Best Road Trip Movies
The best road trip movies ever made, ranked by audience score. Green Book takes it at 8.2, and the 20 films below prove how much range the premise has — Wild Strawberries, Paris, Texas and La Strada pull it in completely different directions.
20 titles · average score 7.8 ·
The top 5 picks
- 1
Green Book (2018)
★ 8.2 · 13,111 ratingsTony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below…
- 2
Wild Strawberries (1957)
★ 8.1 · 1,843 ratingsCrotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they…
- 3
Paris, Texas (1984)
★ 8.1 · 2,281 ratingsA man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
- 4
La Strada (1954)
★ 7.9 · 1,187 ratingsWhen Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the…
- 5
Captain Fantastic (2016)
★ 7.9 · 6,918 ratingsDeep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that…
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How this list is ranked
Nothing on this page is hand-picked to hit a word count. We pull films matching this list's criteria from TMDB, require a real audience behind each score, and rank by that score — 20 titles averaging 7.8. The page rebuilds daily, so new releases appear here as soon as enough people have rated them.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best road trip movie?
Green Book (2018) at 8.2, ahead of Wild Strawberries and Paris, Texas. All 20 films on this page average 7.8.
How do you find road trip movies?
Through TMDB's keyword tagging, which is maintained by its community and goes far deeper than genre labels — it catches films that share a premise even when they belong to completely different genres.
Is this list updated?
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