Le Grand Voyage (2004), Lost (2005), The Trigger Effect (1996), Road, Movie (2009), Six of a Kind (1934), Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012), Pop Aye (2017), The Horseman (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Open Road movies.
Storyline: A despotic man (Mohamed Majd) forces his teenage son (Nicolas Cazalé) to drive him across seven countries to visit Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Plot Keywords: teen boy, father, old woman, hitchhiker, son, positive, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bank vice president Jeremy Stanton (Dean Cain) is lost in more ways than one: On his way to a rendezvous with his family in Nevada, he finds that the back roads do not match his maps. However, Jeremy has also lost direction from a moral standpoint, having just committed a robbery back in California during which he betrayed Archer (Danny Trejo), his ruthless partner. His only company for this long, dark road trip of the soul is Judy (Ashley Scott), an operator who gives him directions by phone.
Plot Keywords: bank employee, bank robber, partner, telephone operator, wife, gas station attendant, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a blackout hits, it doesn't take long before Matthew (Kyle MacLachlan) and Annie (Elisabeth Shue) start breaking the law to protect themselves as they steal medicine for their sick child. But when the power stays out for several days and violence erupts, both the couple and their friend, Joe (Dermot Mulroney), decide that the best action is driving to Annie's parents' home. During the long road trip, they must stop to steal gasoline -- but those with resources are desperately guarding them.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, best friend, burglar, pharmacist, child, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: VISHNU, a restless young man, itches to escape his father's faltering hair oil business. An old truck beckons, which Vishnu sees as his ticket to freedom. He offers to drive the antique Chevy across the desert to the sea, where it has been sold to a local museum. As he sets off across the harsh terrain, he discovers he's not merely transporting a battered vehicle, but an old touring cinema. Along the way, Vishnu reluctantly picks up a young runaway, a wandering old entertainer and a striking gypsy woman. Together they roam the barren land, searching for water and an elusive fair. The journey turns dire when they are waylaid by corrupt cops and a notorious waterlord. The key to their freedom is the eccentric collection of films and the two forty-year-old film projectors in the back of the truck. As in 1001 Nights, if the films are good, they live and move on. If the films are boring, they face death in the outback. The journey proves transformative for each of the travelers, but especially for Vishnu who discovers life, love and laughter on the Indian highway.—AE
Plot Keywords: young man, runaway, gypsy, retiree, bandit, police chief, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier Great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is arrested in Nevada.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, sheriff, colleague, man, woman, hysterical ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An asteroid named "Matilda" is on a collision course towards Earth and in three weeks the world will come to an absolute end. What would you do if your life and the world were doomed? One man decides to spend his time searching for his long lost love from high school during the coming catastrophe.
Plot Keywords: salesman, neighbor, wife, ex-girlfriend, co-worker, amusing, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together.
Plot Keywords: elephant, architect, amusing, uplifting, engaging, emotional, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christian, a divorced father and white collar businessman grieves over the complicated death of his daughter. When a video arrives anonymously in the mail, featuring his daughter heavily intoxicated and mistreated, Christian sets out on a reckless journey to find answers. Fuelled by rage and sorrow, the death toll quickly rises as he uncovers an ugly truth. Along the way he meets Alice, a young runaway not unlike his daughter and a fragile friendship begins to unfold.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: father, daughter, hitchhiker, mother, criminal, teen girl, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for sale. The day trip turns into a road trip while dad and son explore their past, their relationship, and why Sam's wife might have left him. The road trip includes fishing, drinking, playing pool, sleeping under the stars, and frank discussion. Anger simmers close at hand, as do love and hope. Where Sam's wife is - and why she left - leads to the movie's resolution.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: son, father, mother, sister, wife, child, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Genoa, Agata runs her bookstore and, without meaning to, causes light bulbs and appliances to burn out. At the same time that a younger man declares his attraction to her, her brother Gustav, a morose architect, a distant husband, and an indifferent father, discovers that he was adopted and has a half-brother in the Po Valley. To Agata's great pain, she sees her young man with another woman - plus, Gustav cuts himself off from her and from his wife and son. Agata goes to the Po Valley, meets Gustav's brother and the brother's wife, and tries to reconnect by letting life wash over her. Wisdom comes from traditional Chinese medicine and from good literature.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: bookseller, lover, architect, advice columnist, salesman, best friend, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An independent film about a road trip to find a magical forest of marijuana.
Plot Keywords: salesman, paraplegic, stoner, hippie, stripper, brother, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a group of scientists are offered funding into genetic research if they agree to try and clone the greatest ever Pokémon, Mew, the end result is success and Mewtwo is born. However Mewtwo is bitter about his purpose in life and kills his masters. In order to become the greatest he throws open a challenge to the world to battle him and his Pokémon. Ash and his friends are one of the few groups of trainers who pass the first test and prepare for battle. However they soon find out about further cloning and Mewtwo's ultimate plan for the earth.
Plot Keywords: master, human, creature, friend, scientist, thrilling, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Peter Fonda plays 'Heavenly Blues', the leader of the Angels, a motorcycle gang from San Pedro, California; Bruce Dern plays 'Loser', his best pal. When they both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser's stolen bike, Loser ends up in the hospital. When the Angels bust him out, he dies, and they bury him. Nancy Sinatra plays Mike, Blues' "old lady" and Diane Ladd plays Loser's wife (Dern's real-life wife at the time). The plot is basically a buildup to the last half-hour of the film in which Loser's funeral becomes another wild party.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: biker, gang leader, tough woman, thief, police officer, nurse, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bank teller and widower with seven kids, Bob Hope finds $10,000 in a parking lot. His luck quickly changes when it's discovered that his bank discovers a substantial money shortage in their books. Now Hope and his large family are forced to take it on the lam. His children's baby-sitter Phyllis Diller protects Hope from her dim-witted cop boyfriend Jonathan Winters while he hides out, hoping to get to the true cause of his dilemma. Past and future "Bond Girls" Shirley Eaton ("Goldfinger") and Jill St. John ("Diamonds Are Forever") play a schoolteacher and a gold-digger and Winters plays his own mother!—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: bank teller, widower, son, daughter, babysitter, police officer, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After escaping from a San Francisco mental hospital, Lulu McAfee (Melanie Griffith) heads to Los Angeles to reunite with her long-lost love, Ben Clifton (Patrick Swayze). When she sees him, she reveals what she claims is the truth about the past: She gave birth to a son after their breakup, but put the baby up for adoption at the onset of her schizophrenia. The unstable Lulu then pressures Ben into taking a road trip with her to see their son on his 16th birthday.
Plot Keywords: schizophrenic, mother, wife, psychiatrist, son, old flame, emotional ...
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