Best Road Trip movies of 1970s

Actors : Jerry Reed, Sally Field, Burt Reynolds, Mike Henry,
Directors : Hal Needham,

The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Strother Martin, Cheech Marin, Edie Adams,

Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail.

Actors : Billy Green Bush, Jack Nicholson, Fannie Flagg, Karen Black,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

Actors : Robert Webber, Isela Vega, Gig Young, Warren Oates,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Actors : Dominique Sanda, George Peppard, Paul Winfield, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Jack Smight,

In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles.

Actors : John Vernon, Charles Martin Smith, Cloris Leachman, Stephen W. Burns,
Directors : Vincent McEveety,

The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.

Actors : Sally Field, Val Avery, Harrison Ford, Henry Winkler,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.

Actors : Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Deborah Winters, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Jack Lemmon,

Avoiding to settle in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son's family. He embarks on a road trip during which he strikes up a friendship with a ...

Actors : Rüdiger Vogler, Nastassja Kinski, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way.

Actors : James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Mary Tamm, Brigit Forsyth,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Terry is divorced from his German wife and has a Finnish girlfriend Christina. At Thelma's suggestion they join her and Bob on a caravan holiday but due to a mishap the men get separated ...

Actors : Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters, Michael Christian, Ted Cassidy,

A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Robin Mattson, Robert Viharo, Don Johnson,
Directors : Richard Compton,

In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they ...

Actors : Doug Chapin, Richard Hatch, Ann Noland, Susanne Benton,
Directors : Noel Nosseck,

Mature, stable Jesse, his nutty and impulsive longtime best friend Pat, Jesse's caring fiancé Kathy, and Pat's fragile gal pal Jo Ella all decide to embark on a cross country road trip in a...

Actors : Claus Obalski, Victoria Abril, Sylvain Chamarande, Ingeborg Steinbach,
Directors : Max Pécas,

Two half-brothers have to go on a road trip to find their half-sister and receive a huge inheritance.

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Rosemary Dexter, Tony Anthony, Peter Bennett,

An American stuntman working on spaghetti westerns in Europe picks up two pretty American tourists and they decide to take a road trip around Europe together. However, things don't turn out exactly as each of them expected.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Elliott Street, Alan Vint, Paul Koslo,
Directors : Richard Compton,

A group of Green Berets return from Viet Nam and go on a cross country road trip which will result in a shocking conclusion.

Actors : Kathleen Freeman, Ron Leibman, Janet Margolin, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Douglas Schwartz,

Charlie is a sad sack of a man, working at a depressingly dull office job and stuck in a passionless engagement to a neurotic woman. One of the few bright spots in his life is his friend ...

Actors : Barbara Sigel, Ed Nelson, Joan Winmill Brown, Randall Carver,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Jeff is in conflict with everything; his girlfriend, mom, dad but especially himself. In frustration, he strikes out against his dad by vandalizing equipment at a nuclear plant where he's supervisor. Jeff eludes capture and hits the road.