Topic: Road Movie

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Jane Darwell · John Carradine · Charley Grapewin

Synopsis When Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns home after being released from prison, he discovers his family has been kicked out of their farm. Seeking a better future, he leaves with his mother (Jane Darwell) and the rest of the family...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Anthony Quinn · Giulietta Masina · Richard Basehart · Aldo Silvani

Synopsis Gelsomina is sold by her very poor mother to Zampanò, an itinerant strongman. She follows him on the road ("la strada") and helps him during his shows. Zampanò ill-treats her. She meets "The Fool", a funambulist. She feels like going...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Victor Sjöström · Bibi Andersson · Ingrid Thulin · Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis It explores the disillusionment of an elderly physician, Professor Isak Borg, as he reflects upon his life and begins to perceive his mortality. As he travels to Lund to receive an honorary award after 50 years of medical practice, he...

Direction Masayuki Kojima

Synopsis TV Series (2004-2005). Dr. Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese neurosurgeon, is one of the best doctors in Germany. He's respected by his peers, he's engaged and has a promising future. Tenma disagrees with hospital politics and sticks to his view that...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Clark Gable · Claudette Colbert · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis It Happened One Night (1934) follows a spirited runaway heiress, Ellie Andrews, who escapes her controlling father to reunite with her new husband. On a bus to New York, she crosses paths with Peter Warne, a sharp-witted, out-of-work reporter. Recognizing...

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Harry Dean Stanton · Nastassja Kinski · Dean Stockwell · Aurore Clément

Synopsis Paris, Texas (1984) follows Travis, a man wandering the Texan desert, mute and lost. Reunited with his brother Walt, Travis slowly reconnects with his estranged young son, Hunter, who has been living with Walt and his wife. As Travis regains...

Direction David Lynch

Cast Richard Farnsworth · Sissy Spacek · Harry Dean Stanton · Everett McGill

Synopsis The Straight Story (1999) follows Alvin Straight, an elderly man who embarks on an extraordinary journey across the Midwest to reconcile with his ailing brother. Unable to drive a car due to his failing eyesight, Alvin opts for a more...

Direction Daniel Knauf · Rodrigo García · Jeremy Podeswa · Jack Bender

Cast Nick Stahl · Clancy Brown · Amy Madigan · Michael J. Anderson

Synopsis TV Series (2003-2005). 2 Seasons. 24 Episodes. "Carnivale" follows a traveling carnival as it wends its way across the Dust Bowl, focusing on Ben Hawkins, a mysterious 18-year-old fugitive with hidden talents who is taken in by the carnival, and...

Direction Denis Villeneuve

Cast Lubna Azabal · Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin · Maxim Gaudette · Rémy Girard

Synopsis Incendies (2010) follows twins Jeanne and Simon as they unravel their mother Nawal's mysterious past after her death. Tasked with delivering letters to a father they thought was dead and a brother they never knew existed, they journey to the...

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Rüdiger Vogler · Yella Rottländer · Lisa Kreuzer · Edda Köchl

Synopsis Felix, a German journalist travels around United States trying to find inspiration for his next book. The trip, paid for by his editor, proves fruitles: not one idea, not one line, nothing at all. The editor decides to cut the...

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Catherine Spaak · Claudio Gora

Synopsis 'Il sorpasso' starts on a summer's day in Rome where Roberto (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a withdrawn young scholar who encounters Bruno (Vittorio Gassman), a middle-aged man driving a stylish convertible. This chance meeting leads to drinks and eventually to an extended...

Direction Sean Penn

Cast Emile Hirsch · Marcia Gay Harden · William Hurt · Jena Malone

Synopsis Into the Wild (2007) follows Christopher McCandless, a young man who abandons his privileged life to embark on a solitary journey into the Alaskan wilderness. Seeking freedom from materialism and societal constraints, he donates his savings, burns his money, and...

Direction Tewfik Saleh

Cast Mohamed Kheir-Halouani · Abderrahman Alrahy · Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala · Saleh Kholoki

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Tania Palaiologou · Michalis Zeke · Stratos Tzortzoglou · Vasilis Kolovos

Synopsis In a working-class suburb of Athens, two illegitimate children, Voula, aged 11 and her brother Alexander, aged 5, dream each night that they will join their father in Germany. The father, in reality, does not exist and has been invented...

Direction Walter Salles

Cast Fernanda Montenegro · Vinicius de Oliveira · Marilia Pêra · Soia Lira

Synopsis In Central Station (1998), Dora, a jaded retired teacher, writes letters for illiterate passengers at Rio de Janeiro's bustling train station. Her life changes when Josué, a young boy whose mother dies tragically, is left stranded. Reluctantly, Dora agrees to...

Direction Peter Farrelly

Cast Viggo Mortensen · Mahershala Ali · Iqbal Theba · Linda Cardellini

Synopsis A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr....

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Joel McCrea · Veronica Lake · Robert Warwick · William Demarest

Synopsis Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who decides he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor. Much to the chagrin of his producers, he sets off in...

Direction Jonathan Dayton · Valerie Faris

Cast Abigail Breslin · Steve Carell · Toni Collette · Greg Kinnear

Synopsis Little Miss Sunshine (2006) follows the dysfunctional Hoover family as they embark on a cross-country road trip in their rundown VW bus to support their youngest member, Olive, in a children's beauty pageant. Each family member grapples with personal struggles:...

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Ryan O'Neal · Tatum O'Neal · Madeline Kahn · John Hillerman

Synopsis Adapted from the novel, "Addie Pray" (1971) by Joe David Brown, PAPER MOON is the story of Moses Pray and Addie Loggins. With scenery reminiscent of "The Grapes of Wrath," the film is set in the depression-era Midwestern region of...

Direction Ryutaro Nakamura

Synopsis TV series (2003). 1 season. 14 episodes. The story follows the travels of Kino, a young adventurer who rides a talking motorcycle named Hermes. They explore the people and cultures of different places throughout their adventures, spending only three days...