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Step into the World of Motels: Uncovering the Best Movies and TV Shows

Get ready to embark on a journey that takes you through the quirky, the bizarre, and the downright fascinating world of motels. From classic films to modern television series, we've curated a list of the best movies and shows that will leave you captivated and yearning for more. Whether you're a fan of drama, comedy, or horror, our collection has something for everyone.

Cast

Anthony Perkins

Janet Leigh

Vera Miles

John Gavin

Psycho (1960)

8.4 11.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Plot: hotel, clerk, detective, shower, arizona, motel, halloween, stolen money, ...

Cast

Guy Pearce

Carrie-Anne Moss

Joe Pantoliano

Mark Boone Junior

Memento (2000)

8.2 16.4K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

Plot: drug dealer, amnesia, insulin, tattoo, waitress, motel, manipulation, flashback, ...

Place: los angeles, california

Cast

Vera Farmiga

Freddie Highmore

Max Thieriot

Olivia Cooke

Bates Motel (2013) TV Show

8.1 1.8K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 50

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.

Plot: parent child relationship, small town, motel, prequel, dysfunctional family, serial killer, single mother, based on movie

No Country for Old Men (2007)

7.9 13.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

Plot: vietnam veteran, sheriff, trailer park, based on novel or book, hitman, psychopath, drug trafficking, motel, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: texas

Cast

Eugene Levy

Catherine O'Hara

Dan Levy

Annie Murphy

Schitt's Creek (2015) TV Show

7.8 712 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Canada

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 79

Audience: TV-14

Story: Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing town they once bought as a joke.

Plot: small town, motel, spoiled child, riches to rags, spoiled, loving, hometown friends, comforting

Cast

Gene Hackman

Willem Dafoe

Frances McDormand

Brad Dourif

Mississippi Burning (1988)

7.7 2.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

Plot: suicide, sheriff, police, funeral, ku klux klan, mississippi river, shotgun, fbi, ...

Cast

Sarah Paulson

Finn Wittrock

Jon Jon Briones

Judy Davis

Ratched (2020) TV Show

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In 1947, Mildred Ratched begins working as a nurse at a leading psychiatric hospital. But beneath her stylish exterior lurks a growing darkness.

Plot: nurse, motel, mutilation, lobotomy, mental hospital

Time: 1940s

Cast

Jeanne Moreau

Maurice Ronet

Georges Poujouly

Yori Bertin

Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

7.6 707 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: France

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

Plot: secret love, paris, france, car race, suicide attempt, arms deal, photography, camera, ...

Lost Highway (1997)

7.5 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Plot: prison, pornography, jealousy, dreams, dual identity, nightmare, police, sexual frustration, ...

Cast

Brooklynn Prince

Bria Vinaite

Willem Dafoe

Christopher Rivera

The Florida Project (2017)

7.4 3.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

Plot: friendship, parent child relationship, drug addiction, innocence, motel, drug use, coming of age, summer, ...

Place: florida

Cast

James Marsden

Gary Oldman

Amy Smart

Christopher Lloyd

Interstate 60 (2002)

7.4 787 votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.

Style: romantic

Plot: motel, highway, convertible, surrealism, road trip, dream girl, judgment, lawyer, ...

Cast

Marianne Su00e4gebrecht

CCH Pounder

Jack Palance

Christine Kaufmann

Bagdad Cafe (1987)

7.2 438 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Germany

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: 12

Story: A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.

Plot: cleaning lady, motel, magic show, highway, wilderness, rosenheim, mysterious woman, deserted by husband, ...

Cast

John Cusack

Ray Liotta

Amanda Peet

John Hawkes

Identity (2003)

7.2 4.4K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

Plot: prostitute, prisoner, psychopath, nevada, detective, rain, motel, weather, ...

Cast

Matthew McConaughey

Reese Witherspoon

Tye Sheridan

Jacob Lofland

Mud (2013)

7.1 3.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.

Plot: sniper, friendship, bounty hunter, snake, mississippi river, river, killing, houseboat, ...

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

Ryan Gosling

Bradley Cooper

Eva Mendes

Rose Byrne

The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

7.0 5.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

Plot: corruption, parent child relationship, hostage, motel, carnival, stuntman, house party, mechanic, ...

Cast

Ethan Hawke

Robert Sean Leonard

Uma Thurman

Tape (2001)

6.9 249 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support Jon on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping, it appears that there is an undercurrent of tension in the air.

Plot: drug dealer, virgin, high school, jealousy, rape, michigan, love triangle, alcohol, ...

Cast

Jeff Bridges

Cynthia Erivo

Lewis Pullman

Dakota Johnson

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

6.8 3.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

Story: Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), casino, hippie, audio tape, motel, jukebox, concierge, richard nixon, ...

Time: vietnam war, 1960s

Cast

Sid Haig

Bill Moseley

Sheri Moon Zombie

William Forsythe

The Devil's Rejects (2005)

6.7 1.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.

Style: exploitation, psychotronic

Plot: fire, sheriff, bounty hunter, sadism, psychopath, sadistic, brothel, motel, ...

Cast

Jim Carrey

Jeff Daniels

Lauren Holly

Teri Garr

Dumb and Dumber (1994)

6.7 6.8K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary's heart.

Plot: gas station, utah, motel, stupidity, cigar smoking, road trip, pill, prank, ...

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