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Hit the Road: Discovering the Best Movies and TV Shows Related to Hitchhiking

Get ready to embark on a thrilling adventure as we explore the world of hitchhiking through the lens of cinema and television. From classic road trip movies to gripping dramas, we'll take you on a journey to discover the best films and shows that capture the essence of hitting the open road. Whether you're a seasoned traveler or just a fan of adventure, you won't want to miss this ride!

Cast

Susan Sarandon

Geena Davis

Harvey Keitel

Michael Madsen

Thelma & Louise (1991)

7.6 3.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: R

Story: Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.

Style: philosophical, intimate, provocative

Plot: robbery, waitress, southern usa, self-defense, highway, housewife, female friendship, arkansas, ...

Cast

Takeshi Kitano

Yusuke Sekiguchi

Kayoko Kishimoto

Yuko Daike

Kikujiro (1999)

7.5 603 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 121 min.

Story: Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and unique characters along the way.

Plot: loser, road trip, travel, disappearance, summer, hitchhiking

Place: japan

Cast

Raj Kapoor

Nargis

Nemo

Nadira

Shree 420 (1955)

7.5 20 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 168 min.

Story: The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and penniless, he is taken in by a woman who looks after him.

Plot: gambling, solidarity, socialism, rain, card trick, clown, fraud, mumbai (bombay), ...

Cast

Marilyn Burns

Allen Danziger

Paul A. Partain

William Vail

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

7.3 3.9K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 83 min.

Audience: R

Story: Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: van, gas station, sadistic, leatherface, hitchhiker, slaughterhouse, slasher, chainsaw, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Ralph Meeker

Albert Dekker

Paul Stewart

Juano Hernu00e1ndez

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

7.2 411 votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Story: One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.

Plot: film noir, hitchhiker, black and white, beach house, convertable, private detective, mike hammer

Cast

Johnny Depp

Benicio del Toro

Tobey Maguire

Michael Lee Gogin

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

7.2 5.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

Style: absurd

Plot: journalist, casino, based on novel or book, paranoia, cocaine, dark comedy, lsd, hallucination, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: las vegas

Cast

Oscar Isaac

Carey Mulligan

Justin Timberlake

Ethan Phillips

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

7.2 2.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.

Style: melancholy, bleak

Plot: chicago, illinois, depression, new york city, guitar, winter, cat, subway, ...

Time: 1960s

Transamerica (2005)

7.0 513 votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

Style: intimate

Plot: new york city, individual, sexual abuse, waitress, parent child relationship, therapist, runaway, new mexico, ...

Cast

Anushka Sharma

Neil Bhoopalam

Darshan Kumaar

Deepti Naval

NH10 (2015)

6.9 90 votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: Meera and Arjun are professionals living in Gurgaon. On their way to a luxurious desert holiday they stop on a Highway dhaba for dinner, where they witness a young girl being picked up by a bunch of hoodlums. Arjun chooses to step in, unmindful of the danger ahead.

Plot: fight, killing, gang, hitchhiker

Cast

Divine

David Lochary

Mary Vivian Pearce

Mink Stole

Female Trouble (1976)

6.9 228 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: 18

Story: Teenage delinquent Dawn Davenport, incensed after her parents do not give her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, runs away from home. After an illegitimate child and hairstylist husband bring her more misery, she's enticed into a life of crime when the owners of her husband's salon promise her fame and fortune.

Plot: rape, parent child relationship, delinquent, black humor, run away, juvenile delinquent, hitchhiking, drag, ...

Cast

Monique van de Ven

Rutger Hauer

Tonny Huurdeman

Wim van den Brink

Turkish Delight (1973)

6.8 216 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Netherlands

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Gifted but hot-headed sculptor Eric has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.

Plot: adultery, brain tumor, bad mother-in-law, coming of age, love, hitchhiker, domestic violence, marital rape, ...

Cast

Edmond O'Brien

Frank Lovejoy

William Talman

Josu00e9 Torvay

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

6.8 209 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 71 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.

Plot: film noir, hitchhiker, woman director

Place: mexico

Cast

Martin Freeman

Yasiin Bey

Zooey Deschanel

Sam Rockwell

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

6.7 4.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

Style: whimsical

Plot: galaxy, android, bureaucracy, based on novel or book, chase, space travel, alien, survival, ...

Cast

Cheech Marin

Tommy Chong

Strother Martin

Edie Adams

Up in Smoke (1978)

6.6 639 votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye."

Plot: joint, drug trafficking, smoking, ecstasy, drug mule, friendship bracelet, marijuana, drugs, ...

Cast

Kiefer Sutherland

Reese Witherspoon

Wolfgang Bodison

Dan Hedaya

Freeway (1996)

6.4 438 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

Style: philosophical, intense

Plot: prison, prostitute, sexual abuse, detective, runaway, attempt to escape, little red riding hood, stepfather, ...

Place: california

Cast

Robert Downey Jr.

Zach Galifianakis

Michelle Monaghan

Jamie Foxx

Due Date (2010)

6.4 5.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a terrifying journey when he accepts a ride from an actor.

Plot: highway, slacker, hitchhiker, wallet, sunglasses, rest stop, vicodin, waffle, ...

Cast

Josh Zuckerman

Amanda Crew

Clark Duke

James Marsden

Sex Drive (2008)

6.4 1.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.

Plot: virgin, high school, friendship, jealousy, community, road trip, loss of virginity, friends, ...

Cast

Olympia Dukakis

Brenda Fricker

Ryan Doucette

Kristin Booth

Cloudburst (2011)

6.4 58 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Story: When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.

Plot: homophobia, romcom, nova scotia, canada, lesbian relationship, maine, hitchhiker, gay marriage, ...

Cast

Jessica Biel

Jonathan Tucker

Andrew Bryniarski

Erica Leerhsen

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

6.3 3.0K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

Plot: suicide, sheriff, psychopath, trauma, telephone, gore, stalker, friends, ...