The Wild One (1953): Marlon Brando and his motorcycle gang, rebelling against whatever you’ve got, terrorize a town and disrupt a motorcycle race.

North-By-Northwest (1959): Cary Grant crosses the country to try to reclaim his identity in one of the Hitchcock’s best. Look for the famed crop-dusting scene.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963): A dying thief’s last words spark a cross-country dash to find buried treasure in 182 mad, mad, mad, mad minutes.

Bonnie and Clyde (1967): The world’s most notorious and romanticized bank robbers, played by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, drive across the Midwest robbing banks during the Great Depression.

Easy Rider (1969): Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play two non-conforming bikers searching for America on a motorcycle trek from L.A. to New Orleans.

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971): James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, as “The Driver” and “The Mechanic,” drag race their way across the US.

The Blues Brothers (1980): On a mission from God, Jake and Elwood Blues find themselves amongst hundreds of wrecked cars, 106 miles from Chicago, with a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, and in the dark wearing sunglasses.

National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983): The now-classic Griswold family summer vacation journey to WallyWorld.

Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985): Big Bird, forlorn and feeling like he does not belong, searches for himself out on the road.

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985): Pee-Wee, a loner and a rebel, goes on a cross-country quest to find his stolen bicycle in the basement of the Alamo.

Rainman (1988): Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt travels cross-country with his autistic brother Raymond.

The Land Before Time (1988): Littlefoot and Co.’s pre-roads roadtrip to find the idyllic Great Valley. Watch out for sharp-teeth and revel in being seven again.

My Own Private Idaho (1991): Gus Van Sant directs this gay interpretation of Henry IV, in which River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves search across the country and across the Atlantic for maternal support.

Thelma and Louise (1991): A housewife and a waitress shoot a rapist and make their getaway in a 1966 Thunderbird.

Highway to Hell (1992): In a retelling of the Orpheus myth, Las Vegas newlyweds have to go to hell and bargain with Satan.

Bottle Rocket (1996): Luke and Owen Wilson look to become thieves and go on the lam in a movie Martin Scorsese called one of the ten best films of the 90s.

The Straight Story (1999): An elderly man hits the road in a tractor in David Lynch’s heartfelt tale of fraternal reconciliation.

Road Trip (2000): Four college students hop in a car and travel cross-country to retrieve a mistakenly mailed incriminating video tape.

Y tu Mamá También (2001): Two amorous teenage boys, ditched by their girlfriends, travel by car through Mexico with an older woman in search of a hidden beach.

About Schmidt (2002): After retirement and his wife’s death, Jack Nicholson sets out in a Winnebago to crash his daughter’s wedding.

Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip (2003): Directed by Ken Burns, the story of the Horatio Jackson, America’s first roadtripper.

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004): A dramatization of the motorcycle roadtrip Che Guevara took during his youth that inspired his life’s work.

Transamerica (2005): A pre-operative, male-to-female transsexual embarks on unexpected journey after discovering she has fathered a son.

Cars (2006): The animated saga of Lightning McQueen, a hot-shot car who gets stranded in Radiator Springs.