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Plot Summary:
A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 811
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: road movie
Best tv shows and movies like The Journey (1992):
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La nube (1998)
Plot Summary:
An eclectic group of actors struggle to save their theater from being demolished and replaced with a shopping mall. Max, the leader of the troupe, is a workaholic director who abandoned his family to build his career and is forced to confront the daughter he deserted. Then there is Enrique, the playwright-poet who is reduced to pawning his belongings to sustain his livelihood when his state pension is severed. Finally, there is Fulo who is driven to succeed so that she can bring her daughter from Rio de Janeiro.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: manga
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The Festival of Troubadours (2022)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected reunion between a traveling musician and his son opens old wounds as the two set out on a long journey to a troubadour festival.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Thumb Tripping (1972)
Plot Summary:
Gary and Shay are two happy-go-lucky flower children who hitchhike in the beautiful Big Sur-Monterey area of California.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film
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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
Similar in 76%
Men with Guns (1997)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: existential, cult classic, tense, thought provoking, clever, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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The North (1983)
Plot Summary:
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Mexico
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: depressing, bleak, political, realistic, independent film, road movie, spiritual, heartbreaking, sad, disturbing
Similar in 84%
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005)
Plot Summary:
1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, road movie, realistic, neo noir
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Island Etude (2006)
Plot Summary:
First-time actor Tung Ming-Hsiang plays Ming, a young college student whose lifelong hearing problem causes him to communicate via slurred speech. Carrying a guitar on his back and lacking few concrete reasons, he decides to bike around the island of Taiwan by himself months before his college graduation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, rough, touching
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Up & Away (2012)
Plot Summary:
This is a story about two homeless brothers (Zana, 7) and (Dana, 10) who live on the edge of survival. In the beginning of the story they catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema. Zana and Dana decide that they want to go to America and live with Superman. Once they get there he can solve all their problems, make their lives easy and punish everyone that has been mean to them. Zana, the younger brother, starts to make a list of all people he is going to tell Superman to punish. On top of the list is Saddam Hussein. Dana on the other hand makes a concrete plan for what they need to get there; money, passports, transportation and a way to get across the boarder. Unfortunately they have neither of those. But in spite of everything they decide to follow the dream. Written by Karzan Kader.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, realistic, sincere, serious, inspirational, thought provoking, sad, tear jerker, independent film, islamic
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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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How Much Further (2006)
Plot Summary:
Esperanza and Tristeza both have to get to Cuenca. However, by an unlucky turn of events, the bus they are on gets delayed due to a worker strike. Taking their journey into their own hands, they decide to hitchhike to Cuenca. Along the way they meet interesting characters who help them re-evaluate the purpose of their journey.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Drama
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, realistic, touching, captivating, scenic, semi serious
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The American Dreamless (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young addict is convinced by his best friend to train-hop across the country in hopes of finding the buried treasure that they talked about when they were kids. One is self-destructive and the other is blind, neither of them expected a small-town drifter to lead the way, especially when the only way to go, is within. The American Dreamless is Tanner Matthews' directorial debut and the first film to be shot in all fifty US states.
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Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Devil's Breath (1993)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, surreal, contemplative, stylized, allegory
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Powwow Highway (1988)
Plot Summary:
Buddy Red Bow is struggling, in the face of persecution, by greedy developers and political in-fighting, to keep his nation on a Montana Cheyenne Reservation financially solvent and independent. Philbert, a simple-minded friend of Buddy's, ardently pursues Native American/First Nation wisdom and lore wherever he can find it--even on Bonanza--in order to earn his warrior name. He's even got his war pony, Protector: a beat-up old wreck of a car. Buddy's sister has been arrested in Santa Fe, and together Buddy and Philbert set off on a road trip to look after her kids and go bail her out. However, Bonnie's arrest has something strange about it as her friend Rabbit points out. As the miles roll by, Philbert's faith challenges Buddy's hard-edged view of the world (and occasional bout of reckless violence), and together they face the realities and dreams of being Cheyenne in the modern-day US as they fight to free Bonnie and her children and elude the Feds.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, psychedelic, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fairy tale, inspirational
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Yolngu Boy (2001)
Plot Summary:
After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from North East Arnhem Land to Darwin to seek help from a tribal leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Nomadland (2020)
Plot Summary:
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, sincere, captivating, social, sad, realistic, funny, inspirational, philosophical
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Buddies (2012)
Plot Summary:
A road movie that shows the simple things in life in a poetic light through the eyes of three young people with Down syndrome, who love movies and work at the video library of the institution where they have always lived in. One day, inspired by the movie "Thelma & Louise", they decide to run away using the gardener's old car to have a freedom experience. They travel to uncommon places in search for three simple wishes: Stalone wants to see the sea, Aninha looks for a husband and Marcio needs to fly. During this search, they embark on several adventures as if life was just a children's play.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, captivating, satirical, semi serious, thrilling, sweet
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One Mile Above (2011)
Plot Summary:
Shuhao is a 24 year old Taiwanese university graduate. His older brother Shuwei, whom he has idolized since childhood, dies on a bicycle ride to Lhasa. He decides to complete Shuwei's journey, hoping to prove himself through this challenging trip. Shuhao's inexperience almost sees him headed over a cliff one dark night. Food poisoning nearly costs him his life just after surviving an attack by a pack of menacing Tibetan Mastiffs. In the end, Shuhao arrives in Lhasa to see the Potola Palace. His lonely journey, filled with laughter and tears, brings him to the discovery of a new purpose in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, realistic, captivating, road movie
Similar in 87%
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Plot Summary:
An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: road movie, scenic, surreal, visually appealing, erotic, sexy, independent film, retro, art film, sensual
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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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The Art of Travel (2008)
Plot Summary:
High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak, road movie, serious, emotional
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Cry Macho (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, road movie, inspirational, suspense, anamorphic, neo western
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Patagonia (2010)
Plot Summary:
Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through the Argentine autumn.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Argentina, UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, touching, sincere, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Short History of the Long Road (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nola grew up living on a van with her father, Clint; two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past and her new destination.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, touching, realistic, talky
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Get on the Bus (1996)
Plot Summary:
Get On the Bus follows several Black men on a cross country bus trip to the Million Man March. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid off aircraft worker, a former Gang Banger, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a White bus driver, all make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, manhood, religion, politics, and race.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: road movie, uplifting, talky, compassionate, thought provoking, touching, realistic, serious, political, light
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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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The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Plot Summary:
"The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Germany
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, inspirational, political, breathtaking, scenic, sentimental, captivating, hispanic, cerebral
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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