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51. It's a Gift (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy
A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison
Votes: 5,766
52. Kiss or Kill (1997)
R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After a robbery scam that goes bad, lovers Nikki and Al take off into the Australian outback, pursued by the police and a malevolent footballer named Zipper Doyle, and meet a number of offbeat characters.
Director: Bill Bennett | Stars: Matt Day, Frances O'Connor, Tiffany Peters, Julie Wood
Votes: 1,464 | Gross: $0.73M
53. Hollywood or Bust (1956)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical
A singer who can't pay his bookie joins a nerdy, star-struck movie fan and his Great Dane in a cross-country convertible ride to Hollywood.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Pat Crowley, Maxie Rosenbloom
Votes: 2,363
54. The Great Smokey Roadblock (1977)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
After his rig is repossessed, an aging trucker by the name of Elegant John Howard decides he and his truck have one more good run in them, and with the help of a hitchhiker and a few others he will make it happen.
Director: John Leone | Stars: Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan, Austin Pendleton, Robert Englund
Votes: 607
55. Chasing 3000 (2010)
PG | 115 min | Family, Sport
Two brothers drive across country to see their hero, Roberto Clemente, get his 3000th hit.
Director: Gregory J. Lanesey | Stars: Ray Liotta, Trevor Morgan, Rory Culkin, Lauren Holly
Votes: 979
56. Without Reservations (1946)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore, Anne Triola
Votes: 1,930 | Gross: $3.00M
57. Goodbye Pork Pie (1980)
R | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Dumped by his girlfriend, a man joins a reckless youth in a stolen yellow mini and they drive the length of New Zealand, attracting cops and media attention, determined to get to Invercargill.
Director: Geoff Murphy | Stars: Tony Barry, Kelly Johnson, Claire Oberman, Shirley Gruar
Votes: 1,319
58. Falling in Love Again (1980)
PG | 103 min | Drama, Romance
While struggling with his midlife crisis, Harry receives an invitation for his high school's reunion back so he takes Sue and their teenage kids on a cross-country car trip back to the Big Apple.
Director: Steven Paul | Stars: Elliott Gould, Susannah York, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kaye Ballard
Votes: 459
59. Burke & Wills (1985)
PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Fargher
Votes: 286
60. Speak Easily (1932)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy
A timid professor inherits a large sum of money and decides to fund a terrible musical.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn, Thelma Todd
Votes: 1,168
61. The Overlanders (1946)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a... See full summary »
Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell, Jean Blue
Votes: 521
62. 10 Brothers of Shaolin (1977)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The martial-arts action film 10 Brothers of Shaolin tells the tale of ten specially trained fighters, five monks, five laymen, who have been taught their skills in order to protect Master ... See full summary »
Director: Chung Ting | Stars: Don Wong, Yi Chang, Phillip Ko, Wei Tung
Votes: 157
63. The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
Unrated | 25 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
This documentary is about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States when a combination of farming practices and environmental factors led to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Director: Pare Lorentz | Stars: Thomas Chalmers, Bam White
Votes: 753
64. Stowaway in the Sky (1960)
Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Family
A young boy sneaks onto his grandfather's hot-air balloon and together they travel over France.
Director: Albert Lamorisse | Stars: André Gille, Maurice Baquet, Pascal Lamorisse, Charles Bayard
Votes: 232
65. See You Soon (I) (2020)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Drama, Romance
A gay man travels across the country to spend the weekend with someone he's been talking to for months on a dating app, hoping to find the kind of romance that he grew up thinking he'd never get to experience.
Director: Tyler Rabinowitz | Stars: James Cusati-Moyer, Jonny Beauchamp, Olivia Peace
Votes: 183
66. Anything Can Happen (1952)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
Giorgi, a man of character, emigrates from Georgia, U.S.S.R. to the U.S. He and other Georgian immigrants there support one another while struggling to find work and become U.S. citizens. Giorgi falls for a cute reporter interested in his case.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: José Ferrer, Kim Hunter, Kurt Kasznar, Eugenie Leontovich
Votes: 164
67. Six of a Kind (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy
When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields, George Burns
Votes: 732
68. Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase (1981 TV Movie)
98 min | Family, Adventure
Charlie Bartlett is a retired railroad worker whose dream of crossing the country in a hot air balloon is encouraged by his grandson Morris O'Neill. Morris decides to go along with his ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Jack Albertson, Adrienne Barbeau, John Reilly, Slim Pickens
Votes: 44
69. Guns of Darkness (1962)
102 min | Drama, Thriller
An English couple and a deposed ruler head for the border during a South American revolution.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Leslie Caron, David Niven, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu
Votes: 420
70. 13 Hours by Air (1936)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Airline pilot Jack Gordon (Fred MacMurray) on a flight from New York to San Francisco, is immediately attracted to beautiful passenger Felice Rollins (Joan Bennett). Known as a "lady's man"... See full summary »
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, John Howard
Votes: 187
71. The National Tree (2009 TV Movie)
TV-G | 88 min | Drama
A teenager has his Sitka Spruce tree chosen to be planted outside the White House as the new national Christmas Tree.
Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Evan Williams, Kari Matchett, Paula Brancati
Votes: 642
72. 17 Days Down the Line (1972)
37 min | Documentary, Short, Family
A documentary detailing a 17 day road-trip from from the east coast of America to the west.
Director: Michael Mann | Star: Marvin Kupfer
Votes: 33
73. Broadminded (1931)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Romance
Jack's father is sending him away to keep him from gambling, booze, girls, and late nights. He has Ossie go as Jack's companion, not knowing that Ossie does the same things as Jack. They ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Ona Munson, William Collier Jr., Marjorie White
Votes: 363
74. Buckshot (2017)
78 min | Comedy, Drama
A young, struggling country singer becomes the driver for an old, crazed, honky-tonk legend that could possibly help him break into stardom.
Director: Joshua J. Smith | Stars: Frank Collison, Tim DeZarn, Amber Hargrove, Allan Wasserman
Votes: 108
75. Darius Goes West (2007)
92 min | Documentary
Darius Weems, who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, travels across the country with eleven friends on a mission to get his wheelchair customized by MTV's "Pimp My Ride."
Director: Logan Smalley | Stars: Darius Weems, Andrew Carson, Daniel Epting, John Hadden
Votes: 273
76. Sin dejar huella (2000)
109 min | Drama
A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.
Director: María Novaro | Stars: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Tiaré Scanda, Jesús Ochoa, Martín Altomaro
Votes: 457
77. Special Cargo (2021)
Crime, Drama, Horror
Two thugs from Jersey are traveling to LA to deliver drugs and guns...and end up kidnapping a girl along the way who witnessed a botched transaction.
Director: Brewster Hammer | Stars: Brewster Hammer, Joe Hammerstone, Casey Lee McIntosh
78. Dog Tales (1958)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
Man's best friend is the subject of a series of blackout gags, climaxing with the bogus heroism of a dog who travels across the country for an unexpected purpose.
Directors: Robert McKimson, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce, Mary Jane Croft, June Foray
Votes: 156
79. Little Canyon (2008)
TV-MA | 20 min | Short, Drama
Greta's dad is moving the family cross-country, promising a California paradise and packing half the household into a dented station wagon. All that's missing is Mom. As they travel through... See full summary »
Director: Olivia Silver | Stars: Tessa Allen, Kevin Jacobsen, Kendall Toole, Aaron Refvem
Votes: 35
80. Drive (2004–2008)
Documentary
Based on the award-winning documentary film, DRIVE: Notes From the Wilderness goes on the road with professional skateboarder Mike Vallely as he travels across America exploring the people,... See full summary »
Star: Mike Vallely
81. Fagbug (2009)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
On the 11th Annual National Day of Silence, Erin Davies was victim to a hate crime in Albany, New York. Because of sporting a rainbow sticker on her VW Beetle, Erin's car was vandalized, ... See full summary »
Director: Erin Davies | Stars: Erin Davies, The Fagbug
Votes: 153
82. America Unchained (2007)
75 min | Documentary
Dave Gorman attempts to travel coast to coast across America without giving any money to 'The Man' by avoiding large chains and multi-nationals and instead seeking out independent businesses in order to find the true spirit of the country.
Directors: Andy Devonshire, Stef. Wagstaffe | Stars: Dave Gorman, Stef. Wagstaffe, Andy Devonshire
Votes: 333
83. Hollywood to Dollywood (2011)
81 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Twin young men from North Carolina riding on the fumes of a dream to meet their idol, Dolly Parton the 'Backwoods Barbie', find more than what they bargained for in an RV named Jolene.
Directors: Gary Lane, John Lavin | Stars: Chad Allen, Dustin Lance Black, Michael Bowen, Beth Grant
Votes: 99
84. Time Out for Romance (1937)
72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A girl (Trevor) escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man (Whalen) in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Joan Davis, Chick Chandler
Votes: 80
85. Gas House Kids Go West (1947)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sport
The Gas House Kids take a job delivering an automobile to California, unaware that it is a stolen car. Upon their arrival, they discover a hot-car ring run by a crooked ranch foreman with lecherous designs on the rancher's daughter.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Emory Parnell, Chili Williams, Vince Barnett, William Wright
Votes: 65
86. Taking Al Back Home (2023)
45 min | Documentary
'Taking Al Back Home' is an entertaining and poignant road trip documentary by a son, Bill Kirchenbauer, who is taking his late war hero father Al's ashes back to his hometown in Michigan. ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Kirchenbauer | Star: Bill Kirchenbauer
87. On Our Way (1985 TV Movie)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Retired couple decides to hit the road in their RV and explore America.
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Janet Leigh, Harry Guardino, G.W. Bailey, Ben Marley
88. Coast to Coast in 48 Hours (1929)
Documentary, Short
Charles Lindbergh introduces this account of a trip from New York to California, by both train and plane, that took 48 hours.
Star: Charles A. Lindbergh
89. Alibi Mark (1937)
Approved | 13 min | Short, Drama, Crime
When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.
Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Floyd Gibbons, Dennis Moore, Cliff Storey, Fred Whitehouse
Votes: 90
90. Paragliding Across America (2001 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 47 min | Documentary
The first paragliding expedition across America. World paragliding distance recordholder Will Gadd, also a perennial winner of the X-Games ice climbing competition, lead a three-man team to... See full summary »
Directors: Will Gadd, Les Guthman | Stars: Kim Csizmazia, Will Gadd, Jim Grossman, Othar Lawrence
91. Magoo Goes West (1956)
6 min | Family, Animation, Short
Mr. Magoo is depressed over the constant rainy weather. Well, actually, it isn't raining; he's just left the sprinkler running. Fed up, he plans to venture to California in search of sunny ... See full summary »
Director: Pete Burness | Stars: Jim Backus, Jerry Hausner
Votes: 33
92. No Ninja Left Behind (2008)
4 min | Animation, Short
What lengths will two sisters go to get their motorcycle across the US in the middle of winter? This short documents the amazing journey of Emily and Ellen as they transport their ... See full summary »
Director: Emily Cohan | Stars: Emily Cohan, Ellen Cohan, Mark Cohan, Danny Woomer
93. Running Wild: Australia's Camels (2016 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Director: Ben Hawke | Stars: Robyn Davidson, Tahmina Ansari, John Bean, Bejah
Votes: 7
94. Sea to Shining Sea: 100 Years Across America
Documentary, History | Pre-production
Retracing a 1922 journey across America, exploring family and American history, along with the human compulsion to see new things, to hit the open road.
Director: Carrie Terraccino
96. On the Line (II) (2011)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
Two friends journey 2,400 km by foot, bike, kayak and raft from the Tar sands of Alberta to the B.C. coast in order to investigate the ramifications of a proposed 5.5 billion dollar oil pipeline.
Director: Frank Wolf | Stars: Todd McGowan, Frank Wolf
Votes: 28
97. The Orange Chronicles (2007)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Damian Kolodiy arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine expecting to stay for two weeks. Instead, a revolution exploded around him that inspired the world!
Director: Damian Kolodiy
Votes: 15
98.
Family Guy (1999– )
Episode:
Road to Rhode Island
(2000)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy
Brian and Stewie embark on a cross-country journey home; Peter becomes addicted to marriage counselling videos hosted by an adult film star.
Directors: Dan Povenmire, Pete Michels, Peter Shin | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis
Votes: 2,730
99.
The Flintstones (1960–1966)
Episode:
Droop Along Flintstone
(1961)
Not Rated | 25 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The Flintstones and the Rubbles stay at Fred's rich cousin's ranch while they are away.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Votes: 214
100.
The Flintstones (1960–1966)
Episode:
The Girls' Night Out
(1961)
Not Rated | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Fred records a record in an amusement-park booth and by mistake leaves it behind. When the record is found and played on the airwaves, it becomes a big hit, and Fred's a star.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Votes: 280