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1980s Road Movies

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Kiki's Delivery Service(1989)

G
| 1h 43min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure
3.9/5 (with 1,669 votes)

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Mad Max 2(1981)

R
| 1h 36min | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 1,567 votes)

Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

Directed by George Miller - With Mel Gibson, Michael Preston, Bruce Spence, Vernon Wells, Kjell Nilsson, Virginia Hey, ...
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome(1985)

PG-13
| 1h 47min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 1,206 votes)

Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.

Directed by George Miller, George Ogilvie - With Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Angry Anderson, Bruce Spence, Angelo Rossitto, Helen Buday, ...
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The Hitcher(1986)

R
| 1h 38min | Horror, Action, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 406 votes)

On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking that a good conversation will help him not to fall asleep. He will have enough time to deeply regret such an unmeditated decision.

Directed by Robert Harmon - With Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jeffrey DeMunn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Armin Shimerman, John M. Jackson, ...

Children of the Corn(1984)

R
| 1h 33min | Horror, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 418 votes)

A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.

Directed by Fritz Kiersch - With Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R. G. Armstrong, John Franklin, Courtney Gains
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The Wraith(1986)

R
| 1h 33min | Action, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 180 votes)

Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so they can 'win' their vehicles. After Walsh beats the decent teenager Jamie Hankins to death after finding him with his girlfriend, a mysterious power creates Jake Kesey, an extremely cool motor-biker who has a car which is invincible. Jake befriends Jamie's girlfriend Keri Johnson, takes Jamie's sweet brother Bill under his wing and manages what Sheriff Loomis couldn't; eliminate Packard's criminal gang the hard way...

Directed by Mike Marvin - With Charlie Sheen, Sherilyn Fenn, Nick Cassavetes, Randy Quaid, Clint Howard, Matthew Barry, ...
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Smokey and the Bandit Part 3(1983)

PG
| 1h 25min | Action, Comedy, Crime
2.3/5 (with 67 votes)

The Enos duo convince Cletus, aka The Bandit, to come out of hiding and help them promote their new restaurant. With a little coaxing, he agrees, producing an almost-creaky Trigger as his mode of transport. But his nemesis, Sheriff Buford T. Justice, is on the hunt, forcing Cletus and Trigger to hit the road. Can they steer clear of the vengeful sheriff?

Directed by Dick Lowry - With Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Colleen Camp, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, Burt Reynolds, ...

The Wizard(1989)

PG
| 1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 130 votes)

Corey refuses to let his emotionally disturbed younger brother Jimmy be institutionalized, and the two run away together. They soon join forces with a resourceful girl, who notices that Jimmy has a special talent: he is a "wizard" at video games and can achieve the high score on absolutely everything he plays. Evading their parents and a sinister bounty hunter, the trio head for a climactic showdown at the national video game championships in California.

Directed by Todd Holland - With Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, Jenny Lewis, Christian Slater, Beau Bridges, Frank McRae, ...
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Something Wild(1986)

R
| 1h 54min | Crime, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 129 votes)

A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.

Directed by Jonathan Demme - With Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin, Tracey Walter, Charles Napier, ...

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone(1983)

PG
| 1h 30min | Adventure, Science Fiction
2.6/5 (with 48 votes)

Three women make an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only Earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their talents, they try to rescue the women.

Directed by Lamont Johnson - With Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Michael Ironside, Andrea Marcovicci, Hrant Alianak, ...
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Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn(1983)

PG
| 1h 24min | Fantasy, Science Fiction
2.4/5 (with 16 votes)

A seeker named Dogen rescues Dhyana after her father is murdered by the evil Jared-Syn. To avenge her father's death, Dogen must find Jared-Syn's hideout in the mysterious "Lost City", but the only person who knows where it is an aging, burned-out seeker named Rhodes. Along the way, they will need to do battle against the hunter Baal and his Cyclopean minions for engaging Jared-Syn in a final encounter.

Directed by Charles Band - With Jeffrey Byron, Michael Preston, Tim Thomerson, Kelly Preston, Richard Moll, Larry Pennell, ...

Marrakech Express(1989)

1h 50min | Comedy, Adventure
3.7/5 (with 92 votes)

After a mysterious girl tells Marco her boyfriend (and estranged longtime friend of his) Rudy has been arrested in Morocco, he and four other friends leave for Marrakech with a large sum of money to get him out of jail.

Directed by Gabriele Salvatores - With Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Cristina Marsillach, Giuseppe Cederna, Massimo Venturiello, Gigio Alberti, ...
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Who's Singin' Over There?(1980)

1h 26min | Drama, Comedy, Adventure
3.8/5 (with 67 votes)

On April 5th, 1941, a day before the Nazi attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colorful group of passengers is headed for Belgrade...

Directed by Slobodan Šijan - With Pavle Vuisić, Dragan Nikolić, Danilo Stojković, Taško Načić, Boro Stjepanović, Slavko Štimac, ...

Roadgames(1981)

PG
| 1h 41min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 65 votes)

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.

Directed by Richard Franklin - With Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Grant Page, Marion Edward, Alan Hopgood

Roadhouse 66(1984)

1h 30min | Action, Comedy
2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Beckman driving a '55 Thunderbird on Route 66 hooks up with Johnny after hoodlum Hoot and his gang shoot his car. Continuous conflicts between Hoot and Beckman make Beckman and Johnny determant to teach him a lesson.

Directed by John Mark Robinson - With Willem Dafoe, Judge Reinhold, Kate Vernon, Stephen Elliott, Alan Autry, Kevyn Major Howard, ...

Nightmare(1981)

R
| 1h 37min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 45 votes)

A drug-treated schizophrenic plagued by horrible nightmares is released from the hospital and goes on a killing spree.

Directed by Romano Scavolini
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The State of Things(1982)

2h 5min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 32 votes)

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Directed by Wim Wenders - With Patrick Bauchau, Allen Garfield, Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly, Camilla More, John Paul Getty III, ...

Terminus(1987)

1h 50min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
2.1/5 (with 7 votes)

In a post-apocalyptic future, an international sport has been established where a driver of a computerized truck must drive across country to an established terminus and not be stopped by other vehicles. The lead truck, called "Monster" has been created by a boy genius and is to be driven by a woman through the course. The only problem is the computer guidance system fails and she ends up in uncharted territories. There she encounters leather-clad hoods who torture her and eventually kill her. Before dying she tells a fellow prisoner about the truck and he uses it to escape.

Directed by Pierre-William Glenn - With Johnny Hallyday, Karen Allen, André Nocquet, Dieter Schidor, Dominique Valera, Gabriel Damon, ...

Rolling Vengeance(1987)

R
| 1h 32min | Thriller, Action, Drama
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton monster truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family.

Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern

Tandem(1987)

1h 26min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 32 votes)

Michel Mortez travels around France hosting a radio game show he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one who knows what really lies under Mortez's appearance of a playful don Juan. When the program is canceled, Rivetot delays telling Mortez as long as possible... Both malicious and tender, this bitter comedy also shows nostalgia.

Directed by Patrice Leconte - With Gérard Jugnot, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Albert Delpy, Gabriel Gobin, Ged Marlon, ...

Warrior of the Lost World(1983)

R
| 1h 32min | Action, Science Fiction
1.5/5 (with 19 votes)

A nomad mercenary on a high-tech motorcycle helps bring about the downfall of the evil Orwellian government, the Omega.

Directed by David Worth, Fred Williamson - With Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasence, Fred Williamson, Laura Nucci, Scott Coffey, ...
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Roadie(1980)

PG
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Music
3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll show.

Directed by Alan Rudolph - With Meat Loaf, Kaki Hunter, Don Cornelius, Gailard Sartain, Art Carney, Alice Cooper, ...

The Last Chase(1981)

PG
| 1h 41min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
1.8/5 (with 12 votes)

Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.

Directed by Martyn Burke - With Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Chris Makepeace, Alexandra Stewart

Wheels of Fire(1985)

R
| 1h 21min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
2.0/5 (with 9 votes)

The Future is now. There are no rules and no place to hide from the deadly Highway Warriors who ravage the roads in machines of destruction.

Directed by Cirio H. Santiago
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Big Joys, Small Sorrows(1986)

2h 9min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.

Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita

Powell Peralta: The Search for Animal Chin(1987)

1h 6min | Action
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

The Bones Brigade travels around California, Nevada, and Hawaii to different skate spots in search of a wizened old man, Won Ton "Animal" Chin. The movie is of the old-school nomadic, skate-everything-in-your-path genre with interludes of stopping to rip-up a big ramp, pool or kicker. After much searching and skateboarding, they locate a large ramp in the desert. They also find a Chinese character on the inside of the ramp's spine. They conclude that in searching for Mr. Chin, they may have found his spirit.

Directed by Stacy Peralta - With Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero, Rodney Mullen, ...

Heartaches(1981)

R
| 1h 32min | Drama, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited woman on a bus. Although the two are polar opposites, the wife moves in with the young woman, and finds out that they have much more in common than she realized.

Directed by Donald Shebib - With Margot Kidder, Annie Potts, Robert Carradine, Winston Rekert, Michael Zelniker, George Touliatos, ...

Morning Patrol(1987)

1h 45min | Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

A deserted city is the setting, where a woman walks alone trying to approach and enter the forbidden zone. Traps and the morning patrol lurk everywhere. Electronic voices summon the (non-existent) people to abandon the city. Can a love affair in this place survive?

Directed by Nikos Nikolaidis

Roadkill(1989)

1h 25min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.

Directed by Bruce McDonald - With Valerie Buhagiar, Don McKellar

Coast to Coast(1980)

PG
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Madie is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the trial of a expensive divorce. Madie hitches a ride back to California with a certain Charles Callahan, a debt-ridden truck driver. Madie and Charles eventually fall in love while evading an assortment of bad guys including a pair of thugs hired by Madie's husband to prevent her from returning to California, and a repo man sent to reclaim Charles' truck.

Directed by Joseph Sargent - With Dyan Cannon, Robert Blake, Michael Lerner
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