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1) Nomadland
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, it features real nomads Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells as Fern's mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
It's the opportunity of a lifetime when teenage reporter William Miller lands an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine. Despite the objections of his protective mother, William hits the road with an up-and-coming rock band and finds there's a lot more to write home about than the music.
5) Il sorpasso
Series
Criterion collection volume 707
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Italiano
Description
A freewheeling bachelor takes a bookish law student on an unpredictable journey from Rome to Tuscany.
6) The trip
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventures as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
10) Sideways
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Miles is a divorced man and a failed writer who teaches junior high English. He decides to take his best friend, somewhat famous actor Jack, on a weeklong drive through California's wine country. There they explore their failures and question their relationships.
11) Transamerica
Publisher
distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Bree Osborne, a pre-operative transsexual, learns she fathered a child back when she was Stanley Osborne. The wheels of fortune take Bree and her teenaged son on a cross-country trip that will change both their lives.
12) Raising Arizona
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of a wealthy Arizona family. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
13) Father figures
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.
14) American honey
Publisher
A24
Language
English
Formats
Description
An adolescent girl from a troubled home (Sasha Lane, *Hearts Beat Loud*) runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door to door. Nominated for a **BAFTA Award** for Outstanding British Film of the Year. Winner of two Special Jury Prizes at the **Cannes Film Festival**. Nominated for six **Film Independent Spirit Awards** including Best Feature. "*This shimmering, raw, hip-hop hymnal of a film...
15) The puffy chair
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After finding a vintage Lazy Boy recliner online, just like the one that used to grace his childhood living room, a man decides to buy the chair and deliver it to his father as a surprise birthday gift.
16) Dog
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Army Ranger Briggs and his companion Lulu (a Belgian Malinois) buckle up for a road trip down the Pacific Coast in hopes of making it to a fellow soldier's funeral on time. Along the way, they'll drive each other crazy, break a handful of laws, narrowly escape death and learn to let down their guards in order to have a fighting chance of finding happiness."--Container
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student....
18) Paris can wait
Publisher
Sony Picture Classics
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband's associates.
19) The guilt trip
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
The plan for a quick stop at Mom's takes a turn when an impulse compels Andy to invite his mother, Joyce, on a three-thousand mile cross-country journey. But the further they go, the closer they get, and Andy realizes that they have more in common than he ever imagined.
20) RV
Publisher
Columbia/Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Bob is determined to combine work and pleasure. He rents a recreational motor home to drive his wife and kids on a scenic vacation to the Colorado Rockies. While trying to enjoy some much needed, quality time with his family, Bob is secretly preparing a presentation for a high-stakes corporate merger. Their dysfunctional road trip leads to repeated encounters with the perky Gornicke family. The Gornicke's don't appear to be too bright, but to Bob,...
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