Road movies

[Trevor]

Duel (1971)



The Hitcher (1986)

The Hitcher freaked me out as a 19 year old 

[Cult_Moody_Movies]

One of Steven Spielberg's underrated films.

[RCMerchant]

^After he did DUEL (1971).

[zombie no.one]

Lenzi's HITCHER IN THE DARK (1989)... not one of his best but hey

DUEL (1971), which I believe is one of Spielberg's first films, is great.

DUEL and JAWS stand above all his other work, imo

[RCMerchant]

Of course, the MAD MAX movies!

[claws]

National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)



Thelma & Louise (1991)



Road Games (1981)

[M.10rda]

ROAD GAMES! That's a great little sleeper. Hard to describe it and sell it to the uninitiated but to watch it is to love it.

[zombie no.one]

ROAD GAMES! That's a great little sleeper. Hard to describe it and sell it to the uninitiated but to watch it is to love it.

ah man... wish I could agree with you. watched it for the first time a few weeks ago and just couldn't get into it. -- possibly cause I was (perhaps naively) expecting something to file alongside HALLOWEEN, PROM NIGHT and TERROR TRAIN, based on the fact of JL Curtis being in it.

 it does have a very definite atmosphere and style, I'll give it that.... may try another watch at some point

[M.10rda]

I understand where you're coming from and even as you're refuting my point, you're also kind of supporting it.      It's certainly nothing like any of those three films, though I'd say it's a hell of a lot better than either PROM NIGHT or TERROR TRAIN. Of course anyone expecting a slasher film or even a traditional thriller is....... yeah, probably setting themself up for disappointment. ROAD GAMES is a quirky subtle psychological drama... kind of similar to a Nicholas Roeg joint or a less pretentious Antonioni flick. Naturally the producers couldn't promote it that way and I've never had much luck promoting it that way either.      But for anyone who just wants to watch Stacy Keach struggle to keep his powder dry for 90 minutes... pretty cool little movie imho.

[bob]

the ultimate Road movie 

[Alex]

There is always The Road.

[Archivist]

road movie

noun

A film in which much of the action takes place during a journey, especially one involving overland travel.

I guess by this definition one of my fav 70s movies TRIP WITH THE TEACHER counts... not sure it really fulfills the definition most would have of 'road movie' though.

ditto SPEED.

to me 'road movie' implies some kind of literal journey which is mirrored by the characters' own personal, figurative journey (at least to some extent)... maybe I'm over-analysing

Would Mad Max be classified as a road movie?

Another would be Joy Ride (2001), a horror movie where some teens taunt a psychotic truck driver and end up pursued by him.

And in this vein, would the Rutger Hauer classic The Hitch Hiker also be a road movie?

Another movie called Joyride was produced in the Netherlands in 2006, with a soundtrack by symphonic metal band Epica.

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1824916249/?playlistId=tt0430257&ref_=tt_ov_vi



A ghastly road movie would be The Brown Bunny (2003) where Vincent Gallo, but it is a road journey that mirrors the protagonist's inner journey.

[zombie no.one]

well yeah I guess any movie with a considerable amount of 'road' based footage in it is by definition a 'road movie', it's just to me I get the impression there's supposed to be a bit of metaphor in there too...

I couldn't really find a more in-depth definition on the net than the one I pasted in bold there.