Best Road Trip movies of 1980s

Actors : Tom Cruise, Gerald R. Molen, Dustin Hoffman, Valeria Golino,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

Actors : Michael McKean, John Candy, Steve Martin, Laila Robins,
Directors : John Hughes,

A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious slob of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion.

Actors : John Ashton, Charles Grodin, Robert De Niro, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Martin Brest,

An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail.

Actors : Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Diane Salinger, Mark Holton,
Directors : Tim Burton,

When eccentric man-child Pee-Wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life.

Actors : Sylvia Farrel, Julie Hagerty, Albert Brooks, Tina Kincaid,
Directors : Albert Brooks,

A husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago.

Actors : Susan Blakely, Sylvester Stallone, Rick Zumwalt, Robert Loggia,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

Tough trucker Lincoln Hawk is determined to win back his son and triumph at the world arm wrestling championships.

Actors : Eszter Balint, Cecillia Stark, Richard Edson, John Lurie,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along...

Actors : Judd Nelson, Sam Robards, Chuck Bush, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Kevin Reynolds,

Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.

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 : Christopher McDonald, Patti D'Arbanville, Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : Penelope Spheeris,

Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

Actors : David Keith, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Miriam Colon,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

Actors : Paul Le Mat, Wilford Brimley, Catherine Hicks, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Dick Richards,

A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Michael Fields,

Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.

Actors : Deborra-Lee Furness, Simone Buchanan, Tony Barry, Gillian Jones,
Directors : Steve Jodrell,

Asta Cadell, a lawyer traveling through the Australian Outback on holiday, stops in a small Western Australian town after her motorcycle breaks down and shacks up with Tim Curtis, the local...

Actors : Tino Insana, David Rasche, Lee Ving, Catherine Bach,
Directors : Daniel Raskov,

The Masters of Menace are actually a motorcycle gang. When one of their own dies while performing a dangerous bike stunt, they decide to cross the country to go bury him. With the coffin in...

Actors : Gabriele Lavia, Jasmine Maimone, Monica Guerritore, Pina Cei,
Directors : Gabriele Lavia,

A woman catches her husband in bed with a much younger lady. Shocked and distraught, the woman leaves her husband. She decides to embark on a road trip of erotic self discovery. The woman ...

Actors : Leslie Ackerman, Nick Mancuso, Richard Bakalyan, Byron Thames,
Directors : Gene Taft,

When his unmarried mother dies, custody of 13-year-old Job is assumed by his alleged father, Chris, whom he has never seen. Job is an enthusiastic cadet at a military academy, and Chris ...

Actors : Peter Phelps, Bruce Phillips, Alice Fraser, Greer Robson-Kirk,
Directors : Sam Pillsbury,

It is Depression era New Zealand and school-kid Kate is missing her father badly. The temptation to seek him out leads her into diverse and intense encounters with fate.

Actors : Collin Boone, Amber Rose Gold, Robert Blake, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

A high-spirited wife and her meekish husband hit the road to take back her kids from her previous marriage who live with her ex-inlaws.

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.