Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "roadside-cafe"

1. The Passenger (1975)

PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller

Unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry

Votes: 26,196 | Gross: $0.62M

2. Hoffa (1992)

R | 140 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of the notorious American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organizes a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organized crime syndicate and mysteriously disappears in 1975.

Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, J.T. Walsh

Votes: 24,801 | Gross: $24.28M

3. Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

PG-13 | 91 min | Horror

The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.

Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke, Oliver Robins

Votes: 29,900 | Gross: $41.00M

4. Heavy (1995)

R | 105 min | Drama, Romance

The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at his and his mother's road-side restaurant.

Director: James Mangold | Stars: Pruitt Taylor Vince, Liv Tyler, Shelley Winters, Debbie Harry

Votes: 5,924 | Gross: $0.99M

5. Sometimes Always Never (2018)

PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A detective fantasy / family drama where a love of words helps a father reconnect with a missing son.

Director: Carl Hunter | Stars: Bill Nighy, Sam Riley, Alice Lowe, Jenny Agutter

Votes: 3,254

6. Time to Leave (2005)

Unrated | 81 min | Drama

A fashion photographer with terminal cancer elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.

Director: François Ozon | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Daniel Duval

Votes: 9,262 | Gross: $0.12M

7. Odds and Evens (1978)

PG | 109 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A Navy detective enlists his brother, a former gambler, to help him liquidate an illegal gaming house on a yacht near Miami.

Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Luciano Catenacci, Marisa Laurito

Votes: 9,948

8. Clean, Shaven (1993)

Not Rated | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a man suffering from schizophrenia is released from a mental institution, he attempts to get his daughter back from her adoptive family.

Director: Lodge Kerrigan | Stars: Peter Greene, Alice Levitt, Megan Owen, Jennifer MacDonald

Votes: 6,025

9. The Encounter (I) (2010)

85 min | Drama

The supernatural experience of five people sat an abandoned diner with the King of Kings...Jesus Christ.

Director: David A.R. White | Stars: Bruce Marchiano, Steve Borden, Jaci Velasquez, Jamie Nieto

Votes: 3,682

10. One Week (I) (2008)

Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Drama

Chronicles the motorcycle trip of Ben Tyler as he rides from Toronto to Tofino, British Columbia. Ben stops at landmarks that are both iconic and idiosyncratic on his quest to find meaning in his life.

Director: Michael McGowan | Stars: Joshua Jackson, Peter Spence, Marc Strange, Gage Munroe

Votes: 12,046

11. The California Kid (1974 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

A deranged desert town sheriff has a murderous habit of forcing speeders to their deaths, until a young man with a souped-up hotrod arrives to possibly end it.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Martin Sheen, Vic Morrow, Michelle Phillips, Stuart Margolin

Votes: 1,188

12. Highway Dragnet (1954)

Passed | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model.

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley

Votes: 897

13. Night Drive (1977 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 73 min | Thriller

A housewife is stalked by a psycho after she sees him murder a highway patrol officer.

Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Valerie Harper, Richard Romanus, Nicholas Pryor, John Quade

Votes: 814

14. Leave (2011)

R | 84 min | Drama, Thriller

Henry Harper is a successful novelist who has it all. But after surviving a recent trauma he finds himself haunted by a dream that terrifies him. Convinced that the only way to understand ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Celestino | Stars: Rick Gomez, Frank John Hughes, Vinessa Shaw, Ron Livingston

Votes: 1,036

15. La meute (2010)

R | 84 min | Horror

One winter morning, while driving through the desolate French countryside, traveler Charlotte picks up hitchhiker Max. Together they stop at a roadside diner, where a strange and depraved horror awaits.

Director: Franck Richard | Stars: Yolande Moreau, Émilie Dequenne, Benjamin Biolay, Philippe Nahon

Votes: 2,276

16. The Crooked Web (1955)

Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Government agent tries to trick a suspect into returning to Germany, the scene of his crimes.

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard, Richard Denning, John Mylong

Votes: 511

17. Road Movie (1973)

88 min | Drama

Gil and Hank are two independent truckers who run into problems when they are forced to pay off traffic managers to get loads. They also have to pay off highway cops when their rigs are ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Strick | Stars: Robert Drivas, Regina Baff, Barry Bostwick, David Bauer

Votes: 178

18. Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

Peggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days. She decides that she needs a change so she leaves a note, which is taken to be ... See full summary »

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, May Whitty

Votes: 882

19. The Hi-Jackers (1963)

69 min | Crime, Drama

1963. Drama. Directed by Jim O'Connolly. Starring Anthony Booth & Jacqueline Ellis. A lorry driver meets Shirley at a cafe and offers her a lift. His truck carrying valuable whiskey is later hijacked.

Director: Jim O'Connolly | Stars: Anthony Booth, Jacqueline Ellis, Derek Francis, Patrick Cargill

Votes: 234

20. Death in Small Doses (1957)

Not Rated | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Peter Graves, Mala Powers, Chuck Connors, Merry Anders

Votes: 325

21. Little Big Shot (1935)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A young girl endears herself to her caretakers after her father is murdered by mobsters.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Sybil Jason, Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong, Edward Everett Horton

Votes: 353

22. Motor Patrol (1950)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A police officer masquerades as a criminal to get information on a gang of car thieves.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Don Castle, Jane Nigh, William Henry, Gwen O'Connor

Votes: 148

23. Scènes de crimes (2000)

100 min | Crime, Thriller

In the Paris region, Marie Bourgoin suddenly disappears. The police find only a tourist leaflet of Mauritius stained with blood. Police discover the probable existence of a serial killer in action for several years.

Director: Frédéric Schoendoerffer | Stars: Charles Berling, André Dussollier, Ludovic Schoendoerffer, Pierre Mottet

Votes: 738

24. Cape of Good Hope (2004)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are intertwined.

Director: Mark Bamford | Stars: Debbie Brown, Farouk Valley-Omar, Parinita Jeaven, David Isaacs

Votes: 291

25. Le café du pont (2010)

95 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Ten-year-old Pierrot is just another kid. For the time being, he grows with his younger brother Jeannot in a flat above "Le Café du Pont", run by his loving parents, a place that attracts ... See full summary »

Director: Manuel Poirier | Stars: Bernard Campan, Cécile Rebboah, Thomas Durastel, Julien Demarty

Votes: 122

26. Appointment with Adventure (1955–1956)
Episode: Five in Judgement (1955)

30 min | Adventure, Drama

When two brothers traveling across country stop in a small town diner to escape a storm, they are taken to be murderers by the locals.

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Paul Newman, Henry Hull, Frank McHugh, James Gregory

Votes: 15

27. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Reckless Driving (1955)

TV-PG | 26 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tragedy results when an impatient traveling salesman refuses to heed numerous warnings concerning his predilection for speeding and taking chances while driving.

Director: Leon Benson | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Hugh Sanders, Vivi Janiss, Grant Scott

Votes: 105

28. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Desert Town (1955)

TV-PG | 26 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dan Mathews is determined to find out why the residents of a small town are behaving suspiciously and anxious to see him leave.

Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Clark Howat, Kay Faylen, Don C. Harvey

Votes: 118

29. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Lookout (1955)

TV-PG | 26 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An innocent man who unknowingly accompanies two acquaintances on an armed robbery flees and finds himself pursued by the Highway Patrol and by one of the revenge-seeking felons.

Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Michael Garth, Meg Randall, Bill Page

Votes: 92

30. Team Bachstad (2012– )
Episode: Team Bachstad I India 2:4 (2013)

30 min | Documentary, Comedy

Team Bachstad drives across India. After crossing the state of Assam, the boys are on their way into West Bengal. The road standard is a constant challenge, and together with the heavy ... See full summary »

Directors: Øystein Bache, Rune Gokstad | Stars: Øystein Bache, Rune Gokstad