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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
2) First dog
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A foster boy is befriended by Teddy, a lost dog, who just happens to belong to the President of the United States, but nobody believes him. To prove his doubters wrong, they begin an amazing adventure across America to return the 'First Dog' to the White House.
3) Black dog
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A man goes on an illegal truck run to pay off his bills, but the cargo ends up being guns, which attracts the attention of many parties that go after him.
Action film about two truck drivers being chased by a relentless fanatic.
4) 9 bullets
Language
English
Formats
Description
A former burlesque dancer turned author (Lena Headey) discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after he witnesses his parents' murder. Now on the run from the local crime boss (Sam Worthington), who happens to be her longtime ex, she makes a desperate attempt to get the boy to safety.
5) Dear Eleanor
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.
7) Vacation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The next generation of Griswolds is at is again, and on the road for another ill-fated adventure. Following in his father's footsteps and hoping for some much-needed family bonding, a grown-up Rusty Griswold surprises his wife, and their two sons with a cross-country trip back to Wally World.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Long-term couple John and Ella Robina are experiencing the struggles of growing older. With John having Alzheimer's and Ella undergoing cancer treatment, they decide to abandon their disease-stricken lifestyles and embark on a journey from Boston to Key West in an attempt to fully live what's left of their lives. Their trusty RV, which they've dubbed "The Leisure Seeker", will be their mode of transportation as they enjoy what may be their last adventure...
9) Hit & run
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A nice guy with a questionable past, Charlie Bronson, risks everything when he busts out of a witness protection program to drive his girlfriend to Los Angeles for the job opportunity of a lifetime. Their road trip grows awkwardly complicated, however, when they're chased by an inept fed and Charlie's ex-pal, a vengeance-crazed criminal he helped put behind bars.
10) Lost in the sun
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
John is a rugged small time crook, running from a past full of mistakes and regrets. He soon crosses paths with Louis, a newly orphaned teenage boy, who becomes an unwilling accomplice on an open-road adventure fueled by robberies, guns and deception. John's lonely outlaw lifestyle soon catches up with him and he must confront his demons and decide if his life of doing wrong is still right for him and Louis.
11) Frank & Penelope
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank is on a road to nowhere when he stumbles into a run-down strip club where he sees Penelope dancing on a wobbly brass pole. This chance encounter ignites a love story that burns hotter than the West Texas blacktop. Leaving their broken lives in the rearview mirror, Frank and Penelope head West with no destination in mind but each other. But a chance meeting leads them to the “Table of Truth” with a seductive, charismatic cult leader who has...
12) On the road
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Traveling cross-country, young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly.
Series
Criterion collection volume 414
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drag racing east from L.A. in a souped-up '55 Chevy are the wayward Driver and Mechanic (singer/songwriter James Taylor and the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson, in their only acting roles), accompanied by a tagalong Girl (Cockfighter's Laurie Bird). Along the way, they meet Warren Oates's Pontiac GTO–driving wanderer and challenge him to a cross-country race-the prize: their cars' pink slips. But no summary can do justice to the existential punch of Two-Lane...
15) Into the wild
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
16) Thelma & Louise
Series
Criterion collection volume 1180
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a lifetime. With this pop-culture landmark, screenwriter Callie Khouri and action auteur Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie, telling the story of two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong leading them on a high-speed Southwest odyssey as they elude police and discover freedom on their terms.
17) Bury me an angel
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Dag Bandy's brother is killed at a party, she takes to the road on her motorcylce looking for vengence.
18) Wrecker
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Best friends Emily and Lesley go on a road trip to the desert. When Emily decides to get off the highway and take a 'short cut,' they become the target of a relentless and psychotic trucker who forces them to play a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Gus Fitzgerald and his gang of retired, golfing buddies, take a road trip to Las Vegas in order to stop Gus' daughter from marrying the wrong guy. The trip begins when this grumpy group of friends steal "the Ultimate Party Bus" and journey from Florida, hitting up a hot salsa club in Miami Beach, picking up a rap superstar in New Orleans and landing at the Rio in Las Vegas. Now, they only need to stop the weddding in time and avoid trouble along the...
20) Convoy
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When the Western film, for many decades the staple of the American cinema, suffered a decline in the Seventies, a new sub-species helped fill the void - the trucking epic. The great Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch) directed this action classic based on the runaway hit song, Convoy. Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald (Kris Kristofferson, Vigilante Force) who, in pursuance of a feud with Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace (Ernest Borgnine, Marty), unites scores...
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