the Yellow Brick Road, along with the Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, Cowardly Lion and Toto, too, for fun and adven... Read more

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

6.3/10
Director: George Miller, George Ogilvie
Starring: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Angelo Rossitto

The third in the 'Mad Max' Trilogy pits Max (Mel Gibson) against the sadistic Aunty Entity (Tina Turner) while he leads a tribe of wild children to th... Read more

Me, Myself & Irene (2000)

6.6/10
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Starring: Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger, Chris Cooper, Robert Forster

In this comedy from the Farrelly Brothers, Jim Carrey is Charlie, a Rhode Island state trooper whose anger is so repressed that he develops another pe... Read more