Road movie
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A road movie is a genre of film in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives. Road movies often depict travel in the hinterlands
Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour (1945), a film noir about a musician travelling from New York City to Hollywood who sees a nation absorbed by greed.
It Happened One Night (1934) is about a rich woman who learns about regular Americans when she travels the highway system by car.
The 2010 film Mother Fish, which depicts travel over water, has been called a "No Road"-style road film, as it uses the road movie journey narrative without using roads as a setting.
John Ford's 1939 Western Stagecoach has been called a proto-road movie.
Paris, Texas (film)
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Paris, Texas is a 1984 drama road film directed by Wim Wenders, co-written by Sam Shepard and L. M. Kit Carson, and produced by Don Guest. A co-production of West Germany, France, and the United Kingd
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…of the Road includes stillness, which is unusual for road movies, and quietness (except for the rock soundtrack). Other road movies by Wenders include Paris, Texas and Until the End of the World. Wender's road movies "filter nomadic excursions through a pensive Germanic lens" and depict "somber drifters coming to…
Wenders went location scouting in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Nastassja Kinski wrote a backstory as a fictional diary for her character.
Wim Wenders at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.