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Roger & Me (1989)
, 1h31Directed by Michael Moore
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary, Historical
Themes Politique, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about technology, Documentaire sur le monde du travail, Political films, Road movies
Actors Michael Moore, Ronald Reagan, Guy Williams, Pat Boone
Michael Moore begins by introducing himself and his family through 8 mm archival home movies; he describes himself as the Irish American Catholic middle-class son of a General Motors employee assembling AC spark plugs. Moore chronicles how GM had previously defined his childhood in Flint, Michigan, and how the company was the primary economic and social hub of the town. He points out that Flint is the place where the Flint Sit-Down Strike occurred, resulting in the birth of the United Auto Workers. He reveals that his heroes were the Flint natives who had escaped the oppressive life in GM's factories, including "Flint's most famous native son," game show host Bob Eubanks.
Blue Collar (1978)
, 1h54Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles, Political films
Actors Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver, George Memmoli
A trio of Detroit auto workers, two black—Zeke Brown (Pryor) and Smokey James (Kotto)—and one white—Jerry Bartowski (Keitel)—are fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass. Coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, the trio hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
White Lightning (1973)
, 1h41Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, Jennifer Billingsley, Diane Ladd, Matt Clark
Bobby "Gator" McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) is serving time in an Arkansas prison for running moonshine when he learns his younger brother Donny was murdered and that Sheriff J.C Conners (Ned Beatty) was the one behind it. Gator knows the sheriff is taking money from local moonshiners, so he agrees to go undercover for the Feds and try to expose the sheriff. He gets a job running moonshine with Roy Boone (Bo Hopkins) and starts having an affair with his girlfriend Lou (Jennifer Billingsley). Eventually, when the sheriff discovers Gator is working for the Feds and sends his enforcer Big Bear (Armstrong), Gator decides to go after the sheriff in an epic car chase finale.
The Straight Story (1999)
, 1h52Directed by David Lynch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Transport films, Vieillesse, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton, Everett McGill, Kevin P. Farley, John P. Farley
Alvin Straight has not shown up to his regular bar meeting with his friends. He is eventually found lying on his floor at home, although he insists that he "just needs a bit of help getting up". His daughter Rose takes her reluctant father to see a doctor, who sternly admonishes Alvin to give up tobacco. He also tells Alvin that he should start using a walker. Alvin refuses, and does not tell Rose. Alvin then learns that his brother Lyle has suffered a stroke. Longing to visit him, but unable to drive, Alvin gradually develops a plan to travel to Mount Zion on his "ancient" riding lawn-mower and towing a small homemade travel-trailer, to the consternation of his family and friends.
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
, 1h41Directed by Gus Van Sant
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Transport films, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Road movies, Erotic thriller films, Buddy films, LGBT-related films, Films about royalty, LGBT-related film
Actors River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey, Chiara Caselli
Mike (River Phoenix), a gay street hustler, is standing alone on a deserted stretch of highway. He starts talking to himself and notices that the road looks “like someone’s face, like a fucked-up face.” He experiences a narcoleptic episode and dreams of his mother comforting him as he replays home movies of his childhood in his mind.
Lowriders (2017)
Directed by Ricardo de Montreuil
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Melissa Benoist Wood, Eva Longoria, Theo Rossi, Nicola Peltz, Tony Revolori, Demián Bichir
Le quotidien d'une adolescente de Los Angeles prise entre son père traditionaliste et son frère obsédé par les bolides.
The Hitcher (1986)
, 1h37Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jeffrey DeMunn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John M. Jackson, Billy "Green" Bush
Jim Halsey, a young man delivering a car from Chicago to San Diego, spots a man hitchhiking in the West Texas desert and gives him a ride. The hitcher, John Ryder, is brooding and evasive; when Jim passes a stranded car, however, Ryder forces his leg down on the accelerator. Ryder calmly states he murdered the driver and intends to do the same to Jim. Terrified, Jim asks what Ryder wants. He replies, "I want you to stop me." Ryder strokes Jim's face with a knife while telling him to say, "I want to die." When Jim realizes that Ryder never put on his seat belt and the car's passenger door is ajar, he shoves him out of the door.
Carriers (2009)
, 1h24Directed by Àlex Pastor, David Pastor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films set in the future, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Piper Perabo, Chris Pine, Lou Taylor Pucci, Emily VanCamp Bowman, Christopher Meloni, Kiernan Shipka
An infectious virus has spread worldwide, killing almost the entire population. Two brothers, Brian and Daniel "Danny" Green, along with Brian's girlfriend, Bobby, and Danny's school friend, Kate, are heading to Turtle Beach in the southwestern United States, a secluded beach motel where they believe they can wait for the viral pandemic to die out and so they can start a new life. They strictly follow a set of rules that they believe will keep them all alive and stop them from becoming infected.
Crossroads (1986)
, 1h36Directed by Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Le blues, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Joe Morton, Tim Russ, Dennis Lipscomb
Eugene Martone (Ralph Macchio) is a classical guitar student at the Juilliard School for Performing Arts in New York City who has an obsession for the blues, especially the famed Robert Johnson. Most intriguing are the legends surrounding exactly how Johnson became so talented most notably the one claiming he "sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads" along with a supposed lost song that Johnson never recorded.
Get on the Bus (1996)
, 2hDirected by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Richard Belzer, De'Aundre Bonds, Andre Braugher, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Gabriel Casseus, Albert Hall
Fifteen disparate African American men board a bus in Los Angeles bound for Washington, D.C., where they plan on attending the Million Man March. Other than their race, destination, and gender, the men have nothing in common: George is the trip organizer; Xavier is an aspiring filmmaker hoping to make a documentary of the March; Flip is an openly racist and sexist actor; Kyle and Randall are a homosexual couple; Gary, a police officer, is the sole biracial man on the bus; Jamal is a former gang banger turned devout Muslim who has evaded prosecution for the rapes and murders he committed; Evan Jr., is a petty criminal who has been permitted to break probation to attend the march on the condition that he remain handcuffed to his father, Evan Sr.
On My Way (2013)
, 1h56Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Nemo Schiffman, Camille, Claude Gensac, Mylène Demongeot, Hafsia Herzi
Bettie (Deneuve), a harried restaurant owner from Brittany, is an aging former beauty queen with an estranged adult daughter and grandson and an elderly mother who meddles in her life. She loves a married businessman who always told her he would divorce his wife in order to marry her. He indeed files for a divorce, but Bettie discovers that it is actually because he is also having another affair with another much-younger woman. At about the same time, the bank threatens to close down her restaurant.
Le Mans (1971)
, 1h46Directed by Lee H. Katzin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Steve McQueen, Elga Andersen, Luc Merenda, Siegfried Rauch, Angelo Infanti, Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Michael Delaney, coureur automobile, revient sur le circuit des 24 Heures du Mans un an après son grave accident dans lequel Pierre Belgetti, un autre pilote, a perdu la vie. Delaney dispute la course au volant d'une Porsche 917 aux couleurs du pétrolier américain Gulf, il est l'un des deux favoris avec l'Allemand Erich Stahler (sur Ferrari 512 S). La course se déroule sous les yeux de la veuve de Belgetti.
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
, 2h4Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Political films, Road movies
Actors Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Shirley MacLaine, Alain Delon, George C. Scott, Ingrid Bergman
On a flatbed lorry driven in the streets of London, a motor car is under a grey cover with the initials RR. The Rolls Royce is first purchased by Charles, Marquess of Frinton (Rex Harrison) as a 10th wedding anniversary present for his French wife, Eloise (Jeanne Moreau). Frinton is Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office. The marquess is a longtime horse owner who has his heart set on winning the Ascot Gold Cup. This year his horse, named 10 June (his wedding anniversary date; also the writer Terence Rattigan's birthday) is the favourite and does indeed win. Lord Frinton is presented the Gold Cup by King George V. However, his elation is blighted when he finds his wife with her lover, his underling John Fane (Edmund Purdom), in the back of the Rolls with the shades drawn. For appearance's sake, Lord Frinton will not divorce his wife, but he returns the car.
Bubble Boy (2001)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton, Danny Trejo, John Carroll Lynch, Verne Troyer
Born without an immune system, Jimmy Livingston is forced to live in a sterilized dome in his bedroom, earning him the title "Bubble Boy" by his neighbors. Jimmy's overbearing and devout Christian mother only exposes him to Highlights magazine and the Land of the Lost for entertainment. When he is a teenager, a girl named Chloe moves in next door. Jimmy is immediately taken with her, and eventually befriends her despite his mother's discouragement.
Eat My Dust (1976)
, 1h30Directed by Charles B. Griffith, Barbara Peeters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Ron Howard, Dave Madden, Christopher Norris, Brad Davis, Clint Howard, Rance Howard
Le jeune Hoover Niebold a une passion pour les voitures. Pour épater et séduire Darlene, une jolie lycéenne, il l'invite à partir en balade dans un bolide subtilisé au pilote professionnel « Big » Bubba Jones. Son shérif de père Harry Niebold ordonne à ses adjoints de le rattraper, sans succès. L'aspirant-pilote n'en continue pas moins de vrombir sur les routes et de perturber les habitants du coin. Devant le tollé général, le shérif est contraint de partir lui-même, escorté du pilote et de son équipe, à la poursuite de son chenapan de fils.