The Top 50 Road Movies of the 1980s

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The Top 50 Road Movies of the 1980s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
Ranking
137 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner R -
172 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders R -
255 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson R -
568 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest R -
598 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes R -
637 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch R -
784 National Lampoon's Vacation 1983 Harold Ramis R -
840 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch NR -
1281 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant R -
1365 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure 1985 Tim Burton PG -
1499 Something Wild 1986 Jonathan Demme R -
1587 Lost in America 1985 Albert Brooks R -
1629 Starman 1984 John Carpenter PG -
2093 The Sure Thing 1985 Rob Reiner PG13 -
2178 Vagabond 1985 Agnès Varda R -
3012 Phantasm II 1988 Don Coscarelli R -
3060 The Cannonball Run 1981 Hal Needham PG -
4025 Crossroads 1986 Walter Hill R -
6283 Honkytonk Man 1982 Clint Eastwood PG -
6596 Fandango 1985 Kevin Reynolds PG -
6719 The Trip to Bountiful 1985 Peter Masterson PG -
6797 The Wizard 1989 Todd Holland PG -
6852 Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird 1985 Ken Kwapis G -
7052 Ariel 1988 Aki Kaurismäki NR -
7073 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos NR -
7968 Leningrad Cowboys Go America 1989 Aki Kaurismäki PG13 -
8765 Cannonball Run II 1984 Hal Needham PG -
9399 Bustin' Loose 1981 Oz Scott R -
11260 Wisdom 1986 Emilio Estevez R -
13638 Dudes 1987 Penelope Spheeris R -
24422 The Beekeeper 1986 Theodoros Angelopoulos NR -
24885 ComDads 1983 Francis Veber PG -
26383 Back Roads 1981 Martin Ritt NR -
29949 They Call Me Renegade 1987 Enzo Barboni, E.B. Clucher PG -
33405 Roadkill 1989 Bruce McDonald NR -
33447 Candy Mountain 1988 Robert Frank R -
34175 Fingered 1986 Richard Kern NR -
34300 Sitting Ducks 1980 Henry Jaglom R -
36234 Emerald Cities 1983 Rick Schmidt NR -
36973 Un étrange voyage 1981 Alain Cavalier NR -
37935 The Gold Diggers 1983 Sally Potter NR -
37969 Goodbye Pork Pie 1980 Geoff Murphy R -
38470 The Outsider 1981 Béla Tarr NR -
40191 Bye Bye Brasil 1980 Carlos Diegues R -
41091 Homer and Eddie 1989 Andrey Konchalovskiy R -
41408 Coast to Coast 1980 Joseph Sargent PG -
41583 On Top 1982 Ágúst Guðmundsson NR -
41662 Safari 3000 1982 Harry Hurwitz PG -
42358 In the White City 1983 Alain Tanner NR -
43081 Running Hot 1984 Mark Griffiths R -

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