En apokalyptisk historie i den lengste utkanten på vår planet, i et nakent ørkenlandskap hvor menneskeheten er ødelagt, og hvor de fleste kjemper som gale for livets nødvendigheter. I denne verden eksisterer det to opprørere på rømmen som kanskje kan gjenopprette orden. Det er Max, en handlingsmann, og en mann av få ord, som søker fred i sinnet etter tap av sin kone og barn i etterkant av kaoset. Og Furiosa, en handlingskvinne, og en kvinne som tror på hennes vei til overlevelse, kan oppnås hvis hun kan komme seg over ørkenen, og tilbake til hennes barndoms hjemsted.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
A 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.
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
Det er 1973 og 15-årige William er fullstendig besatt av den "fete" rockemusikken. Hans store drøm er å bli musikkskribent, men han har en mor med spesielle oppfatninger om rock'n'roll som alt har drevet storesøsteren hjemmefra. Hans begeistring for musikken får bladet Rolling Stone til å be ham om å lage et intervju med de nye, kommende stjernene i bandet "Stillwater". På tross av sin mors bekymrede innsigelser drar William med bandet på turné og kommer nå helt inn i bandets innerste sirkler. Snart mister han objektiviteten og evnen til å fortelle den sanne historien...
Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.
Jerry (Brad Pitt), en motvillig småkjeltring, har blitt stilt ovenfor to alternativer. Det første er fra sin mafiasjef som vil ha ham til å reise til Mexico for å hente en uvurderlig, antikk pistol kjent som "Meksikaneren". Alternativt kan han ende opp med en sementblokk på bunnen av havet. Det andre alternativet er fra kjæresten Samantha (Julia Roberts) som vil at han skal slutte med forbrytelser, og bli en ærlig og hederlig mann. Jerry resonerer seg raskt frem til at det er bedre å være i live med kjærlighetsproblemer fremfor det andre mer radikale alternativet. Kursen settes mot Mexico. Å finne pistolen er lett. Å få den tilbake til USA er en helt annen sak. Det hviler visstnok en legendarisk forbannelse over pistolen - en forbannelse Jerry etter hvert tror sterkt på. Især når Samantha blir tatt som gissel av leiemorderen Leroy (James Gandolfini) for å sikre at Jerry ikke ødelegger oppdraget og at Meksikaneren ender opp i gale hender.
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't appreciate the competition.
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.
After eight years apart, three childhood friends - Lucy, Kit, and Mimi - rediscover their friendship on a cross-country trip. With barely a plan, practically no money but plenty of dreams, the girls catch a lift with Mimi's handsome friend Ben in his convertible. Along the way they not only gather experiences that will change their lives, but they also discover how important it is to hold onto their hearts' desires.
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
Four friends embark on a cross-country journey to Las Vegas in an old RV to stop a wedding and save a friend from losing the love of his life.
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse. But there are none more important than Cade Redman, his direct competition for a guaranteed spot on the elite Modern Motors racing team.
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
Vengeance rides the open road when a young woman, traveling alone, encounters a renegade drifter and ends up in a fight for her life.