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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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Roses Are for the Rich (1987)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in Appalachia, Autumn's young husband is killed in a suspicious mine explosion. She vows vengeance on mine owner Douglas Osborne and dedicates her life to destroying him, even at the cost of her own happiness. When her attempts at financial ruin fail, she manipulates Osborne into marriage by claiming she is carrying his child. After Osborne dies from cyanide poisoning, Autumn is arrested for his murder, but she professes her innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags:
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The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)
Plot Summary:
Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout (Stanley Sweetheart) who seeks his identity during the sexual revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: underground film, cult film
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R.P.M. (1970)
Plot Summary:
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: political
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The Shadow Box (1980)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Las Acacias (2011)
Plot Summary:
Rubén is a middle-aged Argentinian truck driver transporting timber between Paraguay and Buenos Aires. One day, at a truck stop, he picks up a young Paraguayan woman, Jacinta, whom his employer had told to take to Buenos Aires. To Rubén's surprise, Jacinta brings along her five-month-old daughter, AnahÃ.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, touching, realistic, serious, contemplative, minimal cast, slow cinema, aesthetic
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The Rain People (1969)
Plot Summary:
A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: road movie, cult classic, independent film, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
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Smoke and Flesh (1968)
Plot Summary:
Turk, a "cool swinger", throws and wild sex and drugs party, but has trouble when three hoodlum friends of his crash the party and Turk resorts to drastic measures to remove them from the festivities.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Venice Beach (1982)
Plot Summary:
A runaway tries to survive being homeless at Venice Beach, California.
IMDB Rating: 9.2
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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'68 (1988)
Plot Summary:
'68 covers exactly one year (January 1st through December 31st) in the lives of Zoltan Szabo and his family, Hungarian immigrants, working hard to make a life in San Francisco in 1968. The Szabos tries to adjust to the new country, changing times and each other. The year covered was one of particular cultural change in the US and this interplays with the cultural changes occurring around Zoltan, his wife and his two college-age sons.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, soap opera
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Pickup on 101 (1972)
Plot Summary:
An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get to California.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, independent film
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Hallucination Generation (1966)
Plot Summary:
A juvenile is mad at his mom so he leaves his home in San Francisco to join a charismatic LSD guru's cult in Spain and turns on, tunes in, and drops out. He also gets involved in murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Road Movie (1973)
Plot Summary:
Gil and Hank are two independent truckers who run into problems when they are forced to pay off traffic managers to get loads. They also have to pay off highway cops when their rigs are overweight and bank loans but consider themselves lucky just to be able to keep up the interest payments. Add to that a small, frizzy-wigged highway hooker named Janice, who tempts them with her lurid charms.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: road movie, crying, independent film
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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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River of Grass (1994)
Plot Summary:
Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gun shot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Baby Maker (1970)
Plot Summary:
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children. She accepts but finds that knowing the parents, and developing a relationship with them for the entire pregnancy complicates the simple arrangement.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, tension, suspense
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The Invisible Circus (2001)
Plot Summary:
After learning that her sister, Faith (Cameron Diaz), has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe (Jordana Brewster), an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home to travel to Europe. Phoebe hopes to discover and experience the life that led to her sister's death by retracing her footsteps, which eventually leads to Wolf (Christopher Eccleston) -- Faith's boyfriend. However, as Phoebe's journey continues, a series of visions of Faith pushes her mind to the brink.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, erotic, serious, realistic, independent film, road movie
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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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The Artist's Wife (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Vibrator (2003)
Plot Summary:
Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. We first meet her in a convenience store where she is buying too much alcohol and not enough food. At the magazine rack she pauses to contemplate the happiness of the glamour girls on the glossies for which she writes. Only later do we realize that this is self-reflection. A chance encounter with truck driving Takatoshi, leads to a two day romp of sex, friendship and introspection. It's unclear if what happens to her is the product of her writer self imagining it all as a magazine serial (hence the inter-titles and voice of the narrator).
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, serious, realistic, offbeat, contemplative, crying
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Me and Will (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two women with a passion for motorcycles meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've both longed to ride Captain America's red, white, and blue chopper from Easy Rider, they escape the rehab clinic and hit the highway in search of their dream bike.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, sincere, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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Zabriskie Point (1970)
Plot Summary:
An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot).
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, surreal, atmospheric, realistic, political, contemplative, stylized, erotic, psychedelic
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Psych-Out (1968)
Plot Summary:
Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose members include Stoney, Ben, and Elwood. They hide her from the fuzz in their crash pad, a Victorian house crowded with love beads and necking couples. Mumblin' Jim's truth-seeking friend Dave considers the band's pursuit of success "playing games," but he agrees to help Jennie anyway.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychedelic, sad, surreal, cult classic, independent film, atmospheric, serious, realistic, psychotronic
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Best Friends (1975)
Plot Summary:
Two young couples taste the "free and easy" life on a cross country motor-home tour until love backfires and tragedy follows.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, road movie, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Pick-up (1975)
Plot Summary:
Sexy hippie chicks Carol and Maureen get more than they bargained for when they hitch a ride with groovy hippie dude Chuck in his nifty mobile bus home. The trio get lost in the Florida Everglades following a fierce rain storm and embark on a startling spiritual journey of self-discovery.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: cult classic, surreal, grindhouse, mind bending, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Plot Summary:
A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gain a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: road movie, meditative, atmospheric, grindhouse, disturbing, serious, realistic, cult classic, existential, independent film
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The Trip (1967)
Plot Summary:
Paul Groves, a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John, a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his first "trip". John takes Paul to a "freak-out" at his friend Max's pad. Splitting the scene, they score some acid from Max and return to John's split-level pad with an indoor pool. Paul experiences visions of sex, death, strobe lights, flowers, dancing girls, witches, hooded riders, a torture chamber, and a dwarf. He panics but John tells him to "go with it, man." Would you trust John?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, captivating, mind bending, mysterious
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Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Plot Summary:
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, cynical, cerebral, cult classic, philosophical, existential
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Scarecrow (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, emotional, sincere, touching, depressing, anamorphic, cult classic, serious, realistic
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Jolene (2008)
Plot Summary:
A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling to experience life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, erotic, sentimental, realistic, explicit, romantic, road movie, dramatic, serious
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Nebraska (2013)
Plot Summary:
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 122000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, black and white, depressing, humorous, touching, realistic, meditative, emotional, melancholic, witty