9 Best Road Trip Movies to Watch

Road trip based movies are generally more wholesome to watch than a story in a fixed setting since they offer viewers the chance to experience new and exotic locations around the world while narrating a story revolving around the main characters. The stories are generally comedies, full of funny shenanigans and escapades, or life changing ones that offer some sort of moral at the end.

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Road Trip

1. Road Trip

Having shades of the reckless loose fun that college students indulge in, Road Trip is a crazy story of 4 friends who travel hundreds of miles to undo a mistake that one of them makes. A total guy film, you will crack up with your buddies when you watch it.

The Motorcycle Diaries

2. The Motorcycle Diaries

This movie is a dramatized biography of the world famous revolutionary youth icon, Che Guevara. It depicts the incidents and events that happened during a motorcycle road trip that the 23 year old Guevara embarked on, which changed his thinking and perception about things, shaping him to be the revolutionary that he became.

Due Date

3. Due Date

When you have a film made by the makers of the hilarious worldwide grosser, The Hangover, you know you can expect quite a few laughs. The shenanigans of a man who has to make an urgent road trip to be with his wife during childbirth and an insufferable guy with a pet dog will crack you up for sure.

Y Tu Mama Tambien

4. Y Tu Mama Tambien

This is a Mexican coming of age drama film about two boys on the brink of adulthood who set out on a road trip with an older woman who has just separated from her husband. They discover each other; their real selves as well as the reality of each other’s characters while going all out wild. The movie mainly deals with the topic of friendship and sexuality.

Dumb and Dumber

5. Dumb and Dumber

Probably the most hilarious performance of Jim Carrey can be seen in this film about two really dumb, crazy, happy-go-lucky friends. The movie depicts their utter lack of common sense as they embark on a cross-country road trip in USA to return a suitcase full of money to its owner.

Before Sunrise

6. Before Sunrise

The only romantic film in this list is the classic, Before Sunrise. It has been regarded as a cult as far as the romance genre goes and more than the protagonists’ Euro rail trip, you will love the dialogues and go,‘Hey this is exactly what I feel about relationships but never expressed it’. An ideal film to see with your woman.

The Darjeeling Limited

7. The Darjeeling Limited

Renowned for his films that manage to tickle people’s funny bones, Wes Anderson explores India in a lighthearted manner through the journey of three dysfunctional brothers in this movie. The events that occur, people they meet and their surroundings, while aboard a Darjeeling Limited train in India are worth a watch for the hilarious humor.

Sex Drive

8. Sex Drive

Another American Pie like movie is the cleverly titled Sex Drive, which shows the crazily wild journey of a high school student and his best friends to the opposite side of the country to meet his online lover.

Into the Wild

9. Into the Wild

This is a biographic tale of a brilliant student who gives away all of his savings to charity in order to find the true meaning of life and reconnect with nature by hitchhiking in Alaska. However, he realizes that nature can be as ruthless as human relationships when he is stranded in wilderness. The soul stirring experiences that he goes through in order to survive, make this film a must-watch.