Best Road Comedy

It Happened One Night is a 1934 Columbia film directed by Frank Capra. The story follows a wealthy heiress and a down-on-his-luck reporter as they navigate a challenging road trip across America. The movie earned an Academy Award for Best Picture, showcasing early screwball comedy at its finest. It...

“The Easy Life” follows the impulsive actions of a wealthy businessman as he embarks on an unplanned journey across Italy with his young son. Starring Vittorio Gassman, the film offers a nuanced portrayal of familial relationships and societal expectations within post-war Italy. Its notable examinat...

"Road to Utopia" is a 1946 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and the fourth installment in the popular "Road to..." series. The movie stars Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, this time venturing to the frontier of Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. The narrative follows two vaud...

The Eagle Shooting Heroes is a 1993 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Jeffrey Lau and produced by Wong Kar-wai. It serves as a comedic parody of the wuxia genre, specifically spoofing the plot and characters of Louis Cha's classic novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes." Filmed concurrently with Won...

Kajillionaire is a 2020 American crime comedy-drama written and directed by Miranda July. Evan Rachel Wood plays Old Dolio, the emotionally neglected daughter of small-time con artists portrayed by Debra Winger and Richard Jenkins; their family dynamic changes after they invite a stranger, played by...

The Trip to Italy is a 2014 British comedy film directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalized versions of themselves. It is the second installment in Winterbottom's Trip series, following The Trip (2010) and preceding The Trip to Spain (2017). The film follo...

Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana is a 1994 Finnish road movie directed by Aki Kaurismäki about two stoic men traveling with female companions.

Last Cab to Darwin is a 2015 Australian comedy-drama film directed by Jeremy Sims and based on the 2003 stage play by Reg Cribb, which was itself inspired by the true story of Max Bell, a Broken Hill taxi driver who drove to Darwin in 1996 to access the Northern Territory's newly legalized voluntary...

The Trip to Greece is a 2020 British comedy film directed by Michael Winterbottom, serving as the fourth and final installment in The Trip film series. The movie stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing fictionalized versions of themselves as they embark on a culinary road trip across Greece. Throu...

Aaltra is a 2004 Belgian dark comedy road movie directed by Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine. The plot centers on two mutually hostile neighbors, played by the directors, who become paralyzed following a farming accident. United by their newfound reliance on wheelchairs, the duo embarks on a v...

Powwow Highway is a 1989 American comedy-drama film adapted from David Seals's novel of the same name. The story follows two Northern Cheyenne men, Buddy Red Bow and Philbert Bono, as they travel from Montana to New Mexico in a beat-up 1964 Buick. Their journey is driven by the need to rescue Buddy'...

The Trip to Spain is a 2017 British comedy film directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalized versions of themselves traveling through Spain. The film follows the pair as they visit restaurants, sample regional cuisine, and engage in extended improvised conv...

"Bad Trip" is a 2021 American hidden-camera comedy film directed by Kitao Sakurai and starring Eric Andre and Lil Rel Howery. The narrative follows two friends on a cross-country road trip from Florida to New York City, structured as a frame story for various candid pranks. These stunts are performe...

"Road to Rio" is a 1947 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. As the fifth installment in the popular "Road to..." series, the picture follows two stowaways who become entangled in a plot involving a hypnotist while travelin...

Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 American musical comedy directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. It is the second entry in Paramount's Road series, following Road to Singapore, and sends its fast-talking American adventurers through a loosely imagined Africa...

Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons is a 2013 Chinese fantasy adventure comedy directed by Stephen Chow, who co-wrote the screenplay. Drawing on the Ming dynasty novel Journey to the West, it reimagines the early experiences of the Buddhist monk and demon hunter who becomes associated with th...

Karwaan is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama road film directed by Akarsh Khurana. Its story follows Avinash and his friend Shaukat as they travel from Bengaluru to Kochi after a transport company mistakenly delivers the wrong corpse following the death of Avinash's father. The film stars Du...

Box of Moonlight is a 1996 American independent comedy-drama written and directed by Tom DiCillo. John Turturro stars as Al Fountain, a rigid electrical engineer who leaves a work assignment and encounters an unconventional young man played by Sam Rockwell. Their journey through rural America gradua...

"Land Ho!" is an independent comedy-drama film released in 2014, co-written and co-directed by Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz. The narrative follows two former brothers-in-law, played by Paul Eenhoorn and Earl Lynn Nelson, who travel together to Iceland to escape their aging woes and relive their yo...

"Seoul Searching" is a 2015 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Benson Lee. Set in the 1980s, the narrative follows a group of rebellious Korean diaspora teenagers from around the world attending a government-sponsored summer camp in South Korea. The film explores themes of cultural i...

"The Puffy Chair" is a 2005 independent comedy-drama film directed by Jay and Mark Duplass, serving as a definitive work of the mumblecore film movement. The plot follows a man who embarks on a cross-country road trip to deliver a vintage, heavily stained recliner to his father for his birthday. Acc...

The Gumball Rally is a 1976 American comedy film directed by Chuck Bail. Its story follows an eclectic group of drivers who enter an illegal cross-country race from New York City to Los Angeles, using different cars and competing through a mixture of speed, route choices, deception, and improvisatio...

The Dream Team is a 1989 American comedy-drama directed by Howard Zieff. Its story follows four psychiatric patients who leave a New York institution for an outing and become separated from their therapist after he is attacked, forcing them to navigate the city on their own. The film is built around...

The Go-Getter is a 2007 American independent road film written and directed by Martin Hynes. It stars Lou Taylor Pucci as Mercer, a young man who steals a Volvo after his mother’s death and drives across the United States to find his estranged older half-brother. Zooey Deschanel and Jena Malone also...

Nowhere is a 1997 American black comedy-drama written and directed by Gregg Araki. The film follows a group of young people in Los Angeles through drug use, sexual relationships, alienation, and increasingly surreal events that blur everyday life with apocalyptic science fiction. It is the third fil...

Directed by Hannah Fidell, this 2018 comedy chronicles the chaotic cross-country road trip shared by an abrasive mechanic and a prospective architecture student.

Directed by Steve Buscemi and starring Casey Affleck, this 2005 comedy-drama follows a struggling writer who moves back in with his family in rural Indiana.

This 1995 American comedy-drama depicts a group of Cuban refugees in Florida who pretend to be a family to improve their chances of gaining United States residency.

The Road to Hong Kong is a 1962 British comedy by Norman Panama, the seventh and final Road film and the only one not released by Paramount.