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Plot Summary:
When a recent widower consumed with regret seeks absolution in riding his motorcycle cross-country to confront the mistakes of his past, he unexpectedly discovers that life is about moving forward, one mile at a time.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: melancholic, psychological, sentimental, road movie, thought provoking, depressing, captivating, disturbing, retro
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J.C. (1972)
Plot Summary:
Jesus Christ is born again on Earth. But his father is a hardcore Southern Baptist, and during his teen years, Jesus rebels, joining a biker gang and leading an LSD-fueled pilgrimage to the West to fight the establishment. Anyone who adopts the initials J.C. as a nickname probably has a Messianic complex. In Iron Horseman, the hero, the head of a motorcycle gang, wigs out on LSD. While day-tripping, he has a prophetic religious vision. This leads him back to his home town, where he challenges the local church leaders-even unto knocking down chairs and tables in righteous anger, just like....you know.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Cycle Vixens (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three Colorado girls decide to hop on their motorcycles and head to California. On the way they get mixed up in drugs, rape and stolen motorcycles.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film
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Knightriders (1981)
Plot Summary:
George Romero's unusual story of a modern-day Renaissance troupe whose participants follow a medieval code of honor.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: light, stylized, meditative, thought provoking, road movie, cult classic, independent film, retro, arthurian, offbeat
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The Fourth Dimension (2012)
Plot Summary:
Created under a “manifesto” whose directives would make Lars von Trier shudder, this three-part film might look on paper like an exercise in forced hipness. Fortunately, its directors – Harmony Korine (USA), Alexsei Fedorchenko (Russia) and Jan Kwiecinski (Poland) – prove innovative and just insane enough to make The Fourth Dimension an exhilarating experiment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland, Russia, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: experimental, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, inspirational, mind bending, offbeat, contemplative
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Hell Riders (1984)
Plot Summary:
A woman whose car breaks down in the desert finds her way to an abandoned town, where she is menaced by a gang of psycho bikers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Hell's Angels '69 (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers have a plan on how to rob the Ceasar's Palace in Las Vegas. They join a motorcycle gang and while the others are drinking and partying outside of town, they change their clothes and head off to rob the casino. Of course, the police do not look for two well dressed criminals among the Hell's Angels.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, road movie, psychotronic, independent film
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Sgt. Will Gardner (2019)
Plot Summary:
A troubled Iraq War veteran struggling to reintegrate into society sets out on a cross-country journey with the hope of reuniting with his young son.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, road movie
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One Step from Me (2021)
Plot Summary:
Tatiana is a journalist with a routine life in all its aspects and a recently failed love relationship. Motivated by her best friend, she decides to make a stop and travel around Costa Rica to find herself and inner peace.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Costa Rica
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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The Continent (2014)
Plot Summary:
A road movie that follows three young men yearning after their ideals.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Savages from Hell (1968)
Plot Summary:
When the leader of a vicious motorcycle gang finds a farmworker's son flirting with his woman, he beats the boy senseless, then kidnaps the farmworker's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Holy Biker (2016)
Plot Summary:
In an arid and poor region of Brazil, bikers search for a miracle to make it rain and save the land, risking their lives. |.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: road movie, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Angel Unchained (1970)
Plot Summary:
Angel is the biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town. When the town rednecks attack them, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Changeland (2019)
Plot Summary:
Follow two estranged best friends on an epic, life-changing adventure in Thailand as they're reminded that there's no problem that friendship and a few rounds in a Muay Thai boxing ring can't fix.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, clever, offbeat
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The Last Bus (2021)
Plot Summary:
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Scotland to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, road movie
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A Country Called Home (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that she can’t bring herself to pursue, Ellie feels detached from her life. When she learns that her estranged alcoholic father has died, her world is disrupted and she begins a journey that takes her to a small town in Texas. While dealing with the logistical arrangements of her father’s death Ellie has to confront what happens when the structures and safety nets we build for ourselves come undone.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Youth in Oregon (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man is tasked with driving his embittered 80-year-old father-in-law cross country to be legally euthanized in Oregon, while along the way helping him rediscover a reason for living.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, anamorphic
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The Honor List (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four girls sink a time capsule in a lake with a list of things they want to do before graduation, but they all go separate ways before graduating. When a tragedy strikes, they reunite to find the capsule and complete the bucket list.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, touching, captivating, disturbing, deep, sex comedy, teen comedy
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Romantic Guide to Lost Places (2020)
Plot Summary:
Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had never met until the day he wound up on the wrong landing, and nothing would ever be the same. Sheer chance leads this odd couple on a flight towards lost or forgotten places, where their mutual support makes for self-discovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Desert Bride (2017)
Plot Summary:
Teresa’s life is turned upside down when she is forced to accept a job far away. On her way, she loses her bag, causing her to cross paths with El Gringo, a traveling salesman.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, road movie
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The History of Mr Polly (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Alfred Polly fails to find fulfilment as a shop keeper, he leaves his wife and sets out on the open road to see where freedom leads.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, costume drama, captivating, disturbing, period drama
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Blue Skies, Green Waters, Red Earth (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kasi and Suni are close friends who studied together in an engineering college. Assi, who comes to Kerala to study engineering under the North East quota falls in love with Kasi. Certain incidents that follow set Kasi and Suni on a road trip to Nagaland on two motorcycles. The incidents that happen during this road adventure forms the film.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, captivating, scenic, sentimental, inspirational
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Keep Going (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sybille, a divorced mother, can't stand watching her teenage son Samuel slip into a violent and meaningless life. She is also struggling with her own demons, past and present. As a last resort, she takes Samuel on a long journey across Kyrgyzstan.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, road movie
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Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young scion of a powerful family with a long history of violence decides to put an end to the bloodshed which leads him to a path of self discovery.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Day for Women (2016)
Plot Summary:
A new swimming pool opens in a Cairo district, with the announcement that Sundays will be only for females. This causes ripples throughout the local community, while three women - Shamiya, Azza, and Lula - assess their varying lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Dead in 5 Heartbeats (2013)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from the successful novel, Dead in 5 Heartbeats, by Ralph "Sonny" Barger with Keith and Kent Zimmerman. The story follows the Infidelz MC's former President, Patch Kinkade, who has left his personal demons behind for the calm of desert life. When war erupts between his brothers he left behind and the rival Hooligans, Patch rides back into town to either make peace or do battle.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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25 kmh (2018)
Plot Summary:
A road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city manager Christian and cabinetmaker Georg, who never left their hometown and took care of their father until his passing. After their fathers funeral, the brothers decide on a whim, and with some help from the alcohol, to fulfil their old dream: travel trough Germany together on their mopeds.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, humorous, captivating, light, feel good
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Travelers and Magicians (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. with a visa out of the country. He misses the one bus out of town to Thimphu, however, and is forced to hitchhike and walk along the Lateral Road to the west, accompanied by an apple seller, a Buddhist monk with his ornate, dragon-headed dramyin, a drunk, a widowed rice paper maker, and his beautiful daughter, Sonam.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Bhutan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, serious, captivating, spiritual, independent film, inspirational, philosophical, poignant, anthropological
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One Week (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, realistic, philosophical, bad ending, emotional, meditative, serious, sexy, feel good, children's story
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Everybody's Fine (2009)
Plot Summary:
Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, touching, melancholic, sad, road movie, depressing, talky, heartbreaking, realistic
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Easy Rider (1969)
Plot Summary:
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychedelic, avant garde, cult classic, offbeat, independent film, atmospheric, surreal, dark comedy, realistic