Detour (1945), Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992), Friendship! (2010), Coming Through the Rye (2015), Wolf Creek 2 (2013), American Perfekt (1997), Road Games (2015), Riding the Bullet (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Hitchhiking movies.
Storyline: In New York, piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) laments when his singer girlfriend, Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake), leaves for Hollywood, Calif. When Al gets some money, he decides to hitchhike to California to join Sue. In Arizona, Al accepts a ride with Charles Haskell (Edmund MacDonald), but during a storm in a freak accident, Haskell is killed. Frightened, Al assumes Haskell's identity and car, but soon comes upon the mysterious Vera (Ann Savage), who seems to know all about his true identity.
Plot Keywords: pianist, singer, driver, femme fatale, girlfriend, brooding, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Laura's parents divorced when she was eight. Now, at thirteen, she lives with her mother, her stepfather, two stepbrothers, a stepsister, and a half-brother. She used to visit her father, stepmother (third stepmother) and half-sister, but now *another* divorce is in the works, so Laura visits her father and his pregnant girlfriend -- who's only six years older than she is. Who should she feel loyalty to? And is it any wonder she wants to run away from home?—Susan C. Mitchell <susanm@indirect.com>
Plot Keywords: daughter, father, stepbrother, stepfather, stepsister, stepmother, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1989: while all of Germany is celebrating the German Reunification, Veit and Tom set off for America with nothing more than a 100 Deutsch Marks "welcoming money" in their pocket. They are trying to find Veit's Dad who fled long before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Two "Ossis" (East Berliners) on an odyssey through the Land of Freedom and Capitalism, from New York to San Francisco.—Wiedemann & Berg Film
Plot Keywords: man, friend, father, communist, woman, cheery, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 yr. old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at his all boys' boarding school. Disconnected from students and teachers, he believes he is destined to play Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, and has adapted the book as a play. After a series of increasingly hostile altercations with the boys at school Jamie runs away to search for JD Salinger. On his way he picks up Deedee Gorlin, a quirky townie. Their odyssey to find Salinger becomes a journey of sexual awakening, the discovery of love and of the meaning of one's life.
Plot Keywords: teen boy, classmate, teacher, teen girl, hitchhiker, author, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The outback once more becomes a place of horror as another unwitting tourist becomes the prey for crazed, serial-killing pig-hunter Mick Taylor.
Plot Keywords: psychopath, young man, gory, thrilling, australia, hitchhiking, danger ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Psychiatrist Jake (Robert Forster) decides to take a vacation during which he makes all decisions based on a coin toss. Driving through the California desert, he picks up Sandra (Amanda Plummer), who's been run off the road by con man Santini (David Thewlis). When Sandra steals cash from Santini's car, he comes after them. Jake and Sandra develop a bond as they outrace him, but events take a turn for the worse when Sandra disappears and her unstable sister, Alice (Fairuza Balk), turns up.
Plot Keywords: psychiatrist, young woman, sister, sheriff, con artist, unstable woman, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The sun drenched days of summer turn dark and ominous for hitchhiking duo Jack and Véronique when they become inexplicably entangled with a mysterious married couple and a local road kill collector in rural France.
Plot Keywords: hitchhiker, couple, drifter, killer, kidnapper, brutal, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man hitchhiking back home to visit his mother is picked up by a mysterious stranger. As the ride goes on, the young man uncovers a terrible secret about the stranger, and is given a choice by the stranger. A choice that can mean life or death.—Sarah
Plot Keywords: art student, girlfriend, mother, driver, mysterious man, best friend, eerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Go on a cross country adventure with Cher in her first dramatic film, Chastity. Chastity ('Cher') is a lonely young girl who is hitchhiking across the country in hopes of finding someone to love her and make her forget her disturbed past. She does find love with a man whom she calls Andre ('Stephen Whittaker'). Chastity feels that the relationship is getting too serious so she decides to run. She goes to Mexico where she starts working at a whorehouse, there she befriends the strange lesbian owner (Barbara London). Chastity is looking for a mother figure in the woman, but the woman has different feelings for Chastity. She soon realizes that this is not the life for her and decides to return to Andre and try to start a new normal life. Things are good, but not for long as Chastity's dark disturbed past will never let her feel loved by anyone.—Clint Hickman
Plot Keywords: runaway, young woman, brothel owner, good samaritan, truck driver, love interest, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Harkin Banks is a young Idaho farm kid who is also an ace at skiing. He is headed to the freestyle skiing championships in Squaw Valley, CA along with runaway Sunny. He meets his adversary in the form of Rudy, a self centered European skier who doesn't take a liking to Harkin or his new found friends, The Rat Pack, led by veteran Dan O' Callahan. Harkin has many misadventures with Dan and his buddies, but doesn't lose focus in his attempt to get the World Cup.—Pat McCurry <ccgrad97@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: skier, musician, mentor, austrian, stoner, beautiful woman, hedonistic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Years after being traumatized by a hitchhiker, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) is trying to piece his life back together. After being suspended from the police force, he decides to return to Texas to speak with a friend about his problems. He reluctantly agrees to let his girlfriend, Maggie (Kari Wuhrer), join him. As they drive, Maggie lets a stranded driver (Jake Busey) into the car. Halsey becomes suspicious and kicks him out, but the stranger returns, undeterred, to wreak havoc.
Plot Keywords: hitchhiker, truck driver, girlfriend, police officer, sheriff, police captain, dark ...
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