If we w🐎ere talking about games, the idea of an overly linear storyline would put you right off, but when it comes to road movies that’s entirely the point. Road movies, as the name suggests, involve getting from point A to B, but turns what could be something incredibly dull into an art form. As you’ll see from our pick of the 25 best r🌄oad movies* of all time, the genre manages to be incredibly diverse, especially considering they all have the same basic template.
*Disclaimer: not all road movies feature cars.
25. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
The Movie: Half of th𒊎e comedian꧂s in Hollywood race to find buried loot in Stanley Kramer's epic chase comedy.
How To Recreate It: Tweet that you've left a million dollars somewhere in the Mojave desert🌺. Hashtags will do the rest.
24. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Movie: The Coen brothers' deep-fried stew of Homer's Odyssey, 🎉Preston Sturges, and bluegrass music finds chain gang absconders George Clooney, John ܫTurturro, and Tim Blake Nelson in a tight spot.
How To Recreate It: Bunk𝐆 off from community service, and take a stroll around the coun꧂tryside.
23. The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
The Movie: John Ford tackles John Steinbeck's Grea🐈t Depression classic, as Henry Fonda and family up sticks and hea♕d West in search of a better life.
How To Recreate It: Let's hope you never have to.
22. Sideways (2004)
The Movie: Paul Giamatti and Thomas Hadꦺen Church taste 'n' drive their way across California's vineyards, in Alexander Payne's mid-🃏life crisis dramedy.
How To Recreate It: Fill the car boot with wine (no Merlot!) a𓄧nd drive towards the nearest hills.
21. Planes, Trains And Automobiles (1987)
The Movie: John Hughes pairs John Candy (fat, jolly) with Steve Martin (thin, jaded) to create the 'commuter he𓂃ll' version of Laurel & Hardy.
How To Recreate It: Attempt to travel anywhere during the Chris𝕴tmas break.
20. The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Movie: Jake and Elwood are on a mission from God to reform the band and save an orphanage. Trouble is, the long road ahead is teeming with policꦍe, C&a▨mp;W bands, and Illinois Nazis.
How To Recreate It: Form a band and go on tour. If anything, the Blues Bros. exper✤ience will look tame.
19. Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
The Movie: Sam Peckinpah's surreal odyssey about a drifter (Warren Oates) forced to cross the Tex-Mex border with a deca🌸pitated head for company is the savage extreme of the road movie.
How To Recreate It: Spend the summer driving around some rotting meat for that authentically rancid, fly-blaste🧜d Peckinpah look.
18. The Straight Story (1999)
The Movie: Elderly Richard Farnswort꧙h sets off to visit his estranged brother on a ride-on John Deere lawnmower. A typically weird David Lynch film, but this time it𝓰's 'nice weird'.
How To Recreate It: Buy a mower, 𓂃visit your folks. Sign up to Just Giving and you could do it for charity.
17. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
The Movie: G🃏ael Garca Bernal plays the young Che Guevara, whose eyes are opened to the injustice of the world while travelling across South America on a knackered bike known, ironically, as The Might๊y One.
How To Recreate It: Hop aboard a moped for a tour of ch✃arities and community projects. Blog about to 🌃raise awareness and funds.
16. Rain Man (1988)
The Movie: Tom Cruise kidnaps autistic brother Dusꦜtin Hoffman in the hope of securing an inherไitance. But unless they're willing to fly Qantas, it looks like they're going to have to drive.
How To Recreate It: The specifics of this one are a bit niche, but most people have relatives who don't get out 🐓much, so why not take your Gran out for a drive? Just don't let her gamble away her pension.
